SkyBlue_Bear83
Well-Known Member
Then new owners can sell Nene park, move back to the Ricoh and we will be a championship club with new owners
Sounds ok to me
Then new owners can sell Nene park, move back to the Ricoh and we will be a championship club with new ownersIf you were SISU and you got into Nene Park if you managed to eventually over 4 years get a relatively decent crowd there.
Would you get the FA to break another one of their rules and allow you buy Nene park for say half price (15 million)
Purpose built and planning permission for a hotel
Or would you attempt to build a new stadium in Coventry (30 million) and move back to where fans have had 4 years to move on without you.
Sell Nene Park and Hotel with club in Championship for 65 million.
Get back the 50 -60 million you invested.
i have absolutely no problem going here for an interim period. in fact i think its better than the morgue ricoh. and i bet we have more fun in there.
Please don't let them take our club away. Somebody do something!
Grendel Torch and co will hand the club on a plate to sisu if they get their way !!!!
I bet every letter and email to the football league regarding sisu as unsuitable owners are like daggers through their hearts !!!!
So, we are going to be crippled and dragged down instead?
So how in some people's eyes sisu are c-units and can feck off if they go to nene park, but if they stay at the Ricoh then they are ok?
So in some people's eyes sisu are c-units and can feck off if they go to nene park, but if they stay at the Ricoh then they are ok?
I'm speaking purely for myself here.
If we stay at the Ricoh they will still be c-units, but I'll go.
If we move, I won't go.
That's exactly my understanding from some of the hypocrites on here !!!!
As the days and weeks go by it looks increasingly likely to me that they are going to take our club away, so the morons who've backed sisu throughout this saga need to prepare themselves for a big kick in the bollocks from their mates from Mayfair.
I'm speaking purely for myself here.
If we stay at the Ricoh they will still be c-units, but I'll go.
If we move, I won't go.
Then new owners can sell Nene park, move back to the Ricoh and we will be a championship club with new owners
Sounds ok to me
That's exactly my understanding from some of the hypocrites on here !!!!
So, we are going to be crippled and dragged down instead?
This was 7 months ago
SKY BLUES CHECK OUT POSSIBLE NEW homes: COVENTRY City have explored the possibility of playing their home matches at a ground 45 miles from the city.
The club last week threatened to find an alternative home as their war of words with Ricoh Arena owners ACL grew more bitter.
And the Coventry Telegraph understands that they have inquired about switching home fixtures to Rushden and Diamonds' former ground, Nene Park in Northamptonshire, which currently lies vacant.
Owners Sisu appear determined to find a “more affordable home“ after the company running the SKY BLUES REPORTER Ricoh issued a statutory demand for the £1.1million arrears owed by the football club, giving City 21 days to stump up their unpaid rent.
If they fail to meet the Boxing Day deadline the Sky Blues, bankrolled by Sisu for the last five years, would have to declare themselves insolvent or face a winding-up order.
It emerged over the weekend that City have turned down a latest offer from ACL which would see a rent reduction of 67 per cent, down to £400,000-a-year from £1.28million, as well as giving the club ten years to pay off what they owe and the chance to take matchday revenue from refreshments.
Asked about Nene Park, the club issued the following statement: “Following the issuing of a statutory demand by ACL last week the board of directors of CCFC will, first and foremost, continue to work hard at bringing about a resolution regarding the rent dispute with ACL that will enable the football club to remain at the Ricoh Arena.
“However, in the interim period, they must consider other alternative and appropriate venues which are affordable for a football club to ensure CCFC fulfil their future fix tures. The club has therefore commenced the sensible process of making contact with other football clubs to evaluate if their stadiums meet our requirements should negotiations with ACL fail to reach a mutually agreed position on the rent with the result that CCFC is forced to move away from the Ricoh to a new venue.“
Nene Park is recognised as one of the finest grounds in non-League football, but it is a 90-mile round trip from Coventry city centre and it's 6,500 capacity (4,500 seated) would be effectively swallowed up by the Sky Blues' season-ticket holders, assuming they would be prepared to travel that far.
The stadium, originally the home of Irthlingborough Diamonds, was massively upgraded in 1992 following the club's merger with Rushden Town * the £30million project funded by Doc Martens owner Max Griggs.
But although his investment saw Rushden and Diamonds promoted to the Football league they could not attract crowds to maintain that momentum and went bust in 2011.
Neighbours Kettering Town took over as tenants, but their own financial problems meant that they could not afford the running costs and last month switched to playing their home matches at Corby Town, leaving Nene Park mothballed.
City have played one competitive game at the ground, in august 2005, when a crowd of 3,240 saw the Sky Blues win a Carling Cup tie 3-0 with goals from Gary McSheffrey, Matt Heath and andy Morrell.
I'm speaking purely for myself here.
If we stay at the Ricoh they will still be c-units, but I'll go.
If we move, I won't go.
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