We just need to waitrose a bit, am sure someone will post something

Did my retailer-based pun break wup?

Exiled scroll down and Hash has handily pasted it on here. Shouldn't tesco too long to find it.

Great to see that Jack Rudoni was the player to score Coventry's first home top flight league goal for 25 years!! Well done Jack, you’ve come a long way from being a loanee at Corinthian Casuals in 2019 :)

I think that's why 21st October is important for them to explain their vision. And it's more important that members believe them, and that that belief turns out to be valid even though by then it will be too late if it's not. For me I think the 21st October really relies a lot on the investors' performance on the night. Football, isn't it.

Trigs-the worst one was Wycombe away in the 5th round of the Cup in 2001 when they scored a goal that was 10 yards offside

Is there a link to the email ? Asda some reason I have t received it !

My concern is simply around all the reported guff about becoming a youth factory and getting involved in the football side. That's not what we want or need. We can't be in a place where our manager is forced to sign or play players because they're an investment or saleable asset we want to develop. We'd be a basket case club in five minutes. Also, if that's the goal - what happens when it doesn't work? Do they walk?

All this and elections at the same time.

If it's the best out of the 20 investors, and we become a feeder team for premier league/ championship.it will show no ambitions to progress up the pyramid, just consolidating losses.

The problem with any of this is this mob could lie through their teeth, say all the things we want to hear as unless they are pig shit thick they will know what they are by now, acquire a stake in the club and then do what they like. They could even do nothing at all. In those circumstances are we just stuck with them as I cannot see how you could force them to sell or hand back their shares. Maybe there will be some side agreement that will provide a mechanism for this. I'm less interested in the DTB still theoretically calling the shots and more how the debt is cleared and a pipeline of ongoing cash is made available. If not, is there a Plan B or can we go back to one of the other supposed 19 interested parties and reopen negotiations with them?

21st November 1992. It was the match where "phases of play" was first mentioned after a dodgy offside goal was given against us I think.

"Through a thorough and considered process, one investor group has emerged as the strongest fit across all criteria ......." So we will possibly end up with a solution that pleases the clique because they will retain control of "their club" - and like lemmings we will vote for it out of fear for where the club might otherwise head - as opposed to being able to consider a solution (were there really 19 others when we were continually told there would be little or no interest?) that might actually be better for the club overall and in the long run (which we will not get to see) whilst, at the same time, it might be one that removes the clique from their ability to interfere negatively as we have seen so often over the last few years.

Trigger-I don’t remember 52 at Middlesbrough but that figure would seem about right as a low point

I wonder if JJ will attend...

“Details of the investor group, their proposal and how to vote will be shared on 21 October” - does this mean that we will be told exactly who is involved and what the specifics of the investment would be, including any conditions and longer term prospects for further investment…? If not, they might as well not bother with the meeting.

Rob - I think it was more that some, certainly me, thought it could be funded by New Plough Lane. Reality hit when that was fully functional and losses stuck at around 2 million per year.

Wasn't it a well-publicised 52 at Middlesbrough back in the early 90s that was the lowest top flight away crowd?

OI - judging by matchdays, those who have left have been replaced already

Agreed Hash and that's why 21st October is so crucial. I hope they do a good job and I hope they're true to their word in terms of their plans rather than just doing a good job to get through the vote and then removing the mask. Again this isn't a suspicion that that's what will happen as I have no evidence to suggest that they would be great or bad investors and obviously I hope for the great kind. And I agree that it's good to (hopefully) actually see the people involved this time round prior to any vote.

Hash - the Three Wise Men was a piss-poor sales pitch from the start, so it was no real surprise it flopped. If it was better organised it might have been interesting if it passed - we've kept our current ownership model for as long as we have because nobody made us a proper proposal until now...

Some people stop going at any major decision, about a decade before turning semi-pro, people stopped going because of moving from a committee picking the team to Les Henley as manager. More recently some have never been back since Eames got sacked. All fine but hopefully they get replaced by new supporters.

Spit the dog-I was in Crete on holiday a couple of years ago and met a Wednesday fan who insisted that one top flight game we only brought 14 fans, he said only Shrewsbury took less once with 12. I told him we did have bad away support(as did a lot of clubs)but never that few as I went to all those games

We weren't told anything at all about the three wise men proposal and as far as i remember there were no protections put in place that would stop them eventually buying out the whole club, Plough Lane etc. It was a shower of shite. This seems on the face of it to be promising and we will actually get introduced to the investors and get some detail about what they are planning to do.

REPD-back in 1964 people stopped going when we turned semi pro as they liked the amateur ethos but within 10 year amateurism was abolished so Sydney Black was ahead of his time in seeing that