It does have potential to be an asset but not with our current owners who have made no attempt to grow the club but who also won't walk away from it. So we're stuck in Groundhog Day until there's a game changer.
Could this be it?
My hope is that the consortium trying to buy acl will bid for the club as although the running costs of a football club outstrip rugger so do the rewards. Two top sports teams playing in the city with an entertainment complex which operates 24/7. If sisu had brought the Ricoh when they had the opportunity do you think they would pass up the chance of wasps playing there too?
What we need is owners prepared to move clubs to whichever ground offers the best financial deal...
Double standards. And you seem to miss one massive point here. Cov playing at sixfields indirectly has caused this whole mess in the first place.
Maybe they weren't comfortable with the situation of playing home games outside Coventry?
Nope. Selling HR did.
Only works if the fans go.....
How? So tell me why only 1,000 went to most games last season?
That's wishful thinking on a epic scale though. I doubt for one minute the consortium has any interest in the football club other than to use it as a cash cow. If there was the remotest chance of that it would have leaked out in order to soften opinion.
This will be a game changer, it will make CCFC unsellable. SISU for the foreseeable future.
Because it was 70 mike round trip and bloody inconvenient. Last week we only got 7,000 in a very convenient location. Stop wumming its boring.
Comfortable? It was ridiculous and triggered this whole mess. Sisu messed this club of ours up along with Richardson. How fans and posters on here alike can't see that is beyond me
Serious question torch -how do you think we get out of the current malaise and do you think sisu are the people to action that plan?Looks nice. We should just go to Belfast as NW suggests. Nice for the people there, good for the City. No one would mind, it would just be business. And we'd have Cov United and Wasps to support.
What? Of course people can see that. Are you stupid? But why does that mean we all have to sign up to the utterly pointless and damaging sale of ACL to a group of businessmen with an agenda that is not known? Are ACL losing money? No. Why would the council sell needlessly and expose the football club to all this uncertainty? To get one over SISU? Grow the fuck up.
The council should retain ownership, keep collecting their loan repayments and wait until the club are in a position to buy, and more importantly, until they are happy to sell to the club. It would happen eventually, because a new stadium will never happen.
Dear god. You really aren't for real, are you.If every Cov fan thought it was temporary we would have sold sixfields every week.
Serious question torch -how do you think we get out of the current malaise and do you think sisu are the people to action that plan?
No, I don't think SISU are the people for CCFC. Of course they are not. However, they are here and there's very little chance of someone coming in to take over. Now, that the Ricoh is going to another sports franchise then there'll be even less to attract future investors or bidders. SISU have fucked up, of course, and now it's probably too late. I think we'll be stuck with them for years to come yet.
What? Of course people can see that. Are you stupid? But why does that mean we all have to sign up to the utterly pointless and damaging sale of ACL to a group of businessmen with an agenda that is not known? Are ACL losing money? No. Why would the council sell needlessly and expose the football club to all this uncertainty? To get one over SISU? Grow the fuck up.
The council should retain ownership, keep collecting their loan repayments and wait until the club are in a position to buy, and more importantly, until they are happy to sell to the club. It would happen eventually, because a new stadium will never happen.
So if your the council and sisu aren't going anywhere how long do you sit tight for? Understand and agree with some of your points but for me the only way I see the situation changing is if something happens to force the issue. My hope is this is it.No, I don't think SISU are the people for CCFC. Of course they are not. However, they are here and there's very little chance of someone coming in to take over. Now, that the Ricoh is going to another sports franchise then there'll be even less to attract future investors or bidders. SISU have fucked up, of course, and now it's probably too late. I think we'll be stuck with them for years to come yet.
Your forgetting one small point Joy and her cronies at every meeting and in every statement are building a new stadium !
Until they say they want the ricoh what do you expect everyone to do stand still and do nothing until queen Joy is ready ?
So if your the council and sisu aren't going anywhere how long do you sit tight for? Understand and agree with some of your points but for me the only way I see the situation changing is if something happens to force the issue. My hope is this is it.
Why so they need to sell when they've had no need before - why not just attract tenants .
Your forgetting one small point Joy and her cronies at every meeting and in every statement are building a new stadium !
Until they say they want the ricoh what do you expect everyone to do stand still and do nothing until queen Joy is ready ?
Grendel maybe its normal business practice ?
But isn't everyone in agreement that a new stadium will never happen? If that is their justification for this nonsense then they are more stupid that I thought.
Why so they need to sell when they've had no need before - why not just attract tenants .
People often sell profitable businesses, maybe they have had enough, maybe they have received an offer too good to refuse.
It's this the fete of this city's football club we're talking about here. And the CEO of ACL is against the sale so we're led to believe - it is being forced through by the other board members i.e. the council/Higgs.
Yeah, let's relinquish control of the civic 'asset' we have bleated on about for years in a secret deal with a bunch of businessmen with no historic links to the city. What a sham.
I've always assumed the stadium to be the civic asset, not the management company.
It's this the fete of this city's football club we're talking about here. And the CEO of ACL is against the sale so we're led to believe - it is being forced through by the other board members i.e. the council/Higgs.
Yeah, let's relinquish control of the civic 'asset' we have bleated on about for years in a secret deal with a bunch of businessmen with no historic links to the city. What a sham.
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