covcity4life
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Car to Brum too and car to ricoh?
St Andrew's it is then (4 Viewers)
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Evo1883
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Yes mate
lifeskyblue
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Supporting villa in their last game. Never thought I would say it. Don’t want home games Friday and Sunday. Only travel from Leicester but not keen on lots of night travel
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cc84cov
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What hold have they over wasps ? Can’t a deal be done without them involved ?
Gynnsthetonic
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A member of the Wasps staff has told me exactly the same!
covcity4life
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clint van damme
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St. Andrews - helicopter
Ricoh - pogo stick
in seriousness I think Evo lives in Tile Hill so I totally agree with what he's saying. Getting to work in Brum doesn't take me much longer than getting to the other side of Cov.
Grendel
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it was 2 years wasn’t it?
covcity4life
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Hmm I am in holbrooks and tile hill aint that far away. Certainly not as far as gettinf to st Andrews imo. But i guess I would have to do a times experiment to prove it
clint van damme
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you might be right, I was including their time at their equivalent of the Butts (circa the 1970s) but that was in Brighton.
robbiethemole
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you can pick me up on the way past then hahaha
Ultimately it is what it is, Ricoh isn't the be all and end all and if we're better off financially at St Andrews for the time being then so be it. A- we returned to the Ricoh once before after playing away and it was good for 1 game and then the crap football meant we suddenly took for granted being in Coventry again. B- we've only lost 1 league game in Birmingham and the players/staff have adjusted to it and developed into the best we've had in years and should be well supported regardless of where we play. I always remember a post pointing how much Bury FC fans would snap your hand off at a chance to still have their club despite playing 20 miles out of town...
clint van damme
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I have, every week for years.
Admittedly I finish at 3 and when I'm picking my son up I get him at 5 or 6 so it's not quite a like for like comparison because I'm travelling across Cov and the peak of the rush hour.
covcity4life
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Ok not having this
I just went to beech tree chippy earlier today in 14 mins!!!!
Evo1883
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SeaSeeEffCee
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Took me 45 minutes to get from south Cov to Birmingham most match days due to the traffic on the way into Brum.
covcity4life
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Let me see what it says for beech tree. See if accurate or not. 1 sec
robbiethemole
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bloody ridiculous that we're getting more support from Blues, one of our rivals in the League, than we are from the Council of our own feckin City, absolute bunch of c+nts
Gynnsthetonic
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Could we not play at the Warwick University Athletics Ground similar to what Brighton and Hove Albion did with 6000 max and temporary stands
covcity4life
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Says 15mins for me. Tile hill must be big lol
Says you are 19 miles away. Ricoh is 6 miles from beech tree
Evo1883
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I would say although I could be wrong, only Wyken is bigger in size in Coventry
mark82
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It's pretty accurate. Took probably 45 minutes to get to St. Andrews from Tile Hill, probably half hour-ish to Ricoh. Not huge amount in it.
NorthernWisdom
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Hmmm
It was. Withdean restricted the amount of people who could watch them, mind.
Evo1883
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Its 2.5 miles from the edge of tile hill at bannerbrook to sainsburies on the other edge by the 45
clint van damme
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Tile Hill also very linear, starts just past Whoberley and goes all the way to nearly Balsall common.
torchomatic
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Evo1883
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Sky Blue Pete
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They’ll get a huge handout I reckon. In the millions
Calista
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I’ll make the lengthy trek to some games at St. Andrews when Covid allows, but with a very heavy heart. Really hope the team entertains us like they did last season, because all the other stuff brings mental pain. My thoughts for what it’s worth are:
SISU – catastrophic misjudgements and incompetence for at least the first 6 or 7 years, notably dropping the offer to the charity from £5m £2m, employing a string of no-hopers to run the club, trying to screw elected politicians for the “unencumbered freehold”, and taking CCFC hostage at Sixfields thinking they were the only game in town. Playing a much better game lately, Joy has become visible and I do like Boddy, but why did it take over 10 years to see the light?
Wasps – a plastic entity that went from a London club to a South East franchise to a West Midlands franchise, and whose fans didn’t do much to stop it. Knowing nothing about club rugby, I thought they had a secure place at the European top table, which at least brought something to the area. But they are sinking into the mire on and off the pitch. Their attempts to impose the indemnity clause on CCFC leave me speechless – how insulting can you get?
CCC – had sympathy for their stance back in 2012 or so, when the option of handing over the keys on SISU’s terms must have been politically impossible. I foolishly assumed there was a plan when they brought Wasps in, with a big buyer waiting in the wings to embrace the stadium and both clubs. That’s still what I’d like to see tbh but there’s so much debt all over the place, personal feuds and such a shitshow, I can’t see it happening. Should have realised there never was a plan.
Somehow, the above parties (+ others) have engineered a situation where a city like Coventry now has two debt-laden sports clubs operating well below elite standard, one barely viable 30,000 seat stadium and another 20,000 one on the horizon. Are people really happy to play in bloody Birmingham and wait at least 5 years for a Lego arena which is even further out of town than the Ricoh, thinking it will be a new spiritual home?
Beginning to think for the first time that Wasps folding is our best hope, and not an unrealistic scenario.
SISU – catastrophic misjudgements and incompetence for at least the first 6 or 7 years, notably dropping the offer to the charity from £5m £2m, employing a string of no-hopers to run the club, trying to screw elected politicians for the “unencumbered freehold”, and taking CCFC hostage at Sixfields thinking they were the only game in town. Playing a much better game lately, Joy has become visible and I do like Boddy, but why did it take over 10 years to see the light?
Wasps – a plastic entity that went from a London club to a South East franchise to a West Midlands franchise, and whose fans didn’t do much to stop it. Knowing nothing about club rugby, I thought they had a secure place at the European top table, which at least brought something to the area. But they are sinking into the mire on and off the pitch. Their attempts to impose the indemnity clause on CCFC leave me speechless – how insulting can you get?
CCC – had sympathy for their stance back in 2012 or so, when the option of handing over the keys on SISU’s terms must have been politically impossible. I foolishly assumed there was a plan when they brought Wasps in, with a big buyer waiting in the wings to embrace the stadium and both clubs. That’s still what I’d like to see tbh but there’s so much debt all over the place, personal feuds and such a shitshow, I can’t see it happening. Should have realised there never was a plan.
Somehow, the above parties (+ others) have engineered a situation where a city like Coventry now has two debt-laden sports clubs operating well below elite standard, one barely viable 30,000 seat stadium and another 20,000 one on the horizon. Are people really happy to play in bloody Birmingham and wait at least 5 years for a Lego arena which is even further out of town than the Ricoh, thinking it will be a new spiritual home?
Beginning to think for the first time that Wasps folding is our best hope, and not an unrealistic scenario.
mr_monkey
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Tbf he's done alright so far
David O'Day
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Yep he is talking fucking whiff and it's pretty sick in the head to be doing that at the moment
shepardo01
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Who Pete, W*sps?
And from whom?.... not the "3rd party"??
cc84cov
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Yep agree alsO talking absolute shite
cc84cov
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Council giving wasps back handers to keep SISU and CCFC away from the Ricoh ?
Don’t be silly mate they couldn’t possibly do that
