Tommy atkins please explain your comment that we should be eternally gratefull to Sisu for saving us from administration and almost certain liquidation ?
To make a statement like that I take it you work for the muppets or are one of the muppets !!!!!!
1) Firstly if we had gone into admin there was investors queing up to take us on once the debt was wiped.
2) Sisu got us before admin because if it had gone to that stage they would have been out of the running.
3) Sisu don't care about ccfc it was just an investment that went wrong so why should I care about them and be eternally gratefull !
4) Over the last so many years how many clubs who have gone into admin have gone into liquidation and ceased to exist ?
Ok, let's start at the top........you must be one of those "muppets" - to use your own words - who see the world in absolutes and in this case, believe it is only possible to either "hate SISU" or "love SISU" when the reality is far more complex. It is entirely possible to be grateful to SISU, as every single Cov fan should be AND also be wary of SISU and disappointed about their actions since the takeover. There is no contradiction there.
There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that there was even a single investor waiting to take on a post-administration Coventry City. In fact, all the evidence indicates that Coventry would have been in a dreadful position after the administrator had finished. It is important to remember that an administrator can decide to wind the club up, even if there is a potential buyer, if the administrator decides the club is not worth preserving.
Ranson and SISU wanted to avoid administration because a Coventry City after administration would not be worth buying: a League One club with no stadium, a shell of a playing squad and with a further reduced fanbase.
Not an attractive opportunity for any buyer.
There seems to be this persistent myth that clubs that go into administration will find a buyer, rebuild, get promoted again and all will be well. What happens to other clubs is entirely irrelevant. Not only that but sooner or later, a club will go under. It has happened to Rushden & Diamonds (and their fans assumed a buyer would step in after administration) and it will happen to a relatively well-known club.
Administration is a risky business and at the time of the takeover, Coventry City Football Club was in a precarious position.
So yes, every single Cov fan should be utterly, utterly grateful to SISU. That doesn't mean you have to like them now and it is entirely possible that all they did was delay the day of reckoning but nevertheless, they saved the club from an uncertain fate
