A DATE has been set for the rebirth of Coventry City’s former Sky Blue Trust.

Desperate fans fearing for the future will meet to thrash out plans which could see a supporters’ trust gain a stake in the football club on Wednesday.

Owner Sisu has already stated its intention to look at fans part-owning the club but is currently locked in negotiations with Coventry City Council over the Ricoh Arena.

The club is currently withholding two months’ rent and demanding a renegotiation of their tenancy agreement.

Without additional revenue from the stadium, club chief executive Tim Fisher has warned the club is not a “going concern”.

Amid uncertainty following relegation to League One, supporters are demanding a voice at the top table.

Fan representative Jan Mokrzycki said: “If Sisu carry out their veiled threat to let the club go in to administration or liquidation, then we want to be in a position to pick up the pieces.

“We want to know should the worst happen and we find ourselves in a Doomsday scenario, that Coventry City can be preserved. Even if that meant starting again at the bottom.

“We don’t want to become AFC Coventry.”

The trust is currently seeking legal advice from Supporters Direct on re-forming following a meeting of around 30 fans on Tuesday.

Supporters Direct is a national umbrella organisation which provides advice to trusts on how to organise and acquire a collective share holding in their football club on a not-for-profit basis, for re-investment.

The ongoing Ricoh wrangle means the club has not yet filed its accounts for last year, leaving a Football League transfer embargo hanging over the Sky Blues.

Fans had planned to re-form the Sky Blue Trust, thought to be “dormant”, with a different name; the Sky Blue Supporters’ Trust.

But SBT chairman and former city council leader John Fletcher got in touch to say the original trust was still in existence.

Jan added: “The Sky Blue Trust seemed to have disappeared. It hadn’t filed accounts for years or updated its website

“John said there had only been four of them left in the trust, and they had a by-law saying there had to be a minimum of six to do anything. We’ve decided there’s no point in reinventing the wheel so we’re all going to get behind the original name. It’s about time we got something together to represent the fans of Coventry City.”

The SBT re-launch meeting will take place next Wednesday at the Squirrel pub in Greyfriars Lane, city centre, from 7.30pm.