By CovSid67
February 27 2014
From the 'Sky Blue Juggernaut' to a 'Unicycle with a flat tyre' - the wheels have well and truly fallen off the bus recently.
In a matter of weeks I've gone from looking up the table thinking the unlikely might/will happen, to looking down and thinking relegation is massivelypossible.
With results taking a down-turn, fans are once again blaming being away from the Ricoh, though it didn't seem to bother the team earlier in the season. Maybe the players have only just realised?
Criticism of the club's owners slowed up too, with message board contributors reduced to tired old sound-bites. Now this is all SISU/Otium's fault again.
Bizarrely, we were doing fine with a small squad (To small, according to some), but, since adding half-a-dozen (Potentially decent) players, our form has nose-dived.
This is clearly down to Steven Pressley's 'Plan A' quitting a club where he was regarded as a 'hero', to become far more unpopular with Wolves fans. Money talks, and so do Wolves fans: they don't rate him.
We now need a new 'Plan A', with a 'Plan B' for if/when that fails. Delfouneso, who should be far to good for League One, could be the answer.
Other potential replacements have already gone without showing what they can or can't do! When people said Denzel Slagerwas fast, I didn't think they meant in and out of the club. If his stint was short, I'm baffled and bemused in equal amounts as to what went on with Rory Donnelly!
With Clarke jumping ship, I do wonder what teams like Southampton - once a similar size to Coventry City - do to be able to hold onto their 'stars'. Bigger clubs are rumoured to be after them, but most of their players stay.
I'm guessing the players they bring in like the seaside?!
One depressing statistic I recently worked out is that there were probably almost as many Coventry City fans at the Ricoh for the JPT match versus Crewe last season as there will be home supporters visiting Sixfields for this entire season.
Trying to get support - preferably from people with power and influence - for the 'Without Fans There Is No Football' e-petition (Which is hopefully going to fix football) is about as enjoyable as watching Coventry City snatch defeat from the jaws of victory week-after-week.
There have been some notable re-Tweets for the campaign, from (Amongst others): Kevin Gallacher, Gary Gillespie, Chris Waddle, and Steve Claridge, but other football people, that could potentially add thousands, have so far failed to help.
I guess it's okay if it doesn't affect the club(s) they support....
As plenty of clubs struggle to survive, that Wayne Rooney could pay the massively excessive rent ACL were charging for Coventry City to play at the Ricoh with a months wages tells you exactly what is wrong with football.
I wonder if we could persuade forty-eight of the most ridiculously over-paid players to all sponsor a League One or League Two side?
The petition address, for those that haven't signed yet, is: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/59884
