Pre-Match View From Coventry

[Tyler Durden]

I came on here in December to explain things but it didn't work.

You explained it perfectly. We responded perfectly and in great detail. You can't accept what came back so you continue to spout the old "Oh they don't understand" bollocks.
It's not complicated, your fans acted like arseholes towards our team then got upset and blubbed when our fans responded with a song.

 

[PUSBCCFC]

Didn't someone get the kick-off delayed and then, knowing the Sunderland result Coventry and Bristol City played out an effortless draw to save each other and relegate Sunderland?

Something like that anyway...

Well, both sides found out the result with less than 10 minutes to go and sat it out.

 

[Torrix1889]

Well, both sides found out the result with less than 10 minutes to go and sat it out.

Not quite so innocent..

The controversy began when Coventry's kick-off was delayed by over 10 minutes, officially because of crowd congestion. It's generally perceived that this was the doing of Hill, the club's managing director. It meant that Sunderland's game would finish well before the match at Highfield Road. They lost 2-0, a little unluckily; news of that reached Coventry around the time Bristol City completed a comeback from 2-0 down, when Don Gillies made it 2-2 with 12 minutes to go. It was then that, according to the following day's Daily Mirror, Hill "raced to the announcer's box with the result, screaming 'Get it on the board'".

The Sunderland score flashed up, and for the last five minutes Bristol City passed the ball between defenders and goalkeeper with not a single challenge from Coventry. In this paper, David Lacey said that "what had been an intensely physical contest dissolved farcically". Hill was reprimanded by the FA, and is still abhorred by many Sunderland fans. When they bombarded him with sour somethings during a Fulham game in 2008, he waved in response and had to be ushered away by police for his own safety.

 

[LJBlade]

Well, both sides found out the result with less than 10 minutes to go and sat it out.

So you cheated then?

 

[Bladesman]

So you cheated then?

They should buddy up with West Ham.

 

[bornablade]

Didn't Coventry have a another similar late kick off in the final game of the season at Tottenham some years later? Think Strachan was manager in those days.

 

[tyneblade]

I came on here in December to explain things but it didn't work.

• You have a right to protest.
• It seems to be justified.
• However, as supporters of a club that has never been in administration we see nothing wrong with being forced to live within your means.
• You chose to protest in a way that seems entirely inappropriate to us.
• We chose to retaliate in a way that seems entirely inappropriate to you.

Have I missed anything?

The irony is that, as on the night, a draw is the fair result.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Coventry trying to influence the outcome of a game by being wankers?

Well who woulda thought it?

 

[BushBlade]

I came on here in December to explain things but it didn't work.

So you thought taking the piss was a good alternative?

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

Well, both sides found out the result with less than 10 minutes to go and sat it out.

You still haven`t answered my question about when are you going to get your celebratory Mickey Mouse tattoo for winning the Mickey Mouse Cup on Sunday. I imagine there`ll be a hell of a queue at every tattooist in Coventry.

 

[coolhandluke]

A long story but they blame their relegation in 1977 on ourselves and Bristol City.

1977 ..... and its still a sore point !!!!

On the Cov/SISU front , I don't think there's a Blade anywhere who wouldn't be sympathetic to your plight right now if it wasnt for the way your protest against SISU when you played us manifested itself . I fully appreciate the fact that the televised opportunity that presented itself when we played was too good an opportunity to miss in terms of raising the profile of the shit you are having to endure . But when your protest 'appeared ' to to be an attempt to influence the result of the game in your favour , we , just like any other fans , quite naturally took offence .

The pro-SISU chants heard would have been like a red rag to a bull to you lot and quite rightly so imo . But what you lot have to understand is that your feelings were exactly the emotions we felt when it appeared you were attempting to influence the result of the game in your favour .

I'm not even going to pretend to know what the fans of your club are going through right now ...... its cleary a shit state of affairs . But we've been stuck in this god forsaken league for 6 years now and every single one of us is sick of it . Just when it looked like things were turning around for us after a very shaky start to the season we played you ...... The rest , as they say , is history .

I genuinely don't bare you lot any Ill will and I hope you manage to get yourself out of the the shit you are in right now . All I would ask is this , continue fighting SISU and protesting at what's happening at your club but just take the opportunities presented to yourself and respect the fans of other clubs before you do what you'll inevitably continue doing .

 

[ljk]

Worst reason for a rivalry ever.

 

[Lard_Lad]

Why do we care about them, I do feel sorry for them I would never like to see that happen to our team or any team in the football league no one deserves that, especially not the fans, yeah some of the fans where nob heads when we played them in December but then so have a lot of our fans since then. But to wish them into administration and to disappear is a bit pathetic and childish. I hope we beat them and it looks like there gonna go down, but both clubs have nobhead fans.

 

[Tyler Durden]

For the record I've hated SISU City since back in 2008 when they were known as Coventry.

I don't forget.

 

[Kenilworth]

It is a lot deeper than that.

SISU took over a club with an average attendance of 21,000. Year on year they have ran this club stupidly. To move the club to Northampton was an absolute disgrace, don't forget that.

The clubs income is not declining, they made a profit last year. This doesn't mean they are running the club well, though.

This isn't about selling players anymore, this is about having a club to support in the city which plays league football. It is about having a football club for my children to support. If Coventry move out of the city again, which is a huge possibility, it will kill the club.

I've answered the points about SISU running the club in another post.
What other choice did they have coming out of administration? A decision that was a result of the previous board's decision to sell Highfield Road.

And here is the sting in the tail (see what I did there?)
.... You've already moved to Nuneaton

 

[JordoBlade]

I'm actually in Coventry tomorrow night at a gig, I'm tempted to wear my Blades shirt............

I'd wear 2 blades shirts

 

[Gavlar]

Sunderland have a new thread every week about how much they hate us. Just like you lot.

Well what can I say, we love a windup.

In all seriousness I have a good mate who is a cov fan and feel for him. He wasn't blowing a whistle for 90 mins or going on the pitch tho

 

[Gavlar]

I'd wear 2 blades shirts

and shorts and socks

 

[Torrix1889]

So you thought taking the piss was a good alternative?

And going back to the Cov forum saying we are a bunch of obsessed tossers starting new threads about their poxy club every day.....

 

[Kenilworth]

It is a lot deeper than that.
SISU took over a club with an average attendance of 21,000. Year on year they have ran this club stupidly.

I checked
SISU took over the club in 2007 and City's average attendance that year was 20,342
It took the next 5 years for the average attendances to dip below the 2005 level
The four years average attendance from 2002 to 2005 was not a steady 21k so who were the stupid idiots in charge then?

2012 15,119
2011 16,310
2010 17,305
2009 17,408
2008 19,123
2007 20,342 - SISU took over
2006 21,180
2005 16,048
2004 14,816
2003 14,813
2002 16,150 - the year after relegation from 1st tier
2001 20,582

And, by the way, that 21k in 2006 was the highest average since 1979 (22,638) - that 26 years!

Talk about picking a stat in isolation to big up your cause

 

[Bladey McBladeface]

Just gonna leave this one here from a Cov fan about getting a season ticket:

"I will still go. This season has been the worst in my 40 odd years by a mile really.

The cup win versus relegation is like The Office sketch where Brent says to his troops they will be made redundant but the good news is he is getting a promotion.

I can't believe and refuse to believe next season will be as bad."

Lovely stuff!

 

[Pierre's PC]

Ugliest Weirdest Brony eva!

 

[nicksufc]

I don't think they quite get it.

They clearly have shitbag owners, and I would fully support them in any protests they had about them, as we've had our fair share in the past. But it's how you go about it. You don't sneak in whistles and start blowing them when the other team is on the attack, you don't invade the pitch when the other team is on the attack, you don't basically try to get a huge match for the opposition abandoned as a protest. For a protest to be really effective you need the support of other clubs and other fans - all they did that night was wind our fans up and try to sabotage the game. Other sets of fans aren't going to be magically with you if you piss them off like that.

Personally I can't say I particularly hate them or wish ill on them, but their behaviour that night turned what was a massive match for us into a fucking pantomime.

 

[INTAKE BLADE]

Cheers Roy.

They seem Wednesday obsessed, cock suckers.

 

[Ballinpigpubs13]

Coventry city = worst club in the midlands - Ricoh is a shithole and Highfield road was worse.
If they supported the team in numbers every week like they've crawled out for Wembley they wouldn't be in trouble?
Ps clean the pigeon shit off the seats in the away please not that we'll be seeing you in anything but a lucky cup draw on your part.

 

[PokerBlade]

“Following on from the sad acts from Sunderland. Check the Sheffield United forum.
Been signed up there a while and tried to explain the problems at the club, but they literally have no clue.
There has been a new thread every week about how they hate us.”

 

[Isar]

It is a lot deeper than that.

SISU took over a club with an average attendance of 21,000. Year on year they have ran this club stupidly. To move the club to Northampton was an absolute disgrace, don't forget that.

The clubs income is not declining, they made a profit last year. This doesn't mean they are running the club well, though.

This isn't about selling players anymore, this is about having a club to support in the city which plays league football. It is about having a football club for my children to support. If Coventry move out of the city again, which is a huge possibility, it will kill the club.

You are way off the mark regarding average attendance. 10 years up to 2014/15 season.

 

[zablade]

Classic stuff, really looking forward to tomorrow now and our last ever League meeting with Coventry City.

 

[knowsnowt]

We really shouldn't tease them further, its bad enough for them having to live i probably englands worst city and only have div 4 football to look forwards to in way of comfort.
Then again I wouldn't be against a ruling that has the whole population lined up against a wall and shot, in the bollocks.

 

[FlyingFjortoft]

Wow I didn't know that about Sunderland! If I was a Sunderland fan I would have been livid.

So the Coventry mentality appears to be thus:

1) Ruin the integrity of a football match by delaying/disrupting it

2) Reserve a special kind of hatred for fans of the opposing team when they are justifiably annoyed