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Watch this space. Once Appleton has made his investigations public (19th Sept) things will start to happen. My bet is that meetings will be had, much in the same way that the Alan Higgs Centre is now back in negotiations with the club re: training after the FA/FL got involved.

Sisu want out. They just need something to make it worthwhile & that's the stadium. No other buyer will want the club without the stadium. ACL & Sisu need to sit down and work out a deal for the stadium (rent then buy or outright buy) and we can move on. Strip back the emotion & politics and...

I've had my mind changed over the weekend based on a fair bit of investigating. The strategy should be to have either a straight sale to CCFC or a road map for rent going into sale. CCC/ACL should also accept the CVA and we should all lobby the FL to return the 10pts. (Despite what has been...

"This could get an epic colour scheme." This genuinely made me laugh out loud (once I'd selected it so I could see it). Godwin: I completely agree that the club and stadium should be united (cityed?) but I just can't see Sisu being the ones to trust doing it. They *could* do it, but the cost...

Godiva (original): In the coming months we will most likely see and hear very little from the club owners - as usual. But at the stadium side I expect quite a lot of activity. The stadium owners can surely not be happy with the outcome of this last battle with the club. They backed ACL's plan...

Like keeping us lot in order for a start ;-)

I didn't say they were waiting. To be clear: I know that they are actively trying to force the issue. Whatever the whys & wherefores of the debate, the Sisu people, rightly or wrongly, have a track record in restructuring, company administrations, distressed companies, bad debt & outlier...

You may mock but have you noticed how things have woken back up again since Mr Reid came back from his hols?

At the risk of sounding cynical (!) people with lots of money, lawyers and PR teams can lie to their hearts contents and get away with it far too often. The big spanner in the works for Sisu was the Council taking over the Yorkshire Bank's £14m mortgage to ACL. Sisu wanted that to get more...

I wouldn't necessarily expect Cov-based football fans to go but there's a lot of Cov fans in South Warwickshire who could drop in and look at a club that has risen from the ashes, is run well by (gasp!) by real fans of the club and play at a ground which was, and still is being, built with the...

:claping hands: *DING!* *DING!* *DING!* :claping hands: Ladies and gentlemen...we have tonight's winner.

It's tomorrow :)

Michael's dead right here. I was able to catch the end of the last London protest and it was great just walking up to the Football League building to see the front railings covered in sky blue ribbons etc. and then have a beer with a bunch of Cov fans who are just like the people I've been going...

Looks like it should be a Les Reid statue outside the Ricoh...

A protest I can get to! Good work & see you there...

Maybe we need to get down to Wycombe Square in London ("The UK's most expensive street!") and wait until she comes home from a hard day at work...

And now the original post has been cut to little pieces. "Point made" = "I'm mental me"

From the Daily Telegraph 19/08/2008 (fun bits highlighted): "Hedge fund Sisu Capital bid for several debt-ridden football clubs, before saving Coventry City FC from administration this year. The mysterious Mayfair fund, co-founded by traders Joy Seppala and Dermot Coleman, made pre-tax profits...

Looks like the smart money is on an adjournment

Our Joy also sits on the Takeover Panel, an organisation that oversees takeovers & mergers. An interesting collection of folks from govt. & industry on the panel but the one that sticks out is Bill Morris (AKA Lord Morris of Handsworth), former head of the Transport & General Workers' Union now...