King or Bling (2 Viewers)

[CCFCAnalysis]

DK has done fantastically well so far


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[Deity]

His own brief let’s note.

if we get 3 playoff finals of 5 but don’t get promoted he’s achieved nothing

How many did we get to before King ?

 

[Deity]

boddy wasn’t the money guy however he was the one who initiated the connection of the club with the fans

he done many things which started our relationship back with the club and team

boddy might have had his flaws but he is one of the reasons why king could invest in the club

robins generated millions for this club along with adi with his coaching and getting us from L2 to the championship

if that wasn’t in place, king wouldn’t be in the position to improve the facilities etc.

like it or not, robins, adi and boddy are the reason the club where it is now

What has impressed you with King in his tenure ? You seem incapable of offering any positive comment without following it with agenda driven nonsense.

 

[Nick]

He could get us to the champions League but his song would still be way too much.

Others won't like him because he put the price on their box up

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

boddy wasn’t the money guy however he was the one who initiated the connection of the club with the fans

he done many things which started our relationship back with the club and team

boddy might have had his flaws but he is one of the reasons why king could invest in the club

robins generated millions for this club along with adi with his coaching and getting us from L2 to the championship

if that wasn’t in place, king wouldn’t be in the position to improve the facilities etc.

like it or not, robins, adi and boddy are the reason the club where it is now

Broadly speaking I agree with you and the Robins regime should be lauded for their part in the bringing us from the storm to much calmer waters.
King is the type of chairman we needed after Joy, Fisher and SISU and has been a positive force in our continued growth. It does take more than one man to succeed and it continues to be a team effort. Lampard and co have a tough but achievable target ahead of them.

 

[Grendel]

we weren’t a failing club when he came in. we were an established championship team with years of success and progression

robins and adi coached players and turned the team into a playoff final team. that wasn’t down to king

he has improved the club off the pitch but only looks good because we were neglected before

we are now in a position where king has to take us to that next level. that’s where he will be judged imo

We were falling apart.

Financially we had nothing left. Gyokeres would have had to have been moved on in January.

The infrastructure was literally falling apart, catastrophic pricing policies and a lapdog CEO who was nothing more than a glorified admin boy.

Robins was fiddling away but Rome was truly burning around him

 

[Hobo]

everyone would take where we are but to say that’s down to king is ludicrous

we are where we are because of Robins and boddy

they are the guys who got us through the doldrums

king inherited the groundworks nothing more or less

Nobody isn't giving Boddy and Robins the credit they deserve. They played a massive part in bringing the club back. As did certain players like Doyle, Kelly, McFadzean and Godden.

But things can't stand still. Under King the progress has continued. He hasn't got everything right, nobody does. There are still lots of challenges. But that is the nature of business and football, the landscape doesn't stand still.

There will come a time when King will have run his course, just like all the other previous owners. But so far he has done well. A lot of that is because he has strengthened the team that is Coventry City FC on and off the pitch. He knows he needs the right people in the right positions for the club to be a success (and I'm not refering to players positions).

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Just had a quick look at what he's up to now

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Isn’t this the education thing we were involved/linked with?

 

[Londonccfcfan]

You really can't think of anyone else who's done more to move the club forward in the last 12 years?

Its also fair to say the club was already doing the best it has done in the years leading up to his takeover. Was already on a upward trajectory under Mark Robins.

Not denying its continued upward trajectory since his take over too.

 

[Briles]

Isn’t this the education thing we were involved/linked with?

Good point, could well be

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

we weren’t a failing club when he came in. we were an established championship team with years of success and progression

robins and adi coached players and turned the team into a playoff final team. that wasn’t down to king

he has improved the club off the pitch but only looks good because we were neglected before

we are now in a position where king has to take us to that next level. that’s where he will be judged imo

The 3rd paragraph is massively understated. Off the pitch we were a shambles and there’s only so many times robins would have been able to paper over the cracks.

there was no money left. Had king not come in - there’s a chance we’d not have made the play offs and the season after could have been a car crash, especially given we hadn’t got a 5 year deal at the CBS.

king has stabilised us as a top 10 championship side.

 

[StrettoBoy]

Nobody isn't giving Boddy and Robins the credit they deserve. They played a massive part in bringing the club back. As did certain players like Doyle, Kelly, McFadzean and Godden.

But things can't stand still. Under King the progress has continued. He hasn't got everything right, nobody does. There are still lots of challenges. But that is the nature of business and football, the landscape doesn't stand still.

There will come a time when King will have run his course, just like all the other previous owners. But so far he has done well. A lot of that is because he has strengthened the team that is Coventry City FC on and off the pitch. He knows he needs the right people in the right positions for the club to be a success (and I'm not refering to players positions).

That's an excellent post. I agree with every word.

 

[Briles]

The 3rd paragraph is massively understated. Off the pitch we were a shambles and there’s only so many times robins would have been able to paper over the cracks.

there was no money left. Had king not come in - there’s a chance we’d not have made the play offs and the season after could have been a car crash, especially given we hadn’t got a 5 year deal at the CBS.

king has stabilised us as a top 10 championship side.

Granted SISU technically stopped us from going under (barely) and Robins massively out performed expectation. Unfortunately his success meant the club out grew him and when we got an owner with ambition and who was willing to open his purse strings, the writing was on the wall. Robins was able to gatekeep between the fans and the owners by getting it right on the pitch, and even if he had us just near relegation every year theyd have still kept him. King is everything we could've hoped for during SISUS tenure, and yet some people still find ways to complain. I personally think he is doing a good Job

 

[Deity]

I know for a fact in the weeks running up to the initial King investment the club were telling agents that Vik and Hamer would be available in January.

If we had sold one or both I doubt we would have gone on to make the play off final.

 

[Neil Martins head]

As a committed Coventry city fan why do you find it almost impossible to give King any credit ?

He didn’t get lucky, Hamer and Vik were assets of a business he bought after undertaking due diligence.

He then could have sold one or both in the January to instantly realise value for himself but he didn’t he in fact added to the squad in the January.

We missed out on promotion and the sale of Vik and Hamer was inevitable as both players wanted to leave. Again he got top dollar for them and again didn’t pocket the money but reinvested most of it in the playing squad in a way that would help create a sustainable approach to improving the squad for years to come.

The training facilities are at last worthy of being a championship team, our back room approach is modern, and our commercial activities have never been better ( even though they could still be improved further in my view )

He has made errors with ticket pricing in my view but we have 24,000 season ticket holders so I even I have to concede that in the short term it’s not damaging us.

if you speak to people in the business and agent side of the game they have nothing but positive things to say about Kings impact on the club and yet you a committed fan find it impossible to be anything other than unbalanced about him. Very odd.

Very well addressed that.

 

[hill83]

Michael Doyle

 

[Deity]

Michael Doyle

Hope it works out well for him and he develops his man management skills. There is no doubt he is a leader.

 

[torchomatic]

Always find fawning over an owner a bit creepy.

Heroes are on the pitch, not in the director's box. If he didn't want to put money in then he wouldn't. He's no different from any other owner, he's here to make money.

 

[Deity]

Always find fawning over an owner a bit creepy.

Heroes are on the pitch, not in the director's box. If he didn't want to put money in then he wouldn't. He's no different from any other owner, he's here to make money.

You can respect the job an owner is doing without having them as a hero.

In modern football those boundaries are blurring. There is no doubt the Wrexham fans love their new owners more than they do Parkinson for example. Brighton and Brentford fans are similar too.

None of the players or non playing staff are my hero’s I’m too old for that but I do have players I enjoy watching more than others and non playing staff I respect more than others.

 

[Shannerz]

Calling him Bling is not disrespectful.

It's extremely childish.

 

[Captain Dart]

I've seen nothing that gives me cause for concern. The man is a strategist, building surely and steadily and prepared to spend money to achieve his objectives whether they are to remain as the owner for the long term or flip the club to another investor should we achieve promotion. Compare his record with the dreadful Ray (football expert) Ranson who failed possibly in part because SISU held him back but anyway who wasn't a business manager of the same quality.

 

[Sky Blue Heaven]

Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I cannot fathom some of the comments against our owner. I’ve been a season ticket holder for over 35 years and under Doug’s stewardship we have gone from a business that was failing, had no financial backing and was (let’s be fair) on its knees. Under the previous owners the atmosphere was toxic, the club and the fans were divided. Now we have a stable business strategy, a championship team that is expected to be challenging for a top 6 place on a consistent basis, with record season ticket and kit sales. Yes he’s got things wrong, tell me a business owner who hasn’t. We just need a couple of signings before the transfer deadline, I presume we’re looking at loans and PL teams won’t release players until they need to submit their squad’s to the PL on the 1st September. PUSB

 

[Tommo1993]

Neither a lover or hater. When the trajectory changes will be the time to judge.

 

[clint van damme]

I know for a fact in the weeks running up to the initial King investment the club were telling agents that Vik and Hamer would be available in January.

If we had sold one or both I doubt we would have gone on to make the play off final.

Yeah, I think that's exactly what would have played out if they'd stayed

 

[Grendel]

What has impressed you with King in his tenure ? You seem incapable of offering any positive comment without following it with agenda driven nonsense.

The only reason he doesn’t like him is he can’t have cheap corporate boxes anymore - oh and he wouldn’t indulge Oversons super fan status

 

[SBT]

King has done a good job in professionalising the operation and putting in some investment, he deserves a lot of credit for that. But he didn’t buy a club on its knees - we were two points of the Championship playoffs when he came in, with a squad that contained two of the league’s most valuable players. It was a favourable platform for any new owner to start from and he owes all of that to Robins.

 

[Hobo]

King has done a good job in professionalising the operation and putting in some investment, he deserves a lot of credit for that. But he didn’t buy a club on its knees - we were two points of the Championship playoffs when he came in, with a squad that contained two of the league’s most valuable players. It was a favourable platform for any new owner to start from and he owes all of that to Robins.

On the pitch we had a decent team not a squad and the infrastructure was a shambles and an embarrassment.

 

[Deity]

King has done a good job in professionalising the operation and putting in some investment, he deserves a lot of credit for that. But he didn’t buy a club on its knees - we were two points of the Championship playoffs when he came in, with a squad that contained two of the league’s most valuable players. It was a favourable platform for any new owner to start from and he owes all of that to Robins.

Robin’s didn’t spot Hamer nor Gykores but he certainly helped improve them both.

 

[clint van damme]

On the pitch we had a decent team not a squad and the infrastructure was a shambles and an embarrassment.

Which just shows what an incredible job Robins done in the circumstances

 

[Captain Dart]

King has done a good job in professionalising the operation and putting in some investment, he deserves a lot of credit for that. But he didn’t buy a club on its knees - we were two points of the Championship playoffs when he came in, with a squad that contained two of the league’s most valuable players. It was a favourable platform for any new owner to start from and he owes all of that to Robins.

Surely considerable credit goes to Dean Austin too.

 

[SBT]

Surely considerable credit goes to Dean Austin too.

Well, not for Hamer and Gyokeres, no.

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Time to put your in hand in the pocket bling, need a striker and cb

 

[Chris1987]

Of course . Let's just spend and see where it goes with no further plans moving forward if it doesn't work. Genius .Dom & McGraw are the most repetitive tiresome wums on here who appears to think that an owner shovelling money in is the answer and any owner who doesn't do that justifies their sarcasm. Almost as if the consequences of the SISU reign are irrelevant. Some have a delusional sense of reality . Do you want another Richardson reincarnation ?

 

[shmmeee]

Surely considerable credit goes to Dean Austin too.

Austin joined just before King.

 

[wingy]

The guy who came from Wolves and then went to Blackpool and got sacked for misdemeanor gets the credit for the two players that rejuvenated the Club, I hope this isn't being squandered.