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  1. Calista

    Wasps sponsors

    Couldn't agree more NW. What a powerful partner they would be.
  2. Calista

    Wasps sponsors

    You call for a truce and someone opens up a new front. Fucking sick of it, I just want to go home to Blighty :(
  3. Calista

    Wasps sponsors

    But we can try? And JLR certainly have links to the city.
  4. Calista

    Wasps sponsors

    This tedious battle has left a landscape full of impassable mud and shell holes full of water. The various parties have utterly failed our club, right? There is very little chance of all CCFC fans (never mind the public at large) agreeing on who is most to blame, right? That means trench...
  5. Calista

    Time for a trust statement

    Totally agree, indeed I think I said that. I was only suggesting that tactically, while Wasps are still claiming they are willing and able to accommodate the CCFC Academy, it might be premature and bad tactics to declare all out unconditional war on them, as the OP seemed to suggest. Better to...
  6. Calista

    Time for a trust statement

    It’s vital that the Academy is preserved, and I agree with the OP that we can’t afford splinter groups. But I don’t get the idea that it should be “The Observer’s Campaign”? Surely the focus has to be around the Trust, with both papers (and everybody else) supporting that, and nobody seeking to...
  7. Calista

    The agreement for Wasps to move here / 2 years on

    Only just picked up on this thread, I don’t have time to read everything. For what it’s worth, the various commitments Nick listed in the OP are exactly the reason I didn’t oppose the Wasps move in the first place – benefits for the city without damaging CCFC. I still don’t think the sale of...
  8. Calista

    Is the whole thing driving anyone insane?

    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...
  9. Calista

    Higgs have legal clauses inserted to block CCFC and back Wasps only

    Just when you think it’s impossible for things to get worse. Amongst all the talk of this being the end, I think people are overlooking the most likely scenario. That we keep on bumbling along staggering from one disaster to another, with the owners permanently dug in, and more and more...
  10. Calista

    Offers Made For Four Players

    This would be exciting news if it wasn’t completely eclipsed by the non-football stuff. Anyway, I’m really liking what we're hearing from Mark Venus.
  11. Calista

    Wasps reject proposal to withdraw application

    Nick, I think you’ll find they are called Toby and Tim ;) Anyway I agree that this really must not turn into a war against people (wherever they come from) who are simply watching rugby matches. But even speaking as someone who hasn’t been anti-Wasps up to now, if I decide they are complicit...
  12. Calista

    Save Our City

    I like nearly all of what the Observer are saying, and agree that we need concerted pressure and effort from all sides to foster a solution. It would help if this pitiful rivalry between the two papers didn’t keep surfacing – I mean, it’s now “The Observer’s ‘Save Our City’ campaign” is it...
  13. Calista

    Campaign launched to Save Coventry City's Academy

    It's in a fairly prominent panel at the top of the front page, so that's something. The article itself covers much of page 3, but for some reason unlike the website it doesn't mention that the Telegraph are "backing" the campaign. It's not enough IMO, and I hope they get behind it properly as...
  14. Calista

    Wasps reject proposal to withdraw application

    Yep, it's as depressing as it's ever been. To be fair, it's not the Wasps application that destoys the Academy, it's the swimming pool to follow. Got to keep pushing as hard as possible for these mind games to stop, and for a mutually-acceptable solution to be found. And stop arguing amongst...
  15. Calista

    Campaign launched to Save Coventry City's Academy

    The CT article says “The Sky Blue Trust has launched the campaign, and it has the backing of the Telegraph”. Well, where exactly is that backing? The article has already sunk way down the CT’s web page and will soon be out of sight, out of mind. I call upon the Telegraph to not merely report...
  16. Calista

    breaking news? at 5pm today

    I see this situation in an entirely different light to the Ricoh shambles. When it comes to the possible destruction of the CCFC Academy, IMO the responsibility now falls upon CCC, CSF and Wasps. OK, the football club tried to lead them a merry dance by saying they were going to move it...
  17. Calista

    Just let it happen (Help if you can)

    Football finance in this country is a cesspit. The dodgy owners, the international tax evasion, the TV contracts and the obscene wages, everything about it in the 21st Century is a world away from how it used to be. But I’ll still watch the Sky Blues under any owner who treats us as a big-city...
  18. Calista

    An Email to Councillor Jayne Innes & MP Geoffrey Robinson

    I think it’s a superb letter Samo, and the politicians need to be pushed again and again until they act on it. I was never NOPM, but I can definitely get behind PCMF (“persuade, cajole, mediate, facilitate”).
  19. Calista

    Fisher: Butts Park Arena is our preffered option

    Coventry City chairman Tim Fisher has told supporters the club has identified a site outside Coventry for a possible new stadium and Academy base. Mr Fisher stressed the option was only a back-up and that club officials preferred a potential ground share with Coventry Rugby Club at Butts Park...
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