11-06-2005, 23:50
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Please Help Us
As a Coventry City Fan we need help from all supporters. We were due to move in to a new stadium however due to delays we cannot now play there until august 20th.
However CCFC has lodged 2 appeals to the Football League to help us and they turned us down twice.
As a result we are now homeless unless the club can find another venue
Myself and other supporters feel quite disgusted at this decision and therefore we are asking if you could sign this petition:
you can at http://www.petitiononline.com/ccfcvsfa/petition.html
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12-06-2005, 00:11
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Re: Please Help Us
Has Highfield Road been flattened then?
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12-06-2005, 00:16
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Re: Please Help Us
not yet but they have started to take a few things down, however whether HR will be used again is down to a fresh safety certficate.
They have been told by the Football League that they cannot have 3 games away a similar thing which has been used by Stoke City and Bolton because their stadiums wasn't finished on time so we will have no choice but to play the first game at home so the club at the moment are looking for alternative venues but don't be surprised if we have to use HR again. I am just angry with the Football League's Attitude in the whole situation
If the Club can't play the first game at home then the Football League will deduct us points because of their shoddy treatment towards us
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12-06-2005, 00:25
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Re: Please Help Us
Can't you negotiate playing it somewhere else, like another local ground when the team's away?
[The FA/FL are twits imo.]
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12-06-2005, 00:29
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Re: Please Help Us
well the club are looking at trying to reverse the fixture but again that will prove to be difficult because of asking the tram who we're playing to do it and also they'll have to get permission off the Football League
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12-06-2005, 00:47
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Re: Please Help Us
*bump* 
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12-06-2005, 02:17
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Re: Please Help Us
How many other forums have you spammed your message on?
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12-06-2005, 02:23
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Re: Please Help Us
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Originally Posted by ntl customer
How many other forums have you spammed your message on?
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Hello you not a passionate football supporter then?
Hope Coventry get something sorted, you could play in my back garden but the weeds are taking over. 
oh n Mick Ferguson was a pain in my ass  Brilliant player.
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12-06-2005, 02:32
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Originally Posted by ntl customer
How many other forums have you spammed your message on?
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Hopefully as many as he can.
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12-06-2005, 08:46
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Originally Posted by ntl customer
How many other forums have you spammed your message on?
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Why shouldn't he? Take it you don't like football- and if you did, you'd want to get as many people to be aware of the state of your club (and trust me, ours is hopeless).
Even the plastic Mancs are realising this- and I saw a letter on ceefax saying something like "man u have got 2 years under Glazer and I'm off to support Spurs" what a joke.
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12-06-2005, 09:52
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Re: Please Help Us
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Originally Posted by coventrycityfan
As a Coventry City Fan we need help from all supporters. We were due to move in to a new stadium however due to delays we cannot now play there until august 20th.
However CCFC has lodged 2 appeals to the Football League to help us and they turned us down twice.
As a result we are now homeless unless the club can find another venue
Myself and other supporters feel quite disgusted at this decision and therefore we are asking if you could sign this petition:
you can at http://www.petitiononline.com/ccfcvsfa/petition.html |
A few years ago my team played at Notts County because our ground wasn't ready, I'm sure the FA would let you play elsewhere.
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12-06-2005, 09:54
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Re: Please Help Us
I agree, it isnt really spam now boys is it?? It is call to rally the troops for help, good on him!
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12-06-2005, 10:15
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Re: Please Help Us
Listen i am not spamming this at all At the end of the day i am trying to get other football fans to sign this petition. All we are asking is for over a thousand signatures and if we can do that then hopefully it'll send a clear message to them that their whole decisionmaking in this has been stupid
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12-06-2005, 14:10
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Re: Please Help Us
Hmm, not a footbal fan but there do seem to be a couple of issues here and the FA might not be quite so unfair or stupid as you make out.
Firstly, the new stadium was supposed to be ready, but now won't be. Costs incurred by delays should be recoverable from the contractors under a penalty clause. SO hiring a temporary ground to cover the home game(s) when you don't have your hoped for venue, should still be financially OK.
If you ask the other teams who you were to play to swap over their home/away arrangements, could that place your team at an advantage and them at a possible disadvantage later in the season. Would that mean other teams have a run of away games, and you a run of home games, potentially at a critical time in the season?
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12-06-2005, 14:17
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Re: Please Help Us
mate,
Your point about contractors/Penalty Clauses. Afraid to say there wasn't any Penalty Clauses signed in the Contract. Coventry City are tenants, The Whole Project is run by Arena Coventry Limited/Coventry City Council
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