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  • Start date Aug 23, 2025
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TomRad85

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #841
Should get the Blaze over there too, a proper Coventry sports area.
Again, decent train service required.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #842
TomRad85 said:
Should get the Blaze over there too, a proper Coventry sports area.
Again, decent train service required.
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The most annoying aspect of the ground is getting away from it after an event, whether you drive, get the train or a bus.
 
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TomRad85

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #843
Brighton Sky Blue said:
The most annoying aspect of the ground is getting away from it after an event, whether you drive, get the train or a bus.
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Long term that simply has to improve. People don't like their fun to be diluted by massive inconvenience.
 
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robbiethemole

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #844
Sitting in a carpark until 5-30 on Saturday really fucks up the feel good factor for sure
 
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mrfr

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #845
robbiethemole said:
Sitting in a carpark until 5-30 on Saturday really fucks up the feel good factor for sure
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Walk then you lazy twat.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #846
robbiethemole said:
Sitting in a carpark until 5-30 on Saturday really fucks up the feel good factor for sure
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Find a time when there’s a bit more action going on next time.
 

Lamps

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #847
robbiethemole said:
Sitting in a carpark until 5-30 on Saturday really fucks up the feel good factor for sure
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Especially if it was a 12:00 kickoff
 
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Captain Dart

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #848
Smooth egress from the stadium is the biggest problem with the design, all these discussions about improving capacity fall at that hurdle it exacerbates the existing safety issues. Still if you design a stadium with most of the car parking space on the other side of a main road that over half the crowd wants to cross and run the pedestrian exit for the rest underneath a railway line what do you expect?
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #849
Hope Dougs stays for the foreseeable, this talk of flipping it now the club and stadium are entwined i think is rubbish. He seems to be doing the job slowly but surely and enjoys it.. Not sure how much money he has or if there are silent investors in the background too.
 
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TomRad85

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #850
Gynnsthetonic said:
Hope Dougs stays for the foreseeable, this talk of flipping it now the club and stadium are entwined i think is rubbish. He seems to be doing the job slowly but surely and enjoys it.. Not sure how much money he has or if there are silent investors in the background too.
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It certainly feels like Doug might have more money than reported. Either that or he just loves it so is happy pumping it in regardless.
 

Captain Dart

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #851
Gynnsthetonic said:
Hope Dougs stays for the foreseeable, this talk of flipping it now the club and stadium are entwined i think is rubbish. He seems to be doing the job slowly but surely and enjoys it.. Not sure how much money he has or if there are silent investors in the background too.
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Last time I looked he was worth £400m.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #852
Get cov rugby into the arena. Mutual sale of the butts for apartments.

Spend it all on a CB.
 
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Gint11

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #853
Captain Dart said:
Last time I looked he was worth £400m.
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I think it makes sense that he’s managed to do this for two reasons. One, he’s a fan of the club and will always be the one who made it happen, hero status.
And two, he’s made the club far more valuable and saleable now it’s all in one. Remember when all we were worth was a golden share?

I don’t think he will sell while we are knocking on the Prem door because he will make a helluva lot more if we go up but if we don’t go up over the next few years, then I think he’ll sell.
 
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robbiethemole

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #854
mrfr said:
Walk then you lazy twat.
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Not lazy, disabled! Drive from Leicester to Rugby to pick up family then to Bedworth for a mate then to the ground, so fuck you.
 
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Gibbo

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #855
skyblu3sk said:
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23 was for 6 months but my read is heading in the right direction, losses halved admin costs roughly flat. What I can't spot is where they are putting in investment in to the arena as they don't seem to split capex out so I wonder if that is being included in administrative expenses which I think would be surprising. Accounts here
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I know nothing about high finance but it strikes me DK's investment in the ground gets a return when he sells the business whenever. It's immediate impact on the player budget (the one that really matters to us) may be pretty small or even zero. It might however make us more attractive to an American or far eastern party, the probable eventual target buyer.

And plenty of smart businessmen have failed at running football clubs so DK's exemplary track record so far is no insurance.

I have always been ambivalent about owning or not owning the ground. Always thought there were more important fish to fry. However I note with interest that DK pragmatically and rightly has agreed to take a long lease not the freehold that SISU apparently insisted on.

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Flying Fokker

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #856
Liquid Gold said:
Get cov rugby into the arena. Mutual sale of the butts for apartments.

Spend it all on a CB.
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Erm, no. The pitch will be horrendous. No tenants thank you.
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #857
Flying Fokker said:
Erm, no. The pitch will be horrendous. No tenants thank you.
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No more egg chasers on our pitch please.
 
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Para1140

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #858
Liquid Gold said:
Get cov rugby into the arena. Mutual sale of the butts for apartments.

Spend it all on a CB.
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Only if they agree to wear slippers when on the pitch
 
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letsallsingtogether

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #859
Tthink the Buts is owned by the council, not the Rugger club.
 
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Speedie's Head

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #860
Skyblue Bangkok said:
No more egg chasers on our pitch please.
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We've got enough bad haircuts of our own without any of those!
 
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SkyB

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #861
Think a fan park of some description would be best. Even add in an away fans zone as well to give them something near the ground.
 
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Speedie's Head

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #862
wingy said:
Half of the build fee was made of land reclamation really, something like 60M.
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Richardson has said it all should have been doable with that money.
 
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Speedie's Head

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #863
SkyB said:
Think a fan park of some description would be best. Even add in an away fans zone as well to give them something near the ground.
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They'll need to invest so that the site raises money on non-matchdays. Multi and regular use is the thing or you don't make much of a hole in million pound losses.
 
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ricohroar

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #864
robbiethemole said:
Sitting in a carpark until 5-30 on Saturday really fucks up the feel good factor for sure
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I park from free live in Finham and home and watching TV by 5:30......
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #865
Flying Fokker said:
Erm, no. The pitch will be horrendous. No tenants thank you.
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You’re just scared by wasps. Bristol City share with Bristol Bears and it’s always pristine.

You just need to actually take care of it and not do the bare minimum.
 

usskyblue

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #866
fatso said:
What????

Why dont you fuck off and go get offended by the time of day you tit.
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You seem offended m8
 

fatso

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #867
usskyblue said:
You seem offended m8
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He's butting in on my banta, cheeky fucker.
 

DazzleTommyDazzle

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #868
mrfr said:
Walk then you lazy twat.
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According to Google Maps that would take just over 17 hours, so probably a bit unrealistic.
 
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robbiethemole

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #869
fatso said:
Are you disabled because you come from Leicester?
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Nope. I was born and bred in Rugby and moved into Leicestershire cos it was cheaper here (like everything Lesta), and I definitely don't have 6 fingers or sex with my own family ( apart from my wife )
 

Kneeza

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #870
robbiethemole said:
Nope. I was born and bred in Rugby and moved into Leicestershire cos it was cheaper here (like everything Lesta), and I definitely don't have 6 fingers or sex with my own family ( apart from my wife )
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All much the same here, except the bit about sex with wife
 
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Kneeza

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #871
letsallsingtogether said:
Tthink the Buts is owned by the council, not the Rugger club.
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In much the same way the CBS is.
The above ground stuff is owned by CRFC. The lease, by the council.
 
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robbiethemole

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #872
Kneeza said:
All much the same here, except the bit about sex with wife
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whereabouts are you?
 

Kneeza

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #873
Liquid Gold said:
Get cov rugby into the arena. Mutual sale of the butts for apartments.

Spend it all on a CB.
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No mate. You wouldn't be able to play after we put in the 3G pitch. Don't think you'd want be our tenants either
 

Kneeza

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #874
robbiethemole said:
whereabouts are you?
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Now, Hinckley. Was in Sharnford from '83 to 2004.
Wasn't actually born in the town either, but at Rugby St Mary's Maternity, Harborough Magna.
 
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The CableGuy

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  • Aug 25, 2025
  • #875
Speedie's Head said:
They'll need to invest so that the site raises money on non-matchdays. Multi and regular use is the thing or you don't make much of a hole in million pound losses.
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Hence me talking about building flats on there. Regular income.

......shows how far this club has come when we can talk about stuff like this.
 
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