Ring Of Steel
Well-Known Member
don’t agree- fuck them, let them rot or thrive, whatever, I won’t be spending a single second thinking about how they’re doing unless they go under, at which point I’ll be very happy.
We probably should have crowdfunded a giant anti wasps and ccc flag
Derek Richardson and Joy Seppalla?Im not the right person to ask for positive action right now. I go through fits of football induced optimism, but my stance has long been it’s out of our hands and down to two people to resolve, this just reinforces that. We can just sit and watch and hope the club is in a decent state once it’s all over.
We can’t wait 2 years with no progressGood question. I think when Wasps do eventually go under (and they will) then the Ricoh comes the focus but if wasps are hanging in there Within the next two years of which I doubt then the Warwick uni site Has to go ahead.
The five year window I think gives wasps the opportunity to go under and if not the new site gets a spade in it!
don’t agree- fuck them, let them rot or thrive, whatever, I won’t be spending a single second thinking about how they’re doing unless they go under, at which point I’ll be very happy.
Are people really happy to play in bloody Birmingham and wait at least 5 years for a Lego arena which is even further out of town than the Ricoh, thinking it will be a new spiritual home?
I can't usually abide twitter pile-ons, but have to say, seeing Kevin Maton get pulled to pieces has cheered me up no end.
Much as I worry about the future of the club, there isn't really much more we can do other than rally behind them right now.
We also need to make sure that if serious plans for a new stadium are presented we shout our support from the rooftops and drown out the council PR machine that will mobilise a nimby army not seen since Swampy set up camp outside of Newbury.
Facebook is melting:
‘I’m finished after my first game as a 5 year old 60 years ago, fuck Shitsu, Fuck Birmingham City and all you St Wankdrews scabs I’m done whilst Shitsu own the club‘
Most people on the Facebook forum haven't been since Dublin took the piss out of shay given
Not much that I disagree with there Calista.I’ll make the lengthy trek to some games at St. Andrews when Covid allows, but with a very heavy heart. Really hope the team entertains us like they did last season, because all the other stuff brings mental pain. My thoughts for what it’s worth are:
SISU – catastrophic misjudgements and incompetence for at least the first 6 or 7 years, notably dropping the offer to the charity from £5m £2m, employing a string of no-hopers to run the club, trying to screw elected politicians for the “unencumbered freehold”, and taking CCFC hostage at Sixfields thinking they were the only game in town. Playing a much better game lately, Joy has become visible and I do like Boddy, but why did it take over 10 years to see the light?
Wasps – a plastic entity that went from a London club to a South East franchise to a West Midlands franchise, and whose fans didn’t do much to stop it. Knowing nothing about club rugby, I thought they had a secure place at the European top table, which at least brought something to the area. But they are sinking into the mire on and off the pitch. Their attempts to impose the indemnity clause on CCFC leave me speechless – how insulting can you get?
CCC – had sympathy for their stance back in 2012 or so, when the option of handing over the keys on SISU’s terms must have been politically impossible. I foolishly assumed there was a plan when they brought Wasps in, with a big buyer waiting in the wings to embrace the stadium and both clubs. That’s still what I’d like to see tbh but there’s so much debt all over the place, personal feuds and such a shitshow, I can’t see it happening. Should have realised there never was a plan.
Somehow, the above parties (+ others) have engineered a situation where a city like Coventry now has two debt-laden sports clubs operating well below elite standard, one barely viable 30,000 seat stadium and another 20,000 one on the horizon. Are people really happy to play in bloody Birmingham and wait at least 5 years for a Lego arena which is even further out of town than the Ricoh, thinking it will be a new spiritual home?
Beginning to think for the first time that Wasps folding is our best hope, and not an unrealistic scenario.
Pete, in your meetings with "interested parties" could you try and get some sort of timeline for the uni project, such as when they might apply for planning, updates from meetings with agencies involved in transport infrastructure, it would be nice to know, as fans, at what point we should give up on the Ricoh and go all in on the new stadium plan.We can’t wait 2 years with no progress
Got to say, the way it’s now the fans fault if this doesn’t work out:
Meaning?
We can’t wait 2 years with no progress
Why though !! As someone I always regard as the most unsuffering of fools yet sensible Poster on here, what makes you think that.It is pretty obvious from the statement that the council has stuck it's beak in, in which case you do wonder what they're so afraid of?
Why though !! As someone I always regard as the most unsuffering of fools yet sensible Poster on here, what makes you think that.
The club are releasing news in such away that would make Cummings and Bojo proud, you would normally expose them for their actions.
Because who else would the "3rd party" be?
Why though !! As someone I always regard as the most unsuffering of fools yet sensible Poster on here, what makes you think that.
The club are releasing news in such away that would make Cummings and Bojo proud, you would normally expose them for their actions.
ACL ?
Amazes me on the Facebook forum there are still people who spell it "richo". I usually wouldn't mind but the arena itself has had big fuck off red lettering plastered on it since 2005.
What makes you think that?
nothing, just querying the 3rd party bit and if it could be them instead of the assumed council ?
If the case finds sisu claim to be correct, council may have to take the arena off wasps. Not only wasps lose, but surely ACL would as well ?
nothing, just querying the 3rd party bit and if it could be them instead of the assumed council ?
If the case finds sisu claim to be correct, council may have to take the arena off wasps. Not only wasps lose, but surely ACL would as well ?
Amazes me on the Facebook forum there are still people who spell it "richo". I usually wouldn't mind but the arena itself has had big fuck off red lettering plastered on it since 2005.
Hadn't thought about it like that, very good point. Hopefully someone will be able to clear this up as I think it's an important issue as if it is the council we need to know why
Hadn't thought about it like that, very good point. Hopefully someone will be able to clear this up as I think it's an important issue as if it is the council we need to know why
When I taught at Grace Academy every kid had the words Grace Academy on thei blazer, written over and over on a lanyard, and plastered on every notice board and computer screen. Could the kids spell “academy”? Of course not.
Doubt you’ll ever get confirmation besides people coming out to say it’s not them maybe.
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