Time to accept the inevitable - Start again its the only solution !! (4 Viewers)

[SBS]

I doubt it'll ever happen, but if it came to it I would love to see us playing at The Butts. Few drinks in Earlsdon or town and then a short stroll to the ground. Would feel like a real football supporter again. No motorway to home games, more fans than empty seats and the town centre would be busy on a Saturday.

 

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[RichieGunns]

I think the number of fans blows your argument out of the water really. If you'd said 500 or a 1000 fans or something then fair enough. But 20000? Nah, circumstances nothing to do with it.

I'm sorry torch but your just picking for a fight.

This not going to games stuff isn't just a cov thing.

And it's not just in League 1 either.

Attendances are dropping across all the league AND none league teams.

And if you factor in that games for none league, probably cost even less than what we're paying, you start to see a picture forming.

If you factor in that the most expensive premiership season ticket is £960 (Man United), then some people must really have problems if they can't afford to go to none league games!

Plus there are 316,900 people living in Coventry and you pick on the 20,000 who don't show their faces.

You believe it's because they aren't true fans but do you really know that?

Or is that just what your prejudiced view allows you to think as the reason?

Over 316,000 people live in Coventry.

If we had been at highfield road still our capacity would have been 23,489. Then you'd only be moaning about the 10,000 missing fans.

What changes is the number, what stays the same is your blinkered, opinionated (and one sided) view of the people who don't go to matches like yourself, week in week out.

Because you can't understand why they don't go, you instantly think of the most horrible first case scenario you can think off. They obviously don't care about the club and therefore they are not true fans. You then label them as "fake fans".

Do you know these missing 20,000 fans personally? Do you know their reasons for not coming to games? What would you say if a 1000 of those fans were actually suffering from terminal cancer or some other life threatening desease and couldn't come to games because their condition prohibits it.

What would you say if 1000 of those fans were not coming to games because the threat of losing their house to the bailifs is a bigger concern than coming to support their club, even though if they had the money, they would be there.

What would you say if 5,000 of those fans turned out to be careers for disabled and elderly people. The sort of people who needed 24 hour care making it almost impossible to get to a match because they're caring for these people?

I bet you'd still say "Ah they're crap fans because they don't spend their food money on a ticket to come see the sky blues".

There are some many things that stop someone from coming to see football and any other sport. Money problems, divorce, death in the family, (I myself stopped watching any sport (especially rugby) for about a year after my father died because it was too painful so I know what that's like) children being born, buying a new house, getting a morgage, paying off crippling debts, buying food.

All these factors stop someone from going to football or any other sport for that matter. Yes, i agree that some fans don't go because they'd rather support a big team like Man U. Some don't go because they are protesting against SISU. Some don't go because they've given up on football all together (I know a few people like this who are dissolutioned with football and just don't feel the same way about it anymore).

You therefore cannot lump every single member of the supposed 20,000 fans into the same fucking bracket! You do the ones who actually love their club and want it to succeed but cannot help because of their own situations a disservice!!

 

[WinchesterSkyBlue]

I cannot take any more

Hastings Sky Blue
I hear you
I have been Coventry City Supporter for 50+ years and after Saturday I decided I have had enough.
I am fed up with a round trip of 230 miles and for the most part watching my team lose (this season, 2 wins, 4 draws and 8 defeats, last season was slightly better but still dreadful)
I am fed up with watching my team being beaten by teams who are better organised, more motivated, have more heart, desire and ability - despite them being from a little town somewhere out in the sticks
I am fed up with watching what once was a successful Premier league club being destroyed by a succession of immoral, incompetent, stupid or criminal owners.
I am fed up of going to a stadium that has all the atmosphere of a morgue, the same old dreary songs, the same stupid announcement “welcome to the Ricoh Arena the home of the Sky Blues” - no it is not, Ryton is the home of the Sky Blues. The Ricoh is just a place we play, twice the size we need and a rent we cannot afford.
I am fed up with paying £10 to park my car near to the ground (I have to use the ‘official’ car parks as my mother cannot walk too far) and fed up with paying £2 for cup of crappy Nescafe.

It is the end of an era. My paternal grandparents were City Supporters, my parents are City supporters (although my father cannot go anymore), my eldest son has been given the curse but I have had enough.

No more season tickets, no more wasted Saturday’s. No more having to listen to that idiot Stuart Linnell.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

The club sold its soul moving to the Ricoh, i hate the place, Highfield Rd was recognizable like Craven Cottage, Carrow Rd and loftus Rd, lets start again in the Blue square at the Butts and we will sell out every week

 

[CJparker]

Whatever happens, we do not want to start again - it does not bear thinking about. I would rather keep struggling under SISU than do that, and that is saying a lot

 

[coundonskyblue]

If we had stayed at HR, and the team declined at the same rate, we would now have people on here saying how we should leave HR.

Moving to the Ricoh from a financial point of view has certainly not worked out. However the question of which ground was better is not even debatable imo. Walking into the Ricoh at the start of the JPT game and soaking up the atmosphere, made me feel as proud as I have ever been to be a CCFC fan. Highfield Road never gave me that feeling.

 

[Harry Grout]

I can only echo many of the sentiments expressed here, particularly those from the longer standing fans.

I don't really know what to make of the shambles that is CCFC, or who or what to believe from the various powers that be. As a SISU hater and someone who is increasingly anti ACL/Council, the only possible solution I can see, and it's probably the lesser of many evils is for the Council and Higgs Charity to invite bids for their shares in the stadium from SISU. Test the water and see how committed SISU are to CCFC longer term, let the charity sell their share as they have wanted to do for a while, and let the Council sell theirs and instead concentrate on filling potholes and hounding citizens for council tax.

At least we might have some form of resolution one way or another. Given the current ridiculous stance by both main parties and the commercial dead-end that is slowly but surely killing off CCFC, I can't see any other solution.

Totally depressing.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Whatever happens, we do not want to start again - it does not bear thinking about. I would rather keep struggling under SISU than do that, and that is saying a lot

I wouldn't cause the end result is the same

 

[RichieGunns]

I can only echo many of the sentiments expressed here, particularly those from the longer standing fans.

I don't really know what to make of the shambles that is CCFC, or who or what to believe from the various powers that be. As a SISU hater and someone who is increasingly anti ACL/Council, the only possible solution I can see, and it's probably the lesser of many evils is for the Council and Higgs Charity to invite bids for their shares in the stadium from SISU. Test the water and see how committed SISU are to CCFC longer term, let the charity sell their share as they have wanted to do for a while, and let the Council sell theirs and instead concentrate on filling potholes and hounding citizens for council tax.

At least we might have some form of resolution one way or another. Given the current ridiculous stance by both main parties and the commercial dead-end that is slowly but surely killing off CCFC, I can't see any other solution.

Totally depressing.

Unfortunately the council will not sell their share to SISU and they wont veto the sale of the Higgs trust's share either!

They just don't trust SISU. As far as they're concerned, SISU want the stadium and ground for underhand reason and that in the long run it will not benefit CCFC.

As has been said already, SISU want something they can leverage to get their investment back.

The stadium and the land would be perfect for that. Throw in the club and they can recoop most of their initial investment.

My guess would be the Council would sell their share in a hearbeat if the right person was in charge of CCFC.