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I wouldn't hang anything on that original offer though Godiva. AEHC could not get the security they required from it and other than a throw away remark/offer at a breakfast meeting of £2m that was flatly rejected both sides walked away from any deal. Yorkshire bank were not prepared to settle at...

Another thought for you ....... plenty of comments about SISU dumping costs on to CCFC............ I wonder if CCC have managed to do similar but to ACL........ in which case estimates and conjecture about ACL profitability etc could be wide of the mark going forward

So they have stopped him being the owner ................ until 25th March 2015 ............ 4 months! Apparently the effect of his conviction is considered to be spent by that time and he can be the owner again. Given the appeal process, the Xmas break, etc then have they really banned him...

would go further, surely the stakeholders in ACL needed to add value so when the council did their loan why didn't they extend the lease at the same time? So many options and opportunities missed by both sides it beggars belief if you didn't know what had actually happened.

This 250 year lease....... I do not understand why the CCC only offered it for the first time now, and to cap that offered it to Wasps. Yes you can question why wasn't it offered to CCFC certainly. But even more fundamental is why didn't ACL have such a lease in the first place ? They paid 21m...

I wouldn't disagree with most of that stupot. The comparison I made is very simplistic. I think the point is though that there would appear to be a greater spend per spectator from a rugby crowd than a football crowd. Build in to that lower cost structures for rugby and it would seem the...

Opinion and conjecture is all any of us have No proof of the Stadium certainly which was first muted by the club to ACL in December 2012 btw. No proof it isnt happening either though - just no one can find it Why the focus on £3m losses as disclosed in the June 2013 accounts of Wasps? How is...

Think there is some confusion as to what sits where in financial statements The costs of acquiring and building the Ricoh will sit as an asset on the balance sheet of the freeholder - CCC - subject to any revaluation since 2005. On the other side of that would be the liability for amounts that...

Pretty certain there was a press release from TF saying that CCFC had contributed to the pitch improvements at Sixfields for this season As for the Ricoh yes ACL were responsible for the pitch maintenance from the time that CCFC shipped out to Sixfields and still are. However up to the...

Would also add that the lists of incomes available and what could be done to get others have always been available to CCFC at the Ricoh 365 days a year

You see I do have a problem with statements like this from the club and its representatives, but not the premise that the club needs income to succeed. Firstly the "60p in the £ goes to SP to build the team". Simply untrue. Firstly the SCMP is a calculation setting a limit on what you can...

Terrible news. My thoughts go out to his family and friends. Gone too young RIP Phil Hughes Also my thoughts go out to the guy who bowled the ball - I cannot imagine how he must be feeling poor guy

There should have been an email out ..... I got mine yesterday Trust Meets Wasps/ACL Last week the Sky Blue Trust met again with Nick Eastwood CEO of Wasps and new Chair of ACL, following confirmation of their 100% ownership of ACL. The meeting centred on the new owner’s approach to the Sky...

Given that Wasps must be spending a lot of money to promote their own brand and that as yet attendance numbers over a prolonged period have yet to be proven one way or another I really do not see why Wasps would be interested at this stage. They have to expend a lot of money and effort making it...

Personally I do not think you can choose between them although they are slightly different types of players. Both are the best at what they do. If I had to choose I would do it not on the basis of what they offer if things are going well for the team but on the basis of what they offer when...

Personally I think it was both but started with the need to reduce the club's wage bill. At the time the decisions were being made we were still at Sixfields with the budgets that set plus we had not actually sold Wilson. There was a need to drive down costs. Baker was probably the highest...

But if you rule or control by fear do you get the best out of the people you control? You may do initially but in the end it breaks down. I agree there has to be structure, that players have to carry through what is expected and to the standards set, and that some times you have to be very firm...

I wonder if the fans representative will be used by the directors as an excuse not to talk to individual fans groups directly. In the past the Trust has talked to all parties usually constructively but will they now be expected to channel any questions through the SCG and Mr Strange in...

I wouldn't expect that these will be the only or last changes. But what would you expect considering they in effect own the stadium and CCFC are day tenants It isn't from the Wasps point of view about rubbing CCFC's noses in it...... it is about Wasps making it their home and branding it...

I wouldn't disagree with that. I think my issue is that the fans rep appears self appointed with little connection to the fans in the first place, and because of that the appointment comes over rightly or wrongly as chosen and an ego trip. That said what is the purpose of the SCG or indeed...