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  • Thread starter Bob Latchford
  • Start date May 23, 2015
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yayasadi45

New Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #36
Watch Goalkeeper kicks the referee and drop him to the round


http://goo.gl/9HiF51
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #37
wingy said:
Didn't Coleman have a fair bit of work done in/on the building there
Then Aidy with that stupid fence
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The interesting thing to know would be if they've been asked to improve things and just refused. If its just been that other managers haven't had an issue with Ryton then good on Mogga for noticing a change is needed. However if SISU have been asked to sort things and not done it or refused that's a different story.
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #38
Bill Glazier said:
Did I read that correctly? Coventry tradesmen are supposed to fix for free the infrastructure multi million pound hedgefund Sisu have allowed to decay? A hedgefund that's used the club to try and blackmail a charity and the council into selling them the Ricoh at huge discount. Sometimes words fail me.
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Don't really see a problem with that. I'd like to see someone like the Trust pick up on that comment and see if their members can help. We only have a limited amount of funds and the article makes it clear where this money will be coming from so if a supporter can help out and do the job at a lower cost then why not make use of that?
 

Bill Glazier

Active Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #39
Sisu own the club and it is their job to maintain carparks, not their customers.
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #40
Bill Glazier said:
Sisu own the club and it is their job to maintain carparks, not their customers.
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We'd hardly be the first football club in the country to ask for fans help with things like this.
 
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simonregis

New Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #41
haha had to laugh at Monksies rant. FFS Mowbray I don't give a sheet about the tarmac at Ryton. I've been going along to Jim the gateman's place for centuries and they never had tarmac. It's a bloody country village who needs tarmac? What Mowbray needs is to get a bleeding midfield general to boss the team like a Yorath and stop being concerned with the blooming decor.
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #42
wingy said:
They have on occasion splashed a couple of Bob on the place
Didn't Coleman have a fair bit of work done in/on the building there
Then Aidy with that stupid fence
The truth Is the people who own us have plenty of resources and should be able to keep this asset up to scratch, Its basic maintenance
Doesn't the RICOH look a bit shabby these days too hope Wasps smarten that up for us also after the last lot wasted £2.5M on that stupid Blingy Staircase
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Yeah, I'm sure he had a washing machine put in didn't he?
 

Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #43
Grendel said:
Yes. I'm sure the facilities at Walsall, Fleetwood and Southend are massively superior to Ryton.
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Walsall? Do you mean the 15 acre site they opened at in 2008 for 800,000 pounds, including a 50 sprinkler watering facility to keep the playing surfaces in perfect condition. Their training facilities ranks with most Championship teams.
 

Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #44
Sorry Grendel.....I see where you are coming from now Fleetwood have invested 6m in training facilities as have Southend.

I jumped the gun there
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #45
Bill Glazier said:
Did I read that correctly? Coventry tradesmen are supposed to fix for free the infrastructure multi million pound hedgefund Sisu have allowed to decay? A hedgefund that's used the club to try and blackmail a charity and the council into selling them the Ricoh at huge discount. Sometimes words fail me.
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Perhaps we should give Nick Knowles a call and tell him we're a charity case.
 

italiahorse

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #46
Hobo said:
Sorry Grendel.....I see where you are coming from now Fleetwood have invested 6m in training facilities as have Southend.

I jumped the gun there
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This morning BBC had a piece at Leicesters training facility.
A massive indoor artificial pitch etc . At times like this it shows how far we have dropped and how poorly we have been financed.
 

Bob Latchford

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #47
It certainly shows how the club has been mismanaged over the decades. Ryton was the envy of many clubs at one point.
 

stupot07

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #48
Hobo said:
Sorry Grendel.....I see where you are coming from now Fleetwood have invested 6m in training facilities as have Southend.

I jumped the gun there
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To be fair, what did they have before they invested? Remember ours were PL standard not so long ago, so only needs bit of maintenance here and there, where as Fleetwoods would have been non league standard to start with.


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stupot07

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #49
italiahorse said:
This morning BBC had a piece at Leicesters training facility.
A massive indoor artificial pitch etc . At times like this it shows how far we have dropped and how poorly we have been financed.
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Well their owner has spent well of over £150m in in 4 years.


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Jack Griffin

Guest
  • May 24, 2015
  • #50
chiefdave said:
The interesting thing to know would be if they've been asked to improve things and just refused. If its just been that other managers haven't had an issue with Ryton then good on Mogga for noticing a change is needed. However if SISU have been asked to sort things and not done it or refused that's a different story.
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Coleman got SISU to put £500K into refurbishing Ryton
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/ryton-not-ready-coventry-city-3093120

So Mogga isn't the first manager to point out this problem.
 
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yayasadi45

New Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #51
Watch Goalkeeper kicks the referee and drop him to the round


http://goo.gl/9HiF51
 

italiahorse

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #52
stupot07 said:
Well their owner has spent well of over £150m in in 4 years.


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Why them not us !!
 

stupot07

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #53
italiahorse said:
Why them not us !!
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Because they have a multi billionnaire owner, we haven't. Multi-billionnaire owners don't seem to be interested in our club, which is why we got landed with sisu.


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Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #54
stupot07 said:
To be fair, what did they have before they invested? Remember ours were PL standard not so long ago, so only needs bit of maintenance here and there, where as Fleetwoods would have been non league standard to start with.


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i wasn't gunning for SISU I was going to have a go at Grendel for be littling Walsalls training facilities. Then I realised he was being tongue in cheek.

However, it is important to protect and look after the facilities we have, even if we are falling behind, let's make the most of them. We have been sort of split between Ryton First team and Academy at Higgs....As TM said perhaps it is just a fresh pair of eyes, first impressions and all that just to say things are looking a little tatty. We can all get desensitised to our daily environment.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #55
duffer said:
In truth I wouldn't begrudge giving the club a bit of help if they needed it. However I don't really have any of those fixing-up type skills, and I think there's already a surplus of people available in the 'leaving snarky comments on the internet' area.
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I thought the same, but to be fair, I could clean, paint and probably do a few other things around the place to help out.

The club should put a call for help out on a particular day, I'd be up for doing something a few days.

Certainly something one of our menagerie of fans groups can help with you'd think.
 
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SkyblueBazza

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #56
stupot07 said:
Well their owner has spent well of over £150m in in 4 years.


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So have ours!
Although mostly in legal fees & costs associated with such matters.

PUSB
 

ccfcway

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #57
shmmeee said:
I thought the same, but to be fair, I could clean, paint and probably do a few other things around the place to help out.

The club should put a call for help out on a particular day, I'd be up for doing something a few days.

Certainly something one of our menagerie of fans groups can help with you'd think.
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I love the centiment, and perhaps for fans, their services in exchange for a meet and greet or VIP match ticket etc would be great........but the very notion of fans offering their services for free to paint a room so players who earn £2k a week can sit in more comfort it doesn't quite sit right with me..

I am sure we can budget for basic repairs on our training premises and pay appropriate people.
 
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SkyblueBazza

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #58
shmmeee said:
I thought the same, but to be fair, I could clean, paint and probably do a few other things around the place to help out.

The club should put a call for help out on a particular day, I'd be up for doing something a few days.

Certainly something one of our menagerie of fans groups can help with you'd think.
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There's a thought...why don't SISU pay for a course to train up a local army of unemployed younger supporters to do all this stuff & the training involves sprucing the place up as well as giving them a better start & chance in life?

PUSB
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2015
  • #59
ccfcway said:
I love the centiment, and perhaps for fans, their services in exchange for a meet and greet or VIP match ticket etc would be great........but the very notion of fans offering their services for free to paint a room so players who earn £2k a week can sit in more comfort it doesn't quite sit right with me.
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Carl Baker to the rescue
 

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Clive Bleakin

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  • May 25, 2015
  • #60
chiefdave said:
The would seem an obvious thing for the SBT to get involved in. There must be fans working in these trades who would be up for helping out.
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That made me laugh! The SBT doing something positive to help the club?! You having a laugh?!!
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 25, 2015
  • #61
shmmeee said:
I thought the same, but to be fair, I could clean, paint and probably do a few other things around the place to help out.

The club should put a call for help out on a particular day, I'd be up for doing something a few days.

Certainly something one of our menagerie of fans groups can help with you'd think.
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Exactly, give the fans a match ticket and a thank you and to watch the players train or something.
 

Danceswithhorses

Well-Known Member
  • May 26, 2015
  • #62
chiefdave said:
The would seem an obvious thing for the SBT to get involved in.
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Surely it's a more obvious thing for SISU to be involved in...as owners ?
Or should we as fans be expected to pay for more of the club's running costs ?
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • May 26, 2015
  • #63
Danceswithhorses said:
Surely it's a more obvious thing for SISU to be involved in...as owners ?
Or should we as fans be expected to pay for more of the club's running costs ?
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That's not what is being suggested. If you look at the actual report Mowbray has a pot of cash, that is the budget for the year. Some of it is being spent on Ryton rather than players.

Mowbray said:
The dressing rooms need a lick of paint, the car park has potholes everywhere and it needs changing – if it means redirecting a few quid off the pitch into the environment where the players come to work and then we build the team then I think it’s worth it because otherwise you never get out of where you live.
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It was Mowbray's suggestion that the fans get involved. Its not that unusual, plenty of clubs outside the top level do it. Makes sense to me, fans get to help out and, if they charge the club at cost, some money is saved which means more in the player budget.

Mowbray said:
In an ideal world there would be an army of Coventry City fans wanting to come down and put the building back into shape, whether that’s painters, tilers, roofers, guys who change windows – whatever it might be – but when the players come back in July hopefully the place will be a different environment for them.
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • May 26, 2015
  • #64
Danceswithhorses said:
Surely it's a more obvious thing for SISU to be involved in...as owners ?
Or should we as fans be expected to pay for more of the club's running costs ?
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It's not that odd. Fans have before cleaned snow off pitches, helped clear terraces of ice etc and been given free tickets. Community initiatives are a good way of bonding the club and the supporters.
 

skyblueinBaku

Well-Known Member
  • May 26, 2015
  • #65
Grendel said:
It's not that odd. Fans have before cleaned snow off pitches, helped clear terraces of ice etc and been given free tickets. Community initiatives are a good way of bonding the club and the supporters.
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You are right, Grendel. Fans cleared snow from the pitch in the JH days.
 
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Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • May 26, 2015
  • #66
Part of the Big Society, innit.
 

Covstu

Well-Known Member
  • May 26, 2015
  • #67
Having the right workplace is essential, somewhere to call a home for starters but also to see what this means to the club, supporters, history etc.

Doesnt seem quite right that people do this for free, slightly different if it was a charity asking for help and all that...
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • May 26, 2015
  • #68
Clive Bleakin said:
That made me laugh! The SBT doing something positive to help the club?! You having a laugh?!!
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That made me laugh you being able to laugh at anyone brilliant.
 

Danceswithhorses

Well-Known Member
  • May 26, 2015
  • #69
Grendel said:
It's not that odd. Fans have before cleaned snow off pitches, helped clear terraces of ice etc and been given free tickets. Community initiatives are a good way of bonding the club and the supporters.
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The 2 examples you have given are types of emergency short-term help, normally so that a match can be played that afternoon, and yes it's good fan/club/community bonding.
Laying tarmac or painting/refurbishment are not the same.
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • May 26, 2015
  • #70
Danceswithhorses said:
The 2 examples you have given are types of emergency short-term help, normally so that a match can be played that afternoon, and yes it's good fan/club/community bonding.
Laying tarmac or painting/refurbishment are not the same.
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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-fans-sign-up-repair-5309616
 
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