Tim Fisher (2 Viewers)

covmark

Well-Known Member
Good idea SkidMark . Shall I get you a season ticket, too?

Sent from my SGP611 using Tapatalk
No thanks, I'll continue to support the club that I've supported for 30 years.
Skid mark, that's a good one.

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
 

Rusty Trombone

Well-Known Member
Joy is more interested in money and staying out of the limelight than she is in Coventry City, so these are the 2 things to target.

Stopping giving money to the club will obviously worsen things, but there's seemingly little prospect of things getting better anyway, so my view is that's it's better to hasten the end result, whatever that is going to be.

Keep Joy and Tim in the headlines, and Deering as well, what benefit do ccfc get from her? Make their involvement in the club as uncomfortable as possible.
 

Rob S

Well-Known Member
so do you think dwindling crowds bother them? Would they be concerned by talk of a season ticket boycott next season?
Dwindling crowds should bother any football club owner TBF. A lot of how things pan out with any boycott will come down to the performances on the pitch this season to an extent. I've seen most of the games and we're definitely far better than the results before Port Vale.

It's a bit early to know about how an ST boycott could affect them tho'. Fast forward to Feb/March and it could be very different.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
My point is that she can hold on in the hope that eventually there could be a return if the stadium / asset issue can get sorted. She would sell if someone legit came forward with a decent offer but it's her idea of decent rather than a market valuation. It's a gamble, but a safer one than most people think.

£15–25m (and that is an educated guess, but very much a guess – I have no idea what she'd entertain) might be a big loss, but £0–1m is massive, so why not hang on and see if it turns around? If Wasps go to shit or the Butts Park Arena moves forward, it's a different landscape all of a sudden.

(BTW, this is me taking a lot of what I've heard & talked about with a lot of people and making my own theory based on trying to think like a hedge fund – well, if you wan't to be accurate, hybrid fund – manager / finance person.)



Probably having a rest after the cricket season ;)

If Joy wants £15-25M for CCFC no wonder we can't think like them. She must be completely detached from reality if she thinks CCFC is worth anywhere near that. And that's before we even get to the bottom of the cycle.

Next time you see Tim on the train get him to point out to her how much Wolves or Villa were sold for. If she's seriously thinking of investing millions in a new stadium she must be under the impression that we'll be worth hundreds of millions with a stadium going by her apparent estimation of what we're currently worth. Which of course is nonsense.
 
Last edited:

Skyblueweeman

Well-Known Member
Meanwhile, Wasps have the council & the CT rolling out the red carpet despite being up to their noses in debt and paying, IIRC, £2m+ pa to service the bond.

It's £1.2m every 6 months. Starts soon I think.



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

Gint11

Well-Known Member
The move to Northampton has, I think, been the most harmful and devisive decision ever taken about our club, a decision which now sees Wasps in our stadium. I am not sure if this was entirely Fisher's idea or decision but he was certainly one of the architect's of the move, using CCFC as a pawn to distress ACL. No thought or concern for the effect it had on club or fans. For this alone he deserves all the abuse he is getting.He needs to go.

Ah hem no....selling Highfield rd that we OWNED for a stadium to RENT was...the Northampton move was just another fuck up down the line of destruction.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

Rob S

Well-Known Member
If Joy wants £15-25M for CCFC no wonder we can't think like them. She must be completely detached from reality if she thinks CCFC is worth anywhere near that. And that's before we even get to the bottom of the cycle.

Next time you see Tim on the train get him to point out how much Wolves or Villa were sold for. If she's seriously thinking of investing millions in a new stadium she must be under the impression that we'll be worth hundreds of millions with a stadium going by her apparent estimation of what we're currently worth. Which of course is nonsense.

Just to be sure here: this is me pulling figures out of the air, I have no idea what she actually thinks or wants. But if A Legit Corporation Ltd. wanted to talk about taking CCFC over, I don't think that would be an unreasonable range to be talking about – from her position because she doesn't have to sell for less...she's playing a longer game to try and make something back on the investment. It might fail, it might succeed but from a business point of view she's probably happy with the risk. What the club is worth is immaterial if she doesn't have/want to sell at the moment.

I totally understand that people just want rid of SISU and I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment. Far from it, it would be a blessed relief, but after all that's happened, thinking that she'll get fed up and just chuck the keys over to Jan, Moz & Steve is as detached from reality as anything else really.

Not that CCFC-reality is somewhere that you really want to be attached to if you can help it :D
 

tim07

Well-Known Member
Wot's football?
No thanks, I'll continue to support the club that I've supported for 30 years.
Skid mark, that's a good one.

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
It depends how the endgame plays out Mark.
The club is worth approx minus £60m so any fool can work out that there won't be any takers. Most of this is owed to SISU connected companies.
So the next time we go into administration there's a real chance this time it will mean liquidation. If SISU can be persuaded to piss off with 5p in the £, a potential buyer will need to find £3m. Oh, and a ground. And a wage bill.

Somehow I still don't see any takers.

Or there's the AFC Newport model. Or the AFC Wimbledon one. Or the Hereford one. Or the Wolverhampton Wanderers (1986) one?
With a clean slate.

Did you spot those 25k Wolves fans all bleating " no thanks, I'll carry on supporting the club I've supported since....er....1986"?

No. Nor me.
 

Rob S

Well-Known Member
It's £1.2m every 6 months. Starts soon I think.

So £2.4m per annum...sounds about right. That is going to hurt. I think there was something about having to re-value the stadium too? Have you heard anything?

This is why I'm suspicious about the exact intentions behind the CT petition.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
Wot's football?

It depends how the endgame plays out Mark.
The club is worth approx minus £60m so any fool can work out that there won't be any takers. Most of this is owed to SISU connected companies.
So the next time we go into administration there's a real chance this time it will mean liquidation. If SISU can be persuaded to piss off with 5p in the £, a potential buyer will need to find £3m. Oh, and a ground. And a wage bill.

Somehow I still don't see any takers.

Or there's the AFC Newport model. Or the AFC Wimbledon one. Or the Hereford one. Or the Wolverhampton Wanderers (1986) one?
With a clean slate.

Did you spot those 25k Wolves fans all bleating " no thanks, I'll carry on supporting the club I've supported since....er....1986"?

No. Nor me.

Fuck off Garry
 

martcov

Well-Known Member
So £2.4m per annum...sounds about right. That is going to hurt. I think there was something about having to re-value the stadium too? Have you heard anything?

This is why I'm suspicious about the exact intentions behind the CT petition.

How does that tie in ( with the CT plot )? Ask SISU to go and Wasps are saved? Wasps are top of their league and we are almost bottom of ours. We pay 100,000 a year - peanuts in comparison to the figures you quote - and we are still in trouble. I cannot see Joy getting out of this by hanging on. The Butts is too small anyway and Wasps are doing great in their sport. If SISU have to build a new stadium, it will cost a fortune and take years. She would need even more investors. How does she explain that having lost millions it would be a great idea to put loads more money in? Put it up for sale and let others throw money in. She should move on and concentrate on her other schemes where she has a better track record.
 

Captain Dart

Well-Known Member
Meanwhile, Wasps have the council & the CT rolling out the red carpet despite being up to their noses in debt and paying, IIRC, £2m+ pa to service the bond. At least they got a nice punt going on the Allard Way land which they'll be able to sell on to a developer before too long. Pity about the value of their stadium & getting a decent renewal/new stadium sponsorship. It'll be interesting to see their next accounts...

I don't care about Wasps. While we are talking about losses what about the £18M losses SISU have posted on CCFC in the last 4 years?
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
GrenDullard speaks. Duh! Wibble.

Sent from my SGP611 using Tapatalk

Piss off. When did you last attend a game?
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
I don't care about Wasps. While we are talking about losses what about the £18M losses SISU have posted on CCFC in the last 4 years?

You jerk yourself off over wasps council Jack.
 

Captain Dart

Well-Known Member
What I mean is, to put it in more brutal, Sun Tzu-esque terms, if you want to defeat an enemy you need to think like them.

I guess you haven't read Sun-Tzu then. Neither does Joy for..
Sun Tzu quotes (showing 1-30 of 534) “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
She's always fighting battles she can't win and doesn't understand what she's up against.
 

martcov

Well-Known Member
I don't care about Wasps. While we are talking about losses what about the £18M losses SISU have posted on CCFC in the last 4 years?

'So £2.4m per annum...sounds about right.' says RS who claims that will hurt Wasps. In comparison, a 2,4m payment from turnover against 18m loss, shows how badly off we are against the newcomers.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
Yesterday you tosser. When did you?

Sent from my SGP611 using Tapatalk

Yesterday? Sunday? I'm not talking about wasps you moron.
 

thekidfromstrettoncamp

Well-Known Member
The lack of communications has been going on well before the last couple of weeks it doesn't take to much put out a statement to the press. On certain issues for many years the number of times they have been asked to turn up for interviews or meetings and have failed to show no fans forums no nothing .You must communicate with people .As for possible new owners they will just sit back and let them hang themselves a job they seem to be doing quite well and then come in and pick up a distressed club (a full circle ) .The buzzing things don't seem to be doing to bad I have not heard any calls of financial distress from them gates going quite well (yesterdays gate double our last week)
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
When did I say I watched Wasps, you fuckwit?

Sent from my SGP611 using Tapatalk

You said the last game you watched was yesterday. Who was playing?
 

Captain Dart

Well-Known Member
'So £2.4m per annum...sounds about right.' says RS who claims that will hurt Wasps. In comparison, a 2,4m payment from turnover against 18m loss, shows how badly off we are against the newcomers.

I've pointed that out several times & Rob S and others keep making out CCFC is in a stronger position than Wasps, its an absurd proposition, CCFC are deep in the shit, Wasps have a shortfall and need to ramp up turnover but they seem to have realistic plans on which they're making progress.

SISU need to worry about their own finances, last financial year CCFC posted losses that were equivalent to 40% of turnover.
 

Brylowes

Well-Known Member
Well, if we've less tickets sold, there's less money to spend to it goes hand-in-hand. I think most people would expect crowds to rise if we can move up the league table and challenge for the playoffs but that's always the gamble at this level.
My point is that she can hold on in the hope that eventually there could be a return if the stadium / asset issue can get sorted. She would sell if someone legit came forward with a decent offer but it's her idea of decent rather than a market valuation. It's a gamble, but a safer one than most people think.

£15–25m (and that is an educated guess, but very much a guess – I have no idea what she'd entertain) might be a big loss, but £0–1m is massive, so why not hang on and see if it turns around? If Wasps go to shit or the Butts Park Arena moves forward, it's a different landscape all of a sudden.

(BTW, this is me taking a lot of what I've heard & talked about with a lot of people and making my own theory based on trying to think like a hedge fund – well, if you wan't to be accurate, hybrid fund – manager / finance person.)



Probably having a rest after the cricket season ;)
Well, for me, it hasn't just been SISU destroying the club. (But I am in no way defending their conduct or part in all this either.)

But with a boycott, fine, the club get less money. Sell players, spend less on replacements, keep plodding away. The problem is with them going is that there are three ways CCFC can go afterwards: Up, down or stay where we are. There is zero guarantee that the next lot will fare any better, especially if the club is cut to the bone even more. Remember how we ended up with SISU in the first place?

There are too many former big- & even medium-sized clubs scraping their way along the L2/National level of the pyramid with no guarantee of getting up any further. That's my worry...it can actually get worse...under SISU, or the next poor sods.
So the SCG have left the squirrel and now have meetings on the Coventry to Euston train,
Where can I find the minutes, oh and Rob say hello to that Strange fucker for me.
 

Skyblueweeman

Well-Known Member
So £2.4m per annum...sounds about right. That is going to hurt. I think there was something about having to re-value the stadium too? Have you heard anything?.

Nope. But you're right. Paying £2.4m per annum on top of your normal running costs, wages etc, whilst also paying to develop the Higgs centre AND a potential land purchase for housing...well, I'm not sure being top of a division after a few games is going to cover all that.

My gut feeling, and it's only my opinion before the world and his dog has a hissy fit, is that there seems to be a correlation between the surname Richardson and financial management.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

oucho

Well-Known Member
I love the fact that in one thread there are about 5 separate conversations going on...
 

Rob S

Well-Known Member
How does that tie in ( with the CT plot )? Ask SISU to go and Wasps are saved? Wasps are top of their league and we are almost bottom of ours. We pay 100,000 a year - peanuts in comparison to the figures you quote - and we are still in trouble. I cannot see Joy getting out of this by hanging on. The Butts is too small anyway and Wasps are doing great in their sport. If SISU have to build a new stadium, it will cost a fortune and take years. She would need even more investors. How does she explain that having lost millions it would be a great idea to put loads more money in? Put it up for sale and let others throw money in. She should move on and concentrate on her other schemes where she has a better track record.

Well, the assumption is that if SISU are forced out fo' cheap / free, CCFC's new fan-friendly owners sign a long term rental deal on the stadium. The stadium value goes up inc. getting a better naming rights deal which helps Wasps' finances & valuation (v. important). They've spent a lot on players and still don't sell that many tickets, along with the fact that Premiership rugby is not an easy way to make money, even without £2.4m pa interest payments.

As for the Butts, it's as big as Millwall & Reading and anything there is better than the nothing we have at the moment in terms of value to the club/investors. It may never happen but it's an option at the moment and one that they look like they're interested in pursuing.
 

oucho

Well-Known Member
I do not see how the club can even think about a new stadium. The owners have lost gazillions and will lose more if they stay on, building a new ground will make things worse. Just sign a reasonable libg term rent deal at the ricoh on the best terms possible and sut tight to see what develops. If Wasps do go tits up then we could acquire the ricoh or a big slab of it for a fraction of the cost of a new stadium.
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Top