shull Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 We'll never get the return leg with them played now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottd Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 We'll never get the return leg with them played now. We could always play their tribute club The Coventry City. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murray7 Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 GIRFUY Pressley! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exiledfan Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Actually think its sad to see an established team (apart from the OF) with an honest core of fans go out of business. Coventry Fans arent glory hunting scum they are a bit like us supporting their local team through good and bad times. Poor management again leads the fans to suffer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepaisleypanda Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 We were warned Armageddon would occur after Rangers demise! Don't you realise British football NEEDS Rangers? It's everybody elses fault but theirs you know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 This was just a matter of time.Things were so bad they gave up their home stadium and were meant to be playing their home games at Northampton this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 This was just a matter of time.Things were so bad they gave up their home stadium and were meant to be playing their home games at Northampton this season.Coventry have sold 203 season tickets for the coming season.Northampton is 60 miles from Coventry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPAFKA Jersey 2 Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Coventry have sold 203 season tickets for the coming season.Northampton is 60 miles from Coventry. Is that taxi driver miles?!?!? It's half that surely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedflanders123 Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 People are forever talking, quite rightfully, about the game up here as being skint etc but the game down south is equally in big trouble. The EPL live on serviceable debt and supported by Sky while those in the lower leagues are now beginning to realise the folly of paying stupid money for mediocre players much like we did back in the 90s. Football needs to get its house in order to live within club's means (both north and south of the border) othewise we will end up with only a handful of solvent clubs outside the EPL. Portsmouth, Coventry, Leeds, Boro - all big clubs with history that have been or are in deep trouble. Sevco, Hearts, Dunfermline, Dundee - all big clubs with history in deep trouble. There will be more and you have to wonder why clubs up to their neck in debt can continue to pay players big wages - Killie with Boyd and Dungdee Utd with Goodwillie. I have no idea what they are earning but it won't be cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Actually think its sad to see an established team (apart from the OF) with an honest core of fans go out of business. Coventry Fans arent glory hunting scum they are a bit like us supporting their local team through good and bad times. Poor management again leads the fans to suffer. Actually Coventry City fans would claim that it wasn't poor management but quite the opposite. They believe that SISU is a hedge fund that was created to put Coventry City into liquidation so it could profit from buying the stadium on the cheap. Take from that what you will but the fans are suffering. There was an excellent programme on TV earlier this week that charted Swansea City's plight over the last decade from being sold for £1 and almost going out of the football league to being bought by fans who have since delivered Premiership Football, a League Cup win and a return to Europe. The best and only way forward for clubs like Coventry City, Hearts and even for the likes of St Mirren, who have a majority shareholding up for sale, is for the fans to take control of the club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidg Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 (edited) People are forever talking, quite rightfully, about the game up here as being skint etc but the game down south is equally in big trouble. The EPL live on serviceable debt and supported by Sky while those in the lower leagues are now beginning to realise the folly of paying stupid money for mediocre players much like we did back in the 90s. Football needs to get its house in order to live within club's means (both north and south of the border) othewise we will end up with only a handful of solvent clubs outside the EPL. Portsmouth, Coventry, Leeds, Boro - all big clubs with history that have been or are in deep trouble. Sevco, Hearts, Dunfermline, Dundee - all big clubs with history in deep trouble. There will be more and you have to wonder why clubs up to their neck in debt can continue to pay players big wages - Killie with Boyd and Dungdee Utd with Goodwillie. I have no idea what they are earning but it won't be cheap. Am I the only person that reads Neds posts with a Ned Flanders voice in my head? Edited August 2, 2013 by davidg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oaksoft Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Actually Coventry City fans would claim that it wasn't poor management but quite the opposite. They believe that SISU is a hedge fund that was created to put Coventry City into liquidation so it could profit from buying the stadium on the cheap. Take from that what you will but the fans are suffering. There was an excellent programme on TV earlier this week that charted Swansea City's plight over the last decade from being sold for £1 and almost going out of the football league to being bought by fans who have since delivered Premiership Football, a League Cup win and a return to Europe. The best and only way forward for clubs like Coventry City, Hearts and even for the likes of St Mirren, who have a majority shareholding up for sale, is for the fans to take control of the club. It's a classic example of what happens when ventures which were designed for the community to share become owned by people and run purely for profit. Tories amongst us might want to consider this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest somner9 Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 We could always play their tribute club The Coventry City. http://youtu.be/TdUNGHelrGk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 It's a classic example of what happens when ventures which were designed for the community to share become owned by people and run purely for profit. Tories amongst us might want to consider this. Hmm - congratulations you've just scored 10/10 on the hypocrisy scale for that post. You spent ages last night and this morning lambasting Desperately Seeking Susan for making a political statement at a football match, and yet here you are using a football forum to make a political statement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest somner9 Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Maybe Coventry could groundshare with Clyde..? They are both shining examples of how to run football clubs... into the ground... the reverse over them... then run them down again.... then reverse over them...etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Maybe Coventry could groundshare with Clyde..? They are both shining examples of how to run football clubs... into the ground... the reverse over them... then run them down again.... then reverse over them...etc As I've pointed out to you several times Clyde, since becoming a CIC, have completely cleared a £500k debt. They are now in the black and are starting the new season with cash in the bank for the first time in 15 years. Swansea City lost the old Vetch Field home and now ground share with the Ospreys at the council owned Liberty Stadium and haven't looked back since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest somner9 Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Which cylde are we talking about..? the one that plays at shawfield? hamilton, firhill, recreation park, broadwood... or the sevco in east kilbride version? Yes they certainly take the club to the fans, pity the fans struggle to keep up with where they might be playing each week. A shining example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Is that taxi driver miles?!?!? It's half that surely? Sorry,that's for the round trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Fcuk' um'. Wrexham, Dundee, Rangers, Livingston, Motherwell, Gretna, Portsmouth, Leeds, Hearts.... insert another 100 clubs here. Fcuk' um'. It's gone beyond sympathy for the good honest people who will lose their jobs now. Football is fcuked in the head. It needs a few of em' to actually do a Third Lanark and disappear down the U-bend to put an end to the endless cycle of football clubs ripping the fcuking pish out of everyone - taxpayers, small creditors... if we are expected/demanded to offer sympathy to cleaners, cooks, groundsmen and ticket office lassies who get laid off, then fine, I'll run with that - but what about the poor chunts who are offered 1p in the pound? Fcuk' um! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Ah you mean like St Mirren? Is it Love Street or Greenhill Road? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Ah you mean like St Mirren? Is it Love Street or Greenhill Road? Terrible. 0/10! Love Street: Paisley. Greenhill Road: Paisley. Shawfield: Rutherglen. Broadwood: Cumbernauld. Next stop: East Kilbride. Poor show Stu! I expect better from you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest somner9 Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Ah you mean like St Mirren? Is it Love Street or Greenhill Road? Yes one ground we owned and sold for more than the combined value of Sevco and Hertz (f**king stonking piece of business) The other ground we had built to order, bought and own (Worth £8m) And we are debt free.... but like you say we can all learn from what Clyde have achieved, they are OWNEd by everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint in exile Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Actually Coventry City fans would claim that it wasn't poor management but quite the opposite. They believe that SISU is a hedge fund that was created to put Coventry City into liquidation so it could profit from buying the stadium on the cheap. Take from that what you will but the fans are suffering. There was an excellent programme on TV earlier this week that charted Swansea City's plight over the last decade from being sold for £1 and almost going out of the football league to being bought by fans who have since delivered Premiership Football, a League Cup win and a return to Europe. The best and only way forward for clubs like Coventry City, Hearts and even for the likes of St Mirren, who have a majority shareholding up for sale, is for the fans to take control of the club. You sure about SUSI Dicko? They didn't buy Coventry until after they left Highfield Road, and Coventry didn't own the new stadium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottd Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 http://youtu.be/TdUNGHelrGk I Remember Elvis Sevco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Saint Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 This was just a matter of time.Things were so bad they gave up their home stadium and were meant to be playing their home games at Northampton this season.A deal was apparently struck in the last week for them to play at the Ricoh for another 10 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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