Coventry City of Culture 2021 (1 Viewer)

GaryJones said:

Next year Coventry is the City of Culture but will Coventry City FC be in Coventry or will we not be part of this UK event.
Surely the pressure to get the Sky Blues back in Coventry needs to ramp up in time for 2021.
A Coventry City of culture without Coventry City will be seen as a national disgrace - for fuck sake they are even painting some buildings Sky Blue - everyone (Coventry Council - SIsu & Wasps) need to get around a table and sort this out!

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Well as I understand it ccfc and Sisu have signed an agreement with wasps to take no further legal action, there is no longer an indemnity clause to sign and a draft agreement in place to be put into action.
Maybe Clive or Stuart can explain the problem cause it’s beyond me

Having seen the video of the ricoh pitch yesterday during the pests game and the fact wasps are holding us to ransom on a deal that would lead to our club going bust im in no hurry to see us back at the wasps nest.

a new stadium built within or very near to the city is the ideal solution unless wasps go bust first

How memorable is this title though? Where was the City of Culture last year for example, or the year before that and previously? Gone and forgotten about. Can't say I'm that particularly impressed by this.

GaryJones said:

A Coventry City of culture without Coventry City will be seen as a national disgrace -

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Sadly it won’t be a national disgrace. Not enough people in Coventry care, let alone nationally

Houchens Head said:

How memorable is this title though? Where was the City of Culture last year for example, or the year before that and previously? Gone and forgotten about. Can't say I'm that particularly impressed by this.

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It's every 4 years, and I remember Hull getting a load of exposure and investment off the back of it. It's hardly the Olympics, but it's a good thing to have won and I think it will be good for the city.

Houchens Head said:

How memorable is this title though? Where was the City of Culture last year for example, or the year before that and previously? Gone and forgotten about. Can't say I'm that particularly impressed by this.

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Hull were the last in 2017, they seem to think it did some good things.

https://static.a-n.co.uk/wp-content...-The-Impacts-of-Hull-City-of-Culture-2017.pdf

theferret said:

It's every 4 years, and I remember Hull getting a load of exposure and investment off the back of it. It's hardly the Olympics, but it's a good thing to have won and I think it will be good for the city.

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Yep it’s huge for us. When Liverpool won the Euro city of culture 2008 some years ago it transformed it into the cosmopolitan Vibrant city it is today Ours is the UK version but if we get a small part of what they achieved we are into a winner!!!

GaryJones said:

Next year Coventry is the City of Culture but will Coventry City FC be in Coventry or will we not be part of this UK event.
Surely the pressure to get the Sky Blues back in Coventry needs to ramp up in time for 2021.
A Coventry City of culture without Coventry City will be seen as a national disgrace - for fuck sake they are even painting some buildings Sky Blue - everyone (Coventry Council - SIsu & Wasps) need to get around a table and sort this out!

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Wouldn’t it have been more appropriate for us to be in Coventry in City of Sport year? 2019?

Sky Blue Pete said:

Well as I understand it ccfc and Sisu have signed an agreement with wasps to take no further legal action, there is no longer an indemnity clause to sign and a draft agreement in place to be put into action.
Maybe Clive or Stuart can explain the problem cause it’s beyond me

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Could it be the state of the pitch?

MalcSB said:

Wouldn’t it have been more appropriate for us to be in Coventry in City of Sport year? 2019?

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According to nick owen on Midlands today, the eyes of the world will be on Coventry during this "city of culture " celebration. I'm sure it would be embarrassing to the council to have sky blue banners saying bring us back home to Coventry. Maybe it would put some pressure on the council to use their influence to bring us back. ...just a thought

ccfcway said:

Sadly it won’t be a national disgrace. Not enough people in Coventry care, let alone nationally

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Coventry City Council is a national disgrace already

The council are an absolute disgrace and are going about like we don't even exist.... they sold their own football club out for a shitty franchise rugby club.....

Its like with the sky blue banners they are trying to rub it in

shmmeee said:

Hull were the last in 2017, they seem to think it did some good things.

https://static.a-n.co.uk/wp-content...-The-Impacts-of-Hull-City-of-Culture-2017.pdf

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Was worth £800,000 to the local economy that year apprently

GaryJones said:

Next year Coventry is the City of Culture but will Coventry City FC be in Coventry or will we not be part of this UK event.
Surely the pressure to get the Sky Blues back in Coventry needs to ramp up in time for 2021.
A Coventry City of culture without Coventry City will be seen as a national disgrace - for fuck sake they are even painting some buildings Sky Blue - everyone (Coventry Council - SIsu & Wasps) need to get around a table and sort this out!

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We were city of sport when we moved out of the city!

cc84cov said:

Coventry City Council is a national disgrace already

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Sadly not. What has happened hardly gets a ripple outside of Coventry

Really hope the city makes the most of it.

Having said that now that preparations will be well underway with it only being a year away listening to a council spokesperson on the radio this morning didn't inspire me with confidence. Was complaining there is not enough hotel rooms, this from a council who have recently turned down applications for new hotels that would be open in time for City of Culture. The alternatives proposed were using student accommodation, which raises the question of where the students will go, and having campsites!

Not sure I'd be coming to visit if I had to camp in the memorial park in January.

Sky Blue Pete said:

Well as I understand it ccfc and Sisu have signed an agreement with wasps to take no further legal action, there is no longer an indemnity clause to sign and a draft agreement in place to be put into action.
Maybe Clive or Stuart can explain the problem cause it’s beyond me

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don't ask martin.

SkyBlueDom26 said:

The council are an absolute disgrace and are going about like we don't even exist.... they sold their own football club out for a shitty franchise rugby club.....

Its like with the sky blue banners they are trying to rub it in

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Don't remember when a council leader ever posed with the CCFC captain for photos on the pitch...but then Lucas couldn't get one with James Haskell quick enough

Maupet said:

According to nick owen on Midlands today, the eyes of the world will be on Coventry during this "city of culture " celebration. I'm sure it would be embarrassing to the council to have sky blue banners saying bring us back home to Coventry. Maybe it would put some pressure on the council to use their influence to bring us back. ...just a thought

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The City of Culture year will be the biggest cultural festival in the world.

This is an amazing thing to be happening to the city and I just hope the local population get the chips off their shoulders and embrace it.

Coventry is far from perfect but it is definitely improving and will continue to improve and this is only a massive, massive positive for the city.

I worked with a guy who was living in Hull when they had it and he said the year was absolutely superb for the city and the legacy it has left has had a profound effect on the city.

LastGarrison said:

The City of Culture year will be the biggest cultural festival in the world.

This is an amazing thing to be happening to the city and I just hope the local population get the chips off their shoulders and embrace it.

Coventry is far from perfect but it is definitely improving and will continue to improve and this is only a massive, massive positive for the city.

I worked with a guy who was living in Hull when they had it and he said the year was absolutely superb for the city and the legacy it has left has had a profound effect on the city.

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Not convinced it will be the biggest cultural festival in the world, but it is big, and it’s great for the city, The football team is a very small part, even if they played in cov

LastGarrison said:

The City of Culture year will be the biggest cultural festival in the world.

This is an amazing thing to be happening to the city and I just hope the local population get the chips off their shoulders and embrace it.

Coventry is far from perfect but it is definitely improving and will continue to improve and this is only a massive, massive positive for the city.

I worked with a guy who was living in Hull when they had it and he said the year was absolutely superb for the city and the legacy it has left has had a profound effect on the city.

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To be honest if it managed to invigorate Derry and Hull, it can easily do in Cov.

ccfcway said:

Not convinced it will be the biggest cultural festival in the world, but it is big, and it’s great for the city, The football team is a very small part, even if they played in cov

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I heard it straight from someone directly involved with the project.

It is year long celebration, you’d have to be doing really well to better that in a year!

*edit just to clarify the biggest cultural festival in the world that year not of all time!

Brighton Sky Blue said:

Don't remember when a council leader ever posed with the CCFC captain for photos on the pitch...but then Lucas couldn't get one with James Haskell quick enough

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Literally scum mate

SkyBlueDom26 said:

Literally scum mate

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Both Tory and Labour councillors alike let the city down when they let the insects in. If only independents with common sense could have control

Well apparently Hull are still benefiting from it.
Jobs brightening up the City tourism etc have all got better.

Funny but Hull City also had problems and got religated in their Culture year, didnt seem to blight their celebrations.

I for one am going to embrace it and might even volunteer, I love this City yes it has problems but name me one place that hasn't.

Brighton Sky Blue said:

Both Tory and Labour councillors alike let the city down when they let the insects in. If only independents with common sense could have control

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Exactly all sides have been United in this farce.

letsallsingtogether said:

Exactly all sides have been United in this farce.

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The time has come for meaningful turnout in local elections to get them out and put people in who actually have the city's interests at heart. Without party affiliation and with backing from both sets of voters who knows

letsallsingtogether said:

Well apparently Hull are still benefiting from it.
Jobs brightening up the City tourism etc have all got better.

Funny but Hull City also had problems and got religated in their Culture year, didnt seem to blight their celebrations.

I for one am going to embrace it and might even volunteer, I love this City yes it has problems but name me one place that hasn't.

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Well said.

I am staging my brand new musical as part of the City of Culture next year.

Can't say there are exactly any references to the Sky Blues in it, but I would like to do my bit if I can.

There are four owls in the show and although it is supposed to be a family friendly, event, please feel free to come and rape one of those if you want.

What I think many are forgetting on this thread is that the council see the London franchise as the main sporting attraction in the city and are going to want to position them as that too.

Sick Boy said:

What I think many are forgetting on this thread is that the council see the London franchise as the main sporting attraction in the city and are going to want to position them as that too.

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Agree but do you not think those colours are slowly falling off that particular mast? They have certainly been less vocal now support is dwindling

LastGarrison said:

I heard it straight from someone directly involved with the project.

It is year long celebration, you’d have to be doing really well to better that in a year!

*edit just to clarify the biggest cultural festival in the world that year not of all time!

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I guess somebody who is involved with the project will be talking it up as it is their job, I don’t really know what a city of culture does and as I don’t live in the city will follow with little interest

Sick Boy said:

What I think many are forgetting on this thread is that the council see the London franchise as the main sporting attraction in the city and are going to want to position them as that too.

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Well they are. CCFC aren’t in the City. You’d be hard pushed to claim Blaze or CRFC are bigger.

CRFC have a brilliant history, arguably the council aren’t interested in any of that though? Considering they let wasps move here as a direct rival to CRFC. Also CRFC are only 6 places below in the league pyramid. Wasps are hardly a force, locally, nationally or internationally.

As of 30th October 2019, there was just 2 teams separating Coventry and Wasps in the English League, with Cov sitting 2nd in RFU Championship and Wasps languishing in 11th place in the Premiership