I repeat once again..........why do people reply to RFC ?? He's not for real, he's a WUM, nothing more and he's having you for a bunch of mugs every time !!
Gillingham was an 'event' game as was Wasps first match there. Both clubs then suffered significant drops in attendance. The City match was an outpouring of optimism but soon to be pissed on by Fishers comments about moving on again, I still think that it would have dropped to around 15,000 even if he had kept his gob shut though. Oh and ticket sales/arrangements for the Yeovil match were once again a shambles, we queued for 25 mins to get in !
The bottom line is that our supporters aren't prepared to pay £22. Reduce the price and maybe a few would flock back but having said that our prices seem to be competitive for this league, even Nuneaton charge £12 with no concessions apart from under 12s.
Seems to me that the people of Coventry and Warwickshire aren't too concerned about having a football league club on their doorstep. As for me, a season ticket holder, I find the cost to watch my team decent value and will continue to support them whatever the circumstances.
The question I'm asking is, now there's been a 'change', will people be throwing their support behind the team and giving them, the innocent party, a chance?!
We did win that game, the crowd dipped to just over 11,000 the week after...
Football fans in general are fickle and the vast majority just love a good moan but Coventry City supporters appear to be much more negative than most.
The obsession regarding our owners takes the whole point and focus away from what we should all be doing, supporting the manager and the team, unfortunately another one 'bites the dust' and the timing is diabolical.
When has changing the manager actually had a positive and lasting benefit to the Sky Blues even in the short term (can think of only one over the last 20yrs, Mark Robins and he jumped ship).
We are now looking for our 12th manager since Gordon Strachen was dismissed in 2001, not a record to be particularly proud of and my guess is that in a couple of years time exactly the same thing will happen.
I'd have stuck with 'Elvis' for the long-term, we'll have great difficulty in finding a more passionate and totally hard working and committed manager, would like to wish him all the best and good luck in the future.
I repeat once again..........why do people reply to RFC ?? He's not for real, he's a WUM, nothing more and he's having you for a bunch of mugs every time !!
For me, you can't one the one hand say footballs a business and make that abundantly clear by going against fans wishes with the move to Sixfields, and then on the other say that business's customers have some moral obligation to buy the product.
Either were a club, and all in it together, or were a business and the owners have to take responsibility for sales like any other business.
We all know which we'd like to be and SISU occasionally make the right noises about being part of the community. But no community splits, sued and slanders its members, no community leaves its home against its members wishes.
It was Sisu who set the cub apart from its community, it's Sisu who are responsible for its circumstance until that's resolved.
The thing is the reason that the majority supported Sisu when they came in was "because we'd be run as a business, by hard-nosed businessmen who wouldn't take any shit off anybody".
It's what we got, just a particularly shit bunch of businessmen, who replaced another shit bunch of businessmen.
For me, you can't one the one hand say footballs a business and make that abundantly clear by going against fans wishes with the move to Sixfields, and then on the other say that business's customers have some moral obligation to buy the product.
Either were a club, and all in it together, or were a business and the owners have to take responsibility for sales like any other business.
We all know which we'd like to be and SISU occasionally make the right noises about being part of the community. But no community splits, sued and slanders its members, no community leaves its home against its members wishes.
It was Sisu who set the cub apart from its community, it's Sisu who are responsible for its circumstance until that's resolved.
Football fans in general are fickle and the vast majority just love a good moan but Coventry City supporters appear to be much more negative than most.
The obsession regarding our owners takes the whole point and focus away from what we should all be doing, supporting the manager and the team, unfortunately another one 'bites the dust' and the timing is diabolical.
When has changing the manager actually had a positive and lasting benefit to the Sky Blues even in the short term (can think of only one over the last 20yrs, Mark Robins and he jumped ship).
We are now looking for our 12th manager since Gordon Strachen was dismissed in 2001, not a record to be particularly proud of and my guess is that in a couple of years time exactly the same thing will happen.
I'd have stuck with 'Elvis' for the long-term, we'll have great difficulty in finding a more passionate and totally hard working and committed manager, would like to wish him all the best and good luck in the future.
I think its more the people of Coventry and Warwickshire dont like paying money to be treated like shit.
Agreed and the general standard of football in this league is poor. I pay about £15 per game with my season ticket and consider that value for money. Compare that with the other sides and their abysmal grounds and facilities who charge their fans even more.
I dread to think what our crowds would be if we ever did reach the promised land and the costs went up to forty to fifty quid a game.
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Agreed and the general standard of football in this league is poor. I pay about £15 per game with my season ticket and consider that value for money. Compare that with the other sides and their abysmal grounds and facilities who charge their fans even more.
I dread to think what our crowds would be if we ever did reach the promised land and the costs went up to forty to fifty quid a game.
There has been a change, but only the manager. We need a change of owners or at least rid of Fisher and then some engagement from the club. They need to show the same ambition as the fans, I don't mean spending cash we haven't got, but planning for the future, openly and honestly. Stop the the 'new ground crap, if it's happening put up. We knew about the Ricoh and how we nearly lost it, etc. This lot operate in a veil of secrecy reserved for blue chip takeovers. I will not be going until I feel like it. I went for the last few years as a sense of duty, didn't enjoy it, and the way SISU treated me, they need to change before I give them any of my hard earned, I've found better things to do with it.The question I'm asking is, now there's been a 'change', will people be throwing their support behind the team and giving them, the innocent party, a chance?!
I suppose it comes down to what you consider value for money.
I don't consider pointless court battles value for money, I don't consider board members who constantly feed bullshit to the fans as value for money, I don't consider the prospect of the club being homeless in 4 years time through its own actions as been value for money.
All I said was fifteen quid a game is value for money for this standard of football and the ground facilities provided.
As to the ownership of the club, SISU have no right to be involved in the game and are therefore unlikely to have the interests of the fans at heart. The same could have been said of the Richardson era.
I know what your saying and take your point.
All I am trying to say is many people find it difficult to now separate what happens on the pitch and off it.
The question I'm asking is, now there's been a 'change', will people be throwing their support behind the team and giving them, the innocent party, a chance?!
Most people who have stopped going, did not stop because of the manager, they stopped because of the owners. The only way to get people back is for the team to start winning. Who says the team are an 'innocent party'? They have not been giving anywhere near 100% every game.
Most people who have stopped going, did not stop because of the manager, they stopped because of the owners. The only way to get people back is for the team to start winning. Who says the team are an 'innocent party'? They have not been giving anywhere near 100% every game.
Politically the players have been and are an innocent party...
But when it comes to actually winning games, when it comes to reasons as to why we're in the relegation zone, the players are probably the most culpable of the lot.
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