I have just watched the goals from Stevenage and how anyone can compare the rent we pay for the Ricoh to what others pay is laughable. Compared to our ground theirs and others are still in the 1950's. Yes I agree that it needs to be lower but let's get it right some of the figures our owners are talking about are just plain stupid.
Yes, by all means let's be a third division team paying a Premiership rent. Just don't moan when we can't afford players like McGoldrick.
They have never had any intention of buying Mcg, and that shows just how short sighted they are. With him and Clark we could make a real push for promotion. But to them the club can screw themselves as long as they get the ground for free.
But of course Torch we carn't say anything bad about our saviours, can we.
They have never had any intention of buying Mcg, and that shows just how short sighted they are. With him and Clark we could make a real push for promotion. But to them the club can screw themselves as long as they get the ground for free.
But of course Torch we carn't say anything bad about our saviours, can we.
They have never had any intention of buying Mcg, and that shows just how short sighted they are.
I might be simple (no in fact I am) but surely the league we are in is irrelevant, its the premises we are renting?
Yes, by all means let's be a third division team paying a Premiership rent. Just don't moan when we can't afford players like McGoldrick.
Maybe we should think that a club with the revenue of a third division team has to find money to rent a Premiership stadium.
Maybe if they took the toilets out and replaced them with a piss stinking room and then removed kiosks and replaced them with dodgy burger vans it would be better....as long as some rent was paid.....
Torch, my biggest problem is that no rent is being paid. Not that we should pay more, less or even as much as SISU say.
But I don t see how that is the landlords fault.
As I say simple is my thing. If I rented a house and then lost my job and my salary went down , the rent wouldn t be lowered.
I know it is more complicated than that, but it seems SISU have ACL by the nuts on this one. Basically I'm just interested in us surviving but I still try to get my head around SISU being the good guys and ACL the guilty party
But I don t see how that is the landlords fault.
As I say simple is my thing. If I rented a house and then lost my job and my salary went down , the rent wouldn t be lowered.
I know it is more complicated than that, but it seems SISU have ACL by the nuts on this one. Basically I'm just interested in us surviving but I still try to get my head around SISU being the good guys and ACL the guilty party
I d be happy with that,spent many a happy year watching football without the malls that are required for low attention span cases these days
Hang on a minute, the rental agreement never envisaged a variable level of rent based on league position. It was clearly to CCFC's advantage, in that the higher the club got in the league, the better. Conversely, this was an incentive not to fall down the league pyramid - because as we did the rent would become unaffordable.
The Ricoh is a Premier League quality ground, with facilities and capacity to match - this comes with a whole load of associated costs that are on another scale to the likes of Oldham, Yeovil etc.
It's very convenient to say "we shouldn't be paying higher than other teams in our league" when a) it's CCFC's fault (not ACL's) that we are in such a low league, b) there was never an agreement to reduce the rent if we got relegated, and c) the extra costs of running the Ricoh, as opposed to Victoria Park, Broadfield etc.....not to mention the millions in loans taken out by CCC/ACL to cover the building costs they incurred when CCFC could have become homeless.
Whatever way you look at it, CCFC does not have a leg to stand on, which is why the court found in ACL's favour.
Ah, the old house analogy. No, you'd be thrown out. However, this isn't an individual and a house it's a 130 year old football club fighting for it's survival.
I'm a simple man, me. SISU own CCFC and I support CCFC. ACL do not own or run CCFC so I do not support ACL. I want the best possible deal the football club can get so if they have to play hard ball to get it, then so be it.
And when SISU sent us down last season by not replacing players lost before the season started you backed them fully again?
And when SISU sent us down last season by not replacing players lost before the season started you backed them fully again?
what ccfc will never forget is the way we have been exploited, yes were a long way from standing on our own 2 feet and decisions were made within the club that got us here, make no mistake about it acl is a organization designed to make money of ccfc. That will not be forgotten.
I have just watched the goals from Stevenage and how anyone can compare the rent we pay for the Ricoh to what others pay is laughable. Compared to our ground theirs and others are still in the 1950's. Yes I agree that it needs to be lower but let's get it right some of the figures our owners are talking about are just plain stupid.
And we went down ten years ago for the same reason. We are Coventry City we have always sold our best players and if things don't improve we always will. They've made mistakes as all football clubs do. This year they are getting it right on the pitch - as I'm sure even you can agree with - so they obviously seem to be learning. Now, we just need to sort ourselves out off the pitch.
I have no problem with doing anything to save the football club but I struggle to see how not paying our dues can be considered right.
If another club owed us £5 million for a player or they went out of business would we give a toss, no we'd want whats owed.
As I say lets hope the rent is dropped to what SISU want to pay but lets not dress it up as justifiable for any other reason than having a club to support
Nobody has had more faith than myself on what has been done on the pitch. So do you think it is right they don't even pay what they think is a fair rent?
I didn't see as much moral indignation when the last regime did not pay transfer fees owed to other clubs though, did you?
I think they are doing what they believe will achieve an affordable and sustainable rent to ensure the club has a future. I have no problem with them doing that or how they achieve it.
So you now trust them with the future of our club?
The lowest point of my 40 years of supporting Coventry City came when Richardson sold HR, the only asset we had. We need to get back to where we own (or part own) our own ground. The club will forever struggle without that.
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