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On the contrary SBR, I was trying to bring some sanity to a 'discussion' that was making those involved look like idiots. So if a thread cropped up asking why a 6ft man is taller than a 5ft man you would engage positively and constructively in that discussion? Perhaps you would.

You are completely missing the point. It will fail, and it will fail because they have got the basics wrong at the very beginning. People are merely pointing out that if they went at this differently it might succeed - that is constructive - but they aren't keen to listen (up to them if they...

I don't understand what this thread is about. Why are people trying to correlate the number of people we get at games (last season) with the number of people who have signed an online petition? 250,000 people welcomed the team back to Coventry in 1987. How did that correlate with gates at the...

This whole thing is a nonsense. A few city fans announce on a Coventry City forum that they are start a brand new club (which by pure coincidence coincides with plans to move Coventry City out of the city for 3 years) but then declare this is not an attempt to set up a breakaway club, and not...

What Paul Fletcher issue? He has been used as an informal consultant - no suggestion he is part of the bid or that he would be on the board if it ever happened. Asking for his input seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do - he is better placed than most people to advise a 3rd party on...

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...