Why should we bother? (4 Viewers)

[kdp888]

Hi all im new to this forum having only recently found it and decided to join today! Over the last few years i have become more and more worried about the club and where we are actually going? For a start three managers in three seasons obviously aint great and each year we do the same start ok in the playoffs or thereabouts at christmas then fade away down the table so new manager in and gain a few points to survive. Now surely this is more the players becoming comfortable with their places and not performing untill a new guy comes in and they want to keep their places again. So why not kick them up their arses and let the manager carry on, all this changing surely aint helping that much! And for me Chris Coleman was slightly defensive but i think given more time could have built a great side. But a few years ago we sell Fox and Dann which was not very helpful defensively and now we have let King, Westwood and Gunnarsson go which will just about help us to relegation this year unless we are very lucky. All this over the last few years has really got me down and wondering why should we bother supporting a self destructive selling club?

 

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[Jim]

Because it's OUR self destructive selling club....!

 

[Ernie Machin]

No, he's right.

Existential nihilism FOR THE WIN.

 

[Disorganised1]

Why did you bother joining to post something this negative ?

I'm not saying you should don sky-blue tinted spectacles, but at least take off the black ones.

 

[Macca]

Welcome to the forum. All opinions welcome. In answer to your question...for me because i was brainwashed at an early age!

 

[ccfc_Tom]

Welcome. And my dad wouldn't allow me to support anyone else

 

[Pigeon]

My father and uncle took me to highfield road and I found the most amazing, disneyland like character: Sky Blue Sam and I asked to return every week to see him. Eventually I realized there was a football club there and I fell in love. Never looked back or thought of going else where. They may have their problems and as a fan I will worry about the future and stability of the club and how it is run but that will never make me want to go look at another club just because the Sky Blues are having a really tough time at the moment. Keep the faith.

 

[im-confused]

How many other clubs get this much excitement?

 

[OyJimmy]

A good question. The majority of fans on here will support Cov whatever happens. The problem is how many future fans will we recruit if we carry on like this?

By not attacking SISU more we are effectively supporting the demise of the club.

 

[Paxman II]

kdp888 I think you will find all you need to know by studying a few post on here before you start asking the same questions again.
But welcome anyway :welcome:

 

[Nick]

I couldn't support anybody else, it is either like it or lump it!

 

[blueflint]

because we all love to be left anxiously looking over our shoulders to see who will be below us one day it will be everyone

 

[Clive Plattini]

You don't have to support Coventry. There are loads of teams to support. It's just that I was taken at a very early age and now I love the club. Regardless of who owns, manages or plays for us. I support Coventry City. Not McSheffrey, Dulieu, Brody or Thorn.

PUSB

 

[operationprem]

Its our club through think an thin! Could you really support another team?

 

[Clive Plattini]

I could never support another team. That's why I never asked myself why I bother. I once turned down a chance to go to the BAFTAS so I could travel to Cov from London to see us lose two nil at home to Burnley.

 

[kdp888]

Thanks for all the replies, Im not going to jump ship i like everyone else am Sky Blue through and through. I started supporting the team when winning the FA Cup as i was a 7 year old and even went to the celebratory game of cricket in John Sillett's home village of Nomansland which is local to where i was born. And i love the club, but it kills me to see how its going. I will continue to support it too but going to the games now is so expensive, and after taking a big group of mates to the Ricoh for my stag do last season to watch us crumble against Bristol City was embarrassing. I know Marlon King getting sent off that day never helped us but we never looked great before that incident. I do however think that Lucas Jutkiewicz looks an excellent prospect aswell as Clarke, Cameron, Hussey and others but it just got me down this transfer window seeing us lose our big three. As i stated before i will continue to support our team but its like banging our head against a brick wall at times! I might even venture to Chesterfield this week to check out what we have to look forward to this season.

 

[rob9872]

I could never support another team. That's why I never asked myself why I bother. I once turned down a chance to go to the BAFTAS so I could travel to Cov from London to see us lose two nil at home to Burnley.

I should think so too! I wouldn't open the curtains to the BAFTAS if they were hosting it in my back garden. I struggle to think of anything worse than a bunch of two bob actors pretending they're important.

 

[Ernie Machin]

Is it me or is Rob getting a bit 'Gaunty' of late?

 

[operationprem]

I could never support another team. That's why I never asked myself why I bother. I once turned down a chance to go to the BAFTAS so I could travel to Cov from London to see us lose two nil at home to Burnley.

I once got tickets to the emirates given me as christmas present they must of cost over hundred quid, didnt go because cov were at home the same day

 

[rob9872]

Is it me or is Rob getting a bit 'Gaunty' of late?

Damn! Looks like I've been rumbled

 

[ajsccfc]

By not attacking SISU more we are effectively supporting the demise of the club.

Are you a secret Northampton fan? You talk so much Cobblers.

 

[Fluffsta]

No matter how bad things may be its always my club.

 

[SkyBlueScottie]

Why do we bother? cos its our team.

 

[Ernie Machin]

There's probably about 10,000 that don't bother that would suddenly bother again if we hit the Premier League. If they did start bothering again, they would find the club in a much better place. Swings/roundabouts.


Oh bother.

 

[TheSnoz]

Ernie, you can double that 10,000. You are spot on. Instead of looking for 'White Knights on horses' the fans are the real investors. If they turned up instead of being faint hearted we'd be out of the mire pretty quick.
But why should they bother....

 

[Macca]

Ernie, you can double that 10,000. You are spot on. Instead of looking for 'White Knights on horses' the fans are the real investors. If they turned up instead of being faint hearted we'd be out of the mire pretty quick.
But why should they bother....

Very much doubt an extra 20000 would turn up. We werent getting 36000 last time we were in the prem. More like an extra 8000 with perhaps 11000 for big games

 

[TheSnoz]

We'll have to disagree on that one Macca.

 

[BenInTurin]

My father and uncle took me to highfield road and I found the most amazing, disneyland like character: Sky Blue Sam and I asked to return every week to see him. Eventually I realized there was a football club there and I fell in love.

There's a football team?

 

[rob9872]

the biggest myth is that swelling the numbers is the reason to get in the Prem.

Even if we're optimistic and 10,000 more turn up at £300 per season, then that equates to £3m.

£3m is very nice and would certainly remove a good chunk of the current annual running costs, but that is totally dwarfed by the revenue from Sky and the Premier League.

We're a bigger club (imo) than teams like Wigan and Blackburn, but the longer they remain in the top flight and the longer we remain out of it, then the gap between the teams ever being on a level footing as either of those examples increases. Premier League revenue is the only thing that really makes a difference.

 

[kdp888]

Some excellent points there! I was at the Cup match vs Blackburn and i think that is the only time the Ricoh has been sold out, what an atmosphere that night. And when Leon Best got the goal the celebrations were electric, i had goose bumbs and wished the Ricoh was like that all the time!

 

[Macca]

We'll have to disagree on that one Macca.

If we went up I reckon yes we could fill the Ricoh nearly every week for the first season. Trouble is imo that would be pure novelty value with folk who were more interested in the opposition turning up to watch. If we slipped back to perrenial prem survivors losing more games than we won then I would see perhaps 23-24K average. Remember the Entertainers season? Didn't sell out every week. The only way that ground gets filled for me is if we were ever challenging for a European place.

 

[ajsccfc]

Some excellent points there! I was at the Cup match vs Blackburn and i think that is the only time the Ricoh has been sold out, what an atmosphere that night. And when Leon Best got the goal the celebrations were electric, i had goose bumbs and wished the Ricoh was like that all the time!

Chelsea in the cup is the only sell-out so far. The Blackburn game was a cracking atmosphere, but there were only 22000 or so there. Anyone remember when we came back from 2-0 down against Newcastle to equalise right at the death? I've rarely heard noise like that at the Ricoh.

 

[stevo_ccfc]

The one time we scored from a Gunnar throw.

my other memory from that game is a bunch of the crowd leaving before the game was over and missing extra time. Leaving early is something I have never understood

 

[chiefdave]

i think you can change teams when you're a kid. My Dad stopped going to the City long before I was born so I wasn't raised sky blue and supported Everton early on as they were winning everything and on TV the most.

That changed when I went to my first City game, Arsenal at home in 86, I was 12 and from then on it was City all the way, season ticket holder till I moved away.

If there was no more City I couldn't start supporting another team, to be honest given that watching England interests me less and less there's more chance of me giving up of the game than supporting another team. Saying that when I lived in Cambridge I did go to there games when not traveling to see the city but that was more because it was very cheap and all my mates down there went. Have lived in Portsmouth for about 6 years now and the only time I've been to see Pompey or Saints have been when we're playing them. It's just too exepensive these days to go as a netural.