I agree this would have been part of the decision. But don't you think it was strange that it happened a couple of games into the season and not before the season started?
Rob S mentioned that there is a prospectus out there in the financial sector surely Sisu would have got wind of this ?
Not pissing myself - just flabbergasted that something so important (the future stability of your club) is apparently being fought over by what appears to be feuding children.
I'm not one to take sides - the issues do seem more complex than a 20 minutes natter in a podcast could ever cover - but I would say this, as someone with bitter and prolonged experience of fighting for a football club which so nearly went of the league (and hence out of existence - we could never have sustained life in the Conference in Gillingham) one thing is imperative; a football club can never progress if the fans are not united. It isn't possible.
I'm not intending to patronise or preach - my apologies if it comes across that way - but it leaves me scratching my head when a club with such a rich and proud history as Coventry City has bickering fans like bitter siblings fighting over which is the best method of resolving their mother's hip replacement issues.
Yours is a great club; someone just needs to bang your bloody heads together.
I've finished now, (it's my birthday and I've had a couple of jinkies) and I apologise as it's not strictly my business, but please - sort yourselves out.
So you are content that we are owned by the worst owners in the history of English football, content that we are a mediocre team, in the third division, with crap players, playing the worst football in our history?
You are easily pleased, no wonder sisu don't give a shit about us fans. You and the likes of Grendel are embarrassing. You are right, fans of other clubs must piss themselves reading some of the comments on here.
It's all the council's, ACL's,the HIggs trust's and the fans' fault though isn't it?
True football fans want what is best for our club, and will never be content with mediocrity, why should we just accept what sisu are doing to our club?
TLO
Just a few factual points for you.
CCFC fans have been united apart from a tiny but very noisy minority.
The two protest marches in Coventry organised by the Sky Blue Trust got 7-8,000 people.
The Keep Cov in Cov (kcic) campaign group with which I was involved advocated the sixfields boycott which was supported by all but a very small minority of City fans.
kcic made an offer to pay the Ricoh rent to enable a return and 88% of fans agreed with the offer.
The 2 protests in Coventry that Rob S organised got a couple of dozen people.
Rob S stood a candidate in the local election to try to unseat the leader of the council but got less votes than the BNP.
Rob S has never explained how his 'group' was formed.
CCFC were relocated to sixfields as a deliberate tactic by club owners sisu - the situation was in reality very simple - and was explained clearly in in a High Court judgement. You might want to read http://www.fsf.org.uk/blog/view/Fans-victory-Coventry-City-return-home
Your posts no longer make any sense at all. You really need to take a break
I agree this would have been part of the decision. But don't you think it was strange that it happened a couple of games into the season and not before the season started?
Rob S mentioned that there is a prospectus out there in the financial sector surely Sisu would have got wind of this ?
[Nick - It makes perfect sense when you step back and read your post again.It was a light hearted comment which I am sure you will see if you read it back a few times.]
Nick and Rob S - skybluestalk's new Chuckle Brothers!
TLO
Just a few factual points for you.
*SNIP!*
No one else has heard of this 'prospectus'. Where did the story come from? Everything else in this business is covered by confidentiality clauses.
Sorry, didn't mean to mess with the ego. Sky Blues Talk apologises. Quite clearly a light hearted GIF.
Not sure what Rob S has to do with posting that GIF, he isn't getting the credit!
Michael, with the best will in the world, in the nicest way possible and, hey, in the interests of fan unity, I'll ask you to re-read your recent comments and have a think about what you wrote and why you wrote it. Then maybe you'd like to come back with another comment? I'm happy to wait an hour or so for a response and I'll hold off any further response myself rather than continue the childish bickering right now. However, I will be very happy to provide some actual facts and corrections to your comments.
If only we all had your quiet, kind and generous nature!
The one thing that would be incredibly helpful would be to explain in full how your group started (beyond you saying you got a phone call) - there is obviously a story before you got the call. It would certainly help counter what people like Shmmeee have posted
Only if you tell us about this bid you made to the club, the one 88% of people backed
Can't believe this is turning into supporters group wars.
"my group has more members"
"my group is better"
But according to some people GBTTR isn't a supporters group
Isn't a group made up of supporters a supporter's group?
Like I said, it just takes an outsider to read threads like this.
Cheers for clearing it up Monners about supporters groups etc.
Yes let's get Jack Griffin on the show for so e balance. Brighton fans will tune in and think they mistakenly tuned a party political broadcast for Coventry City Council.
apols to Shmmeee if I've got this wrong but I think he (and possibly others?) have suggested GBTTR is not a supporters group. If anyone from GBTTR could explain how it was founded it would dispel that. Just asking like
The one thing that would be incredibly helpful would be to explain in full how your group started (beyond you saying you got a phone call) - there is obviously a story before you got the call. It would certainly help counter what people like Shmmeee have posted
Regardless, the point is his view is a minority extremist one.
You never did explain the "free rent" offer, what the details were or who was behind it, did you? What were the 88% agreeing to?
You never did explain what you did that was more productive than anything Micheal did in returning us home. Sitting behind a keyboard and slagging of someone who put real time, effort and money in to do something that benifited you is pretty shitty by any standard and makes you look like a SISU lap dog. I hope you're proud of yourself. Are you enjoying watching your club play at home again.
You never did explain what you did that was more productive than anything Micheal did in returning us home. Sitting behind a keyboard and slagging of someone who put real time, effort and money in to do something that benifited you is pretty shitty by any standard and makes you look like a SISU lap dog. I hope you're proud of yourself. Are you enjoying watching your club play at home again.
Textbook Reply. Don't think anybody slagged him off did they? Just asked him a question?
Ha! I never "slagged" him off at the time and I'm not "slagging" him off now. I am simply asking him questions rather that just swallowing everything he says as if he was some kind of Super Being. Maybe you can't see the irony in your little rant.
Yep, and you've just given your text book reply. Oh, my mistake no winking smiley face.
Unfortuantly all you've ever done is ask the wrong questions of the wrong people.
So where was Michael slagged off? You didn't answer?
Was you're question relevent to either the context of this thread or our current situation given that we are infact back at the Ricoh? No!
so you're are deliberately asking them to belittle and discredit him, presumably to make yourself look big.
I'll ask you again.
You never did explain what you did that was more productive than anything Micheal did in returning us home. Sitting behind a keyboard and slagging of someone who put real time, effort and money in to do something that benifited you is pretty shitty by any standard and makes you look like a SISU lap dog. I hope you're proud of yourself. Are you enjoying watching your club play at home again.
Remember I'm just asking a question.
If you think that his question was belittling then I guess it shows what you think of the offer.
I think you will find it was Michael who brought the stuff about the offer into the thread, try reading back.
I will ask you again, who has slagged him off? Asking him a question isn't slagging him off is it?
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