italiahorse
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Nothing to do with a poor team of mercenaries then?
Oh I'm all for it Tone. I will leave it to everyone else to use it as a reason for non attendance.
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Why would it mean Wasps use the pitches at higgs?
Nothing to do with a poor team of mercenaries then?
So now Jack is saying that the club are being screwed over, it must be true
Alan Higgs centre isn't the Higgs charity.
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No, but there is a strong association still.
No, but there is a strong association still.
Be the best thing about the Wasps deal seeing the back of the pointless Higgs share in ACL.
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They need out, that has always been clear. They can't afford to have £5M+ tied up in the Arena for years & years to come, the charities aims are to (wisely) spend the money on projects that benefit Coventry.
In which case one has to ask, if owning a stake in the arena is not of benefit to Coventry, why they do in the first place.
(I'd like to emphasise at this stage that I'm sure the presence of Derek Higgs on the board of the football club was entirely coincidental)
Either it's not of benefit to Coventry (in which case why are people getting steamed up about SISU maybe owning it) or it is... in which case Higgs should be hanging their heads in shame at the thought of selling to an external sports team.
Bloody hell-why don't people get it!
SISU aren't bidding because this is an obvious tactic to get the club into a bidding war & pay way over the odds for a stadium where car parking,corporate & refreshments are owned by third parties
That's why they want to build their own stadium-revenue streams!
However to build their own stadium requires a £30m capital investment which they haven't got the cash for, its 18 months on since CCFC moved on, they left the club shop, to have a barrow in Tesco to finally have the worst clubshop at Gallagher , then went to Northants only to come back again, they keep going to court and losing. Lets be honest SISU are fairly clueless and pathetic at running a football club.
Yes and in the mean time Land prices have soured. So much for we will tell you in 3 weeks.......
The stdium will now cost them even more
SISU tried to move out of the Higgs centre to Warwick & were told by the FA the facilities there were inadequate & forced to move back.
However, PWKH was very keen to make clear the entities were separate, so we must respect that POV.
Wonder if Alan Higgs ever thought that he'd have a sports centre named after him when he started the charity with his money.
Don't get what right we have to challenge this when our owners have made a statement that they don't want to bid. Regardless of the undoubted ethics of a club moving to another city ( although wasps left london over ten years ago) if the deal is financially sound the council have a responsibility to consider it; especially if the funds it brings can be used to subsidise services in the city that are currently in danger of being cut.
We know sisu won't build a new stadium regardless of their rhetoric so could it be that they know something we don't by not contesting the purchase? Personally I think a new owner of acl would make it easier for us to negotiate a stake and that maybe they've already discussed this with the potential new owners. There's no way they moved back to the Ricoh without knowing this was on the cards.
The fact that it's ethically improper provides a sufficient right to challenge it. If you're against moving clubs away from their fanbase, then you should be against this.
Let's not pretend that Wasps fans are happy about it, because they aren't. They don't want to move further away from London, they want to move closer if anything. Basically, they feel exactly the same way that we did when we were moved to Northampton, and how Wimbledon did when they were franchised to Milton Keynes.
There's no justification for this - people who seem to think it's OK because there's the slight possiblity that it might lead to a change of owners, seem to be conveniently overlooking the fact that it's simply wrong.
I hate SISU with a passion - but what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong, and there's really no grey area on this one.
If SISU do hold on to the club after all of this, and decide to build a stadium the other side of Nuneaton, or by Hinckley, or Solihull, or Daventry or somewhere else that would be fairly unbearable for most Cov fans, what right do we have to complain if we've sat back and let this happen?
It's becoming such a pain. I find myself 100% in agreement with all the posts Duffer makes.
It's becoming such a pain. I find myself 100% in agreement with all the posts Duffer makes.
Even I'm sorely tempted to 'like' Duffer's recent posts.
I'm not sure what's worse, people paying attention to likes or people judging the poster rather than the post, despite what's actually posted.
Have a like, despite mssing the self-deprecation and parody utterly...
The fact that it's ethically improper provides a sufficient right to challenge it. If you're against moving clubs away from their fanbase, then you should be against this.
Let's not pretend that Wasps fans are happy about it, because they aren't. They don't want to move further away from London, they want to move closer if anything. Basically, they feel exactly the same way that we did when we were moved to Northampton, and how Wimbledon did when they were franchised to Milton Keynes.
There's no justification for this - people who seem to think it's OK because there's the slight possiblity that it might lead to a change of owners, seem to be conveniently overlooking the fact that it's simply wrong.
I hate SISU with a passion - but what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong, and there's really no grey area on this one.
If SISU do hold on to the club after all of this, and decide to build a stadium the other side of Nuneaton, or by Hinckley, or Solihull, or Daventry or somewhere else that would be fairly unbearable for most Cov fans, what right do we have to complain if we've sat back and let this happen?
The fact that it's ethically improper provides a sufficient right to challenge it. If you're against moving clubs away from their fanbase, then you should be against this.
Let's not pretend that Wasps fans are happy about it, because they aren't. They don't want to move further away from London, they want to move closer if anything. Basically, they feel exactly the same way that we did when we were moved to Northampton, and how Wimbledon did when they were franchised to Milton Keynes.
There's no justification for this - people who seem to think it's OK because there's the slight possiblity that it might lead to a change of owners, seem to be conveniently overlooking the fact that it's simply wrong.
I hate SISU with a passion - but what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong, and there's really no grey area on this one.
If SISU do hold on to the club after all of this, and decide to build a stadium the other side of Nuneaton, or by Hinckley, or Solihull, or Daventry or somewhere else that would be fairly unbearable for most Cov fans, what right do we have to complain if we've sat back and let this happen?
But our club owners say they don't want it so the council have a responsibility to the citizens of coventry to consider the sale.
I'm sure there would be a lot of other things he'd be wondering first.
Thanks
But didn't miss anything, was just making a point
I'm not sure what's worse, people paying attention to likes or people judging the poster rather than the post, despite what's actually posted.
2618 now...
To be honest, it's always nice to be liked, but if I even was the only person in the world who saw what's going on as wrong, then I'd still have to say something.
In fact, now I thnk about it, I sometimes think I am the only person in the world who values my opinion. I'm certainly the only person in my house that listens to me.
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