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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Today at 9:46 AM
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To let bygones be bygones?

Or does the generation of councillors who showed such disdain for the club have to have moved on?

Rachel Lancaster spoke with such pride about the club at the Lord Mayors service and it seemed genuine
 
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Levship20

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  • Today at 9:49 AM
  • #2
Sky Blue Pete said:
To let bygones be bygones?

Or does the generation of councillors who showed such disdain for the club have to have moved on?

Rachel Lancaster spoke with such pride about the club at the Lord Mayors service and it seemed genuine
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No! And as for that ex Lord Mayor Maton or whatever his name was
 
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covcity4life

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  • Today at 9:50 AM
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They tried to kill the club out of spite

I don't believe they are that happy right now. It's more egg on their face and hammering home how they lost the war

They will try to enjoy the benefits now because they are corrupt

Fuck the council
 
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Ash

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  • Today at 9:50 AM
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No, definitely not. Their actions set the club back years and they actively favoured a franchise rugby club over one of it’s proudest local institutions.

Don’t let them forget!
 
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Boicey

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  • Today at 9:51 AM
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Sky Blue Pete said:
To let bygones be bygones?

Or does the generation of councillors who showed such disdain for the club have to have moved on?

Rachel Lancaster spoke with such pride about the club at the Lord Mayors service and it seemed genuine
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Not sure digging up this crap at this time helps anything does it?
Just let things unfold.
 
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Bad Boy

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  • Today at 9:51 AM
  • #6
Sky Blue Pete said:
To let bygones be bygones?

Or does the generation of councillors who showed such disdain for the club have to have moved on?

Rachel Lancaster spoke with such pride about the club at the Lord Mayors service and it seemed genuine
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No.

They betrayed the people they should serve.

Us- the community.

They put profit and spite before anything else.
 
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Nick

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  • Today at 10:10 AM
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Sky Blue Pete said:
To let bygones be bygones?

Or does the generation of councillors who showed such disdain for the club have to have moved on?

Rachel Lancaster spoke with such pride about the club at the Lord Mayors service and it seemed genuine
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Nope, they were balls deep in Wasps. They can get fucked.
 
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Grendel

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  • Today at 10:12 AM
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Is this the council leader who’ll preside over Coventry City leaving Coventry – after he snubbed crucial talks at Westminster? We question him

IS this the Coventry City Council leader who will preside over the 136-year Coventry City Football Club leaving the city - after he failed to turn up for crucial talks in Westminster?
coventryobserver.co.uk
 

Sick Boy

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  • Today at 10:12 AM
  • #9
They can get fucked. They’d have happily seen the club cease to exist.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Today at 10:14 AM
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It won't be anywhere near time until they, at the very minimum, apologise for the part they played in trying to kill the club.
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Today at 10:16 AM
  • #11
Sky Blue Pete said:
To let bygones be bygones?

Or does the generation of councillors who showed such disdain for the club have to have moved on?

Rachel Lancaster spoke with such pride about the club at the Lord Mayors service and it seemed genuine
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They are in the same category as fans who went to watch Wasps. Not going to forget any of it.
 
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AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Today at 10:17 AM
  • #12
Sky Blue Pete said:
To let bygones be bygones?

Or does the generation of councillors who showed such disdain for the club have to have moved on?

Rachel Lancaster spoke with such pride about the club at the Lord Mayors service and it seemed genuine
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Hell no. They’ve got a special place in hell waiting for them.
 
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Otis

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  • Today at 10:20 AM
  • #13
Sky Blue Pete said:
To let bygones be bygones?

Or does the generation of councillors who showed such disdain for the club have to have moved on?

Rachel Lancaster spoke with such pride about the club at the Lord Mayors service and it seemed genuine
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I would have thought many of the councilors are long gone now aren't they?

If so, then yes, a fresh start and a new and better relationship

This shouldn't be allowed to ever happen again though
 
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Otis

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  • Today at 10:22 AM
  • #14
Liquid Gold said:
It won't be anywhere near time until they, at the very minimum, apologise for the part they played in trying to kill the club.
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This.

First step is an apology
 
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tisza

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  • Today at 10:23 AM
  • #15
Bent over backwards to facilitate Wasps - when financial people were saying at the time Wasps were a big gamble due to their finances, their reliance on individual ownership financial backing and the overall financial health of Rugby Union.
while we are on the Council let's not forget Higgs Trust and PKH in particular.
Most of it was personal animosity between council leadership & SISU rather than any thought for the actual football club
 
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Moff

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  • Today at 10:24 AM
  • #16
Sky Blue Pete said:
To let bygones be bygones?

Or does the generation of councillors who showed such disdain for the club have to have moved on?

Rachel Lancaster spoke with such pride about the club at the Lord Mayors service and it seemed genuine
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How can we ever forget that the Citys own council undermined the club so deeply and stabbed it in the back.
Lucas, Maton, Duggins and the rest of their gang should never be forgiven, nor allowed near the Club ever again.

But a fresh start with new faces, would be welcome.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Today at 10:25 AM
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Lets not forget they had people from PR firms posting on here to influence our fans.

The snide shite they got away with at the time was awful.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Today at 10:30 AM
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Boicey said:
Not sure digging up this crap at this time helps anything does it?
Just let things unfold.
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Was just interested
It’s already been brought up
Doug is clearly willing to work with everyone
 

Terry_dactyl

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  • Today at 10:39 AM
  • #19
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
They are in the same category as fans who went to watch Wasps. Not going to forget any of it.
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A bloke I know has messaged a group I’m in: “Cov in the premier league. Amazing”!

I remember being right royally fucked off with the same bloke, when he was going to watch wasps and smugly telling me how great it was, “it’s our stadium”, and how Cov had brought it on themselves.

Clueless/shameless prick.
 
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Calista

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  • Today at 10:40 AM
  • #20
There's a constant tendency on here to paint things in black and white. In this context, IMO you really can't refer to "The Council" as if it always was and always will be a single entity that is anti-CCFC, any more than you can describe thousands of fans of other teams as "tractor c*nts" or whatever. Good and bad can be found anywhere you care to look for it.

Probably unwise for Pete to even bring it up at a time like this, because it just invites simplistic belligerence when we should all just be so happy.
 
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jordan210

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  • Today at 10:43 AM
  • #21
No. They tried to screw us over. No one took responsibility and some of the people who made the decisions are still in charge.
 

You'll Never Beat McPake

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  • Today at 10:47 AM
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The council leaders that conspired to ruin the club should be paraded in front of the fans at the promotion party and asked to apologise for their poor decision making and malice towards the success of the football team also to the detriment of Coventry Rugby club. Then maybe we can start again.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Today at 10:48 AM
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You'll Never Beat McPake said:
The council leaders that conspired to ruin the club should be paraded in front of the fans at the promotion party and asked to apologise for their poor decision making and malice towards the success of the football team also to the detriment of Coventry Rugby club. Then maybe we can start again.
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Stick them in the stocks and charge £1 per sky blue tomato to chuck at them. If they're really feeling repentant they'd happily contribute to our PL transfer war chest.
 
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Grendel

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  • Today at 10:50 AM
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Calista said:
There's a constant tendency on here to paint things in black and white. In this context, IMO you really can't refer to "The Council" as if it always was and always will be a single entity that is anti-CCFC, any more than you can describe thousands of fans of other teams as "tractor c*nts" or whatever. Good and bad can be found anywhere you care to look for it.

Probably unwise for Pete to even bring it up at a time like this, because it just invites simplistic belligerence when we should all just be so happy.
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The problem is the council over many years and different political parties have never embraced the club as a vital part of the community

Refusing plans to extend HR, getting the stadium built with applied pressure on the club, unworkable rent arrangements, deciding the new owner and that’s before the antoginism started
 
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Calista

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  • Today at 10:59 AM
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Grendel said:
The problem is the council over many years and different political parties have never embraced the club as a vital part of the community

Refusing plans to extend HR, getting the stadium built with applied pressure on the club, unworkable rent arrangements, deciding the new owner and that’s before the antoginism started
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Fair comments, especially about failure to recognise the value of the club to the community (they can hardly overlook it now!).

I was only trying to counteract the notion that dozens of Councillors (and paid offiicials) are a homogenous unchanging lump.
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Today at 11:01 AM
  • #26
Grendel said:
The problem is the council over many years and different political parties have never embraced the club as a vital part of the community

Refusing plans to extend HR, getting the stadium built with applied pressure on the club, unworkable rent arrangements, deciding the new owner and that’s before the antoginism started
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They talked like it was and recognised it but actions didn’t match
Doug seems to have a good relationship
 

clint van damme

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  • Today at 11:05 AM
  • #27
Was great to hear fuck the wasps, fuck sisu get an airing last night amidst the celebrations.

For me, a lot of personnel have changed, but to forgive the council they would have to issue a grovelling apology for their previous actions and name and condemn the individuals involved, duggins, Mason etc.

Until then, fuck them and their city of rugby
 
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mark82

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  • Today at 11:09 AM
  • #28
Sky Blue Pete said:
They talked like it was and recognised it but actions didn’t match
Doug seems to have a good relationship
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Doug doesn't have the bad history we do with them. Good that he has a good relationship, we need that. Doesn't mean we have to forget their part in what we've been through. Given where we are now though, I'm willing to forgive and move forward.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Today at 11:12 AM
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mark82 said:
Doug doesn't have the bad history we do with them. Good that he has a good relationship, we need that. Doesn't mean we have to forget their part in what we've been through. Given where we are now though, I'm willing to forgive and move forward.
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Me too
 

Fergusons_Beard

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  • Today at 11:20 AM
  • #30
Said it at the time and I’ll say it again now.

No other council in the country would have done what Coventry’s did to their home City Football Club.

Just wouldn’t have happened.

Yet officers and leaders of Coventry Council not just once but several times tried to destabilise our club.

All in the name of greed and power. Using underhand and nefarious tactics-lying and making false promises, which swayed a number of our ‘supporters’ to join them.

Paying public money to employ a London PR team to make personal attacks (SISU apologists anyone?) and to destabilise the fan base on public platforms (like this one). Even to go as far as personal attacks (that went as far as trying to get them sacked from their jobs because of their anti council opinions) on members of this forum.

I have no idea how the club survived but it did and it has thrived, despite the huge disadvantage of having little or no home Council support.

As @Liquid Gold has already said-a public apology and a statement of intent from the council about making wrong decisions in the past and a willingness to work with the club in the future will heal some wounds.


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stupot07

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  • Today at 11:40 AM
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Fergusons_Beard said:
Said it at the time and I’ll say it again now.

No other council in the country would have done what Coventry’s did to their home City Football Club.

Just wouldn’t have happened.

Yet officers and leaders of Coventry Council not just once but several times tried to destabilise our club.

All in the name of greed and power. Using underhand and nefarious tactics-lying and making false promises, which swayed a number of our ‘supporters’ to join them.

Paying public money to employ a London PR team to make personal attacks (SISU apologists anyone?) and to destabilise the fan base on public platforms (like this one). Even to go as far as personal attacks (that went as far as trying to get them sacked from their jobs because of their anti council opinions) on members of this forum.

I have no idea how the club survived but it did and it has thrived, despite the huge disadvantage of having little or no home Council support.

As @Liquid Gold has already said-a public apology and a statement of intent from the council about making wrong decisions in the past and a willingness to work with the club in the future will heal some wounds.


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This ^^^
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Today at 11:40 AM
  • #32
Not until Maton, Duggins and Lucas apologise. Then and only then can we start any reconciliation be considered.

they’d have seen us bankrupt
 
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ThievingScally

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  • Today at 11:59 AM
  • #33
Yes - Absolutely time for a fresh start.

The club & council should have never got so involved. More than half the councillors have now gone.

Having the fanbase sing 'f@ck the council'
really doesn't help the club/Doug. One of the amazing things about this season has been the unity between players/fans/owners. It would be brilliant if we could reunite the club with the City.

TSx
 
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Manchester_sky_blue

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  • Today at 12:03 PM
  • #34
Christ....... We need the whole city on board if we are going to cement ourselves as a prem team. No matter how acrimonious things have been in the past, co-operation is always the most productive way forward. It's absolutely time to let it all go.
 
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SkyBluePower

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  • Today at 12:05 PM
  • #35
Even as Wasps were about to go bust and everyone knew it was the end the council was caught trying to organise a rescue bid with taxpayers money. Not that long ago when you think about it.
 
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