Ned
New Member
Perfectly sized ground right in the middle of the city, steeped in the club's history, and it's gone forever, razed to the ground - I still can't bring myself to believe it's gone and I'll never stand in the West Terrace again.
I had a season ticket for twelve years but the decade of mid-table Championship (and often resting players in the cups and going out early) ground me down and I've mostly lost interest in the team. But I was surprised how upset I was when we were relegated last season and I can't bear the thought of the club going bust, it would be so sad.
At the handful of matches I've been to each season over the last few years, the atmosphere's been dominated by anti-SISU chants. I understand totally why that's the case but it's a lot less fun going to sing for the Sky Blues because of it. I don't understand how a hedge fund, supposedly shrewd financial managers who only make positive-expectation decisions, have managed to get the club into this situation, it's insanity.
Total apathy really. For pretty much all my adult life, a large proportion of following the fortunes of Coventry City has been taken up by the ins and outs of their financial accounting. I am fed up of forcing myself to read articles containing the words 'Higgs Trust' or 'Coventry City Council'. I guess it's great that so many of you still care about it but ultimately, sadly, the views of CCFC fans have made little difference to anything for many years.
I'd struggle to be enthusiastic about a start-up fans' club messing around in non-league for the best part of a decade, but I'm very happy that there are people who would be enthusiastic and would make it happen.
One thing about that, it mildly irritates me that all these start-up clubs seem to start with 'FC' or 'AFC', just seems to be needlessly copying AFC Wimbledon. I don't understand it, the phrase 'football club coventry' doesn't make sense in English, that's not the correct order of the words! If there was a new club I'd like to see it called simply 'Coventry FC', known just as 'Coventry'. But my opinions on that are pretty inconsequential.
I had a season ticket for twelve years but the decade of mid-table Championship (and often resting players in the cups and going out early) ground me down and I've mostly lost interest in the team. But I was surprised how upset I was when we were relegated last season and I can't bear the thought of the club going bust, it would be so sad.
At the handful of matches I've been to each season over the last few years, the atmosphere's been dominated by anti-SISU chants. I understand totally why that's the case but it's a lot less fun going to sing for the Sky Blues because of it. I don't understand how a hedge fund, supposedly shrewd financial managers who only make positive-expectation decisions, have managed to get the club into this situation, it's insanity.
Total apathy really. For pretty much all my adult life, a large proportion of following the fortunes of Coventry City has been taken up by the ins and outs of their financial accounting. I am fed up of forcing myself to read articles containing the words 'Higgs Trust' or 'Coventry City Council'. I guess it's great that so many of you still care about it but ultimately, sadly, the views of CCFC fans have made little difference to anything for many years.
I'd struggle to be enthusiastic about a start-up fans' club messing around in non-league for the best part of a decade, but I'm very happy that there are people who would be enthusiastic and would make it happen.
One thing about that, it mildly irritates me that all these start-up clubs seem to start with 'FC' or 'AFC', just seems to be needlessly copying AFC Wimbledon. I don't understand it, the phrase 'football club coventry' doesn't make sense in English, that's not the correct order of the words! If there was a new club I'd like to see it called simply 'Coventry FC', known just as 'Coventry'. But my opinions on that are pretty inconsequential.