If the local authority hadn't come to the rescue would we have a stadium at all?I think on my side its not so much as like sisu but more an equal distrust and dislike of the local authority. .
Yes we would have a stadium-highfield road! We would have entered admin then but the council bought the ground and have been paid more in rent since than any outlay. They wanted that part of the city regenerated regardless and were inky too happy to get involved in rescuing the arena project.
If the local authority hadn't come to the rescue would we have a stadium at all?
Further more, when whoever owns the club buggers off the council (who are democratically elected to serve Coventry) will still be here to pick up the pieces of a club which, as GINETTA points out, has been run into the ground by clowns.
If you think therefore that your "equal distrust" is a balanced view then I'd love to hear from you how the Council could have done anything differently.:wave:
Wtf dud I say that? We all know it was ruchardsins but ine that ccc were only too willing to exploit. When the arena project started it was a national stadium bid on an old gasworks that required a lot of publuc expenditure to maje safe. Then a 45000 with retractablpe roof all before the stadium we now ended up with. There was littery funding from the failed wc2006 bid and the sale if land to tesco all swallowed up by mounting debts trying to pay players unsustainable wages.If you think it was the Council's decision to sell HR then I cannot help you.
Indeed, you're probably beyond helping.
No problem mateFair enough but what about the real prospect of liquidation which is what SISU have told us is an inevitabilty.....veiled threats or not that's a shite alternative! Personally I think the rent issues are a smokescreen as it represents small change in the overall picture. Just imagine if they oblterate us off the face of the earth over an amount comparable to David Bell's wages.....would you be as sympathetic to them then?
Certainly not but I genuinely never believed it would come to that. I guess we will never know now however.
So the local authority came to the rescue otherwise we would not have a stadium...that could be true. That makes them the good guys in all of this???
SISU came in to buy the club at the death...otherwise there would be no club...I think that is at least as true. BUT so many portray them as the bad guys - mostly it seems through tactics employed to get the stadium so they can increase revenue so they can invest more on the pitch (I admit that is my assumption) & stick to the FFP rules coming in.
There are no good guys other than the supporters - they are the only ones who do or say anything for the love of the club. All other interested parties do it for financial gain or to massage their massive ego.
I guess that a great many will now accuse me of being a "SISU-lover" but I really am beyond caring about that childish nonsense...so if anyone is tempted to...it's pointless bothering.
I think on my side its not so much as like sisu but more an equal distrust and dislike of the local authority. In the same way as we might not like a player or a manager, whilst they are ours we should support them. If I knew of a credibke alternative they would have my 100% backing instead, but unfortunately I don't. I guess the stadium issue prevented other interested parties five years back and with league status dwindling crowds and no stadium resolution we offer even less appeal now than e did then.
What you on about? Relax, your ire is not doing you any good. You've lost the ability to think straight. Chill.
Nobody 'loves' sisu ffs
Nobody loved Sisu more than Ginetta that's for sure.
What difference does that make ? There are long time posters on here from America, Oz, Spain etc, does their not going to matches limit their right to opinion ? I know a regular poster on here unable to attend matches through illness. How do we know you go ?Amusing from someone never possessing that ability.
Go yesterday? Know the score and who scored by now.
What difference does that make ? There are long time posters on here from America, Oz, Spain etc, does their not going to matches limit their right to opinion ? I know a regular poster on here unable to attend matches through illness. How do we know you go ?
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