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  1. Calista

    CBS issues

    Well it says it relates to an acre of “brownfield land” – at least nobody can argue with that ;)
  2. Calista

    Kevin Maton

    Maton needs to own up to the reality that the Council’s Wasps project is in tatters. It’s easy to understand why capitulating to SISU was politically impossible, and how it became ‘anyone but SISU’. And with Wasps’ initial promises of investment and top-class sport in Coventry, I can see why...
  3. Calista

    CBS issues

    Is it just me, or has Grendel gone all polite and helpful today, instead of patronising people with smug rhetorical questions and calling them clueless clowns? I think I may be falling a bit in love.
  4. Calista

    CBS issues

    West End Agronomist, West End Agronomist, 'ello, 'ello
  5. Calista

    Ratings

    Good performance bar a number of needless errors, throwing away three points against a poor side. What a terrible week. Moore 5 Fine all round apart from the obvious howler, and keepers can’t afford big mistakes Hyam 6 Did his job Fadz 8 Wish he was in his twenties, we could build around him...
  6. Calista

    CBS issues

    Appears to me from the BBC article that the Commonwealth Games stuff was arranged while we were at St. Andrews, so we wouldn't have been consulted, and after our return we requested playing a home game within the CG tenancy?
  7. Calista

    SISU ready to sell?

    Interesting to hear that story about the origins of the term “Sky Blues”, and I didn’t realise it might have been almost an accidental change initially. But I was referring to the way JH pushed that new identity and revolutionised the club, and how keen he was to break with its previous...
  8. Calista

    O'Hare bids

    I guess they’d be Players No. 6 and No. 10.
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    SISU ready to sell?

    Didn’t Jimmy Hill ditch a lot of the club’s history (Bantams etc.) when he launched the Sky Blues? That worked out pretty well, and effectively created an instant tradition that still defines the club today. No doubt some of the older fans at that time hated all the new-fangled ideas and the...
  10. Calista

    O'Hare bids

    Well if he hasn’t got an ACL he’s really in trouble…
  11. Calista

    O'Hare bids

    So on behalf of their investors Sisu prop up CCFC with minimal investment and extortionate loans, purely as a vehicle to try and get the stadium by distressing people – the Council and the charity (failed) and now Wasps (working?). It’s real estate rather than football. I don’t really get it...
  12. Calista

    O'Hare bids

    It seems to be accepted on here that we need to sell a big player to make ends meet in the short term. Now O’Hare isn’t in the shop window, what happens? Genuine questions: Would it be possible for Sisu to put funds in to plug the hole, or is there some rule that would prevent it? Assuming...
  13. Calista

    SISU ready to sell?

    We'll all happily be correct hammerman!
  14. Calista

    Maddison to Newcastle.

    True, given the strategy. I guess their investors, like the fans, were happy with the downward spiral from Championship mid-table to the depths of League 2, and didn’t see anything wrong with supplementing the ever-dwindling income by disposing of vital playing assets at the first opportunity...
  15. Calista

    Maddison to Newcastle.

    Pretty sure Anderson said after selling Maddison that we had ‘an investment in the remainder of his career’. But what sort of investment? How much did we get initially – about £2.5m? Many of us were angry about selling too soon, to bail out the club because Sisu wouldn’t put any more money in...
  16. Calista

    Are we allowed to sign from the womens leagues...

    So like me you'll be watching next Tuesday night, with your pulse rate going through the roof!
  17. Calista

    Are we allowed to sign from the womens leagues...

    You’re missing the point by miles. For all I know there are 16-y-o lads in this world who would beat the women’s Olympic champion in a sprint. Maybe that means the BBC should stop broadcasting women’s athletics because it’s second rate? Perhaps they should have relegated Steffi Graf vs Martina...
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    Are we allowed to sign from the womens leagues...

    It’s fair to point out physical differences which mean you’re unlikely to see women competing directly with men at the top level of a sport like football (just as you wouldn’t expect a woman to run in the men’s 100 metres final). But you’re saying that women have inherently poorer technical...
  19. Calista

    Ronnie Farmer

    I'm a bit too young to claim a real memory of his playing ability, but the name of Ronnie Farmer is integral to the glory years of the 60s that thrilled me as a child. RIP Ronnie, never to be forgotten.
  20. Calista

    Transfer Shouts

    Put him on a special diet and grow him to 6'10"?
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