Sky_Blue_Vickie
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Having finished last season with a degree of optimism for the current season having seen what Thorn appeared to be attempting to achieve I was somewhat surprised by the degree of negativity over the summer and after the first few weeks of the season has led me to think where has it all gone wrong for my beloved sky blues.
Personally I think the problems with Coventry City go much further back than Sisu and I blame one person for the near ruin of my football club - that is Brian Richardson. Under his reign we went from being a club with a ground and multi million pound player assets to a homeless club who is running at a loss.
When I first started going to Highfield road there was a different atmosphere and expectation to today.. We brought through good players who would help us survive against the premier league big boys for another season before they moved on for brighter horizons. We had players who might not have been the most technically adept but who would give 100%. We were never competing with the bigger clubs but we were surviving. Of course i dream of the day when we win the league, fa cup and champions league treble but i am also realistic about the real limitations of our club.
We do not have and never have had masses of money, we struggle to get any really decent gates unless one of the big boys is in town and unfortunately we also seem to have been mismanaged to much through the years.
Under Richardson it was suddenly all about competing at that higher level, that was clearly not sustainable and although gave us a good few enjoyable years in the late 90s to 2000 it has ultimately led to our current plight. Unfortunately not only are there questions marks about where all the money went it also seems to have bred a large percentage of fans who have unrealistic ideas about the size of our club. This change in expectation is causing ongoing problems.
We are running at a loss, which Sisu are having to subsidise but still people want to go out and but "4 or 5" players which I have heard many times.
I totally agree that Sisu have bounced from one disaster to another and am definitely not supporting or condoning them but are they ultimately responsible for the mess we are in? They clearly do not understand the buisniess of running a football club or most importantly how to communicate and liase with the fans. However is it reasonable of us to expect that they dip their hands in their pocket again to buy four or five more players. In doing so would they not be thowing the club into even more debt and closer to financial ruin. Personally I would rather there be a club to support no matter how big, competative or in what league then no club at all because they have gone out of business.
We currently have surplus players with a number of promising youngsters coming through - is the answer really to expand the squad even further. In times when clubs like Everton can't afford to buy players are we really so realistic with our demands.
Other than an out and out goal scorer to play alongside Juke with some effort and support the team are no where near relegation fodder but with five strikers on the books are we being unrealistic again in eyeing up another signing.
In years gone by we would have been excited by the young prospects coming through but now a large number of fans appear to want to buy instant success.
It also seems all this negativity is doing nothing to help the club and although new owners may be able to bring in some more investment will this rectify all the problems at this club, I do wonder.
Personally I think the problems with Coventry City go much further back than Sisu and I blame one person for the near ruin of my football club - that is Brian Richardson. Under his reign we went from being a club with a ground and multi million pound player assets to a homeless club who is running at a loss.
When I first started going to Highfield road there was a different atmosphere and expectation to today.. We brought through good players who would help us survive against the premier league big boys for another season before they moved on for brighter horizons. We had players who might not have been the most technically adept but who would give 100%. We were never competing with the bigger clubs but we were surviving. Of course i dream of the day when we win the league, fa cup and champions league treble but i am also realistic about the real limitations of our club.
We do not have and never have had masses of money, we struggle to get any really decent gates unless one of the big boys is in town and unfortunately we also seem to have been mismanaged to much through the years.
Under Richardson it was suddenly all about competing at that higher level, that was clearly not sustainable and although gave us a good few enjoyable years in the late 90s to 2000 it has ultimately led to our current plight. Unfortunately not only are there questions marks about where all the money went it also seems to have bred a large percentage of fans who have unrealistic ideas about the size of our club. This change in expectation is causing ongoing problems.
We are running at a loss, which Sisu are having to subsidise but still people want to go out and but "4 or 5" players which I have heard many times.
I totally agree that Sisu have bounced from one disaster to another and am definitely not supporting or condoning them but are they ultimately responsible for the mess we are in? They clearly do not understand the buisniess of running a football club or most importantly how to communicate and liase with the fans. However is it reasonable of us to expect that they dip their hands in their pocket again to buy four or five more players. In doing so would they not be thowing the club into even more debt and closer to financial ruin. Personally I would rather there be a club to support no matter how big, competative or in what league then no club at all because they have gone out of business.
We currently have surplus players with a number of promising youngsters coming through - is the answer really to expand the squad even further. In times when clubs like Everton can't afford to buy players are we really so realistic with our demands.
Other than an out and out goal scorer to play alongside Juke with some effort and support the team are no where near relegation fodder but with five strikers on the books are we being unrealistic again in eyeing up another signing.
In years gone by we would have been excited by the young prospects coming through but now a large number of fans appear to want to buy instant success.
It also seems all this negativity is doing nothing to help the club and although new owners may be able to bring in some more investment will this rectify all the problems at this club, I do wonder.
of a human being? No wait, it was £5,000,001 my mistake. 
