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Woke up with a start from an awful dream this morning. We were playing our home games at St. Andrews, and Sky Blues Talk* had arranged a coach trip to the first match. I turned up at the appointed place, where various dodgy-looking guys were milling about. A Leonardo diCaprio lookalike stepped...

The team that ended the game today was the smallest I can ever remember. Take out the GK and the centre halves, and you had Phillips, Vincelot, Hunt, Fleck, Cole, Lameiras, Armstrong and Jones. Does anyone think we could make a serious challenge next in this tough league next season with a...

"Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal." A nice quote from the legend, and one we may need to repeat as a mantra for years to come.

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/coventry-city-boss-tony-mowbray-10612242

I’m really not under-estimating the effect of a sports club moving. The switch to Sixfields had a massive impact on me and my family, and broke a tradition and a feeling which we haven’t really managed to get back. In an ideal world every club would stay close to its roots, and every fan who...

I thought I read somewhere that “SISU” was Joy’s business philosophy and in Finnish meant something like “fight to the bitter end even when everyone thinks you are wrong”. But I just typed it into Google Translate, and quite wonderfully it just said “Go” :laugh: (To be fair, it offered...

Minutes of the Stadium Forum Committee, 21st January 2015TF was asked whether the club could buy 50% of the Ricoh. TF said that it is unlikely that a deal can be done re a share of the ownership of the Stadium with Wasps. TF confirmed that the club’s owners and Directors are not prepared to take...

12th June 2014, final day of the Judicial Review (CCFC official website):- “SISU QC responded by saying that CCFC were interested in a deal which provided them with match-day revenues, not an interest in the stadium. He recited that the issue which faced the Club was access to a share of...

I confess that the financial aspects of this whole saga are completely beyond me, but much has been made of the need for the club to have “access to all revenues”, and some people refer to this as the “pie money”. Can anyone on here clarify the Financial Fair Play rules? Can a club count ALL...

A huge “thank you” to Michael for organising this – he’s in a difficult position trying to come up with things that draw attention to the cause, yet won’t split the fans. On this occasion, it was a really effective and dignified protest - and a perfect response to the pathetic personal attack...

If I’m not mistaken, SISU have said a few times that they wanted to “bring in” AEG to run the Ricoh. AEG were described in the Telegraph as an “events management company”, but if I’ve looked at the right website they look MUCH bigger than that to me. They not only own and / run over 100...

In a Telegraph article back in September (http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-city-miss-eight-week-target-6039709), it was stated “CBRE [the Property Consultant] is providing regular updates to the Football League as part of the process.” Bingo – the fans’ friends at...

As I said in another post, I’m assuming that CCFC will very soon put out a good explanation for the APPARENT discrepancy between their public statements about stadium discussions, and the FOI replies which have been received from various Councils. No doubt what goes on behind the scenes is...

Apologies if I’ve missed any discussions on this, but there seemed to be a hugely significant couple of paragraphs in the Telegraph’s reporting of the CCFC Holdings Ltd shareholders’ meeting (http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/buying-land-new-coventry-city-6404266):- “Mr Fisher...

I’m completely sick of reading all the bickering on here. I reminds me so much of Life of Brian, where the People’s Front for Judea and the Judean People’s Front fight each other instead of the Romans. TIME’S RUNNING OUT. We’ve only got a week before the best opportunity we’ll ever have to...

Just suppose that as this saga unfolds, Joy decides to use the threat of winding up or liquidating the football club (which she may or may not have threatened on the eve of the season to the Football League). Would it be a credible threat, and how much should we fear it? Could someone who...

Just suppose that as this saga unfolds, Joy decides to use the threat of winding up or liquidating the football club (which she may or may not have threatened on the eve of the season to the Football League). Would it be a credible threat, and how much should we fear it? Could someone who...

I’m going to make some very heavy criticisms of all parties in the Coventry City saga, but make a GENUINE SUGGESTION FOR A WAY FORWARD. Firstly, I accuse SISU of gross incompetence and lack of business acumen, in taking Coventry City Football Club to its current depths. Their mismanagement...