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This is the future im afraid. Novelty of just attending away games is wearing off, numbers will inevitably fall. I myself went to the MK Dons game with a strong feeling it would be the last time I ever watch ccfc.

Wembley has managed pretty well for the last 90 years.

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3300 total attendance is still piss poor anyway. Second lowest in league 1, lower than all but a few league 2 teams. The fact that 3k is considered a big crowd tells everything you need to know. Today has changed nothing. Comparable fixture last year (New Years Day) brought in over 15k.

It happened at Hull recently as well.

All 1500 of them?

So apart from the name, what connection does Ccfc have with Coventry anymore?

What's the difference between that and getting on the bus to the Ricoh? I never found either particularly difficult to get to, and be it HR, the Ricoh, or Sixfields, accessibity has never influenced by decision to go or not go.

Then why did me and my dad have to park the car nearly a mile away up by barras heath?

Never understood the whole HR was easy to get to thing. I remember being sat in horrendous traffic jams up there.

What should the local authority have done then? I have this old fashioned idea that in a democracy the local authority tries to look after all and carries out the wishes of the majority. I doubt the majority of the 300k Coventrians would be happy about the Ricoh being gifted away. Also I find...

Nice little ground sitting empty right now just over the border in Leicestershire.

And if a large retail park is near Coventry then Coventry Council can legitimately object. Nuneaton and Bedworth borough objected (unsuccessfully) about the size of Arena Tesco on the grounds it would entice shoppers away from Bedworth Town Centre.

See I read that as "We know sisu haven't really got any money, so please go to games otherwise we're going to look stupid when they go bust again".

Back then it was done for the right reasons, I.e. for the benefit of the club, not the owner. Colour change wasn't really significant, blue to sky blue, also sky blue had been the teams colour in the past anyway. Song is neither here or there really. Ours was a rebranding that was...