Coventry City manager Mark Robins has said that the Sky Blues future needs sorting out.
That future was threatened by the Football League, who have given Joy Seppala, Tim Fisher and David Boddy a deadline of March 5th to announce where the Sky Blues will be playing next season or face possible explusion from the Football League on April 25th.
Robins was asked about the situation and told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire and the other media present after the 1-1 draw away to Luton Town. “It just needs sorting out.
“And while we’d all like an easy life, we don’t get one.
“So I have got to make sure I manage the situation. It’s like Brexit. You can’t do anything until you know what’s happening and what the outcomes are, and then you can manage the situation. But you just have to get on with it.
“I have got a group of young players I am excited by.
“But it hasn’t really affected anything. We have just got on with it. The lads that have been here for while understand it and the players are only interested if they are going to receive their wages or not.
“What I would say is that I have listened to the facts and I understand a little bit more and I can understand what’s happening.
“And it’s really unfair and unjust why we don’t have the Ricoh Arena.
“I can go on about that all day and now we’re getting into the realms of the Wasps are, to all intents and purposes, in control of what happens at the Ricoh.
“I’m sure that all parties can work together to get a decent surface, to have a decent and fully functioning stadium that earns money because it’s a brilliant, brilliant facility which should be the home of Coventry City Football Club.
“That’s why Highfield Road was sold. That’s my understanding of it, and that’s what some of the money was spent on getting that site ready because that was going to be our home. Otherwise Highfield Road wouldn’t have been sold and we’d still be playing there.
“For me, it isn’t black and white and it isn’t simple. And I just need to trust in the powers that be to ensure, and I am not just talking about the owners, I am talking about everyone, all the stake holders, to ensure that Coventry City don’t get exiled from Coventry and playing in the city of Coventry and, ultimately, the Ricoh Arena which is our home.
“That’s where we should play and we need to get to a point where a decision is made where two brilliant clubs, a rugby football club and a football club can work together to make that stadium the best for the two teams.
“Look, I can’t get into specifics.
“I can’t do that and I don’t think it’s that simple.
“I just think we have got to let things play out and trust that we can get to a resolution.
“Like I said, it is unbelievably similar, on a smaller scale, to Brexit. Totally, totally similar.
“But someone at some point has got to make the right decision for everyone; for all the stake holders because there’s not just one party interested in this. There are a number of parties interested."
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