It's interesting though, isn't it, that owners that are supposedly here for the short term are prepared to invest so much time and effort in something that's a long term investment really.
If they were intending to wind the club up this summer or next, it'd be one of the first things you'd save some cash on, surely?
It's interesting though, isn't it, that owners that are supposedly here for the short term are prepared to invest so much time and effort in something that's a long term investment really.
If they were intending to wind the club up this summer or next, it'd be one of the first things you'd save some cash on, surely?
It's interesting though, isn't it, that owners that are supposedly here for the short term are prepared to invest so much time and effort in something that's a long term investment really.
If they were intending to wind the club up this summer or next, it'd be one of the first things you'd save some cash on, surely?
Perhaps comforting for those of us who hope and think that a sale is a much more likely outcome than liquidation
Not really. If they are thinking that they may be here for another 2-3 years then the academy is a pool that they can keep dipping their fingers into and not spend to much or loan to much on players coming in. Might be interesting to see how many homegrown (academy) players are used next season.
It's a good job Higgs built a nice academy facility for us, and it's a good job they let the us come back after they had originally been left with a repair bill.
http://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/article/...med-academy-coventry-city-070414-1473669.aspx
I think you might find your 'facts' are incorrect!
I think you might find your 'facts' are incorrect!
I'm all ears Mark. Tell me the facts.
Fact:
Calling RFC "mark" isn't very amusing.
Fact:
Calling RFC "mark" isn't very amusing.
It seems to have annoyed you, so it clearly is.
It's interesting though, isn't it, that owners that are supposedly here for the short term are prepared to invest so much time and effort in something that's a long term investment really.
If they were intending to wind the club up this summer or next, it'd be one of the first things you'd save some cash on, surely?
It doesn't annoy me its just a very poor attempt at humour.
Not really. If they are thinking that they may be here for another 2-3 years then the academy is a pool that they can keep dipping their fingers into and not spend to much or loan to much on players coming in. Might be interesting to see how many homegrown (academy) players are used next season.
It's a good job Higgs built a nice academy facility for us, and it's a good job they let the us come back after they had originally been left with a repair bill.
http://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/article/...med-academy-coventry-city-070414-1473669.aspx
I think you might find your 'facts' are incorrect!
The genius that is Tim Fisher, didn't realise we needed a 3g pitch to be able to gain academy 2 status, and the only 3g pitch in the area was purpose built by AEHC for ccfc, whose facilities SISU had just used, abused and refused, to pay for.But Fisher said at the forums last year that the facilities they were developing at Warwick University were much better than the Higgs Centre?
no they receive £500,000 from the FA for this category, any investment is repaid 10 fold by that paymentIt's interesting though, isn't it, that owners that are supposedly here for the short term are prepared to invest so much time and effort in something that's a long term investment really.
If they were intending to wind the club up this summer or next, it'd be one of the first things you'd save some cash on, surely?
I don't think that makes a difference...Crewe have lived that way for decades, now Southampton are kind of similar....
WM
I think you might find your 'facts' are incorrect!
Seems to me, with the recent Higgs/Sisu court case, that the Academy may not be based at Allard Way for much longer.
Relations must be very strained to put it mildly.
Where does that leave CCFC - ie - the specialist type pitch required by FA guidelines?
More problems looming?
I can't see the Academy moving before an adequate replacement is found/built. If the club can build one then that's great, but I doubt there's money around for that when a cheap rental option is available.
I can't see the Academy moving before an adequate replacement is found/built. If the club can build one then that's great, but I doubt there's money around for that when a cheap rental option is available.
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