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AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #1
With another one of ATs targets who wanted to join us not able to wait any longer and sign for Swindon it shows to me that we are no where near getting that transfer embargo lifted.

With the CCFC statement a few weeks ago stating they will extend the early bird season ticket prices till the end of this month to give people a chance to decide... looks like it's about to backfire.

Clearly if the transfer ban was being lifted soon then the likes of Collins would have waited as pre-season training starts in 3 weeks.

Once Keogh returns from his honeymoon I doubt very much he will be signing a new contract. His last view would have been to come back from honeymoon and see if the ban was lifted and new players signed. That won't happen.

Keogh and Cranie will be off within weeks and we have no new players in again for a 2nd pre-season in a row.

Thorn said he would walk if there was no backing from SISU. The guy is being taken for a ride and he is deluded himself not to see this.

All in all i fear our first home game of the season with Sheff U will be a hostile environment towards SISU and yet again we go into a season with our minds not focused on football.

All I want is to talk about football again but it seems we have our own Greek tragedy on the cards.

Football seems to have died a long time ago and never in my years of supporting Cov has it been so much about debts, cost cutting etc.

A painful drop from the glory of the premiership years.

There seems to be no end in sight for the misery us fans are enduring right now.

PUSB
 

ccfcway

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #2
11 days from now, we will be in a position to make an infomred decsion

Its coming, the golden generation for CCFC is mearly 11 days away !!
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #3
On a trivial note it looks like we've switched to playing our midweek games on wednesdays again .
 

idris65

Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #4
wingy said:
On a trivial note it looks like we've switched to playing our midweek games on wednesdays again .
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Thats if we have enough players left to field a team.
 

ccfcway

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #5
pretty sure someone wil blame Thorn for that
 
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wingy

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  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #6
at least ther'll be a match report in Thursdays CT instead of some cock +bull atrticle !!!!
 

The Reverend Skyblue

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #7
Also, we won't suffer from international qualifier breaks.As we're league 1 i'm sure they play wether there's a world cup qualifiers or not, so i have found the one big plus for the forthcoming season.
I told you if you look deep enough we would find something.

The Rev
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #8
The Reverend Skyblue said:
Also, we won't suffer from international qualifier breaks.As we're league 1 i'm sure they play wether there's a world cup qualifiers or not, so i have found the one big plus for the forthcoming season.
I told you if you look deep enough we would find something.

The Rev
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nice one rev ,just my changing a day of the week we've got two new positives
 

ccfcway

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #9
yer, england and cov on the same night, 2 reasons to be chearful
 

SkyBlue_Bear83

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #10
More games and less breaks for a small squad and more pain for us fans. Only a Cov fan could find a positive in that.

I used to enjoy the international break as we couldn't lose.
 

jaymo132

New Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #11
ccfcway said:
11 days from now, we will be in a position to make an infomred decsion

Its coming, the golden generation for CCFC is mearly 11 days away !!
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Not what i heard last night.....SISU are Fcuked,will not do any deals.....Quote from someone in Hoffman circle..:jerkit:s
 
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Sky Blues

Active Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #12
Jaymo, is that hand gesture for Sisu or the person in "Hoffman circle"?
 

jaymo132

New Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #13
Sisu pal the cause of the demise of a once great club
 
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dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #14
jaymo132 said:
Not what i heard last night.....SISU are Fcuked,will not do any deals.....Quote from someone in Hoffman circle..:jerkit:
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Shame they wont do the big deal that was on the table

£1 pound handover, a 10 million towards their loans and further money with promotion.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #15
dongonzalos said:
Shame they wont do the big deal that was on the table

£1 pound handover, a 10 million towards their loans and further money with promotion.
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How do you know that was on the table?
 

jaymo132

New Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #16
dongonzalos said:
Shame they wont do the big deal that was on the table

£1 pound handover, a 10 million towards their loans and further money with promotion.
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If it carries on there will be no stadium, then no club...........
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #17
jaymo132 said:
If it carries on there will be no stadium, then no club...........
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What they are going to take the stadium with them? The scoundrels!
 
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dongonzalos

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  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #18
Grendel said:
How do you know that was on the table?
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We have had a proposal letter from Gary Hoffman and his associates looking to discuss the future of the football club. “We have agreed to meet in the near future to talk through both their intentions and plans and to share our own plans for the future of Coventry City.
“We will devote appropriate time and effort to these discussions - but it will not distract us from our ongoing efforts to improve things on and off the field.”
Hoffman’s first approach earlier in the season was understood to be worth upwards of £30million with £10m set aside for investment in players, £10m to fund on-going losses and £10m towards the purchase of half of the stadium

Read More http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/co...ential-takeover-92746-30187358/#ixzz1yHK7W5Sm
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jaymo132

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  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #19
Grendel said:
What they are going to take the stadium with them? The scoundrels!
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How can you use something your not paying for...
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #20
dongonzalos said:
We have had a proposal letter from Gary Hoffman and his associates looking to discuss the future of the football club. “We have agreed to meet in the near future to talk through both their intentions and plans and to share our own plans for the future of Coventry City.
“We will devote appropriate time and effort to these discussions - but it will not distract us from our ongoing efforts to improve things on and off the field.”
Hoffman’s first approach earlier in the season was understood to be worth upwards of £30million with £10m set aside for investment in players, £10m to fund on-going losses and £10m towards the purchase of half of the stadium

Read More http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/co...ential-takeover-92746-30187358/#ixzz1yHK7W5Sm
​
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So it was in a Trinity newspaper. Must be fact then.
 
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dongonzalos

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  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #21
Grendel said:
So it was in a Trinity newspaper. Must be fact then.
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SISU should be able to clear things up and tell us the truth................oh maybe not hey
 

ccfcway

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 19, 2012
  • #22
er, that was jan !
 
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bishbosh

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  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #23
This post is just an expression of frustration - I am sure that everyone else is thinking this, but I have no one to vent spleen at here!
Why is the club even looking at signing new players considering that we have a transfer embago? It is nonsensical - someone needs to explain to the club powers that be what embargo means. We can't smuggle players in on the black market - I think someone will notice. Who in their right mind will sit around waiting for the embargo to be lifted?

This whole situation of approaching targets is utterly stupid and pointless.

Yet again it is us fans that are suffering...
 

torchomatic

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #24
The Hoffman Circle. Sounds like a 70s Cold War spy thriller. Rather than the 21st century fantasy that it is.

jaymo132 said:
Not what i heard last night.....SISU are Fcuked,will not do any deals.....Quote from someone in Hoffman circle..:jerkit:s
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ccfcway

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #25
we seem to be going round and round the hofman circle
 

davebart

Active Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #26
Now we are in league 1 £10m would be quite a lot to invest in players, £10m would cover the losses for a year but £10m towards half the stadium?? Hardly.

I would hope any bidder would have a better grasp of finance than that. or bullsh*t.
 
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Ashdown

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #27
What losses? You still think with our current set of employees we are losing money??
 
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aloisiwouldhavescored

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #28
wingy said:
On a trivial note it looks like we've switched to playing our midweek games on wednesdays again .
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Have there been some changes to the fixtures already then? On my fixtures list it shows all midweek games home and away on Tuesdays.

Hoping against hope that we will be having some fixtures to fulfil, regardless of what day, that is............
 
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Chipfat

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #29
Never in the clubs history has the club been run so badly or fans been treated with so much disrespect in regards to what is happening. You have AT carrying on as though all is going fine sorting out scotland pre season when players are being touted about and transfer targets are signing elsewhere. You have Fisher who had a bonce back budget last game of the season and since we have to been told to be realistic but yet nothing else or mention to the fans who have brought ST. You have Waggot,, who the fook is he spouting bollocks of the highest order about targets!!!and the long list they have!!!!!!! We have a board that changes monthly we have a holding company set up to rape the club...

The list is endless and this is stuff we know about through digging not SISU coming out and being honest ..... This club has lost the ability to tell or to be believed in anything it says or does and every club and agent knows this throughout the country,, bad times and very worrying times ahead.
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #30
aloisiwouldhavescored said:
Have there been some changes to the fixtures already then? On my fixtures list it shows all midweek games home and away on Tuesdays.

Hoping against hope that we will be having some fixtures to fulfil, regardless of what day, that is............
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Appologies my mistake ,saw it flashed up on a screen somewhere the day they came out ,obviously incorrect ,like many things you read on the web its best to check the source,have to say i always preffered wednesdays but never mind ,it was Adams who switched to Tuesdays i believe.
 

AFCCOVENTRY

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #31
How things can change overnight after my original post! :claping hands::claping hands:
 

ccfcway

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #32
not convinced things have changed too much

We have filed accounts, thats all
 

TheParsonsHose

Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #33
AFCCOVENTRY said:
With another one of ATs targets who wanted to join us not able to wait any longer and sign for Swindon it shows to me that we are no where near getting that transfer embargo lifted.

With the CCFC statement a few weeks ago stating they will extend the early bird season ticket prices till the end of this month to give people a chance to decide... looks like it's about to backfire.

Clearly if the transfer ban was being lifted soon then the likes of Collins would have waited as pre-season training starts in 3 weeks.

Once Keogh returns from his honeymoon I doubt very much he will be signing a new contract. His last view would have been to come back from honeymoon and see if the ban was lifted and new players signed. That won't happen.

Keogh and Cranie will be off within weeks and we have no new players in again for a 2nd pre-season in a row.

Thorn said he would walk if there was no backing from SISU. The guy is being taken for a ride and he is deluded himself not to see this.

All in all i fear our first home game of the season with Sheff U will be a hostile environment towards SISU and yet again we go into a season with our minds not focused on football.

All I want is to talk about football again but it seems we have our own Greek tragedy on the cards.

Football seems to have died a long time ago and never in my years of supporting Cov has it been so much about debts, cost cutting etc.

A painful drop from the glory of the premiership years.

There seems to be no end in sight for the misery us fans are enduring right now.

PUSB
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I was going to miserable and negative.... no point now following all that.
 

CovLis86

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #34
As others have said, the embargo being lifted doesnt mean we are going to invest in quality replacements. We could still be shipping a few out more than likely. Theres a chance that they already know they are losing cranie/keogh so knew that they had to get it lifted else there would be real problems.
 

davebart

Active Member
  • Jun 20, 2012
  • #35
Ashdown said:
What losses? You still think with our current set of employees we are losing money??
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I am quoting the previous poster in the Hoffman circle.
 
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