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No we should strive to get the club in a position where we can sustain being in the Championship or higher.

What makes you think we would be any different? We know we won't be able to achieve a competitive budget in the Championship, exactly the same problem Yeovil had, so what would lead you to believe we would fare differently to them?

They did far better than anyone expected and got promoted via the playoffs. They then were unable to compete in the Championship and finished bottom of the league only winning 8 games. The momentum from that relegation saw them relegated again this season again finishing bottom of the league but...

There's certainly an arguement to be made for that. Would depend on how the cost of expansion compares with the cost of building larger initially. Of course if Fisher came out and said he was planning a 30K stadium everyone would say we didn't need it and he was mad. So not the king of revenue...

If we were in the PL we'd have the money to put an additional tier on and double the capacity. Also, ticket money would most certainly not be the revenue king.

Depends on the configuration and how the expansion was done. If you have something similar o Fulham you just take it back down again. If it's a permanent additional tier you mothball it. If its like the expansion at Brighton you close of sections to reduce costs.

Isn't this the same argument Richardson gave for leaving HR?

You can if it is expandable.

Again, you don't know what facilities any new ground will have, what the projected usage will be and how that will relate to actual usage in the event the bloody thing ever gets built. Every other club in the country does it but for some reason you think its impossible for us.

No they haven't, in fact CCC have said it is not possible for a stadium to be inside the city boundary. However the three sites I used as an example earlier are hardly miles away in the middle of nowhere. But that isn't what is being said. There are many people on here writing off a new...

You were just saying there would be less people going, now you're moaning it will only hold 16K!

Well obviously that depends on the facilities. Most have meeting rooms which are hired out. Some have conference facilities (on a far smaller scale than the Ricoh), some hire the ground out to other organisations. HR used to be hired out to the Jehovah's!

You don't know if the crowds will reduce. If the extra revenue allows us to get back into the PL I have a suspicion all the issues with the ground being too far away, no parking, no train station etc would suddenly disappear.

First things first we don't know how far away from Coventry it will be. People are talking like its confirmed to be miles away. There's just as much chance it will be somewhere like Ansty, Broadstreet or Warwick Uni literally a step over the boundary. Franky if it was a location like that and...

How many clubs in the Championship are running at break even? If there are any they all have 365 revenue access so are ahead of us. That's before you consider all the teams making a gamble for the PL by making a nice dent in the £13m a year losses FFP allows. How on earth do you expect us to be...

Yes, that's the whole point!!!

So you think with a squad similar to the one we had last season we'd be competitive in the Championship?????

You need to go back and look at the funding document for the Ricoh. If you total up the money put in by CCFC and by CCC it is still less than £30m. That's the problem until you see full details, including funding, its impossible to say if it is a better or worse option than staying at the Ricoh...

You're confusing revenue and profit & loss. We were losing £6m a year in the Championship so saving £800K on rent isn't really helping. Its the revenue thats key as that's vital to the FFP calculation. Haven't seen what?

You only have to look to recent history to see this. We had one of the lowest revenues in the Championship and that was before the commercial side of the club went to shit so we had sponsorship, a fully stocked store at the Ricoh etc Nothing would surprise me. Of course we don't yet know what...