We should be at the table with Wasps JLR and the Council.
It really is a crying shame
The council seemed to have a aligned themselves very much with Wasps and JLR.
At the recent event in Cannes. Wasps had invested in the event for the Council.
The event was to raise investment in the city. The council employees were there wearing wasps lanyards doing their interviews.
Jaguar Land Rover are heavily linked to Wasps and now it seems the council. Investing hundreds of millions into Coventry.
The council have embraced Wasps, who have in turn embraced the Council.
JLR seems to be embracing both.
There seems to be money coming into the city and I would guess ACL in the future in terms of sponsorship.
Then on the flip side we have CCFC embracing Les Reid and the observer attacking the council.
The JR attacking the council.
Threatening to move out of the City building a new stadium that 'has' to be out of the city.
It just seems to me at a very very bad moment we are fighting a lost cause and cutting off our noses to spite our faces.
We should be at the table with Wasps JLR and the Council.
It really is a crying shame
It's just disappointing they are not involved in these exciting times for the city
Not sure how exiting it is a company replacing the car building that they previously removed from the City leaving thousands out of work a number of years ago.
Yay well done JLR for bringing back what was here previously
The council seemed to have a aligned themselves very much with Wasps and JLR.
At the recent event in Cannes. Wasps had invested in the event for the Council.
The event was to raise investment in the city. The council employees were there wearing wasps lanyards doing their interviews.
Jaguar Land Rover are heavily linked to Wasps and now it seems the council. Investing hundreds of millions into Coventry.
The council have embraced Wasps, who have in turn embraced the Council.
JLR seems to be embracing both.
There seems to be money coming into the city and I would guess ACL in the future in terms of sponsorship.
Then on the flip side we have CCFC embracing Les Reid and the observer attacking the council.
The JR attacking the council.
Threatening to move out of the City building a new stadium that 'has' to be out of the city.
It just seems to me at a very very bad moment we are fighting a lost cause and cutting off our noses to spite our faces.
We should be at the table with Wasps JLR and the Council.
It really is a crying shame
Don't agree that CCFC have embraced Reid; he seems a lone wolf to me.
Agree though that CCC certainly have rmbraced the Londoners.
Not sure how exiting it is a company replacing the car building that they previously removed from the City leaving thousands out of work a number of years ago.
Yay well done JLR for bringing back what was here previously
Don't agree that CCFC have embraced Reid; he seems a lone wolf to me.
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Not sure how exiting it is a company replacing the car building that they previously removed from the City leaving thousands out of work a number of years ago.
Yay well done JLR for bringing back what was here previously
Not sure how exiting it is a company replacing the car building that they previously removed from the City leaving thousands out of work a number of years ago.
Yay well done JLR for bringing back what was here previously
The council seemed to have a aligned themselves very much with Wasps and JLR.
At the recent event in Cannes. Wasps had invested in the event for the Council.
The event was to raise investment in the city. The council employees were there wearing wasps lanyards doing their interviews.
Jaguar Land Rover are heavily linked to Wasps and now it seems the council. Investing hundreds of millions into Coventry.
The council have embraced Wasps, who have in turn embraced the Council.
JLR seems to be embracing both.
There seems to be money coming into the city and I would guess ACL in the future in terms of sponsorship.
Then on the flip side we have CCFC embracing Les Reid and the observer attacking the council.
The JR attacking the council.
Threatening to move out of the City building a new stadium that 'has' to be out of the city.
It just seems to me at a very very bad moment we are fighting a lost cause and cutting off our noses to spite our faces.
We should be at the table with Wasps JLR and the Council.
It really is a crying shame
Browns Lane was a 60 year old plant, part of a failing automotive group.
The new JLR plants will be the most modern in the country, and part of a company that is growing rapidly.
As someone who worked for Jaguar, and Land Rover, and JLR combined, and Rover for that matter, I've got to say that's not a view that I'd agree with.
By the time Browns Lane was shut down, it had a quality and production record second to none. A lot of good, clever, hard-working people there were let down by poor decisions much further up the tree, and indeed outside of JLR itself ultimately.
What rescued JLR was, imho, an owner who invested properly in high-end product development, and moved away from Ford's daft gamble to dilute the brand by selling high-volume low-prestige cars based on Mondeos. What really helped though was the opening up and explosion of wealth in the emerging economies like China, and the demand for prestige brands in those places.
It would be great to have Jaguar back making cars in Coventry. There is no single brand that I am prouder of as a Coventrian. However, I can make a pretty decent case for why it should never have left.
Regardless, there isn't much that this City does brilliantly - but our automotive engineering talent hereabouts is unmatched. I absolutely salute the council for doing whatever they can to bring Jag (in a manufacturing sense) back home.
To go back to the OP though, Wasps have got sod all to do with that, or with the City. The only reason the council are right behind them, and vice versa, is that they've got to back up an awfully big gamble that they've taken.
The best the council have ever offered the football club is first go at the crumbs on the floor.
You reap what you sow in this world unfortunately for us. Well us fans anyway. If we are only getting crumbs.....
Not really. Most councils bend over backwards to help their local clubs - it's only because we have spineless people like you who assume position and unquestioningly part your legs every time the council enters you room that we are where we are.
So as an employee of JLR do you think this is a good deal or should the council have given it to Sisu for free?
Given sisu what for free?
Not really. Most councils bend over backwards to help their local clubs - it's only because we have spineless people like you who assume position and unquestioningly part your legs every time the council enters you room that we are where we are.
The council seemed to have a aligned themselves very much with Wasps and JLR.
At the recent event in Cannes. Wasps had invested in the event for the Council.
The event was to raise investment in the city. The council employees were there wearing wasps lanyards doing their interviews.
Jaguar Land Rover are heavily linked to Wasps and now it seems the council. Investing hundreds of millions into Coventry.
The council have embraced Wasps, who have in turn embraced the Council.
JLR seems to be embracing both.
There seems to be money coming into the city and I would guess ACL in the future in terms of sponsorship.
Then on the flip side we have CCFC embracing Les Reid and the observer attacking the council.
The JR attacking the council.
Threatening to move out of the City building a new stadium that 'has' to be out of the city.
It just seems to me at a very very bad moment we are fighting a lost cause and cutting off our noses to spite our faces.
We should be at the table with Wasps JLR and the Council.
It really is a crying shame
Having just peeked at the Coventry Observslur web site Mr Reid's latest diatribes are a couple of attacks on the Labour group in the council.. he certainly knows his enemy..
I'm no fan of Labour, but this man is completely out of touch, where are the stories about the new JLR & LTI factories.. quite important stories I'd have thought.
As unpalatable as it might sound to some, the only way out of the SISU spiral is for the club to be part of this Wasps / JLR power base that is emerging in the city.
Lets hope that the Chinese carry on buying Range Rovers.
You reap what you sow in this world unfortunately for us. Well us fans anyway. If we are only getting crumbs.....
You make it sound like the problem only began 7 years ago. It's been 20 years in the making.
Nope I am saying the current owners are getting the rewards now for their own actions over the last 7 years.
There is a really good working relationship between CCC, wasps, ACL and JLR. CCFC should be part of this but we have alienated ourselves and are not getting a slice of the pie
We were alienated a long time ago. What's this great relationship between wasps and ACL?
Land Rover sponsor wasps shirts and what else?
No chance of JLR taking over sponsorship of the Ricoh at any point then?
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