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when was the darkest era for the club? (1 Viewer)

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eastwoodsdustman

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #36
play_in_skyblue_stripes said:
Sisu tactics to move us out of the City. An absolute disgrace.
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I don't think we need to go down that hole again. The councils behaviour and attitude towards the club has been well documented since and was clearly the major factor in the move's away.
 
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The watchmaker

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #37
Domo said:
boring Wednesday thoughts

2011/2012 has to be the worst season ive seen.
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I deserve to get poop emoji'ed to oblivion for this but... I quite enjoyed 2011/12. We'd been circling round the drain for a while by that point and sure, Doncaster was a bit of a chocker but a huge chunk of the team were local lads who looked promising and ran their @rses off which gave a little hope for the future. Of course none of them went on to do anything with their careers (bar Callum Wilson/maybe Cyrus Christie) but I didn't know that at the time...

I remember the weather being pretty good, and there was plenty of space in the stadium to spread yourself out, no queues, personal toilet block if needed... and we'd decide by that point that Sisu and Ken Doolally were the villains and there was a weirdly 'nice' atmosphere from we few who remained, just politely clapping the team cricket style rather than constant b!tching, booing and anger I recall in other seasons. We even gave Richard Keogh a standing ovation for getting sent off in the game we got relegated in which...

Worst moment - Marlon King. 'Oh, we are Millwall now and have no values.' Never felt so detached from the club, then the move to Northampton. At that point it felt over and it wasn't til Robins that it really started again. Some dark days in the prem too.
 
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gspotgaz

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #38
2001-2017. Dark dark years. 16 years of year on year dross and no realistic chances of success.

Even the years in the championship we were utter shite with no backbone and toxic cultures. We’re a different club now and that’s mostly all down to robins.
 
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robbiethemole

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #39
ajsccfc said:
Any point of 2016-17 where we had Nathan Clarke wearing number 7 in the worst kit in our history while Russell Slade is sat in the dugout
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With his silly fucking baseball cap on
 
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Cally Fedora

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #40
For me it was when we were playing at Sixfields, and started the season with a points deduction. Everything was wrong even though it wasn’t technically our lowest league position. That and any game v Preston!!
 
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Gint11

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #41
eastwoodsdustman said:
I can pinpoint it to a specific game. That was the night I realised we would be playing in League 2 the following season.

Bury 2-1 Coventry City

Resurgent Bury hold on for victory over rock-bottom Coventry to take another step away from the League One drop zone.
www.bbc.co.uk
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When Venus took us away to Oxford and wet were 4-0 down first half. New depths of low that was.
 

Flying Fokker

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #42
Sky Blue Pete said:
Which time
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The second coming.
 
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Bova

Active Member
  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #43
eastwoodsdustman said:
I don't think we need to go down that hole again. The councils behaviour and attitude towards the club has been well documented since and was clearly the major factor in the move's away.
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No mate the dirty rat London bastards are clearly the major factor……council were and probably still are cunts but the rot started the minute they tried to fuck everybody over
 

Sick Boy

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #44
Bova said:
No mate the dirty rat London bastards are clearly the major factor……council were and probably still are cunts but the rot started the minute they tried to fuck everybody over
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Let’s not forget the £1.2m rent the council enjoyed taking out of the club.
 
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AOM

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #45
Domo said:
with everything, wasps, sixfields etc, i remember having chats with other cov 'Fans' in the dark days where it was nearly all over and they said "ill prob go and support burton, another would say he would try northampton" really hit home how dire it all was.
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Yeah, I remember thinking of other options if we were to go out of business.
Couldn't ever support another team (particularly Coventry United), but maybe would just go and watch Sphinx games to get a local football fix. Mad times
 
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AOM

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #46
Sick Boy said:
When we had ‘fans’ openly saying they hoped the club went out of business and supporting the council in doing so.
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Didn't that one guy call out Robins on the phone in saying he was a Sisu puppet or something?
 
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SleepyGinger

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #47
Funny reflecting on all this, how bad it actually was and at the same time there’s another thread going where people are moaning that we aren’t spending 2/3 million on a back up right back.
 
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MusicDating

Euro 2016 Prediction League Champion!!
  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #48
Gint11 said:
When Venus took us away to Oxford and wet were 4-0 down first half. New depths of low that was.
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My boy's first away day. We both learned a lot of new swear words that day
 
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Fergusons_Beard

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #49
Fan in fighting was awful.

I’ll never forget getting dogs abuse from the hill just trying to watch my club at Sixfields.

I’ll never forget fans calling for and celebrating going Into administration.

I’ll also never forget that feeling when we were relegated to the last tier either.

Thank goodness it’s all turned around now and we consign all of that shit to History.


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edgy

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #50
junglej13 said:
@edgy Definitely McCormick and Dulieu
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McCormick was at fault for most things wrong with the club in this era.

Suprised he's allowed to show his face around the club these days.
 
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WestEndAgro

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #51
When David O'Day joined Skybluestalk
 
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NortonSkyBlue

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #52
I started watching in 67 and let’s be honest many highlights but many more lowlights. Some have said the spells at Northampton and Birmingham but for me seeing the Wasps signs up in our ground and us having to beg for a sniff of anything in a stadium built for us, changing in away dressing room, our own fans turning into traitors watching Wasps(however it was achieved) and seeing the ground full for some of their games whilst we scraped our barrel to get 8000 to watch us. This was a nadir of epic proportions that drain my love for my team and my city.
It still hasn’t left me but thank god Robins came back and we owe him more than we can ever repay.
 
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NortonSkyBlue

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #53
edgy said:
McCormick was at fault for most things wrong with the club in this era.

Suprised he's allowed to show his face around the club these days.
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Who is McCormack?
 
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Bova

Active Member
  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #54
Sick Boy said:
Let’s not forget the £1.2m rent the council enjoyed taking out of the club.
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It’s almost as if we didn’t sign up to them terms to start with
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #55
It was really the whole era from Ranson (the prick) resigning to L2 promotion that was grim.

If I had to take one particular game it would be one of the following three:

Newport at home in L2 - A tiny club turning up in the league and beating us acting like it was their cup final

Yeovil away in L2 - early in that season there was no connection between the fans themselves let alone the team. We just spent the entire game arguing in that away game end.

FGR at home in L2 - fans arguing with players on the pitch. A tiny tiny club beating us with about 10 fans in the away end and a total of about 3000 in the arena.

So for me I guess it was the start of that L2 season. It seemed like we weren’t going to offer much of a fight in going back up and the checkatrade was a last hurrah before the club faded away. Wasps there giving it the biggun whenever they could and an unhelpful council made it look like there was no legitimate way back.
 
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Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #56
I’d argue when we first left the arena, just been relegated the year before lost robins. Went to six fields once as I got a free ticket. Place was a morgue.
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #57
Bova said:
It’s almost as if we didn’t sign up to them terms to start with
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It’s almost as if the choice wasn’t sign up to those terms or go bust.

If I had a gun to your head and told you to sign your house over to me are you gonna walk off and say “fair enough, I signed the deed”?

Course you fucking wouldn’t.
 
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SHUNT31

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #58
2016/17 for me. The state of the club was in its worst place. Match day experience was terrible and the football was much worse. It was embarrassing and depressing.

I grew up as a kid thinking I would never watch my team in league one, let alone league two.
 
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AOM

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #59
Actually quite liked the Kelly-Evans twins for being local lads who gave it their all, but this squad (and kit)...



The season before we had a half decent team, and the season after in league two we at least had foundations to work back up from
 
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TomRad85

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #60
AOM said:
Actually quite liked the Kelly-Evans twins, but this squad (and kit)...

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The season before we had a half decent team, and the season after in league two we at least had foundations to work back up from
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The team relegated from League 1 was something else wasn't it? Truly awful. Dunno about liking the Kelly-Evans twins though, i'm sure they were nice lads, but fuck me they weren't professional footballers.
 
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play_in_skyblue_stripes

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #61
eastwoodsdustman said:
I don't think we need to go down that hole again. The councils behaviour and attitude towards the club has been well documented since and was clearly the major factor in the move's away.
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Sisu were to blame. Full documentation in judicial judgement on SISU action to bankrupt ACL, the organisation that had the Ricoh.
 
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Bova

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #62
Liquid Gold said:
It’s almost as if the choice wasn’t sign up to those terms or go bust.

If I had a gun to your head and told you to sign your house over to me are you gonna walk off and say “fair enough, I signed the deed”?

Course you fucking wouldn’t.
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We had a choice….but handed over free rein to the bastards to set those terms to start with…..we loaded the fucking gun for them
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #63
ajsccfc said:
Any point of 2016-17 where we had Nathan Clarke wearing number 7 in the worst kit in our history while Russell Slade is sat in the dugout
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Agreed, I'd say roughly December 2016 to April 2017 was the darkest period, the first crack of dawn came on 2nd April 2017.
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #64
Fergusons_Beard said:
Fan in fighting was awful.

I’ll never forget getting dogs abuse from the hill just trying to watch my club at Sixfields.

I’ll never forget fans calling for and celebrating going Into administration.s

I’ll also never forget that feeling when we were relegated to the last tier either.

Thank goodness it’s all turned around now and we consign all of that shit to History.


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Selective memory
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #65
play_in_skyblue_stripes said:
Sisu were to blame. Full documentation in judicial judgement on SISU action to bankrupt ACL, the organisation that had the Ricoh.
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Oh no. Won’t anybody think of poor ACL.

Honestly who gives a shit if they tried to put them out of business.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #66
Bova said:
We had a choice….but handed over free rein to the bastards to set those terms to start with…..we loaded the fucking gun for them
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The council and McGinnety(sp) set those terms.
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #67
Broken Hearted Sky Blue said:
Selective memory
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It was Sisu who took us into administrative,who didn't buy their share of the ground when they could have . That's what Hedge Funds like to do.
 

Fergusons_Beard

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #68
Broken Hearted Sky Blue said:
Selective memory
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You on the hill then?


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Fergusons_Beard

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #69
Broken Hearted Sky Blue said:
Selective memory
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That or you one of the Trust wankers


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AOM

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #70
TomRad85 said:
The team relegated from League 1 was something else wasn't it? Truly awful. Dunno about liking the Kelly-Evans twins though, i'm sure they were nice lads, but fuck me they weren't professional footballers.
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This squad - Coventry City - Detailed squad 16/17 (Detailed view)

 
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