#BringCityHome up for another award (1 Viewer)

covcity4life said:

i cannot imagine wasps giving us a good deal if we are in championship in a year or so

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covcity4life said:

i cannot imagine wasps giving us a good deal if we are in championship in a year or so

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ITV said:

The sale guarantees Coventry City Football Club’s continuing tenancy at the stadium, with primacy over match fixtures.
Leader of the Council, Cllr Ann Lucas said: “The decision about the Ricoh Arena’s future has been made with the interest of Coventry taxpayers and communities at its heart.
“This deal would not have happened if it threatened the future of the Sky Blues or Coventry Rugby Club."

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chiefdave said:

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.

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lift tower said:

There's a theory our end that the new pitch was compensation for getting out of the rental contract early.

By the way, since you left sixfields the £12m redevelopment has hardly progressed and Cardoza is blanking a series of questions put out by the supporters trust asking him about the lack of progress, sudden attempted sale of the club and his apparent links to the company that made a mess of the new stand. And the local paper? Not a whisper, just a mouthpiece that publishes his press releases.

Compared to the northampton chronicle and echo, simon and the coventry telegraph team are like robert redford in all the president's men.

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skybluetony176 said:

Isn't the funding for the new stand coming from a council loan?

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eastwoodsdustman said:

Fastest to disappear award by any chance? I think the blue bits of bin liner hung around more than the 'fans' who demanded the return of the club:claping hands:

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SimonGilbert said:

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

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