West Brom Fan in peace & support..... (1 Viewer)

We got into financial trouble because we agreed to pay the outstanding costs on Ken Duileu's sunbed allowance.

Can't give the info you want coz I don't really know all the ins and outs, but thanks for the support!

WestBromFan said:

1. Why did you move from Highfield Road in the first place? It was a decent ground that had a great atmosphere and was about the right size.

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To be honset it didn't seem a bad idea at the time to me. The meeting I went to said that the location of HR (surrounded by houses) made it impossible to expand or do much in the way of improvements to add conference facilities and the like and therefore other than a handful of days every year was sat empty costing money. The idea was to move to a bigger ground (I remember being told it didn't matter if it wasn't sold out every week, we needed the capacity for the bigger games against the likes of Man Utd) which had additional facilities and therefore more money coming into the club.

WestBromFan said:

2. What happened to the money from selling Highfield Road?

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We'd all like to know the answer to that. The suspicion is that many of the people involved with the club at the time left the club a lot richer than when they came in. When our former chairman was finally removed confidentiality agreements were signed so we most likely will never find out.

WestBromFan said:

3. How did you get into financial trouble? Was it signing the likes of Lee Hughes (I know....) and Joachim then not getting up before the parachute money stopped?

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Again it's not too clear but it seems the money from sale of players like Robbie Keane was going to individuals on the board rather than coming back into the club. If you want the definition of a dodgy transfer look up Robert Jarni! Of course we then got relegated and there was also the ITV Digital fiasco.

WestBromFan said:

4. You are obviously very opposed to the groundshare - is it because you don't trust the current owners to deliver a new stadium or would you like to remain at the Ricoh (a soulless ground which is totally sterile and devoid of any character in my humble).

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There won't be a new stadium. The club is losing millions of pounds a season by playing in Northampton. If we genuinely had nowhere to play most would happily travel to Sixfields. In a nutshell our owners want to bankrupt the owners of the stadium so they can have it for next to nothing. Every time a new, lower, rent offer is made they reject it.

WestBromFan said:

5. Will the boycott continue and what is your ideal aim?

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I think it will, if anything attendances will get lower. The idea of Not One Penny More, is to try and remove our owners by cutting their income. We have other people who wish to takeover but a dubious administration process and the way the Football League have let us down has left us in this mess. Ideally SISU go, new owners takeover and move us back to the Ricoh. Personally I don't care if we own the Ricoh or not, I don't think it really matters so long as a deal which works for both sides is done.

I could be wrong but I'm sure we did get parachute payments but obviously not at the stupid level they pay now though

WestBromFan said:

First of all, any rivalry aside no clubs fans should go through what you guys are at the moment - you have my full support and best wishes in getting rid of the parasite business men who are currently mistreating your grand old club.

I'm just trying to get a handle on what is happening at the moment at CCFC, so would appreciate some information if you'd be so kind......


1. Why did you move from Highfield Road in the first place? It was a decent ground that had a great atmosphere and was about the right size.

2. What happened to the money from selling Highfield Road?

3. How did you get into financial trouble? Was it signing the likes of Lee Hughes (I know....) and Joachim then not getting up before the parachute money stopped?

4. You are obviously very opposed to the groundshare - is it because you don't trust the current owners to deliver a new stadium or would you like to remain at the Ricoh (a soulless ground which is totally sterile and devoid of any character in my humble).

5. Will the boycott continue and what is your ideal aim?


Thanks, and best of luck.

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1. Good question. It was part of a hair-brained pie-in-the sky scheme to complete Arena 2000 by one of our previous devious suited twats of a chairmen (We've been run by a succession ofcrooks, incompetents, liars, cheats & spivs for the past 20 years)

2. Good question. Officially, it was pissed against the wall whilst renting back Highfield Road as the all conquering Arena 2000 slowly developed into the soul-less shit pit that became Ricoh 2005.

3. It started with a certain c**t called Bryan Richardson & his infamous "punt" at trying to go for it in the Premier League....it then continued with about 15 years of gross incompetence, financial mis-management, dodgy dealings, stupid player contracts, dumb rental agreements, and a continued decline on the pitch....

4. The new owners are the old owners.....they have already proven time & time again to be untrustworthy.....a new ground is a complete non-starter for 101 reasons...not least because Jimmy Saville has more chance of becoming a posthumous president of the NSPCC than our owners have of getting planning permission. Naturally, the prime objective of the fans is to remain in the City of Coventry (and as the Ricoh is available, why not use it)

5. Hopefully.....We simply don't want to travel to Northants to watch home games......why the fuck should we? Ideal aim is to rid ourselves of the current cuntish owners & find a new owner who actually cares & understands about football & how important it is to the local community.

Cheers for the good luck message.....we need all the luck in the world.