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Wyken Sky Blue

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  • Apr 18, 2022
  • #36
I did enjoy the Spandau Ballet Gold chant (think it was for Jamal Lowe)

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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #37
CDK said:
And you wouldn't have got 2 tone out of Bournemouth either.
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Bet they’re glad of that
 

ccfcricoh

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #38
Suppose they've got to gloat whilst they can, Norwich last season were comfortably better than Bournemouth have been this, and look how that's panned out.

no doubt Norwich will keep their seat warm until they swap back for 23/24
 

Grendel

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #39
ccfcricoh said:
Suppose they've got to gloat whilst they can, Norwich last season were comfortably better than Bournemouth have been this, and look how that's panned out.

no doubt Norwich will keep their seat warm until they swap back for 23/24
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brentford have survived though
 

joemercersaces

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #40
I imagine any Bournemouth fans visiting this forum are loving this, and seeing us as salty. However…I had family in Boscombe near their ground and visited every year. They were always a small club, third or fourth division until their Russian sugar daddy turned up. The most appropriate chant for them is ‘where we you when you were shit?’ Never had anything against them until yesterday. Have now.
 
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CovBrummie94

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #41
13th_choice_seamer said:
It's not actually, and I say that as someone who isn't blind to our city's drawbacks.
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Went to Bournemouth last summer when international travel was not really happening... The town centre is pretty run down. They have a nice beach but that's about it.
 

Grendel

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #42
CovBrummie94 said:
Went to Bournemouth last summer when international travel was not really happening... The town centre is pretty run down. They have a nice beach but that's about it.
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Im sure the population of Sandbanks would rather be 5 minutes from Coventry than Bournemouth
 
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CovBrummie94

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #43
Grendel said:
Im sure the population of Sandbanks would rather be 5 minutes from Coventry than Bournemouth
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Are you moving Coventry to the coast or Sandbanks to the West Midlands....
 

Sbarcher

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #44
joemercersaces said:
I imagine any Bournemouth fans visiting this forum are loving this, and seeing us as salty. However…I had family in Boscombe near their ground and visited every year. They were always a small club, third or fourth division until their Russian sugar daddy turned up. The most appropriate chant for them is ‘where we you when you were shit?’ Never had anything against them until yesterday. Have now.
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I used to watch Bournemouth alot at one time, mainly if City were away and couldn't get a ticket. At that time the ground only had 3 stands. Can't begrudge them coming a long way from that era, even with a financial backer who has ploughed loads in to take them to the Prem.
 

Moff

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #45
Grendel said:
brentford have survived though
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In my humble opinion comparing Brentford to Bournemouth in football terms is like comparing Gyokeres with Yakubu.
 
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RegTheDonk

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #46
The best thing to come out of Bournemouth is the tide.
 
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Bad Boy

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #47
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Coventry is my home town. Its an absolute shite hole and what the Luftwaffe didn't get the local planners did after 1945. It's better than in the 1970s but is full of half baked projects that just don't join up. Nice high rise student accomodation though.
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Being a Coventry kid and having lived in the place entitles you to say and feel what you see regarding our city.
To those that chant moronic songs on the terraces and disrespect a city with such heritage, history, fortitude and diversity and are visiting for a few short hours...........words fail me.
 
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Dickie

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #48
Dickie said:
I just meant it’s quite nice isn’t it? Yes, the sea helps!
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@bad boy - I don’t mean I don’t love the city by the way!
 

AOM

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #49
To be fair I hear that "Insert city name here is a shit hole, I want to go home" chant pretty much every week, regardless of if we're home or away.

Thought the Bournemouth fans were okay really. Better than a lot of away teams that have come to Coventry this year (although they probably also didn't get as good a result)
 
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Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #50
bad boy said:
In what way, because it's by the sea?
The place didn't exist until the later stages of the 18th century, it has no history, no heritage, no buildings to speak of that have much architectural interest.
Give me Coventry with all its grime ugliness and social issues any day.
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Love our city to bits (with a caveat about one or three areas), but if you offered me the chance to live in Westbourne and stroll along the beach every morning, I'd snap your hand off (and I know of a City season ticket holder who has a place down there and does just that - jealous as hell)
 

DannyThomas_1981

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #51
The Bournemouth lot seemed ok to me to be honest - pretty noisy all round.

'You're only here for the Bournemouth' chant was I'm sure ironic and let's be honest we'd be no different at 3-0 up and about to seal promotion back to the Prem. I've heard far worse things from our lot.

And both sets of fans mixed happily after the game - a good advert for football despite the negative headlines.

The atmosphere in the CBS Arena was absolutely immense until Bournemouth assumed control of the match; probably just me but made me feel emotional after being there in the dark days of playing at Northampton and Birmingham in front of sparse crowds. Kicking off yesterday in the sun with 25,000 passionate fans with a chance (and it was only ever a chance) of a place in the play-offs was just fucking amazing.

We often forget how far we've come over the past 4 years - the start of the game yesterday was for me a reminder of that and made me feel very proud of this team. And more so proud of all of our fans who have stuck by the team in the dark days - it felt very special whatever the result.
 
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Travs

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #52
Weren't our away fans loudly proclaiming that "Birmingham get battered everywhere they go" just 3 days before.... (is that everywhere except Cov???)

I don't think we can take too much of a moral high-ground when it comes to songs sung at home fans...
 
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David O'Day

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #53
ccfcricoh said:
Suppose they've got to gloat whilst they can, Norwich last season were comfortably better than Bournemouth have been this, and look how that's panned out.

no doubt Norwich will keep their seat warm until they swap back for 23/24
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Managed by Scott "yoyo" Parker
 

David O'Day

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #54
joemercersaces said:
I imagine any Bournemouth fans visiting this forum are loving this, and seeing us as salty. However…I had family in Boscombe near their ground and visited every year. They were always a small club, third or fourth division until their Russian sugar daddy turned up. The most appropriate chant for them is ‘where we you when you were shit?’ Never had anything against them until yesterday. Have now.
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They'll have been Southampton fans back then
 
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JimmyHillsbeard

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #55
Bournemouth fans were alright we need to stop clutching our pearls whenever the opposition sing things that we sing to them.

Without any apparent sense of irony a sizeable number of our fans chanted last Sunday that Fulham was a shit hole and they wanted to go home.
 
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TwistAndShoutCCFC1987

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #56
JimmyHillsbeard said:
Bournemouth fans were alright we need to stop clutching our pearls whenever the opposition sing things that we sing to them.

Without any apparent sense of irony a sizeable number of our fans chanted last Sunday that Fulham was a shit hole and they wanted to go home.
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The fulham’s a shithole was of course a joke. Afterwards a handful at the top started singing “in your west london slums” of course in irony
 
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JimmyHillsbeard

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #57
JimmyHillsbeard said:
Bournemouth fans were alright we need to stop clutching our pearls whenever the opposition sing things that we sing to them.

Without any apparent sense of irony a sizeable number of our fans chanted last Sunday that Fulham was a shit hole and they wanted to go home.
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the one caveat to this is the stupid “keep the red flag flying high” chant they’ve nicked and adapted from Chelsea. Don’t they realise that their are proper words to the Red Flag that they could use/adapt?
I’ll even give them one as free consultancy:-

“Tho Pompey flinch and Southampton sneer, we’ll keep the red flag flying here”
 

TwistAndShoutCCFC1987

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #58
DannyThomas_1981 said:
The Bournemouth lot seemed ok to me to be honest - pretty noisy all round.

'You're only here for the Bournemouth' chant was I'm sure ironic and let's be honest we'd be no different at 3-0 up and about to seal promotion back to the Prem. I've heard far worse things from our lot.

And both sets of fans mixed happily after the game - a good advert for football despite the negative headlines.

The atmosphere in the CBS Arena was absolutely immense until Bournemouth assumed control of the match; probably just me but made me feel emotional after being there in the dark days of playing at Northampton and Birmingham in front of sparse crowds. Kicking off yesterday in the sun with 25,000 passionate fans with a chance (and it was only ever a chance) of a place in the play-offs was just fucking amazing.

We often forget how far we've come over the past 4 years - the start of the game yesterday was for me a reminder of that and made me feel very proud of this team. And more so proud of all of our fans who have stuck by the team in the dark days - it felt very special whatever the result.
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Tbf the “you’re only here to see the bournemouth” song was created by bournemouth when they played city in 2015 and it was announced that city had broken their previous attendance record after they expanded their ground. It’s sang often now but I think they created it
 
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Bad Boy

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  • Apr 19, 2022
  • #59
Dickie said:
@bad boy - I don’t mean I don’t love the city by the way!
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I know you do Dickie, I know you do and I'm glad you do.

All the best.
 
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Alan Dugdales Moustache

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #60
pusbccfc said:
Wait till you venture out and visit some other cities.

Coventry isn't remotely as bad as others.
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Its in the lower leagues . What has it to offer an expanding population of around 400,000 apart from a wave pool ? What is there within the ring road that shows some serious investment in attracting people in over the last 20 years ?
In Rugby we have Eliot's Field which was redeveloped a few years ago. It attracts shoppers from Northampton, Coventry, Leicester. We are a small town of around 60,000.
What has Coventry got to offer ? Hertford Street and the Bull Yard, 21st century shopping experience for one .
It was the city of culture for a reason.
 
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ajsccfc

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #61
Now that it's clear all the same songs aimed at away fans every game sting a bit when they're sang in our direction, I hope this will lead to a little less aggression. Instead of YOU'RE FUCKING SHIT maybe something including best wishes for the rest of the campaign and a safe trip home. Costs nothing to be nice.
 
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Torquay Sky Blue

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #62
David O'Day said:
They'll have been Southampton fans back then
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Many of them still are
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #63
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Its in the lower leagues . What has it to offer an expanding population of around 400,000 apart from a wave pool ? What is there within the ring road that shows some serious investment in attracting people in over the last 20 years ?
In Rugby we have Eliot's Field which was redeveloped a few years ago. It attracts shoppers from Northampton, Coventry, Leicester. We are a small town of around 60,000.
What has Coventry got to offer ?
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IKEA
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Moff

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #64
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Its in the lower leagues . What has it to offer an expanding population of around 400,000 apart from a wave pool ? What is there within the ring road that shows some serious investment in attracting people in over the last 20 years ?
In Rugby we have Eliot's Field which was redeveloped a few years ago. It attracts shoppers from Northampton, Coventry, Leicester. We are a small town of around 60,000.
What has Coventry got to offer ? Hertford Street and the Bull Yard, 21st century shopping experience for one .
It was the city of culture for a reason.
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Rugby population is nearer 100,000, not 60k.

Having lived in both, I think you have conveniently glossed over Rugby’s problems and it’s town centre. I lived there for 18 years and have recently left.

All towns and city’s have similar pros snd cons. A shopping centre certainly doesn’t make a Town or a city.
 
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rob9872

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #65
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Its in the lower leagues . What has it to offer an expanding population of around 400,000 apart from a wave pool ? What is there within the ring road that shows some serious investment in attracting people in over the last 20 years ?
In Rugby we have Eliot's Field which was redeveloped a few years ago. It attracts shoppers from Northampton, Coventry, Leicester. We are a small town of around 60,000.
What has Coventry got to offer ? Hertford Street and the Bull Yard, 21st century shopping experience for one .
It was the city of culture for a reason.
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Three spires, the transport museum, 2Tone, cathedral ruins and a fantastic new cathedral, large pedestrianised shopping precinct, loads of decent bars, nice restaurants, wave pool. music museum, Coombe Abbey, Godiva statue, The Herbert, Memorial Park, theatres, cinemas, sports grounds, loads of historic buildings, history of the thriving car market in the 60s, the indoor market, so much more I've not listed and as much as any other City.

What have the Romans ever done for us?
 
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shmmeee

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #66
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Its in the lower leagues . What has it to offer an expanding population of around 400,000 apart from a wave pool ? What is there within the ring road that shows some serious investment in attracting people in over the last 20 years ?
In Rugby we have Eliot's Field which was redeveloped a few years ago. It attracts shoppers from Northampton, Coventry, Leicester. We are a small town of around 60,000.
What has Coventry got to offer ? Hertford Street and the Bull Yard, 21st century shopping experience for one .
It was the city of culture for a reason.
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I think most of what you’re looking for is planned as part of CCS, whether that happens and whether it’s what 21st century consumers want is another question.
 
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Alan Dugdales Moustache

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #67
Moff said:
Rugby population is nearer 100,000, not 60k.

Having lived in both, I think you have conveniently glossed over Rugby’s problems and it’s town centre. I lived there for 18 years and have recently left.

All towns and city’s have similar pros snd cons. A shopping centre certainly doesn’t make a Town or a city.
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Rugby borough area is 100,000, not Rugby town. Nuneaton is a bigger town. Rugby town population is nowhere near 100,000 .

Rugby town centre has suffered in part because of the redevelopment of Elliott fields and Junction 1
Coventry city centre has been utterly crap since world War 2. Awful planning. Lack of investment. For a fairly major city it's pitiful.
 
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David O'Day

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #68
Moff said:
Rugby population is nearer 100,000, not 60k.

Having lived in both, I think you have conveniently glossed over Rugby’s problems and it’s town centre. I lived there for 18 years and have recently left.

All towns and city’s have similar pros snd cons. A shopping centre certainly doesn’t make a Town or a city.
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all places have city centre issues but that is an issue with the decline of bricks and mortar retail
 
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Moff

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #69
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Rugby borough area is 100,000, not Rugby town. Nuneaton is a bigger town. Rugby town population is nowhere near 100,000 .

Rugby town centre has suffered in part because of the redevelopment of Elliott fields and Junction 1
Coventry city centre has been utterly crap since world War 2. Awful planning. Lack of investment. For a fairly major city it's pitiful.
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Well the Census details were 70K for Rugby Town in 2011, and the previous ten years had seen a 14% growth, so I think its safe to say the town population is around 80K, so we have met in the middle.

I cant see how you can excuse Rugby's poor town centre whilst criticising Coventrys.. The internet, and out of town shopping centres have contributed to the demise of Town/City Centres. Coventry's has similarity to Poole's right on Bournemouth's doorstep.

They are what they are. I would rather see the positives than take side swipes.
 
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David O'Day

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  • Apr 20, 2022
  • #70
Moff said:
Well the Census details were 70K for Rugby Town in 2011, and the previous ten years had seen a 14% growth, so I think its safe to say the town population is around 80K, so we have met in the middle.

I cant see how you can excuse Rugby's poor town centre whilst criticising Rugby's. The internet, and out of town shopping centres have contributed to the demise of Town/City Centres. Coventry's has similarity to Poole's right on Bournemouth's doorstep.

They are what they are. I would rather see the positives than take side swipes.
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i think the last time he went to cov town was about 1985
 
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