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Sorry to labour the point Nick, but when you say you “will” be able to, I assume that means you can’t do it yet? And are we talking here about one-off match tickets, or packages? Last season, the packages suited us well, but it was damned hard work buying them (I remember a couple of abortive...

Thanks for that Nick, but I'm not sure what you are referring to. Is there a new system for buying online printing your own tickets, and is that for one-off tickets or packages? The info may or may not be on the website, I've given up with going round in circles on there. As Ashdown says...

Season tickets are no longer practical for our family, and match packages suit us well. But in keeping with the long-standing traditions of CCFC, the website, phone systems, email, shop and ticketing arrangements all seem designed specifically to frustrate. Not a “meltdown”, just a very weary...

So true. But it’s hard to persuade the average man in the street to come and watch The Sound of Music on your 8mm projector, when Spectre is showing at the Imax. Not trying to be disrespectful to CRFC, just pointing out the commercial reality. I wish it was different. The other commercial...

Yes NW, I was aware of CRFC when I wrote that. The problem in Coventry is that its two main clubs (football and rugby) have displayed a spectacular lack of success or business acumen for many decades. Take away the 87 cup win (please don’t!), and you have 40 years of bleak nothingness from...

There’s no reason at all why Coventry can’t host two top-class sports clubs – in fact two should be far more viable than one because of the potential for mutual benefits. So how many more years of tedious politics, court cases and financial jargon must there be before we get there? Now it’s...

If the Academy can keep going that’s good news. Does that only take into account the current Wasps planning application, or has it been confirmed that we will still be OK after the likely swimming pool development?

The most telling contribution I remember him making for the Sky Blues was a winning goal which helped to keep us up one year - possibly away to Wimbledon? I was screaming my head off with relief in Sainsbury's car park, as you do.

I don’t particularly remember “You’ll Never Walk Alone” being sung during the Cup Final itself, but it got a huge rendition from all the people in our coach party at a village pub somewhere in the Home Counties on the way back from the match. The landlord played the original song in tribute to...

John O’Rourke was a favourite of mine too, often playing alongside Neil Martin, and part of the fine team that took us into Europe. Didn’t he get a hat-trick in our first European game away to Trakia Plovdiv in Bulgaria? What brilliant days they were. RIP

So it seriously is about the book that someone posted a link to days ago? I’ve never agreed with much of the stick that Simon gets on here, but really that is about the shittiest most self-centred thing imaginable. Counting down for a week, calling it “exciting news” and with PUSB as a tag...

Got to totally support The Observer's efforts to bring everything out into the open. Promoting sport in the city is a simple enough concept, and really shouldn't require any underhand tactics or obscure dealings whatsoever. Nor should promotion of one sport be to the detriment of any other.

Fisher played by Tom Cruise - I think not! Oliver Hardy would fit the bill nicely though.

Loads of constructive things there CD. I like the idea of CCFC of putting forward positive proposals and demonstrating a willingness to chip in to making Allard Way an incredible complex suitable for both clubs. Put the other parties on the spot. If in the face of that CCC, CSF & Wasps still...

The problem though Tony is that after Wasps have got permision for their kicking barn, the current indoor pitch won't be unique any more will it? It will be said that the "old" indoor pitch is expendable, and therefore can be replaced by a swimming pool. I agree that we need to concentrate 100%...

Growing up, I always thought Albert Johanneson was the first black player (he was very famous playing for Leeds United in the 1960s, including in the Cup Final) – however I have now been re-educated. I’m afraid that’s the best contribution I can make to your pre-war thread NW – something...

My original post didn’t suggest that JLR (or anyone else for that matter) should suddenly jump in and sponsor CCFC as a whole. But if what Wasps are doing at Allard Way means our Academy can no longer be accommodated there, why couldn’t JLR (who seem happy enough to back Wasps) dip their toe in...

If CCFC pay Wasps for access to some of the revenues, that’s still revenue for Wasps isn’t it? I’m not clever enough to know whether or how that could work in practice. But I agree, Wasps are unlikely to give revenues to CCFC.

I agree with you on this Stupot - it’s unimaginable that the Wasps plans and the swimming pool are somehow happening independently, and along with the Higgs clause it just looks like the kind of stitch-up they should all be ashamed of. That’s why I feel differently about this than I do about...

Dead right. Which is why the campaign can only achieve unity if it focuses 100% on the thing we do all agree about - that CCFC should continue to have a Cat 2 academy in Coventry. Insist that all parties work to achieve it. We shouldn't care too much how it happens, as long as it happens...