Coventry in transfer embargo

Hadley

Hadley

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As well as a possible ground share with Walsall, Cov are under a transfer embargo after having to defer Vat payments to HMRC..

Attendance yesterday circa 9K.

Postponements at start of season has knackered their Cashflow.

Must be tough to be a sky blue right now.
 
Coventry are in a false position League wise with not playing their first few games of the season at home cos of the rugby 7s.

They looked pretty decent going forward and like ourselves, had a fair few injuries. I’m sure they’ll be fine and get out of the bottom 3. Their fans have certainly been through the ringer and deserve a bit of stability
 
Limechase said:
& non of this is the fans fault, & again they are made to run around to watch their team....

Feel for them...
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I know what you are saying but what about the teams who’s games were postponed because they couldn’t play there.
Let’s say some of them have some cup runs and have to squeeze their rearranged match with Coventry into a hectic schedule. Is that then fair also?
The simple answer would be to make Coventry play their home games away until this matter is sorted.
Yes, I also feel for the fans but the FA cannot let this spiral out of control
Since they built that new ground (20 years ago ??????) they have had nothing but trouble and whilst it is not the fans fault surely the hierarchy at Coventry must shoulder the blame
 
Hadley said:
As well as a possible ground share with Walsall, Cov are under a transfer embargo after having to defer Vat payments to HMRC..

Attendance yesterday circa 9K.

Postponements at start of season has knackered their Cashflow.

Must be tough to be a sky blue right now.
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It certainly looked more than 9k yesterday the stand opposite from the posh seats and along the side towards the right of the Pool fans was pretty full

Must have been 9k in that, I wonder if the cash potg is helping them a bit
 
Hadley said:
As well as a possible ground share with Walsall, Cov are under a transfer embargo after having to defer Vat payments to HMRC..

Attendance yesterday circa 9K.

Postponements at start of season has knackered their Cashflow.

Must be tough to be a sky blue right now.
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Couldn't care less.
 
It wouldn’t be fair to have them playing their home games away until they got the stadium situation sorted out because that would give an advantage to those teams who played them early in the season

They either play all of their games at home/away or a neutral venue but you cannot mix and match
 
Wizaard said:
We had 30 years plus of being held back. They've never boycotted in numbers despite being in four different grounds. I have every sympathy with their predicament but its not to the same scale as we had
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Fair point Wizard and all thanks to Bill Carmel in 78 destabilising the club by sacking Alan Brown, selling players and pulling his money out of the club. What followed was shite for us and then old rapey took over and bought the club for a quid and we all know what went on after that.
As for Coventry they've only had 11 years of shite compared to 30, but having it shit is still having it shit, I don't wish another 19 years of shite on them.
 
Hadley said:
Stand corrected
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BBC yesterday in the match stats said 8900 ish.
Thought at the time it was complete nonsense.
Wasps by the way have a lot to answer for….I enjoy watching the Rugby on BT but this “clubs ownership“ deserves what has happened to it but the football ⚽️⚽️⚽️supporters don’t.
 
Applelitic said:
BBC yesterday in the match stats said 8900 ish.
Thought at the time it was complete nonsense.
Wasps by the way have a lot to answer for….I enjoy watching the Rugby on BT but this “clubs ownership“ deserves what has happened to it but the football ⚽️⚽️⚽️supporters don’t.
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Rugby Union in general is completely unsustainable. You have squads of 30 plus all full time with huge supporting cast, on gates more suited to League 2. It doesn't add up.
 
Hadley said:
As well as a possible ground share with Walsall, Cov are under a transfer embargo after having to defer Vat payments to HMRC..

Attendance yesterday circa 9K.

Postponements at start of season has knackered their Cashflow.

Must be tough to be a sky blue right now.
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Attendance yesterday was 19K. BBC website missed a crucial '1'
 
Wizaard said:
Rugby Union in general is completely unsustainable. You have squads of 30 plus all full time with huge supporting cast, on gates more suited to League 2. It doesn't add up.
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Most teams get around 11k plus attendances so that's a bit wide of the mark. Leicester get close to 20k per game and Bristol Bears average around 17k.
 
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Wizaard said:
How much are those 10,000 paying to get in?
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A lot. Even tickets at Gloucester are 35 quid. Bath are averaging at around 45-55 quid. Far pricier than League Two football that's for sure. I'd imagine they match up with low Championship and high League One sides for revenue from gates.
 
If Coventry have 13,000 season tickets and they end up playing their home games at Walsall (11,300 capacity) away end holds 2000 which only leaves 9300 available for coventrys home game meaning they have 3700 people with season tickets that wouldn’t be able to go. How do they sort this out?
 
I would imagine they will hope some will want a refund or sorts, or they will do a ballot for each game and refund the season tickets holders who aren’t successful. Crap position to be in for them
 
They announced the crowd at 18k+ over the tannoy (can't recall the exact number) and there looked to be more there than last year, when the gate was around 15k for a night match...
 
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