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Post by Fetch on Mar 7, 2019 12:12:53 GMT
Coventry City given time to finalise plan to stay at Ricoh Arena by EFL The English Football League have given League One club Coventry City further time to finalise their plans to remain at the Ricoh Arena in 2019-20. City's owners remain in a legal dispute with Premiership club Wasps, the Ricoh's owners, and Coventry City Council. Both have said that they will not enter negotiations while that is ongoing. If it is not resolved by 2 April, EFL clubs will be notified about a meeting to decide Coventry's future. The EGM would take place on 25 April, at which Coventry could face expulsion from the league. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47475213That's good news for Cov. Surely the other 71 clubs wouldn't vote to kick them out? |
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Post by justin blue on Mar 7, 2019 15:01:14 GMT
Not today, but we have managed to be in almost every bad situation a club can be in so we might get round to it. Anything else you want to depress the hell out of us with? Maybe a meteorite crashing into the Mem tonight? The Welly refusing to serve beer to home fans? Sausage rolls found out to not contain sausage? Jesus, anyone want to go have a beer with you? Really is there any need to get personal and don't call me Jesus. |
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 7, 2019 15:12:38 GMT
Another club in crisis is Port Vale. Fans protest march recently resulted in a local couple called Kevin and Carol Shanahan offering owner Norman Smurthwaite £4 million. He wants over £5 million according to Radio Stoke. The lady in question said on local radio if that was the case it would have to be paid in instalments but not surprisingly he has turned that option down presumably as there would be no guarantee the remainder would be paid.
The new manager, John Askey sacked by Shrewsbury has lost three and drawn one of his matches so far and the Conference beckons. Very much second best to Stoke City I suspect defeat to Mansfield this weekend will put them further near the abyss. Reckon it did us good in the long run but like Vale, we have stagnated for many years although they do have a proper stadium and training complex.
Mrs Shanahan protested that the money didn't matter it was her drive and vision that was the main factor why her bid should be accepted.
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Post by farmygas on Mar 7, 2019 15:35:26 GMT
Another club in crisis is Port Vale. Fans protest march recently resulted in a local couple called Kevin and Carol Shanahan offering owner Norman Smurthwaite £4 million. He wants over £5 million according to Radio Stoke. The lady in question said on local radio if that was the case it would have to be paid in instalments but not surprisingly he has turned that option down presumably as there would be no guarantee the remainder would be paid. The new manager, John Askey sacked by Shrewsbury has lost three and drawn one of his matches so far and the Conference beckons. Very much second best to Stoke City I suspect defeat to Mansfield this weekend will put them further near the abyss. Reckon it did us good in the long run but like Vale, we have stagnated for many years although they do have a proper stadium and training complex. Mrs Shanahan protested that the money didn't matter it was her drive and vision that was the main factor why her bid should be accepted. Norman Smurthwaite is a strange character. He's a Coventry fan, pretty much universally loathed by Vale fans who has ostensibly been trying to sell up for years but turns down every offer gets. He also added Nuneaton's ground to his portfolio despite apparently being potless. I've long thought that there are huge parallels between us and Vale. |
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Post by aghast on Mar 7, 2019 16:51:31 GMT
Another club in crisis is Port Vale. Fans protest march recently resulted in a local couple called Kevin and Carol Shanahan offering owner Norman Smurthwaite £4 million. He wants over £5 million according to Radio Stoke. The lady in question said on local radio if that was the case it would have to be paid in instalments but not surprisingly he has turned that option down presumably as there would be no guarantee the remainder would be paid. The new manager, John Askey sacked by Shrewsbury has lost three and drawn one of his matches so far and the Conference beckons. Very much second best to Stoke City I suspect defeat to Mansfield this weekend will put them further near the abyss. Reckon it did us good in the long run but like Vale, we have stagnated for many years although they do have a proper stadium and training complex. Mrs Shanahan protested that the money didn't matter it was her drive and vision that was the main factor why her bid should be accepted. Norman Smurthwaite is a strange character. He's a Coventry fan, pretty much universally loathed by Vale fans who has ostensibly been trying to sell up for years but turns down every offer gets. He also added Nuneaton's ground to his portfolio despite apparently being potless. I've long thought that there are huge parallels between us and Vale. I agree. We've been lucky enough to generally keep within striking distance of the teds, mainly through their own incompetence. But if they get promoted to the Prem and/or we get relegated, the chasm will widen to Port Vale/Stoke proportions. I know we've been in worse positions before, but they are spending serious money now, and we are just spending enough to keep going. As it is now, we either need promotion next season (unlikely) or actual real news on a new stadium (unlikely), just to keep them in sight. Of course, they might f*ck it all up and get relegated next season. I doubt it, but you never know with them. |
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Post by farmygas on Mar 7, 2019 17:42:01 GMT
Norman Smurthwaite is a strange character. He's a Coventry fan, pretty much universally loathed by Vale fans who has ostensibly been trying to sell up for years but turns down every offer gets. He also added Nuneaton's ground to his portfolio despite apparently being potless. I've long thought that there are huge parallels between us and Vale. I agree. We've been lucky enough to generally keep within striking distance of the teds, mainly through their own incompetence. But if they get promoted to the Prem and/or we get relegated, the chasm will widen to Port Vale/Stoke proportions. I know we've been in worse positions before, but they are spending serious money now, and we are just spending enough to keep going. As it is now, we either need promotion next season (unlikely) or actual real news on a new stadium (unlikely), just to keep them in sight. Of course, they might f*ck it all up and get relegated next season. I doubt it, but you never know with them. I think we're already there tbh |
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 7, 2019 18:00:07 GMT
I’m sure it’s not only me but is anyone else finding this idea about Coventry going out of the league because Wasps own their ground in Coventry very, very ironic?
Wasps were originally a London-based rugby club. Then in the 1990s they played at Loftus Road before going up the M4 to High Wycombe to play before ending up in Coventry when there was already a rugby club in the city. They bought the ground and are now calling the tune. And Coventry have to play within 6 miles of Coventry. Perhaps they should have been a rugby franchise. They have had their ground taken over by a wandering, rootless rugby team with at the time few community links but probably lots of money. I feel real sympathy for Coventry.
UTG!
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Post by Topper Gas on Mar 7, 2019 18:59:52 GMT
I’m sure it’s not only me but is anyone else finding this idea about Coventry going out of the league because Wasps own their ground in Coventry very, very ironic? Wasps were originally a London-based rugby club. Then in the 1990s they played at Loftus Road before going up the M4 to High Wycombe to play before ending up in Coventry when there was already a rugby club in the city. They bought the ground and are now calling the tune. And Coventry have to play within 6 miles of Coventry. Perhaps they should have been a rugby franchise. They have had their ground taken over by a wandering, rootless rugby team with at the time few community links but probably lots of money. I feel real sympathy for Coventry. UTG! It seems the owners main challenge is that the Ricoh was worth far more than the £28m Wasps paid for it, given the size of it compared to the UWE they do seem to have a very good argument, not that the courts seems to agree with them. What I don't get is how 20,000 people in the midlands turn up to watch a franchise rugby club every match, when they effectively stole the ground off the local football club and forced them to play elsewhere, particularly when rugby has never been that big in Coventry in recent times. The local council also seem content to let the local football club go out of business. |
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Post by Gassy on Mar 28, 2019 20:12:40 GMT
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Post by Topper Gas on Mar 28, 2019 21:13:47 GMT
Christ it's like a mini Brexit:
"The EFL have polled Sky Blues fans asking if they would consider a groundshare as an alternative to expulsion from the league. That poll closes on Friday at 6pm."
How can fans vote on that until they know where they are going to groundshare, a short trip to a Birmingham ground doesn't sound to bad but a 50 mile/100 mile round trip is madness.
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Post by Gassy on Mar 28, 2019 21:22:18 GMT
Well it’s a win/win for the fans tbf as it’s not like they’re playing in the Ricoh anyway.
So really they’re just asking,
1. Stay in the league in a ground share
2. Kicked out of the league with no ground
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Post by socrates on Mar 28, 2019 22:07:25 GMT
If we ever did start a major building project on the Mem I’d love to go back to Twerton for a season.
We could call Clarke Harris Bruno, dye Lockyers hair blonde and give him loads of sock tape and he could be Steve Yates.
Upson looks like Skinner he could be Justin and we’d win the league.
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Post by legas on Mar 29, 2019 17:33:59 GMT
We would need to find a nutter down the pub to fill the Jocky role.
I know someone from New Zealand who could be Paul Nixon.
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Post by lpgas on Mar 29, 2019 18:03:59 GMT
Port Vales ground was originally built to mirror Wembley. they thought that if they had a similar ground then Northern teams could play cup finals there. So the pitch and the surrounding track was identical to Wembley
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Post by Henbury Gas on Mar 30, 2019 10:13:16 GMT
If we ever did start a major building project on the Mem I’d love to go back to Twerton for a season. We could call Clarke Harris Bruno, dye Lockyers hair blonde and give him loads of sock tape and he could be Steve Yates. Upson looks like Skinner he could be Justin and we’d win the league. Could we recreate the drips from the stand roof that used to get me wet whatever place i stood on the popular side  |
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Post by Gassy on Apr 11, 2019 15:11:09 GMT
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Post by Marshy on Apr 11, 2019 16:10:53 GMT
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Post by aghast on Apr 11, 2019 17:16:08 GMT
For sale: Plastic folding seats
Colour: Sky blue
Quantity: 30,000
For more details contact Wasps RFC
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Post by stokegiffordgas on Apr 11, 2019 20:48:04 GMT
Makes you think we would give our right testicle for a ground like that and thanks to awkward owners they cant make it work!
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Post by markczgas on Apr 11, 2019 21:08:41 GMT
you got a feel for their supporters - the stadium built for them but again they have to go elsewhere. Sisu sound like a bunch of arseholes but you also wonder if Wasps are helping as much as they could. |
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