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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...

Being against the idea of it is one thing, but you would still go surely? You wouldn't refuse to go to watch Coventry in Coventry because you didn't think the ground was big enough, would you?

Asymmetrical, stands as close to the pitch as possible, steep and imposing on all sides; and most important of all, in or very close to the city centre. If Carlsberg made football grounds...

Forgive me, I simply don't believe people when they say that. If it was announced tomorrow that Coventry Rugby Club and CCFC were going to jointly develop BPA into a 22K capacity superbowl made of chicken tikka you would not go? Sorry, don't buy it.

In the ground? I don't know, fans turn their back on the game for first 10 minutes - that would receive some publicity and would make a good photo opportunity. Another game everyone wears black. Next game we all launch toilet rolls onto the pitch. Another a peaceful pitch invasion and at...

I don't know about people accusing you of making money from it - clearly you would react to that. However, saying that somebody is 'making it up' when they say a bus covered in Ricoh Arena branding is a Ricoh Arena sponsored bus is just silly. Generally speaking - if somebody sees corporate...

No, I suggest we go there to cause a fuss. Get the issue into the news. A few publicity stunts and creative protests. Make Fisher feel a bit more uncomfortable on matchdays rather than all the backslapping he is enjoying at the moment, his smile gets bigger every week. Keep the issue fresh...

I do agree with that. We should do more. It's difficult though, there's a lot of old fans and a lot of kids there. The sort of people who might be a bit more vocal and show some dissent are not there.

They differ by 27. Not really on the same level at the 9/11 conspiracies.

Understanding the reasons is completely different from understanding how somebody has arrived at that reasoning. Fact is, for most football fans, the idea of supporters choosing not to support their team is totally counter-intuitive. There really isn't much sympathy out there - and to those...

Indeed, which is why the loyalty some show to ACL is baffling. Some people would be generally horrified if the club got the ricoh on the cheap. I've never heard of people having their ashes scattered outside a Tesco, or the office of a stadium management company for that matter. Perhaps times...