Well within your rights to be negative. I just thought the fans involved deserved a pat on the back.
Personally, I think the campaign showed the underlying passion that's in the city for our football club and what can be achieved when fans unite.
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Personally I thought the campaign was excellent. Sure you could make an argument for starting it earlier but equally the CT could have never bothered with any campaign.
The only criticism I have is that having run that campaign it was a bit odd to see the CT get over-excited and give full support to Wasps move.
You certainly could.....From what I recall, we were told of the move to Northants in summer 2013......the "campaign" started in July 2014.......if they'd left it another few weeks, they could have saved on the van rental!
There was another campaign before the move to Northampton...
Launched in May 2013 - http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/keep-coventry-city-in-coventry-3414872
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Personally I thought the campaign was excellent. Sure you could make an argument for starting it earlier but equally the CT could have never bothered with any campaign.
The only criticism I have is that having run that campaign it was a bit odd to see the CT get over-excited and give full support to Wasps move.
I'm surprised the bringwaspshome campaign didn't get a mention
Was there one? Serious question.
Personally, I think the award should go to the organisers of the march as it seemed at the time like the Telegraph jumped onto that when it got popular.
Yea the march was organised in May 2014 to take place on 12th July 2014, the telegraphs campaign began on 7th July.It was the trust people and other organisers doing the hard work with the march and made it as popular as it was, people who stewarded it and contacted the museum for the bus etc.
Wasnt the campaign started literally just before the march?
The Trust's marches, which were fantastic events btw, were noting to do with the Telegraph. Our only involvement was to help publicise them. We've never tried to claim credit for them.
#BringCityHome was a very separate campaign which sought to put pressure on all of the parties involved in the fiasco.
Having said that, we always considered #BringCityHome to be 'fan-led' and any praise, awards, recognition or success the campaign achieved should absolutely be shared with the supporters who backed the campaign.
This was, and always will be, their campaign and their victory.
(I'm not sharing the other awards if I win though)
I would also completely accept that the campaign should have started sooner.
But the timing did allow us to target that crucial Football League meeting. I have no doubt at all that this interview played a huge part in the Football League's appetite to finally address the situation http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/sky-blues-situation-could-force-7445318
Did the Football League force us back to Coventry?
Something happened behind the scenes for sure. There's no way SISU paid for a new pitch at Sixfields and sold cut price season tickets if they had any intention of returning yet after a couple of games we were back.
Did the FL put pressure on them, was it linked to the Wasps deal or something else? We'll probably never know.
Well within your rights to be negative. I just thought the fans involved deserved a pat on the back.
Personally, I think the campaign showed the underlying passion that's in the city for our football club and what can be achieved when fans unite.
Simon, I think you'll be pipped at the post for the Welcome To Wasps award. Italia and the SBT will be fighting over that. They couldn't have done it without your help though.
Something happened behind the scenes for sure. There's no way SISU paid for a new pitch at Sixfields and sold cut price season tickets if they had any intention of returning yet after a couple of games we were back.
Did the FL put pressure on them, was it linked to the Wasps deal or something else? We'll probably never know.
IMHO I think SISU got word of the Wasps deal and thought that the club might be left out in Northampton if they didn't get back.
If true we can thank Sisu for that.
IMHO you've got that a little bit arse-about-face.....
IMHO I reckon a condition of sale to wasps was them having City at the Ricoh as a key tenant to help smooth the waters....both in a financial & PR sense......but chiefdave is right...we'll probably never know.
I reckon a condition of sale to wasps was them having City at the Ricoh as a key tenant to help smooth the waters....both in a financial & PR sense
My opinion is it was a PR move for CCC & Wasps more than anything else. Sell with us playing at Sixfields and I suspect there would have been a lot more criticism.
The fact that we were back at the Ricoh meant there was little resistance with people preferring, rightly or wrongly, to blame SISU for not buying ACL before it was sold to Wasps.
IMHO I think SISU got word of the Wasps deal and thought that the club might be left out in Northampton if they didn't get back.
If true we can thank Sisu for that.
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