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Thanks for the screen shots Nick – where did you find them because I’m damned if I can. I mean, the season is well underway and (incredibly) the Ticket Prices page of the official website still just says “Matchday ticket prices for the 2016/17 season will be released soon”. And when I sign in...

Saw Harries play in a pre-season friendly last year, and it was obvious he was going to be a fine player. After last night’s performance I am even more convinced, and I too found myself comparing his style with John Stones and Gary Gillespie (who would definitely be in my all-time CCFC 11)...

I haven’t had time today to read all the stuff, but I took the trouble to watch Mr. Fisher’s speech to the Committee. I know people are saying that it wouldn’t have made any difference what he said – but his performance was utterly shambolic, inept and pointless. So much so that I find it hard...

Earlier on, I was largely persuaded by Fisher’s letter to the Council, and taken on its own it made perfect sense. But reading that correspondence from CSF, the mind boggles at how badly CCFC have handled all the important decisions and relationships. It’s mental. We seem to bend over...

Yes, when reading this letter I found myself agreeing with just about everything, although as someone pointed out, it could have been 90% shorter :) It’s one of the rare occasions when I feel that the owners of the club may actually be standing up and fighting for our legitimate interests...

I agree - I'm a bit surprised that CCFC haven't made any reference to the combined effect of the two developments i.e the Wasps plan and the swimming pool plan, which is separate and hasn't been submitted yet, but is in the public domain. Not sure about the procedures around that, but no doubt...

Although you can’t appeal against a permission, there is still a way for it to be reviewed. From the links OSB provided (post #6), if the Council give permission in the Green Belt, the Government (Secretary of State) will have 21 days to decide whether to call it in. If so, it would result in...

Sorry to labour the point Nick, but when you say you “will” be able to, I assume that means you can’t do it yet? And are we talking here about one-off match tickets, or packages? Last season, the packages suited us well, but it was damned hard work buying them (I remember a couple of abortive...

Thanks for that Nick, but I'm not sure what you are referring to. Is there a new system for buying online printing your own tickets, and is that for one-off tickets or packages? The info may or may not be on the website, I've given up with going round in circles on there. As Ashdown says...

Season tickets are no longer practical for our family, and match packages suit us well. But in keeping with the long-standing traditions of CCFC, the website, phone systems, email, shop and ticketing arrangements all seem designed specifically to frustrate. Not a “meltdown”, just a very weary...

So true. But it’s hard to persuade the average man in the street to come and watch The Sound of Music on your 8mm projector, when Spectre is showing at the Imax. Not trying to be disrespectful to CRFC, just pointing out the commercial reality. I wish it was different. The other commercial...

Yes NW, I was aware of CRFC when I wrote that. The problem in Coventry is that its two main clubs (football and rugby) have displayed a spectacular lack of success or business acumen for many decades. Take away the 87 cup win (please don’t!), and you have 40 years of bleak nothingness from...

There’s no reason at all why Coventry can’t host two top-class sports clubs – in fact two should be far more viable than one because of the potential for mutual benefits. So how many more years of tedious politics, court cases and financial jargon must there be before we get there? Now it’s...

If the Academy can keep going that’s good news. Does that only take into account the current Wasps planning application, or has it been confirmed that we will still be OK after the likely swimming pool development?

The most telling contribution I remember him making for the Sky Blues was a winning goal which helped to keep us up one year - possibly away to Wimbledon? I was screaming my head off with relief in Sainsbury's car park, as you do.

I don’t particularly remember “You’ll Never Walk Alone” being sung during the Cup Final itself, but it got a huge rendition from all the people in our coach party at a village pub somewhere in the Home Counties on the way back from the match. The landlord played the original song in tribute to...

John O’Rourke was a favourite of mine too, often playing alongside Neil Martin, and part of the fine team that took us into Europe. Didn’t he get a hat-trick in our first European game away to Trakia Plovdiv in Bulgaria? What brilliant days they were. RIP

So it seriously is about the book that someone posted a link to days ago? I’ve never agreed with much of the stick that Simon gets on here, but really that is about the shittiest most self-centred thing imaginable. Counting down for a week, calling it “exciting news” and with PUSB as a tag...

Got to totally support The Observer's efforts to bring everything out into the open. Promoting sport in the city is a simple enough concept, and really shouldn't require any underhand tactics or obscure dealings whatsoever. Nor should promotion of one sport be to the detriment of any other.

Fisher played by Tom Cruise - I think not! Oliver Hardy would fit the bill nicely though.