If we did ..... (1 Viewer)

Forums New posts
C

Ccfcjames91

New Member
If the worst happens and we played our home games at the Bescot and we are in the fa cup 3rd round at our
Part time home against Manchester United or the other big teams would the people who are refusing to go be itching for tickets to see the game I believe a lot would .
 
ccfc92

ccfc92

Well-Known Member
yes. they would. same as the ones boycotting until SISU left, but another 22,000 turned up for the JPT final than a normal home game :thinking about:
 
oakey

oakey

Well-Known Member
Well I wouldn't but I take your point that many would.
The real issue is how many people are prepared to accept, on principle, a move away from Coventry, when we have a perfectly good stadium sitting empty and all it needs is for our owners to stop their remorseless campaign to claw back some cash by blackmail, obfuscations, threats and spin.
 
Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

Well-Known Member
ccfc92 said:
yes. they would. same as the ones boycotting until SISU left, but another 22,000 turned up for the JPT final than a normal home game :thinking about:
Click to expand...

Nail on the head.

It's not on principle, it's because they can't be arsed.
 
Flying Fokker

Flying Fokker

Well-Known Member
Coventry. Who? Manchester who? Football will be dead when city move away. For me at least until we return. Away games maybe?
 
oakey

oakey

Well-Known Member
SkyBlue_Taylor said:
Nail on the head.

It's not on principle, it's because they can't be arsed.
Click to expand...
I think you would be wise to stop and think.
This is massively bigger as an issue than disliking current owners. The act of taking a club away from it's home town/city is a step too far for, guessing here, the vast majority of fans. We are not a franchise. We are fans of a club representing Coventry. It makes no sense to play anywhere else, except in some dire set of circumstances which don't apply.
CCFC cannot survive this if the threat is carried out and even to threaten it is despicable.
 
The Reverend Skyblue

The Reverend Skyblue

Well-Known Member
I wouldn't go and that's a FACT as Grenduffy says.
If we move out of Cov then its no longer my club, its temporarily dead.
Once we play our football in the city, then that's when I go back.

Coventry City football club play football in and represent the people of Coventry City, when they do, that's when I will go back ,and that's the end of my argument
 
Last edited:
oakey

oakey

Well-Known Member
The Reverend Skyblue said:
I wouldn't go and that's a FACT as Grenduffy says.
If we move out of Cov then its no longer my club, its temporarily dead.
Once we play our football in the city, then that's when I go back.

Coventry City football club play football in and represent the people of Coventry City, when they do that's when I go back ,and the end of my argument
Click to expand...
Total respect for that position. If we all took this stand I would hope the FL would step in and remove the Golden share and somehow grant it to a new entity ... Trust, ACL and a consortium of local businesses?
 
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
oakey said:
Total respect for that position. If we all took this stand I would hope the FL would step in and remove the Golden share and somehow grant it to a new entity ... Trust, ACL and a consortium of local businesses?
Click to expand...


Desirable ,Altruistic ......... but probably naive.
 
James Smith

James Smith

Well-Known Member
No I went to Old Trafford to watch us play in the cup because I was offered a lift back and didn't have work the next day, oh and it was an away match not a home match. I'm not travelling further to a home match than Coventry no matter who the opposition are.
 
T

Tonylinc

Well-Known Member
Absolutely not. If and when Coventry City move out of Coventry then that is definitely it for me until such time as they return. I will cancel my SBW subscription and find other things to do on a Saturday.
 
James Smith

James Smith

Well-Known Member
I can remember going to Wimbledon and the Cov away fans out numbering* the home fans, what a sorry state of affairs that was.

*certainly looked like we did we were definitely louder than them.
 
Last edited:
D

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
Ccfcjames91 said:
If the worst happens and we played our home games at the Bescot and we are in the fa cup 3rd round at our
Part time home against Manchester United or the other big teams would the people who are refusing to go be itching for tickets to see the game I believe a lot would .
Click to expand...

I don't currently try and buy tickets to watch any team within a thirty five mile radius who draw a big team in the cup.
So SISU FC would be no different for me.

Otherwise I would be off to Walsall Birmingham tamworth whenever a big team cups knocking
 
Delboycov

Delboycov

Active Member
SkyBlue_Taylor said:
Nail on the head.

It's not on principle, it's because they can't be arsed.
Click to expand...

You really aren't doing yourselves any favours here are you?! "real fans","they can't be arsed"...have you not go grasp of the concept of what it means to support your 'home' club? The fact that most of us support the club because it represents Coventry and not Walsall, Irthingborough,Birmingham or some outpost in South Warwickshire? I'd say it was because of your age and because you haven't experienced the passion and the pride that those of us that have followed the club for decades have had...But then I think back 25 years to when I was 18 and remember I would've been just as disgusted if the owners at the time had even considered taking my club out of my city. There are also other younger posters like BSB who seem to 'get it' and have the same pride in their city and club and realise that to move us from Coventry for any length of time would be suicide for the club....So it must just be you. Do you not have the same pride for Coventry? Is Coventry the city nothing at all to do with the reason you support them?
 
Last edited:
Nonleagueherewecome

Nonleagueherewecome

Well-Known Member
Delboycov said:
You really aren't doing yourselves any favours here are you?! "real fans","they can't be arsed"...have you not go grasp of the concept of what it means to support your home club? The fact that most of us support the club because it represents Coventry and not Walsall, Irthingborough,Birmingham or some outpost in South Warwickshire? I'd say it was because of your age and because you haven't experienced the passion and the pride that those of us that have followed the club for decades have had...But then I think back 25 years to when I was 18 and remember I would've been just as disgusted if the owners at the time had even considered taking my club out of my city. There are also other younger posters like BSB who seem to 'get it' and have the same pride in their city and club and realise that to move us from Coventry for any length of time would be suicide for the club....So it must just be you. Does you not have the same pride for Coventry? Is Coventry the city nothing at all to do with the reason you support them?
Click to expand...

Snitterfield's strange...lets go there!
 
Nonleagueherewecome

Nonleagueherewecome

Well-Known Member
Delboycov said:
Don't give Tim any ideas NLHWC ;-)
Click to expand...

Check out that obelisk:
120081_9de3e74a.jpg



It'd look good with a statue of Joy next to it, don't you think?
 
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
Delboycov said:
You really aren't doing yourselves any favours here are you?! "real fans","they can't be arsed"...have you not go grasp of the concept of what it means to support your 'home' club? The fact that most of us support the club because it represents Coventry and not Walsall, Irthingborough,Birmingham or some outpost in South Warwickshire? I'd say it was because of your age and because you haven't experienced the passion and the pride that those of us that have followed the club for decades have had...But then I think back 25 years to when I was 18 and remember I would've been just as disgusted if the owners at the time had even considered taking my club out of my city. There are also other younger posters like BSB who seem to 'get it' and have the same pride in their city and club and realise that to move us from Coventry for any length of time would be suicide for the club....So it must just be you. Do you not have the same pride for Coventry? Is Coventry the city nothing at all to do with the reason you support them?
Click to expand...

To be fair to Taylor he isn't glory hunting like a lot of other folk are at the moment so I think his sentiments are in the right place. Just think he isn't seeing the bigger picture.
 
Delboycov

Delboycov

Active Member
Brighton Sky Blue said:
To be fair to Taylor he isn't glory hunting like a lot of other folk are at the moment so I think his sentiments are in the right place. Just think he isn't seeing the bigger picture.
Click to expand...

I do agree with you there...He is a very good and articulate poster and it's good to see that he is so passionate about the club and hasn't chosen the Chelsea,Man Utd,Liverpool glory fan route like so many of his age. I do think though accusing people of not being real fans and saying that if they don't support a move if the owners consider ripping the club from it's heartland is just an excuse for those that can't be arsed to go really does highlight his naivety and also ignorance as to how passionate many fans feel about this issue.
 
Last edited:
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
Delboycov said:
I do agree with you there...He is a very good and articulate poster and it's good to see that he is so passionate about the club and hasn't chosen the Chelsea,Man Utd,Liverpool glory fan route like so many of his age. I do think though accusing people of not being real fans and saying that the owners considering ripping the club from it's heartland is just an excuse for those that can't be arsed to go really does highlight his naivety and also ignorance as to how passionate many fans feel about this issue.
Click to expand...

Can't disagree with that.
 
oakey

oakey

Well-Known Member
There is no reason to support a club like CCFC for many years other than loyalty based on it association with the city. The 2 CANNOT be separated without the club losing it raison d'etre.
Not the ground,
Not the colours,
Not the players,
Not the manager,
Not the style of football.
A club like CCFC only continues because the fans want it to. The vast majority of us have an affinity with Coventry, the city, for whatever reason.
Take that away and it dies, simple as.
 
oakey

oakey

Well-Known Member
Speaking personally I travel 30 odd miles to Coventry 25 times per season, yes to watch the Sky Blues, but also to visit family, my home town and, in a strange way that I can't explain to pay homage to my parents and grandparents who made a good life for their kids after living through the blitz and seeing the city rebuilt. My late father took me to my first game and it seems to honour his memory for me to support the team. I even attended a game within hours of being with him when he died and cried for him, whilst cheering our winning goals that day through the tears.
Sorry to get all sentimental.
Please do not take my club away from my home town.
 
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
oakey said:
Speaking personally I travel 30 odd miles to Coventry 25 times per season, yes to watch the Sky Blues, but also to visit family, my home town and, in a strange way that I can't explain to pay homage to my parents and grandparents who made a good life for their kids after living through the blitz and seeing the city rebuilt. My late father took me to my first game and it seems to honour his memory for me to support the team. I even attended a game within hours of being with him when he died and cried for him, whilst cheering our winning goals that day through the tears.
Sorry to get all sentimental.
Please do not take my club away from my home town.
Click to expand...

The likes of Tim Fisher really need to read this.
 
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
Delboycov said:
Mind you it does seem to be a naivety and ignorance that is shared by the owners who may also have underestimated the strength of feeling against such a move....
Click to expand...

Oakey's post above is one of many people who all have strong personal ties to the club directly because of its location. The owners can cry 'temporary' all they like, and some posters can cry 'Brighton' all they like but neither realise the folly of the mere suggestion when the Ricoh is right there.
 
T

Tonylinc

Well-Known Member
Unfortunately it is all down to money and business with people such as Sisu. With us it is much more than that and they will never understand the feelings which we have for our club. They should never have got involved and I suspect that they are only now beginning to realise that. Far too late of course to change our view of them.
 
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
Tonylinc said:
Unfortunately it is all down to money and business with people such as Sisu. With us it is much more than that and they will never understand the feelings which we have for our club. They should never have got involved and I suspect that they are only now beginning to realise that. Far too late of course to change our view of them.
Click to expand...

But financially it's a total non starter too. As was moving the club shop out of the Ricoh and holding everything in storage.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 2 (members: 0, guests: 2)
Top