Ashley strikes again.

You have to wonder what he thinks he's going to do with that stadium,  now Wasps pipedream is over coventry city are the only concern big enough to really use it weekly and keep it making money aren't they?  Or is this some elaborate 'you can come back and play here but it's at double the rate you payed before' scam?

The BBC report makes it out to be a total shambles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63858805

Regarding Ashley, scumbags are always going to scumbag, whatever they are doing.

Bloody mess

Sounds like sabre rattling to push up the rent.

Quoted from mimma

Sounds like sabre rattling to push up the rent.

I think he wants to buy the club doesn’t he?

The stadium has been nothing but trouble for Coventry. I went there to watch Muse play there. I was told that the consortium that built it, including the local council who had a 40% stake, were charging a million and a half rent per season. All the club got in return was money from ticket sales and programs. All car park fees and food and drinks went to the consortium. The club got money from the sale of Highfield road but they were relegated from the Premier league so when it ran out they were screwed.

Quoted from mimma

Sounds like sabre rattling to push up the rent.

Yep, and yes create a good negotiating position to buy the club.

Badly managed club since Highfield Rd. All Ashley wants is a fast Buck!

It’s almost hard to remember a time in my life where Coventry City weren’t in the midst of some sort of chaos…

Where was it that Coventry were exiled to for a year or two - I think they were playing their matches somewhere like Northampton?

Quoted from Maringer

Where was it that Coventry were exiled to for a year or two - I think they were playing their matches somewhere like Northampton?

Northampton for a time and then Birmingham City for a time…

Though this is a bad situation a tiny part of me recalls some of the Coventry supporters arrogance about having to come and play us when they where in L2. Some of them on social media where vile before and after the game, completely classless.

Always remember one of the worse referrying decisions of my life when we played them here.
We got a free kick near the halfway line. Our centre half put it down to take it, but Macca came out to take it, so he rolls it back to Macca for him to take it. One of their players nipped in to take it off Macca and puts it in the net. Ref gave a goal after consulting the linesman.
Don't think that ref has reffed another league game!

Quoted from mimma

Always remember one of the worse referrying decisions of my life when we played them here.
We got a free kick near the halfway line. Our centre half put it down to take it, but Macca came out to take it, so he rolls it back to Macca for him to take it. One of their players nipped in to take it off Macca and puts it in the net. Ref gave a goal after consulting the linesman.
Don't think that ref has reffed another league game!

Not sure it was a shocking decision myself. It could have been prevented by Collins either not touching the ball or by throwing it to McKeown.

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45 seconds in.  Yeah, Collins' copulated that one up.  Don't get the need to touch the ball, it's already in the position where the free-kick will be taken.  

Their second goal is pretty horrific too, how McKeown and (I think) Paul Dixon have managed to find a gap between themselves for that header to get between I'll never know.

James Berrett with, arguably, his most notable contribution during his two-year spell at the club on there as well.

Quoted from mimma

Always remember one of the worse referrying decisions of my life when we played them here.
We got a free kick near the halfway line. Our centre half put it down to take it, but Macca came out to take it, so he rolls it back to Macca for him to take it. One of their players nipped in to take it off Macca and puts it in the net. Ref gave a goal after consulting the linesman.
Don't think that ref has reffed another league game!

clarke kicked the ball...

I've seen several similar incidents since, and they always remind me of that day at Blundell park. In every other incident, the ref always makes them retake the free kick. I've never seen another incident where if a player kicks a ball back for a free kick to be taken, and an opponent tries to play on, the ref will let them. It's  a one off.

Quoted from Hagrid

clarke kicked the ball...

Yeah amateurish from Clarke considering his experience

Back to the original thread. Given the circumstances, I believe that a Prem or EFL club should own the ground they play on 100%. Coventry is the lastest in a long line, over the years, of having the gates locked.

If the club own the ground then it would stop what happened at Scunny, Derby etc happening.

Quoted from Hagrid

clarke kicked the ball...

So it was, Collins was the guy who mistook a steward for James McKeown a few months later.

Quoted from mimma

Always remember one of the worse referrying decisions of my life when we played them here.
We got a free kick near the halfway line. Our centre half put it down to take it, but Macca came out to take it, so he rolls it back to Macca for him to take it. One of their players nipped in to take it off Macca and puts it in the net. Ref gave a goal after consulting the linesman.
Don't think that ref has reffed another league game!

Not as bad as the twit of a ref giving them a penalty near the end of our FA cup game their with 15,000 town fans expecting to get a replay.

Aye, and a Grimsby born player that scored ir

Quoted from arryarryarry

Not as bad as the twit of a ref giving them a penalty near the end of our FA cup game their with 15,000 town fans expecting to get a replay.

I well remember this. A proper Coop d'etat.....

Quoted from arryarryarry

Not as bad as the twit of a ref giving them a penalty near the end of our FA cup game they’re with 15,000 town fans expecting to get a replay.

15000 +1. Unofficially my first ever Town game as my mum was there and 4 months pregnant with me! Can’t remember much about it though 🤷‍♂️