A new stadium is likely to be a vastly inferior version of the Ricoh, with all it's defects: concrete and plastic (the Ricoh seats are a high spec, compared to other grounds' plastic seats), soulless vomitory, but none of it's virtues: decent facilities, toilets, food outlets, space, lines of sight.
Get 17,000 in the Ricoh and its pretty dead, on the other hand 17,000 at HR and it was rockin.
The fact is the Ricoh is too big for us now, and always will be (if we stay).
What did they get in league one?
Ricoh is a god-awful place, barely even in coventry with nothing but corporate crap surrounding it, there was no reason whatsoever to leave HR.
Get 17,000 in the Ricoh and its pretty dead, on the other hand 17,000 at HR and it was rockin.
The fact is the Ricoh is too big for us now, and always will be (if we stay).
Let me get this straight - you don't like a modern stadium, so instead you want to support the building of a new modern stadium!
ARE YOU INSANE!!!
It would be an even MORE modern stadium!
priceless fuckwit comment of the millenium!
I think Leeds and Sheff Wed would still have had at least one game per year above 30k in league 1
I dont miss the old ground one bit. The ricoh is miles better. Highfield road was like a morgue most of the time. I remember the year we were relegated, 16k against Leicester and it was dead. Take the rose tinted glasses off,like it or lump it,the ricoh is our home.
Get 17,000 in the Ricoh and its pretty dead, on the other hand 17,000 at HR and it was rockin.
The fact is the Ricoh is too big for us now, and always will be (if we stay).
You can have a great atmosphere at the ricoh with 11/12k people that was proved on a couple of occasions this season in the JPT. All you need to do is put everyone together. It will upset a few people but it needs to be done (if of course we are playing at the ricoh), its presumably also cheaper for security etc.
You can have a great atmosphere at the ricoh with 11/12k people that was proved on a couple of occasions this season in the JPT. All you need to do is put everyone together. It will upset a few people but it needs to be done (if of course we are playing at the ricoh), its presumably also cheaper for security etc.
If I was forced to change my seat just to create an atmosphere I would not renew my ticket.
How about we build a 22K stadium exactly like HR and it place it right in the middle of town.
We will be guranteed a full house every week of really enthuisiastic fans as now there are no excuses.
The only queues would be for tickets.:wave:
A apart from all this Sisu & ACL squabbling, one of the biggest issues with attendances is the apathy of the people of Coventry!
I've seen plenty of mid week Premiership games at HR with less than 10K so what makes people think a new stadium or better team will make any difference.
You cant force people to follow Coventry, but for a city the size of Cov, its a disgrace!
I wonder actually how many fans don't even live in the city, I bet a very high percentage live in Nuneaton, Bedworth, Leamington, Warwick etc. as I do.
Its surprising how many City fans turn right toward the M6 / Nuneaton following home games.
I cant remember now, I think it might of been a Sunday game for sky.You don't remember all that well then - it was over 17K and the atmosphere was decent. Sure you don't mean the year before when we lost at home to Leicester in front of 22K, when it was indeed very flat?
You're making stuff up. Less than 10K at PL games? What? Our average gate in the last 4 season in the PL was over 20K. You have to go back to the 80s for old division 1 games for sub-10K attendances and even then they were very rare (except for 1983-85 when attendances were poor everywhere).
Our all time average gate is 20th out of all the clubs in England. Just what gates do you think we should be getting? Don't overstate the 'size of the city' thing either - it is not nearly as big as people think and our urban area is no bigger than that of Bournemouth - and the wider catchment area even if you include large satellite towns is smaller than some clubs who get much worse gates than we do.
Considering we have not troubled the top 6 in 40 years there is a surprising lack of apathy if you ask me.
It's the football that has been shite, not the stadium. If we watched them in the local park and the team were winning consistently whilst playing attractive football we would'nt give a flying f**k about where we were, the atmosphere would take care of itself because we would all be happy chappy's, oh and lassie's, sorry ladies nearly forgot you.
LIke the Ricoh then? Like any ground that isn't full?
HR was a football ground. The Ricoh is a "complex" with a football pitch.
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