A Week Of Hope

Last updated : 20 July 2012 By Rod

This week has probably been the best City fans have experienced for a long time and it is down to one word HOPE ! Whoever owns Coventry City had to reduce the wage bill which was probably high by mid table Championship standards – we are almost there with Richard Wood being linked with his old club Sheffield Wednesday and Joe Murphy touting himself around the lower reaches of the Championship. If we can get them off the payroll and sign a couple of experienced hands on less than half their wages and take a couple more loans we should be in good shape for a promotion challenge.

I think we should congratulate Fisher and Waggott for the work they have done since they joined the club, but the task is only just starting. We are probably a minimum of 5 years away from a return to the Premiership and this will probably not happen if the club remains under the ownership of SISU.

The squad is down to a reasonable cost level but still contains too many loanees , but that is probably going to be the shape of our club until we return to the Premier League and will be the structure that most of the lower league clubs for the foreseeable future.

So hopefully we will get off to a good start; the fans return and SISU begin to look at realistic selling opportunity.

They will never be forgiven for their lamentable management of the club in the first four years of their custodianship. They appointed a totally unsuitable person as their chief representative at the club and then brought the ‘dastardly’ Dulieu into the picture in a number of roles for a year or so.

At least they knew

-Fisher, who is a ‘football man’ has done quite well.

-He brought in Waggott, who sounds like he knows what he is doing. Certainly the deals he has negotiated have been much better than any we have seen for a long time.

-Rioch has been absolutely brilliant as head of the Youth Academy

-Thorney has surrounded himself with two sound individuals. They are what he would call ‘family’ in his manor and the supporters have faith in his coaching team, with the worthy Ogrizovic still around and if Joe goes , he may be on the bench next season!

All much better but the ownership of the Ricoh will still damn us to a long spell out of the Premiership unless this can be sorted out.

Let us hope SISU have the ‘nouse’ to understand that they should now depart, recognise the losses that they have probably written off and put it down to experience. We can then welcome back the CCFC Diehards who have left the fold and refused to return whilst SISU are the owners.

So now that we have added ‘Hope’ to our ‘modus operandi’ we can then add ‘genuine promotion contenders’ and ‘average gates of 20,000’ to our regular conversations.

I can then hope that I receive a phone call as I walk down Portland Place one sunny morning soon – ‘They have gone’ rather than those I have got used to in the last 10 years ‘He has gone’ or ‘He has been sacked’ !