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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Mar 8, 2014
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In my own mind that if sisu stay in charge of our club we will cease to be a league team before we leave sixfields. It's all about driving down expenditure.
 
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SonOfSnoz

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #2
Yes agree!!
 

shmmeee

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #3
Sky Blue Pete said:
In my own mind that if sisu stay in charge of our club we will cease to be a league team before we leave sixfields. It's all about driving down expenditure.
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It's all about winning the JR, that's what I'm convinced after listening to Labovitch. If we lose that, we might not have a club next season (depending on your definition of the club). Or she might sell. But who would buy, when you could pick up the naming rights at liquidation and for very little build a club quickly with a large fan base?

£40m in debt. No assets. No ground. A handful of players on short contracts and the rest kids.

What would you spend?
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #4
You are right shmee. I just wish we had been put out of our misery at the start of the season. The nopm will work, the danger and most likely outcome is a Darlington or Stockport though. Very very sad. Absolute wankers the lot of them.
125 years of history destroyed in 6 years.
Before rfc gets on his high horse this is the end game buddy we are all fans some going back 3-4 generations!
 

torchomatic

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #5
Sky Blue Pete said:
In my own mind that if sisu stay in charge of our club we will cease to be a league team before we leave sixfields. It's all about driving down expenditure.
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Thankfully it is just in your own mind.

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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #6
torchomatic said:
Thankfully it is just in your own mind.

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What do you reckon torch?
Stay up this year
£10m loss at least to 31/5/14.
Lose and appeal jr so still hanging over us
Lose murph, baker, fleck this summer and replace with lesser standard players
God forbid sp gives up or gets a better gig.
Debate and opinions. What's yours?
 

stupot07

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #7
Do you not agree that expenditure should be driven down?


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DazzleTommyDazzle

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #8
stupot07 said:
Do you not agree that expenditure should be driven down?


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Do you not agree that if you drive expenditure down by £1, but in the process lose revenue of £2, that you are worse off?
 

stupot07

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  • Mar 8, 2014
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DazzleTommyDazzle said:
Do you not agree that if you drive expenditure down by £1, but in the process lose revenue of £2, that you are worse off?
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Of course, but then the following season you drive costs down by another £1 and with no real loss in revenue. You the. Start to rebuild under a new cost model like Swansea.


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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Mar 8, 2014
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stupot07 said:
Do you not agree that expenditure should be driven down?


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Where it can be absolutely yes.
The question I would have asked ml is what do you mean by run as a business?
What turnover are you expecting to may 14
How is it going?
Whst is the wage budget and how are you performing against target?
The lack of clear sightedness in the last season in the championship saved the club say £1m in wages but cost it £5m in revenue for instance.

So sisu will find the losses? How much to may 14?

Clive asked about 3-5 years of 2000 crowds and the debt then being £80m and ml said he wasn't sure if the figure which I think is why schmee thinks jr or bust

He didn't even have plan b for no planning permission or plan b for if the plug is pulled by the owner.

It's an easy answer the £80m debt is a millstone and if the funding is stopped we stop too
 

torchomatic

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #11
Sky Blue Pete said:
What do you reckon torch?
Stay up this year
£10m loss at least to 31/5/14.
Lose and appeal jr so still hanging over us
Lose murph, baker, fleck this summer and replace with lesser standard players
God forbid sp gives up or gets a better gig.
Debate and opinions. What's yours?
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But it's all ifs and buts. The only thing you missed out there was a meteor striking the earth.

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Hobo

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  • Mar 8, 2014
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Sky Blue Pete said:
In my own mind that if sisu stay in charge of our club we will cease to be a league team before we leave sixfields. It's all about driving down expenditure.
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They are not though are they. The debt is growing. All they have achieved is to reduce the cost and quality of their resources (players) and disengage themselves from their customer base at the same time as devaluing their brand name.
 
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lapsed_skyblue

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #13
stupot07 said:
Of course, but then the following season you drive costs down by another £1 and with no real loss in revenue. You the. Start to rebuild under a new cost model like Swansea.


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This reminds me of a comment reportedly made by a doctor - "the operation was a success but the patient died".
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Mar 8, 2014
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Same chance of a meteor hitting the earth as sp leaving city???

Dream on.

What do you think then torchy?
 

DazzleTommyDazzle

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #15
stupot07 said:
Of course, but then the following season you drive costs down by another £1 and with no real loss in revenue. You the. Start to rebuild under a new cost model like Swansea.


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I think that the point is that you need a coherent and rational business plan.

Simply "driving down expenditure" can do more harm than good.

As things currently stand, I'm finding it difficult to discern what that plan is.

You're comment sounds good, but we've been "driving down expenditure" since the days of KD, yet revenues still appear to be falling faster.
 

Grendel

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #16
lapsed_skyblue said:
This reminds me of a comment reportedly made by a doctor - "the operation was a success but the patient died".
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Was that operation called Not One Penny More?
 

Hobo

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #17
Sky Blue Pete said:
What do you reckon torch?
Stay up this year
£10m loss at least to 31/5/14.
Lose and appeal jr so still hanging over us
Lose murph, baker, fleck this summer and replace with lesser standard players
God forbid sp gives up or gets a better gig.
Debate and opinions. What's yours?
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torchomatic said:
But it's all ifs and buts. The only thing you missed out there was a meteor striking the earth.

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Yeah Torch the future is all if and buts, but Sky Blue Pete's projections a realistic ones. Your meteor one although possible is unlikely.
 
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thaiskyblue

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #18
stupot07 said:
Of course, but then the following season you drive costs down by another £1 and with no real loss in revenue. You the. Start to rebuild under a new cost model like Swansea.


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with sisu in charge ? never going to happen , they only want the ground/land, not the team.
 

GaryPendrysEyes

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #19
stupot07 said:
Of course, but then the following season you drive costs down by another £1 and with no real loss in revenue. You the. Start to rebuild under a new cost model like Swansea.
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Sisu have no interest in building the football club, they want to limit losses and try and get a big win via acquiring the Ricoh cheap.
I really hope no one is suggesting they are competent and have a coherent strategy or business plan, because after 6 years + we know they havent!
 

GaryPendrysEyes

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #20
Grendel said:
Was that operation called Not One Penny More?
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No that's operation 'remove the negligent, incompetent quack killing the club' so we can start afresh.
 

skybluetony176

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #21
Grendel said:
Was that operation called Not One Penny More?
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Talking of medical professionals grendull the anaesthetist has just turned up.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
 

stupot07

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #22
DazzleTommyDazzle said:
I think that the point is that you need a coherent and rational business plan.

Simply "driving down expenditure" can do more harm than good.

As things currently stand, I'm finding it difficult to discern what that plan is.

You're comment sounds good, but we've been "driving down expenditure" since the days of KD, yet revenues still appear to be falling faster.
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It's a difficult one, I believe we would have gotten relegated at some point probably the season after. The heartbreaking thing for me is, in our relegation season we were in the bottom 3-4 in terms of our turnover despite 9-10 teams averaging lower crowds than us.




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GaryPendrysEyes

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #23
skybluetony176 said:
Talking of medical professionals grendull the anaesthetist has just turned up.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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I think he blames the patient for groaning too much...
 

lordsummerisle

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #24
GaryPendrysEyes said:
No that's operation 'remove the negligent, incompetent quack killing the club' so we can start afresh.
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Dr Nick Riviera our new Chairman.
 
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Seaside-Skyblue

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #25
I personally think that if they managed to get the Ricoh then they would still continue with the team as the two go hand in hand as we can already see. I also think nothing significant is going to happen until the judicial review. I can see this land application process carrying on "conveniantly" until then. One thing that I don't fully understand is this; if they were to win the judicial review how does it improve their chances of acquiring the Ricoh?
 

Mr T - Sukka!

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #26
In any crisis a company should look to its leaders.

Step forward Tim Fisher and Mark Labovich! Oh dear.

I dont see why everyone us getting worked up?

Apart from playing to around 1k fans in Northampton.

Losing £7m last year.

£40 odd million in debt.

No home ground.

Financial fair play to kick in.

Everthing is tickety boo.
 
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dongonzalos

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #27
Sky Blue Pete said:
In my own mind that if sisu stay in charge of our club we will cease to be a league team before we leave sixfields. It's all about driving down expenditure.
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The JR will determine everything
Unfortunately I believe JR decision can be appealed by either side to the Supreme Court
 

GaryPendrysEyes

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #28
lordsummerisle said:
Dr Nick Riviera our new Chairman.
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...yeah obviously it has to be worse than what we have got, obvious innit because we are now such a juicy prize to exploit after 6 years of Sisu.
 

GaryPendrysEyes

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #29
Seaside-Skyblue said:
I personally think that if they managed to get the Ricoh then they would still continue with the team as the two go hand in hand as we can already see. I also think nothing significant is going to happen until the judicial review. I can see this land application process carrying on "conveniantly" until then. One thing that I don't fully understand is this; if they were to win the judicial review how does it improve their chances of acquiring the Ricoh?
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There will almost definitely be appeals following the JR lasting many months... and you are right even if Sisu win, an outcome may just be ACL acquiring finance elsewhere.
 

skybluetony176

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  • Mar 8, 2014
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Seaside-Skyblue said:
I personally think that if they managed to get the Ricoh then they would still continue with the team as the two go hand in hand as we can already see. I also think nothing significant is going to happen until the judicial review. I can see this land application process carrying on "conveniantly" until then. One thing that I don't fully understand is this; if they were to win the judicial review how does it improve their chances of acquiring the Ricoh?[/QUOTE]

I think we're all guessing they will seek it as part of any compensation package, should they win off course.
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dongonzalos

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  • Mar 8, 2014
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Seaside-Skyblue said:
I personally think that if they managed to get the Ricoh then they would still continue with the team as the two go hand in hand as we can already see. I also think nothing significant is going to happen until the judicial review. I can see this land application process carrying on "conveniantly" until then. One thing that I don't fully understand is this; if they were to win the judicial review how does it improve their chances of acquiring the Ricoh?
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It won't if they can get enough compo they will drop the Ricoh and the team like a hot potato in my opinion.

They can afford the Ricoh
They can't afford a new stadium

The club is not worth 40 million

If they can convince the Judge the councils actions cost them 30-40 million and it is wrong.

They can ask the judge to implement a compensation order.

If you think someone handed SISU 30 million to walk away from CCFC today do you think they would take it.

In the mean time if they had had got the club promoted at the same time they could have sold that in the summer to go alongside the compo.

(Again just my wild speculation on the matter)
 

DazzleTommyDazzle

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #32
stupot07 said:
It's a difficult one, I believe we would have gotten relegated at some point probably the season after. The heartbreaking thing for me is, in our relegation season we were in the bottom 3-4 in terms of our turnover despite 9-10 teams averaging lower crowds than us.




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Difficult to say. Personally, I think that had we kept or replaced King we would have had an OK season - but we'll never know....

The only point that I was trying to make is that whilst controlling expenditure is "a good thing", this is dependant on the overall context in which this is taking place.

I used to have the odd exchange with Tommy Atkins who was very much in favour of KD's cost reduction exercise. I used to point out that (in my view) it was leading us to relegation, that would cost us a multiple of any savings.

That's not to say that running a football club is easy. It's bloody difficult and I would have great sympathy with any owners, if I believed that they had a rational plan that was trying to do the best for the football club.
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #33
DazzleTommyDazzle said:
Difficult to say. Personally, I think that had we kept or replaced King we would have had an OK season - but we'll never know....

The only point that I was trying to make is that whilst controlling expenditure is "a good thing", this is dependant on the overall context in which this is taking place.

I used to have the odd exchange with Tommy Atkins who was very much in favour of KD's cost reduction exercise. I used to point out that (in my view) it was leading us to relegation, that would cost us a multiple of any savings.

That's not to say that running a football club is easy. It's bloody difficult and I would have great sympathy with any owners, if I believed that they had a rational plan that was trying to do the best for the football club.
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I think the vast majority would too
 

stupot07

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  • Mar 8, 2014
  • #34
DazzleTommyDazzle said:
Difficult to say. Personally, I think that had we kept or replaced King we would have had an OK season - but we'll never know....

The only point that I was trying to make is that whilst controlling expenditure is "a good thing", this is dependant on the overall context in which this is taking place.

I used to have the odd exchange with Tommy Atkins who was very much in favour of KD's cost reduction exercise. I used to point out that (in my view) it was leading us to relegation, that would cost us a multiple of any savings.

That's not to say that running a football club is easy. It's bloody difficult and I would have great sympathy with any owners, if I believed that they had a rational plan that was trying to do the best for the football club.
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True but I suppose it's a lot easier (Sixfields debacle aside) to implement cost reduction/wage restructure in league one, whilst remaining competitive with the FFP rules than in the championship.

It's a huge task for anyone.


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patccfc

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  • Mar 8, 2014
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I just don't get how sisu can win at all. Even if they get the JR decision, they aren't going to get the £7million they have lost last season in legal fees, and this alleged £30m already put in. Even with the most expensive of legal fees, I doubt very much they can justify claiming nearly $40 million in legal fees. And even if they did that would only break even! The council can of course ultimately absorb any legal fees (worst case), and after all this there is no way in hell sisu are going to be allowed ownership of the Ricoh. Were I in sisu's position I would be on bended knee trying to fix the relationship with the council. After all that has gone on, sisu have shown themselves to be utter unreliable. You would have to be mad to enter into a legal contract with these people. They were legally obliged to pay te rent - they just stopped paying! What is the point of a legally binding contract if they just ignore it if the terms don't suit their objectives anymore? sisu out
 
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