Some NTFC fans at the Cov game (1 Viewer)

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Grendel

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lordsummerisle

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Why should they be interested in Sixfields when plans already advanced for buying Liberty Way and getting it expanded to a 20,000 seater by the beginning of next season and doing a ground share with Nuneaton?
 
WiganSkyBlue

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ccfcway said:
http://www.smfserver.com/forums/thehotelend/index.php/topic,8182.1260.html

Interesting to read NTFC fans disillutioned with their club and have been or are considering watching Cov, especially given the current results.

The franchaise getting ever closer with SISU getting their mitts on the Sixfields ?
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This is something I feared from the outset; it seems it is happening sooner than anyone imagined. Cardoza was warned, get into bed with SISU and take the consequences. Franchise FC Mk II to be formed by a merger of NTFC with CCFC - this could be on the cards as a long term aim.

Really really hope I'm wrong
 
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ccfcmustang

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Who will be the first NOPM campaigner to admit defeat and in turn register their inferiority to me and my knowledge? Roll up Roll up....
 
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longjohnskyblue

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How would NOPM have failed if sisu merge with northampton? Sisu can only make money out of this by getting their hands n the ricoh and selling it as a package with the team!

All it will prove is thatg those going to sixfields have killed the club! Had there been NOPM completely sisu could not possibly argue the move was in the interests of the clubs!

If anything it shows NOPM should be stepped up!
 
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RoboCCFC90

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fernandopartridge

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WiganSkyBlue said:
This is something I feared from the outset; it seems it is happening sooner than anyone imagined. Cardoza was warned, get into bed with SISU and take the consequences. Franchise FC Mk II to be formed by a merger of NTFC with CCFC - this could be on the cards as a long term aim.

Really really hope I'm wrong
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You are wrong. There is no 'market' for a franchise team. MK Dons are not a success story. Despite being in a City and Metropolitan area with a fairly large population and no football team, their gates don't even reach 5 figures.
 
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Noggin

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ccfcmustang said:
Because apparently they will sell by christmas due to the NOPM campaign
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The vast vast majority of people who believe in NOPM do not believe that. In fact I think a large percentage aren't convinced it will work at all, we do however think it's the only thing doable by the fans that can work and that makes it the best option. No one has suggested anything other than could work.

You are either happy to believe that they are going to build a new stadium and are willing to support the club for 5 years away from home with sisu as the owners and thus should go to slightly minimise the damage that will be done to the club during this time (even with fan support its likely to be at minimum 1 relegation) or your not happy with this then you shouldn't go and it will make the process as painful as possible for sisu and significantly increase the case of them giving up.

what other options are there?
 
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RoboCCFC90

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ccfcway said:
nor will the FL allow another team to move out of their area like MK Dons....

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Ground share and refranchising are totally different.
 
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RoboCCFC90

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ccfcway said:
coming from someone who less than 2 hours ago stated your glad SISU didn't pay any rent last year
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With good reason at least all the rental agreement and the issues it has caused are now out in the open.
 
bigfatronssba

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RoboCCFC90 said:
With good reason at least all the rental agreement and the issues it has caused are now out in the open.
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Yep, everything is crystal clear now and we are all aware of the facts.
 
ccfcway

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RoboCCFC90 said:
With good reason at least all the rental agreement and the issues it has caused are now out in the open.
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wahey, its all out in the open. My team plays 34 miles from Coventry with no a single piece of evidence or any hint that we will ever be back.
 
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ccfcmustang

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Noggin said:
The vast vast majority of people who believe in NOPM do not believe that. In fact I think a large percentage aren't convinced it will work at all, we do however think it's the only thing doable by the fans that can work and that makes it the best option. No one has suggested anything other than could work.

You are either happy to believe that they are going to build a new stadium and are willing to support the club for 5 years away from home with sisu as the owners and thus should go to slightly minimise the damage that will be done to the club during this time (even with fan support its likely to be at minimum 1 relegation) or your not happy with this then you shouldn't go and it will make the process as painful as possible for sisu and significantly increase the case of them giving up.

what other options are there?
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There are other alternatives open to us as fans. The most appropriate would to deliberately impact CCFC playing at Sixfields. For instance lets say for the next 2 or 3 home games we sell the place out and ruin it, rip it to pieces. Impact the game the lot. Due to the numbers offending there will be only 2 options left. 1) NTFC kick us out and leave us homeless. Fisher would have to return to Coventry or at least negotiations would have to proceed. or risk moving further away. 2) The football league order CCFC to play every home game behind closed doors in which case we will see if the NOPM works. The only way we can change what is happening is to impact on the field matters
 
ccfcway

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ccfcmustang said:
There are other alternatives open to us as fans. The most appropriate would to deliberately impact CCFC playing at Sixfields. For instance lets say for the next 2 or 3 home games we sell the place out and ruin it, rip it to pieces. Impact the game the lot. Due to the numbers offending there will be only 2 options left. 1) NTFC kick us out and leave us homeless. Fisher would have to return to Coventry or at least negotiations would have to proceed. or risk moving further away. 2) The football league order CCFC to play every home game behind closed doors in which case we will see if the NOPM works. The only way we can change what is happening is to impact on the field matters
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agree with that, but its cant be illegal..

We need the trust or KCIC to come out with a plan we can support.
 
ccfcway

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RPHunt said:
I think they have got one - Stay Away From Sixfields.
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which people are doing, but there has to be something else. Staying away looks like apathy. Staying away and doing something else looks like passion and commitment.
 
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Noggin

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ccfcmustang said:
There are other alternatives open to us as fans. The most appropriate would to deliberately impact CCFC playing at Sixfields. For instance lets say for the next 2 or 3 home games we sell the place out and ruin it, rip it to pieces. Impact the game the lot. Due to the numbers offending there will be only 2 options left. 1) NTFC kick us out and leave us homeless. Fisher would have to return to Coventry or at least negotiations would have to proceed. or risk moving further away. 2) The football league order CCFC to play every home game behind closed doors in which case we will see if the NOPM works. The only way we can change what is happening is to impact on the field matters
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You need to find a large number of people who are willing to get arrested, perhaps be banned for life from football grounds, be fined and even then if you succeed in really causing trouble the most likely result is penalties for the football club. after doing it a couple of times likely point deductions, being forced to play behind closed doors or getting thrown out the league. That could get rid of sisu, it could get rid of ccfc entirely or most likely all that will happen is the few fans that you convince to do it will get arrested/fined and banned and ccfc would get a small fine. You'll really struggle to repeat it a second time.

Any suggestion that starts with first we sell 5k more tickets than we have previously then we commit illegal acts is not really a sensible suggestion.
 
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RPHunt

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ccfcway said:
Staying away looks like apathy. Staying away and doing something else looks like passion and commitment.
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I don't usually like quoting wikipedia, but in this case it is as good as any dictionary:

"A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for social or political reasons. Sometimes, it can be a form of consumer activism."

In other words, a conscious act not apathy.
 
ccfcway

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RPHunt said:
I don't usually like quoting wikipedia, but in this case it is as good as any dictionary:

"A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for social or political reasons. Sometimes, it can be a form of consumer activism."

In other words, a conscious act not apathy.
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I agree, but in many on lookers eyes though it looks like apathy. I read a comment on the BBC site from a fan of Preston, who was there last week saying "less than 1500 cov fans and a mini bus full on a hill, they don't care". I do feel we need a next event organised asap.
 
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RPHunt

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ccfcway said:
I agree, but in many on lookers eyes though it looks like apathy. I read a comment on the BBC site from a fan of Preston, who was there last week saying "less than 1500 cov fans and a mini bus full on a hill, they don't care". I do feel we need a next event organised asap.
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The sad part of that was 1,500 fans in the ground, to my mind that is where the apathy lies. Had there had been less than a minibus full in the ground, I think his opinion might have been a bit different.
 
fernandopartridge

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RPHunt said:
The sad part of that was 1,500 fans in the ground, to my mind that is where the apathy lies. Had there had been less than a minibus full in the ground, I think his opinion might have been a bit different.
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That's why any thought of a phoenix club is pie in the sky. Coventry fans are in general fairweather at best.
 
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longjohnskyblue

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ccfcway said:
agree with that, but its cant be illegal..

We need the trust or KCIC to come out with a plan we can support.
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You will be waiting a long long time for that to happen! They are more interested in standing outside offices just before they close on wednesday!
 
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