Why don't Coventry City pay their bills? (1 Viewer)

Oli_Watson · Mar 28, 2014

I'm confused! Why arent' Coventry paying the rent for the Ricoh? You want to play there so why not pay the money? You can't rent a house for £600pm and then refuse to pay it and only offer £300pm and wonder why you get kicked out

wingy · Mar 28, 2014

Oh Oli......

malkitccfc · Mar 28, 2014

£600pm is great, especially when everybody else on your street pays £200pm!

stupot07 · Mar 28, 2014

House rent argument? Really?

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SuperFred · Mar 28, 2014

Haha great fishing... And you've come to the right place this lot are gonna bite your hand off

CovFan · Mar 28, 2014

Needs more car dealership analogies and maybe a reference to Hitler.

2/10

skybluetony176 · Mar 28, 2014

thats not fair Oli. they always pay the Lawyers.

Oli_Watson · Mar 28, 2014

Don't live there then?

malkitccfc · Mar 28, 2014

Oli_Watson said:
Don't live there then?

We don't. We live 35 miles down the road

THE_POSH · Mar 28, 2014

i like coventry football club
but they should pay there way and not be tight arses.

THE_POSH · Mar 28, 2014

RFC · Mar 28, 2014

Oli_Watson said:
I'm confused! Why arent' Coventry paying the rent for the Ricoh? You want to play there so why not pay the money? You can't rent a house for £600pm and then refuse to pay it and only offer £300pm and wonder why you get kicked out

You're having a laugh!

Oli_Watson · Mar 28, 2014

RFC said:
You're having a laugh!

Unfortunately not! What does the Ricoh's groundsman do these days?

Phil Babbs Ballbag · Mar 28, 2014

I think he's busy ploughing your sister.

Oli_Watson · Mar 28, 2014

Phil Babbs Ballbag said:
I think he's busy ploughing your sister.

Since when have groundsman started ploughing? Im sure players love playing football on a ploughed field, which would explain choosing sixfields ......

spider_ricoh · Mar 28, 2014

Oli_Watson said:
Since when have groundsman started ploughing? Im sure players love playing football on a ploughed field, which would explain choosing sixfields ......

There wasn't much ground maintenance going on in our last season at the Ricoh either, as SISU stopped paying their dues - these were meant to go towards upkeep of the pitch.

stupot07 · Mar 28, 2014

spider_ricoh said:
There wasn't much ground maintenance going on in our last season at the Ricoh either, as SISU stopped paying their dues - these were meant to go towards upkeep of the pitch.

Not totally correct, as last season the groundstaff were employed by the club. The maintenance budget was smaller though to be fair.

SkyBlue_Bear83 · Mar 28, 2014

Oli_Watson said:
I'm confused! Why arent' Coventry paying the rent for the Ricoh? You want to play there so why not pay the money? You can't rent a house for £600pm and then refuse to pay it and only offer £300pm and wonder why you get kicked out

The club don't want to rent the Ricoh, they want full ownership.

Spionkop · Mar 28, 2014

Oli, they weren't kicked out.
They left so as to cause as much trouble financially for the owners of the stadium as they could.
In the hope of bankrupting them.
And then picking up the stadium dirt cheap.
There is a perfectly good and radically reduced rent offer on the table to Sisu.
They have ignored it.
All part of their wonderful 'master plan.'
They could come back and play at the Ricoh anytime they wanted.
As long as they pay the reasonably set rent offer.
As far as I can see they owe lots of money to various bodies in Coventry.
I've yet to hear of them paying any of it.
The club owners have brought our club to near extinction.

Oli_Watson · Mar 28, 2014

Spionkop said:
Oli, they weren't kicked out.
They left so as to cause as much trouble financially for the owners of the stadium as they could.
In the hope of bankrupting them.
And then picking up the stadium dirt cheap.
There is a perfectly good and radically reduced rent offer on the table to Sisu.
They have ignored it.
All part of their wonderful 'master plan.'
They could come back and play at the Ricoh anytime they wanted.
As long as they pay the reasonably set rent offer.
As far as I can see they owe lots of money to various bodies in Coventry.
I've yet to hear of them paying any of it.
The club owners have brought our club to near extinction.

Mind games, I like it

Jack Griffin · Mar 28, 2014

stupot07 said:
Not totally correct, as last season the groundstaff were employed by the club. The maintenance budget was smaller though to be fair.

Misinformation there, Joh Lewridge went to ACL on 30th May, AFTER the season ended (on 27th April 2013).
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/sky-blues-groundsman-defects-work-4031470

Manchester_sky_blue · Mar 28, 2014

Please do not feed the troll..........

Nick · Mar 28, 2014

Jack Griffin said:
Misinformation there, Joh Lewridge went to ACL on 30th May, AFTER the season ended (on 27th April 2013).
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/sky-blues-groundsman-defects-work-4031470

Then went to Leicester?

Jack Griffin · Mar 28, 2014

Nick said:
Then went to Leicester?

Yeah, in Jan 2014.

PS Who are the groundsmen at Ryton, Ricoh & Higgs centre now? Who are they employed by...

stupot07 · Mar 28, 2014

Jack Griffin said:
Misinformation there, Joh Lewridge went to ACL on 30th May, AFTER the season ended (on 27th April 2013).
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/sky-blues-groundsman-defects-work-4031470

Yeah that's what I meant, he was employed by the club during the 2012/13 season so witholding the rent had no impact on the state of the pitch. The reason the pitch was so bad, was a couple of concerts 10-12 Olympic Games, then another 7-8 home cup ties on top of the 23 league games and a cold winter.

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iKorraKs · Mar 28, 2014

looks like someone thought it would be funny to sign up with my name, poor work-related troll attempt

Oli_Watson · Mar 28, 2014

So when are they announcing where the new stadium is going to be?

CCFC88 · Mar 28, 2014

You must be really fucking bored

Oli_Watson · Mar 28, 2014

dalycov said:
You must be really fucking bored

I am actually, I'm at work. How did you know?

James Smith · Mar 28, 2014

More to the point........Why didn't they purchase the Higgs half of ACL from day one? It would have surely been cheaper than now, then we would have had two seats on the ACL board rather than none, and the ability to influence things in favour of our club. Same goes for the rent, why didn't they seek to reduce the fixed costs when the wage bill was so high?

wingy · Mar 28, 2014

Oli_Watson said:
So when are they announcing where the new stadium is going to be?

June .

Somewhere near the Trail of the lonesome Pine

lordsummerisle · Mar 28, 2014

Jack Griffin said:
Misinformation there, Joh Lewridge went to ACL on 30th May, AFTER the season ended (on 27th April 2013).
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/sky-blues-groundsman-defects-work-4031470

Yeah, the misinformation was from spider_ricoh.

iKorraKs · Mar 28, 2014

get on the dialler

Oli_Watson · Mar 28, 2014

Getting back on topic, if you have been offered to play at the Ricoh with reduced rent. Is it not worth going back?

Phil Babbs Ballbag · Mar 28, 2014

Erm...yeah. Hence the vitriol directed at our owners in most threads.

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