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Why would anyone try to manufacture a rivalry with Nuneaton? It is a measure of how far we have fallen that people would want that. Forest fans don't care a toss about County, and that is a league side from the same city. How much do Leeds really care about Bradford? It will be a dark day in...

The club was set up long before it was confirmed that CCFC would not be playing in Coventry this season - so that they set it up for that reason is nonsense. If they had called it AFC Coventry and played in Sky Blue, it was have had a lot more sympathy and support than it has. If they did...

I don't get this idea the club were' happy' with the deal. As said above, it wasn't the best deal, it was the only deal. MM was very quick to state in media that the terms imposed on the club were not great - it is why he kept repeating that we needed 'crowds of 23,000 to break even', in other...

Agree. It's as though some people feel genuinely hurt that they don't get to walk around advertising the services of a parcel delivery company (or such like). No sponsor is fine by me.

Indeed. It's almost as if they are glad ACL got one over the club and that our former owners were every bit as idiotic as the current ones. It genuinely seems to give them pleasure.

The stadium is almost empty anyway, and it has created zero media interest for the past 3 games. Nobody cares. The boycott is the most lame and pointless protest we could possibly have adopted.

Oh I love it. I love the fact I can see the ricoh from my house, but on matchday I have to drive past it and on another 35 fucking miles to a town I hate to sit in a shed with 2000 OAPs and kids, while a team full of Coventry youngsters gets nothing like the plaudits it deserves. And all...

He didn't need to pass it on, it was all over the media, ACL made sure of that. It was in effect an empty gesture though. What ACL should do now is make a public statement stating that they are prepared to offer Otium a rent deal based on £150K a year and put the ball firmly back in SISU's...

But you acknowledge that for this to be visible, there needs to be people inside the ground? I would happily wear one to home games. Perhaps an idea for the trust - I am sure they could shift a few and it would snowball as the season goes on.

That's what I'm talking about. Imagine how on top that is with a full house. None of this 20 yards of no-mans land you get behind the goals at the ricoh and other new grounds.

I am sure they had input, which only makes what they came up with worse. The stadium was value engineered, and that is why most new grounds are crap. Wasn't ours designed by the same architects involved with the Walkers Stadium? The end of the day, if you are going to build a venue that can...

Those were the days.

Yeah, fair enough. I suppose at worst it is a PR own goal. Of all the buses they could have used, the pick the one splattered with the branding of the company many hold at least partly culpable for the mess we are in!

Not it isn't really. Take Leicester as an example - Leicestershire has a population of 1 million. Cov & Warks is 800,000 - but lets be honest, the people of Warwickshire (particularly in the far south and far north) do not associate or identify with Coventry in the same way that people in...

Seriously? What, outside of the Premiership? I could name many clubs that have catchment areas much bigger than ours that do not get close to gates of 32,500 - ever. The Bournemouth conurbation is bigger than Coventry, should they get 32,500 too? Birkenhead is about the same size, should...

There would be no traffic really. The ring road handles more vehicles during rush hour than you would get at a home fixture by a mile. Not that any of this will happen of course, but just saying.

Really? Of all the women in the world you thought first of Venus Williams? Well, each to his own as you say!

Fair enough, just that you're the only one that has openly admitted that they will move on a find something else to do if the club don't return quickly, or if they return to a new ground. I find that curious, and have never heard that from a football fan before (people do drift away of course...

The Ricoh is an anti-stadium, it ticks every box on the list of things not to do when designing a football stadium. Would happily skip there to watch the Brentford game though...

Can I suggest that someone able to give up on their football club so easily isn't really all that arsed about it in the first place? Seems a reasonable assumption to make. I do admire your complete and unquestioning loyalty to the Ricoh Arena though, so perhaps you can get an ACL season ticket...