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They have every chance of getting planning permission - just it would likely take several years. A council can say no all they like - but it doesn't matter. Councils often reject plans for wind turbines but they still happen because the decision ultimately is not theirs to make. They have to...

You're making stuff up. Less than 10K at PL games? What? Our average gate in the last 4 season in the PL was over 20K. You have to go back to the 80s for old division 1 games for sub-10K attendances and even then they were very rare (except for 1983-85 when attendances were poor everywhere)...

And even now they are pumping money into the club, after all, the players and staff are all being paid as far as we know, and income is currently not much more than zero. And today were hear they are fitting out a large retail unit for a new superstore and are drawing up plans for a new ground...

I too will back any new owner. There is not a city fan I know that wouldn't. We can all talk about what happened 6 years ago - in fact let's do that. Why was it that Coventry City Council insisted that the football club only talk to SISU about a takeover when there were other interested...

Who is backing his stance? Not seen anyone openly support it. Perhaps you could enlighten me, because these people don't exist from what I have seen. The point I am making is simply this; that on the rent dispute the club were right, and on that issue alone I and others backed them, and had...

And therein lies the difference between the mentality of our supporters and those of other clubs. Every other club that has sought to dispute the rent charged in a council run/owned facility have had the full backing of their supporters. Ipswich fans united behind the club and the council...

Oh come on, it has long been known that the club have been unhappy with the arrangement. Just because an agreement was made under previous owners doesn't make it right. SISU's biggest error was that they didn't put this issue to bed early on. That is their fault of course. I'm all for taking...

This is true. It is certainly easier to create an atmosphere with more people, but it is no guarantee. Many Preston fans commented that the atmosphere at the JPT game was the best they have ever encountered at this level.

It's funny how all those who say things like 'we need to fight, no way pompey fans would have been so indifferent etc....' fail to point out that there is not a chance in hell that pompey fans would have allowed their local council to fleece their club so brazenly for so long. Not a fucking...

You don't remember all that well then - it was over 17K and the atmosphere was decent. Sure you don't mean the year before when we lost at home to Leicester in front of 22K, when it was indeed very flat?

The Ricoh is a terrible football stadium. There is no reason why you cannot build a new ground and retain the features that give football grounds their character. Brighton is a far better example of how to build a new ground - asymmetrical and fans much closer to the pitch - it is a new ground...

Aye, just got an out of office reply from 'Amanda'. Won't hold my breath for a reply. They must have had loads of emails on this issue, not that it seems to have done much good. No harm in trying though.

People are suggesting that a new club be started regardless of what SISU's plans are on that front. Put is this way, if PH4 et al announced tomorrow that they were starting a new club and applying to play in the BS next season and that a deal had been done for the new club to play at the Ricoh...

My cover is blown.

None of that makes any sense. We'd only get a little over double what Nuneaton get? Some people have no idea how big this football club is, let alone how big it could be. To suggest we'd struggle to get the finances to get out of the conference is madness - Coventry City would be the biggest...

I dispute that a ground with a capacity of 3000 would be big enough to accommodate this city's football club, regardless of what league we are in. The Butts is out of the question unless they could build temporary stands to at least double the capacity.

Just sent this email: Hi When are you going to get your heads out of your backsides and make your position on the plight of my football club clear? Are you really that scared of a Mayfair based hedge fund that you will sit idly by and let a 130 year old football club wither and die? We...

edit: just seen the other thread.

Any new Phoenix club that had the full backing of the supporters and which was seen as the continuation of CCFC would be allowed to join at a higher level than Sphinx anyway I suspect.

I've always been somewhat scathing about the idea of starting a phoenix club while the original club still exists, it just wouldn't work. That said, the more this drags on the more I think that perhaps putting that idea out there and talking about it wouldn't be a bad thing - it might focus...