What would you do if you 'wanted your club back'?

[Sheffsteel]

SISU is a hedge fund with no interest in football at all. They looked for a club to lay their eggs inside and eat away till only the carcass was left. Unfortunately for Coventry fans they landed on their club. Some fans have started a new club called Coventry United, wearing the city's traditional red and green colours; they let fans in for free during their first season and if I were a fan in Coventry I'd be spending my time watching them and hoping for an AFC Wimbledon-type rise, because Coventry City are doomed.

I don't blame the Sky Blues fans for their desperation, or for choosing a live TV game for their protest, although it did make for a pretty dire match. Equally, I don't blame the Blades fans for injecting some gallows humour into what was a pretty miserable evening. Coventry fans can hardly expect their opponents' supporters to applaud them when there are 3 promotion points at stake and the match is turning into a farce because of their protest.

I wish Coventry City the best in their anti-SISU revolution even though I think they are going to lose, but the Blades fans were entitled to have a laugh at their expense. It doesn't mean we don't care (although some of us clearly couldn't give a FF as this thread demonstrates) but our selfish Blades genes prevent us from caring at the expense of our own team. That's just the way it is, folks.

So how come Coventry have been given a decent budget to make them competitive every season?
Surely they wouldn't invest anything and make no attempt at promotion?

Also if you are genuine fans but don't want to support the owners then there is an answer.
Boycott the home games and sell out every away game (some Leeds fans did this).
But it seems your fans have turned their backs on the club.
Even if SISU left and it became fan owned it would still take success to bring back the fans.

To be fair most of us arent laughing at Coventry, we're just not that bothered either way.
Of course we do have a little sympathy, we've seen hard times ourselves with limited investment.
but where does it all stop. I have mild sympathy for about 20 other clubs, take Bury and Oldham.

Anyway hope your club gets turned around.
Personally I would always prefer the bigger clubs with big grounds and potential in the higher divisions. It's better for the game.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Charlton and Blackpool fan groups are generally doing it right, nothing done is detrimental to the opposition who have games to compete for and try and win (their agenda) but they still make the point about removing the owners (their agenda), therefore they are likely to garner support from fans of other clubs.

Coventry last night didn't follow the same line of protest. It was very obvious, even on TV that the whistles were mainly being used when we had the ball and stopped or reduced significantly if Coventry were attacking. Tennis balls only aimed at Blades players (Charlton chucked their stuff ONTO the pitch not AT players) and the invasion at the end of the game was a strange time to do it. Was the idea to try and get the game abandoned? We were there to play a very vital game in what we hope is a successful season, nothing more, and the issues of Coventry are not ours. By directing the protests at United rather than the owners, Coventry fans succeeded in pissing off the away fans and getting some sarcastic chanting back. Don't bleat and call us names, we played at Charlton just a few weeks ago with similar protests happening. There was no sarcastic chanting from Blades fans, in fact a good few joined in with the planned protests.

 

[BushBlade]

HouchensHead , can you not answer the question then because you've answered other posts afterwards? Nope, well fuck off then back to your own forum and try to start supporting your team instead of getting the mardies on and taking it out on us. Fuck Off!

Agree, instead of a stupid argument about who's the biggest (an argument we seem to have on a daily basis these days with some fucking club) why not actually come on here and explain what the problems with SISU are.

 

[UnitedBlade]

Blackpool have generally run a decent campaign but they did get a game abandoned with a pitch invasion. The club got a suspended 3 point deduction.

This is an indefensible tactic.

Back to Coventry, they will probably get a warning first time round.

Will they be doing the same at the next home game ? Or another time ?

It potentially cheats the opposition so the FA won't tolerate it.

Meanwhile keep your focus on the really important issue of opposition chants.

 

[SB_90]

Bolton in trouble too, how long can this go on.

Anderson told supporters at the Macron Stadium earlier this week that one member of Phil Parkinson’s squad earns more a year than Walsall’s entire team. A frightening admission which makes you wonder what happened to Financial Fair Play?

take your pick from the premier league squad they still have, Jay Spearing, Darren Pratley, Mark Davies or David Wheather

Not nice, but I'd expect nothing less. We'd be doing the same if the situation was reversed, that's football!

id hope not, because there is a difference between gloating about a football match & gloating about a club people love being ripped apart & why i have no sympathy for the fan that apparently got punched, because that guy was asking for it

i was ok with there protests because its nothing personal it was on sky & they would've done it with any of the other 22 clubs. it was desperate times, desperate measures because they have felt like run out of options & nothing to lose. can you imagine if boot was on the other foot if our owners over large period of time

• Slashed the budget, Sold all the best players replace them with cheap kids.
  
• Home games moved to leeds, bradford or nottingham
  
• Sold the stadium to another sporting team
  
• They look like going into league 2 the owners couldnt care less

 

[BushBlade]

take your pick from the premier league squad they still have, Jay Spearing, Darren Pratley, Mark Davies or David Wheather



id hope not, because there is a difference between gloating about a football match & gloating about a club people love being ripped apart & why i have no sympathy for the fan that apparently got punched, because that guy was asking for it

i was ok with there protests because its nothing personal it was on sky & they would've done it with any of the other 22 clubs. it was desperate times, desperate measures because they have felt like run out of options & nothing to lose. can you imagine if boot was on the other foot if our owners over large period of time

• Slashed the budget, Sold all the best players replace them with cheap kids.
  
• Home games moved to leeds, bradford or nottingham
  
• Sold the stadium to another sporting team
  
• They look like going into league 2 the owners couldnt care less

The chairman was on TalkSport earlier. He claims SISU have lost £70m on Cov and their current wage bill is between £2m and £3m which he described as mid to lower end of L1 budgets.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

take your pick from the premier league squad they still have, Jay Spearing, Darren Pratley, Mark Davies or David Wheather



id hope not, because there is a difference between gloating about a football match & gloating about a club people love being ripped apart & why i have no sympathy for the fan that apparently got punched, because that guy was asking for it

i was ok with there protests because its nothing personal it was on sky & they would've done it with any of the other 22 clubs. it was desperate times, desperate measures because they have felt like run out of options & nothing to lose. can you imagine if boot was on the other foot if our owners over large period of time

• Slashed the budget, Sold all the best players replace them with cheap kids.
  
• Home games moved to leeds, bradford or nottingham
  
• Sold the stadium to another sporting team
  
• They look like going into league 2 the owners couldnt care less

You've quoted me out of context. I was replying to someone regarding Barnsley fans taking the piss.

 

[8lade]

I was ok with there protests because its nothing personal it was on sky & they would've done it with any of the other 22 clubs. it was desperate times, desperate measures because they have felt like run out of options & nothing to lose. can you imagine if boot was on the other foot if our owners over large period of time

• Slashed the budget, Sold all the best players replace them with cheap kids.
  
• Home games moved to leeds, bradford or nottingham
  
• Sold the stadium to another sporting team
  
• They look like going into league 2 the owners couldnt care less

What they are going through is nothing unusual for teams who get relegated, the only one of these that our owner hasn't done is move us to a remote stadium, first point we've complained about this for over 5 years, second point only valid one, third point our ground is no longer owned by the club, final point we were in the second tier before McCabe took over. So you can see if this is their complaint we have been submitted to three quarters of what they have anyway.

 

[BushBlade]

What they are going through is nothing unusual for teams who get relegated, the only one of these that our owner hasn't done is move us to a remote stadium, first point we've complained about this for over 5 years, second point only valid one, third point our ground is no longer owned by the club, final point we were in the second tier before McCabe took over. So you can see if this is their complaint we have been submitted to three quarters of what they have anyway.

I don't know the full details but they were in the shit before SISU took over. The Ricoh deal screwed them over. Apparently they'd agreed rent based on a PL budget but by the time they moved in they'd been relegated.

Most clubs would include a reduction in rent if they were relegated in the lease agreement, like West Ham have done, but they didn't. They just couldn't afford the rent.

SISU took them away in order to force the owners' hand but by doing so have ruined the relationship between them and the support.

The rest, as you say, is an inevitable consequence of relegation. It does seem that SISU have run the club badly and have lost more than our owners over the same time period, if their claims are to be believed, but by trying to reduce the rent, they've also managed to significantly reduce their income, by losing a large part of their supporters. They're in the same circle of decline that we were falling into before the cash injection from the Prince, but with a much greater drop in attendances that will hasten their fall.

But they'll bottom out and start to come back again at some point.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

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