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Sky Blues chief plans supporters talks

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SKY Blues’ interim managing director Tim Fisher said he plans to have more talks with the leaders of the Save Our City group after they pledged further action following the protests before Saturday’s FA Cup defeat to Southampton.

Around 400 fans gathered by the Jimmy Hill statue before kick-off to vent their anger at what they claim has been the mismanagement of the club since the investors took over in 2007. One fan even made a Sky Blue coffin.

Many stayed up until kick-off with around 50 at the statue until 3.15pm as planned before heading inside the ground to watch the rest of the 2-1 defeat. The anti-Sisu chants continued throughout the 90 minutes.

Mr Fisher told us this week: "Supporters have a right to protest and after speaking with our safety team I was pleased to hear that Saturday’s protest was carried out in a safe and orderly fashion.

"We need to follow that up now with more engagement and some sort of plan. We need to improve dialogue with supporters and I will be meeting them in the near future to discuss how we can move forward.

"The fans feel becoming shareholders in the club could develop and is a possible way forward. This would give them the chance to engage at AGMs but ideas need to be reasonable.

"It would give supporters more of an insight into the owners and would give them more of an insight into the mechanisms of running a football club."

Save Our City wants Sisu to put the club up for sale at a reasonable price.

Group leaders’ next plan is to try to fill the away allocation at Reading on February 11 as a show of support for the players and manager Andy Thorn.