Jimmy Hill's Chin
Well-Known Member
So with a the fixtures about to come out for the new season and the players about to return to pre-season training where are we at?
So far, we have a painfully small squad which is largely made up of home-grown teenagers.
We have a manager who it is not clear even has a contract with the club.
We have no assistant manager who has been made redundant.
We allegedly have no physio who it is believed has left the club.
We have a transfer embargo which prevents us from signing any players which has been in place for months and shows no sign of ending.
We have lost around 7 players since last season with at least another 5 players (including our best players) likely to go.
We have two senior strikers at the club, one who is rumoured to be leaving and is totally useless anyway.
We have widespread redundancies planned among the club's non-playing staff.
We have not paid our rent on the Ricoh for at least 3 months and risk being expelled from the stadium we play in.
We have failed to submit any accounts to the Football League for many months.
The club's owners promised a local chairman, future investment and a partnership with the fans but nothing has materialised.
Representatives of the club's owners have recently threatened to liquidate the club.
The club shop is being closed down.
The club's owners have told fans to be "realistic" and not expect any future promotion attempts.
Without wishing to sound like a harbinger of doom, if you join up the dots in my opinion it is only possible to draw one conclusion - Coventry City is slowly being dismantled and will shortly cease to exist.
SISU are systematically turning off the life support machine - bit by bit - one week its selling off the players, the next its closing the shop, the next it's sacking Steve Harrison and not replacing him. There is only one way this is headed and it is the end of our club. To paraphrase Monty Python we are soon to be "an ex-football club".
So, the question has to be, what can we do to prevent this? At the very least SISU should be forced to put us into admin rather than presiding over our death. As it stands they are not even giving us the chance to survive.
So far, we have a painfully small squad which is largely made up of home-grown teenagers.
We have a manager who it is not clear even has a contract with the club.
We have no assistant manager who has been made redundant.
We allegedly have no physio who it is believed has left the club.
We have a transfer embargo which prevents us from signing any players which has been in place for months and shows no sign of ending.
We have lost around 7 players since last season with at least another 5 players (including our best players) likely to go.
We have two senior strikers at the club, one who is rumoured to be leaving and is totally useless anyway.
We have widespread redundancies planned among the club's non-playing staff.
We have not paid our rent on the Ricoh for at least 3 months and risk being expelled from the stadium we play in.
We have failed to submit any accounts to the Football League for many months.
The club's owners promised a local chairman, future investment and a partnership with the fans but nothing has materialised.
Representatives of the club's owners have recently threatened to liquidate the club.
The club shop is being closed down.
The club's owners have told fans to be "realistic" and not expect any future promotion attempts.
Without wishing to sound like a harbinger of doom, if you join up the dots in my opinion it is only possible to draw one conclusion - Coventry City is slowly being dismantled and will shortly cease to exist.
SISU are systematically turning off the life support machine - bit by bit - one week its selling off the players, the next its closing the shop, the next it's sacking Steve Harrison and not replacing him. There is only one way this is headed and it is the end of our club. To paraphrase Monty Python we are soon to be "an ex-football club".
So, the question has to be, what can we do to prevent this? At the very least SISU should be forced to put us into admin rather than presiding over our death. As it stands they are not even giving us the chance to survive.