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Its clear that if they don't want to come back then the FL wont, or, cant force them to.

Good point. If you look up Robbie Keanes debut against Derby from that season the away end looks very empty.

So their looking a 22k maximum ground. With segregation that would instantly become a 21200 ground at best. Last reasonable season in the premiership (99/00) saw half of league games, and two cup games exceed that figure: Man u 22022 Leeds 21528 Newcastle 23031 Watford 21697 Leicester...

The whole crux of the matter though is what the Ricoh is worth now isn't necessarily what it will be worth in the future. The council is under no obligation to sell. Therefore why would it take a loss by excepting a £5m bid? The council has an obligation to get the greatest return possible, and...

The CCFC option was to buy half of ACL, not the Freehold.

That is such a gamble though. The reason it worked with Tesco is because the council bought derelict land, which they could then sell on with planning permission. To make money on this, Sisu will have to buy land, then hope and prey they get planning permission before selling it on. From what...

Do you consider what is best for the team as the most important thing for us to concern ourselves with? Personally speaking, with all that's going on right now, I couldn't really give a toss about the team.

Well apart from analysing 10 years of attendance data there is no way either of us can actually prove our point. I'm sure both of us have better things to do than that so I suggest we agree to disagree!

I understand your point now, not sure I agree though ;) Like I say in the early years I think there would have been more away fans, but by 11/12 I would have thought most teams would have brought similar numbers to what they had at HR.

Yes in those seasons I would agree with you. Away fans want to come and see a new ground. I think though by 11/12 any away fan that was interested would have already been.

I'm not sure what you mean. All but four away followings in the 11/12 season could have fit into the away end at HR. Are you saying the Ricoh was more popular than HR with away fans in general?

No but what difference does that make? Its logical to assume the teams that brought 1500 to HR would also bring 1500 to the Ricoh. The only difference is to those teams that were capable of bringing more than 3.5k - 4k.

That assumption is wrong I'm afraid. In the 11/12 season only four teams brought a following larger than HR away end would hold. Namely Leicester, Brum, West Ham and Leeds. They each brought around 2500 more than HR could have housed. So an extra 10k over 23 games works out at 434 people. Like...

It is a betrayal. Your saying fans should stick by the club through thick and thin. I don't disagree with that, but the same must apply to the club. Yet what has happened is it got a bit difficult for the club to play in Coventry, so it ran off. You cant get much more of a definition of...

Joy wont work with Coventry Council. The daft cow has made that perfectly clear. Broadly speaking though, I wouldn't be against them building another ground within the city, provided it was in a sensible location. If they want to waste millions on a pointless ground then so be it. Playing in...

What would they do? Tim Fisher would be laughing his capacious tits off, that's what they would do. Like I say, the loyalty has been broken. I, and many others would and have put up with pretty much anything so long as they were part of our city. The club has abandoned our great city, and that...

Am I taking it a bit seriously? Well lets just say that for me the most important quality in any person or organisation is loyalty. 10-15k people were extremely loyal to the club. No matter how bad it got, we were there supporting the club, asking for nothing in return other than it represented...

We played brilliantly against Blackburn. Most home areas were full that game.

The club has abandoned us remember. I'm still here, ready to support my Coventry based team. Sisu have forced our club commit an act of treachery against out city, and for that I will never forgive them

But that doesn't explain why Andy Thorn had more people watching than Eric Black does it? The Ricoh had been there over 6 years by then. In what was our worst season in 50 years, to still be able to pull in crowds better than a lot of decent seasons at HR suggests to me it wasn't considered...