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No, he was turfed out of Coventry last season after the club nearly went into administration. There was an 8 million pound investment into the club to bail it out and SISU then put Ken Dulieu into the hotseat.

No argument there, but SISU never had any money to put in anyway. They would have had a better chance running us as a business but as we all know from experience it is almost impossible to run a football club currently unless you have money to throw at them. The only way to make a small fortune in football is to start with a large one.

Quite, SISU would have taken on a stadium, training ground and club here. With the facilities being a key factor, they could have controlled the destiny of the club. Coventry rent the Ricoh Arena from the local council. They need to get in a crowd of circa 18,000 a game just to break even on the agreed rental terms. All SISU have is the Allard Way training grounds and a league registration. It was never going to work.

Having seen what has happened to Cov over the last few years I personally think that we did better sticking with Rupes and Co. Yes, administration came quicker but so did our rebirth. I would in no way want to have had the ongoing drain that is happening at the Ricoh happening to us. Yes, Cov have stayed in the Championship and up until now avoided oblivion, but the club has become a souless shell with dwindling fanbase. Nothing to give them hope, nothing to rally their supporters, just a zombie stuttering towards the inevitable.

Oh they are boned. Living in Coventry the atmosphere here can only be described as 'appathetic.' The locals have totally lost faith in their club, a decade of essentially nothing happening to them can't be helping (at least we had relegations and survival days/play-offs to keep us going, Cov have literally had a decade of mid-table nothing.) As stated in the rumours thread the only offer to take the club on is a £1 admin fee and agreement to take on the debts from a consortium led by an ex chairman. Yes, this could have been us. I believe they made an offer to buy us but couldn't agree a share price with Rupert Lowe and Co.... Either that or one of Rupert's final big decisions in refusing them could well turn out to have been one of his best, he may not have been in charge them but he was a large shareholder. Let us remember that the only reason SISU took over Coventry was because they got them at a rock bottom price in the first place. They saved them from administration at the last minute back in December 2007.... now it's coming full circle.

I'm probably going to get flamed for this. When I couldn't afford to travel down to Saints or buy a season ticket a few years ago I did go and watch other teams around the midlands. Mainly the likes of Tamworth, Kettering, Leamington but occasionally Coventry City and Birmingham. It filled in my live football fix but at the back of my mind I was always wondering how Saints were getting on. The otherside of this was that I did get into the culture of the other teams and started looking out for their results/happenings etc. I would stop short of saying I started supporting any of them but from the smallest acorns and all that. So you can go elsewhere, but I appreciate I may be a bit different to most on here because i'm an exile.

I havn't actually, so that may be the crux of it. I assume it may be a bit scarier to go over the summit of something like that? For the sake of speed and physics though, you cannot get steeper then a 90 degree, verticle drop. It's like describing something as 110%. Makes no sense!

The only hope for Cov at the moment is a consortium of local businessman headed up by an old club chairman. SISU are not wanting to know though, especially as the best offer they can muster is to take on all the debts and liabilities for £1.

They being us? Or Leicester?

A 121 degree freefall? So the summit of the drop actually overhangs the end of the drop? What's the point of that!?

Yes. They're screwed. SISU won't sell for anything less then a profit on their initial stake yet the club needed an 8 million cash injection recently just to stave of administration. They are only heading one way.

Ok. I think we're done here.

Always rated McFadden but he would need patience, after all he's missed a season with cruciate ligament damage. Couldn't see him wanting to join anyway to be fair, but I personally would take the gamble.

I would agree with this. I enjoyed the thread greatly, it was interesting to see how the window was ebbing and flowing. It did become a cumbersome thread but that is surely what happens in a popular forum, good things grow quickly.

How does this compare with past rates? In particular the rates we had back at Premier league level and championship level last time out.

I agree..... but i've already reached the point of accepting I shall be following the games on sky when we get back to that level. It's already difficult justifying the fuel/ticket costs, if they continue to go up then it'll be my only choice.

So, if we are going to read between the lines of that statement, maybe he wants to be sure that the squad's unity is not compromised by bring Jack Cork in?

Imagine if Nigel Adkins had said that we'll be focusing on our forward movement and finishing in training today. Would that means he thinks it's awful?

Our aim is to be in the premier league. As proven by Wigan you do not need a large fanbase to be the backbone of your business at that level. It's all about the TV money and corporate spend.

3-0. And to make it funnier, the scorers were: Nick Barmby Emile Heskey Ugo Ehiogu

Crouchy. When he joined I was livid, he was however the only player in our team that year to emerge with any credit. God how we missed him in that fateful last game.

Raining before the start of the race now. Should bode well for the spectacle.

Of course they have a wage structure, if a player is willing to accept less then 15k a week they obviously have no ambition and will not fit in.

He has struggled with injuries recently. Although when fit he has been one of their first names on the team sheet.

That.... Is a surprise. An extremely good one!