November Open Meeting - Guest Speaker Steven Pressley
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The next Sky Blue Trust Open meeting will be held at The Squirrel Pub, Greyfriars Lane, Coventry, CV1 2GY on Monday November 3rd starting at 7.30pm.
We are pleased to announce that Coventry City FC Manager Steven Pressley and his assistant Neil McFarlane have agreed to join us as our special guests to answer your questions and tell us their plans for the future.
Last time the management duo joined us was in their very early days at the club. It was a fascinating and entertaining evening. Twenty months on so much has happened so it's going to be an equally interesting and honest meeting.
So if you want to know about Steven and Neil's thoughts on the team's start to the season, team formations, possible loan signings, plans for the January transfer window or anything else about the Sky Blues then please come along, ask your questions and hear what the guys have to say.
We are expecting a lot of interest in this meeting so are asking all members to reserve their place in advance. To do so please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your name and a contact number.
We look forward to seeing you at The Squirrel. It should be a cracking night.
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Attendances Survey
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Sky Blue Trust Meet Wasps
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On Thursday representatives of the Sky Blue Trust held highly productive, open and informative talks with Nick Eastwood, the Chief Executive of Wasps. Wasps are now owners of 50% of Ricoh leaseholders ACL and hope to shortly complete a deal for the remaining shares currently owned by the Alan Edward Higgs charity. A wide range of topics were discussed, the Trust listened to the plans for the Arena and ACL’s prospective relationships with CCFC and CRFC with interest and quizzed him about some of the issues that our members had highlighted as concerns. Nick pointed out that they had already begun talks with both clubs and wanted to build good, long term and mutually beneficial relationships with both. He said they hoped to have CCFC at the Ricoh on a long term basis and well beyond the current 2+2 year deal that was currently in place and would be honoured. He said he viewed their prospective relationship more as a partnership rather than simply landlord and tenant, a successful Sky Blues was as important to them as to all of us.
When asked about the pitch Nick said that they expected there to be no problems with the playing surface as it was always designed for multi-purpose use and with the football club having primacy the football would take place before the rugby, with CCFC playing on Saturdays and Wasps the following day. In the unlikely event that it should prove to be problematic and if there was a commitment from the football club that they were staying long term then ACL would look at the feasibility of a new playing surface. On the subject of the seats staying Sky Blue he said there were no plans to change this. They wanted this to remain the home of the football club, notwithstanding the estimated cost of replacing the seats would be in the region of £500k, money that could be invested much more usefully elsewhere at the Ricoh.
Nick stated several times that he and ACL wished to work with CCFC and the fans to improve the match day experience and was more than happy to work with the Trust on this. Overall it was a very encouraging meeting and hopefully CCFC can form a good working relationship with the new owners of ACL and ensure a bright, successful, long term future for the Sky Blues at the Ricoh Arena.
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