So what did you make of all the confidential documents from both sides when you had chance to study and digest them? Do tell.
English comprehension not your strong point? 'Out of touch' with the views of Cov fans and the people of Coventry. You know like the ones who marched, signed petitons and arent going to Sixfields.
I am among fans who sense the tide is turning in fans' opinion - hence campaigners' preference for the more emollient "Keep Cov in Cov" slogan...... People want City back in Coventry - however that is achieved. The majority want that, irrespective of who the owners are. Two-thirds would attend Ricoh matches under Sisu,the report shows.
So do those who "marched, signed petitions and don't go to Sixfields" not want Coventry to return to Coventry?
English comprehension not your strong point? 'Out of touch' with the views of Cov fans and the people of Coventry. You know like the ones who marched, signed petitons and arent going to Sixfields.
What on earth are you talking about? Do you think most fans support Sisu?-- I thought you/we/even GMK all agreed everyone wanted Sisu gone. Now Les Reid wants to sell them the Ricoh, and apparently you now agree with him.
[not that Im surprised].
They do. I don't think there's anyone who wants SISU to stay. However, because his article suggests that ACL are also to "blame" then you label him "out of touch". Personally, I think those who blindly believe only one side are to blame for our woes are out of touch. You for a start.
The point is (listen) Les Reid wants Sisu to stay. That's why he is out of touch. Get it?? of course not oooof.
They do. I don't think there's anyone who wants SISU to stay. However, because his article suggests that ACL are also to "blame" then you label him "out of touch". Personally, I think those who blindly believe only one side are to blame for our woes are out of touch. You for a start.
EDIT: I want the football club to own the Ricoh, if that's SISU then that's SISU. ACL can put provisos in to protect themselves. Oddly, people are more than happy for PH4 someone we know absolutely nothing about to have a slice of the "community asset"
You dont know what he wants, he has certainly never called for Sisu to go.
What would they do with it?
whatever they want. The site is capable of being used for virtually anything you or they could imagine. They don't have to do it themselves they can sell it off to developers.
My point is - it does not have nil value unless used as a football stadium, even if SISU and Les Reid would like everyone to think so.
If this guy was any sort of journalist, in the proper sense of the word (ie not a columnist), then he would have doorstepped Seppala with probing questions and reported on her reactions/answers together with pictures. He would also have done the rounds of adjoining LA's to see if any planning proposals were in the offing for a new stadium. Just my opinion!
Incidentally, right at the start of all this mess I did suggest that if Fisher marched the club out of the Ricoh then what would stop CCC considering levelling the site and building houses. After all the LA have a duty to all of its council tax payers and not just some of them who happen to attend matches, and many fans (myself included) do not pay council tax to CCC. Please don't misunderstand me, I would prefer for CCFC to return to the Ricoh, but if trust is so broken down between the 2 parties that a deal cannot be struck what I have suggested may become a reality; after all that has happened I cannot see the 2 sides coming together.
I did suggest that if Fisher marched the club out of the Ricoh then what would stop CCC considering levelling the site and building houses. After all the LA have a duty to all of its council tax payers and not just some of them who happen to attend matches, and many fans (myself included) do not pay council tax to CCC.
The point is (listen) Les Reid wants Sisu to stay. That's why he is out of touch. Get it?? of course not oooof.
hey its torch your talking to what did you expect
An excellent article which asks questions of all sides.
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And why cant SISU sell CCFC to ACL and anyway who are CCFC are we not otium now cause they bought CCFC out of admin
Ah got me there. I was dreading Mr Razor Sharp Intellect noticed what I'd done.
if sisu want the ricoh let them pay the going price
So the devil you know.. (for they are no doubt devils).. rather than the one you dont? Sadly I cant agree Torch... PH4 is an unknown sure. SISU are knowns. Rumsfeld all over again?
I cannot support the notion that SISU/OTIUM laying claim to the stadium is a good thing for CCFC in the long run.. SISU took my football club away.. until that point I was reasonably moderate, had empathy for their shared revenue claim and a reduce rent, I might even have reluctantly supported some kind of a shared ownership of the stadium on fair and equal terms basis for the good of CCFC... but THEY threw their teddy out of the pram when the JR didnt go their way after not paying rent in a clear and calculated mandate to distress ACL that failed due to council bailout... SISU/OTIUM ripped CCFC from its history and its city, they cannot be forgiven in my mind... I want CCFC back more than almost anything but cannot support that notion being at the expense of all other. High stakes indeed.. if it fails CCFC as we know it will be no more... but the city will still have a stadium from which no doubt investment can be drawn... together we will rise again- sentimental clap trap- maybe?
NOT what I want.. but rewarding a bully cannot be the right and proper decision.
Just my opinion- like us all.
ohitsaidwalker - can't help but feel you've summed things up pretty well. Having seen the total disregard sisu have for the views of fans, the promises about a new stadium which I don't think anyone believes is anything more than hot air, etc etc I just don't see how sisu can be trusted with ccfc any longer
the promises about a new stadium which I don't think anyone believes is anything more than hot air
Well said. I am really concerned that there could be a gradual shift where the majority opinion gradually morphs from KCIC to 'sell SISU the stadium on the cheap' (because they're one and the same, right?). That seems pretty much what Les Reid has clearly been pushing for all along. There may be no easy alternative solution, but I hope that enough fans continue to oppose SISU to at least make it less likely.
He contends that ACL's figures don't add up, yet he fails to mention the effect of a considerable reduction of outgoings required to service the outstanding loan, and the fact that the money made during Olympic year not registered in ACLs accounts yet made the following year pretty healthy.I also doubt council leader Ann Lucas's insistence ACL is "hugely profitable" without a football club - despite the evidence from last year's accounts, which showed a £1million profit when they were receiving the full £1.3million football club rent.
60K a week, that's a cool £3M a year!"Coventry must be losing the best part of £60,000 a week in revenue if you look at how they’ve structured things, the gates they’re getting and the match revenue opportunities that they had before.”
If it ever changed from hot air, it'd certainly be a game changer in public opinion.
Yeah, the article is quite good till near the end, when Les Reids true agenda is aired.. personally I think the emphasis should be on SISU to talk to stop the damage they're causing to our club, but clearly that is of relatively little concern to them.
This paragraph is highly misleading for a start..
He contends that ACL's figures don't add up, yet he fails to mention the effect of a considerable reduction of outgoings required to service the outstanding loan, and the fact that the money made during Olympic year not registered in ACLs accounts yet made the following year pretty healthy.
On the other hand he also fails to quantify the losses sustained by CCFC Ltd, it is mentioned in passing, but Port Vale chairman Norman Smurthwaite does in another article, http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/port-vale-owner-says-damage-6064087
60K a week, that's a cool £3M a year!
Most everyone everywhere wants (or wanted) Sisu gone, including I thought you and Torch. ...
not me.I thought in a recent poll two thirds of supporters would still watch a SISU owned football club at the Ricoh
I thought in a recent poll two thirds of supporters would still watch a SISU owned football club at the Ricoh
And losing £3m per year, we've been losing more than that for the majority of the time sisu have been here.
60% I think.... It was a small survey of 500 I think and Im not sure of the demographic of those questioned can lead to a robust data set conclusion?
So when the poll was showing anti-sisu sentiment it was agreed with, when it can be used for a pro-sisu agenda the data is not robust. I'm confused.
Ermmm.. Fisher said that club was near break even not so long ago.
It so happens that £3M would easily be cancelled out if they had 11,000 crowds, i.e an extra 9,000 x £15 x 25 matches is over £3M.
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