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Are you for real? Or just the most deluded man in England?

Exactly. I get some stick for saying things some folk don't want to hear but it's been clear from when SISU moved the club to Sixfields that a big game of musical sports clubs was beginning. And the clubs and certainly the supporters won't be winners. Only companies like MGI will be.

...Moonstone, part of MGI Fiduciary Services (Malta) have bought the Ricoh. Does this matter when MGI Fiduciary also own Wasps? Well yes it does. Because MGI can always sell/franchise/liquidate Wasps but Wasps can never own the Ricoh. Saying ''Wasps'' own the Ricoh puts a more human face on...

MGI Fiduciary Services (Malta) will obviously be anxious for their franchise to succeed. If they can make money from it then no doubt they ll be wanting other ''sports franchises'' such as an EPL team at the Ricoh. SISU have a very limited lease (2+2) with MGI Fiduciary. After that, MGI...

Got to pick up on that last point. Northampton Saints get around 17,000 with the expanded Franklins Gardens. Anyway, not really central to this thread....

Now, this is conjecture on my part but the franchising floodgates are well and truly opened nowadays. SISU are stuffed. No ground. Poor team. Club losing money. Plan B? Franchise the club elsewhere and get some of their money back. Brum maybe? Or London? Adams Park in High Wycombe has space...

But you'll likely care if SISU franchise you to Brum. Or what if MGI Fiduciary Services (Malta) (owners of Wasps and the Ricoh) franchise say Burnley to the Ricoh? Bigger town, more chance of staying in the PL if they play in Cov.

It's worse than a shambles. It's a disgrace. ''Sports franchises'' is a cancer spreading through English sport. My own opinion is folk should stay away from franchises such as Wasps and MK Dons. Going to their home matches only encourages new franchises. I've never gone to MK Dons...

Bump. LOL. Football fans everywhere are so fickle

''Welcome to Coventry. Home of franchise sports teams. We're more plastic than Milton Keynes''. Hardly an advertising agencies dream is it? ps work still stopped on the new stand at Sixfields!!

Franchising is the name of the game these days and for some reason Coventry is at the heart of it...(temporary) franchise to Northampton... RFC Franchise next month...7,000 to watch CCFC v Franchise FC... the real risk of CCFC being franchised away again (Leamington? Really?).

No, Richardson's company Moonstone is the main Shareholder. Moonstone is based in Malta. Moonstone are owned by MGI Fiduciary Services, a ''business services and accountancy firm' ' also in Malta. The set up seems to deliberately as clear as mud but Richardson - like Winkie in Milton Keynes -...

The franchise hasn't actually happened yet but I'm glad you're over it already. Though you weren't quite so quick to get over the move to Northampton though? Will you be able to say ''it's happened'' if SISU franchise you to Brum or somewhere? Or is franchising only bad if a team LEAVES...

Winkie said that about Wimbledon. AFCW proved it was all a lie.

Well yes. But as you know I hate the way '''sports franchises'' are creeping into football and rugby. You can just see those clubs that don't own their ground upping sticks and building a 365 leisure complex that happens to house a football team every couple of weeks. Just hope SISU don't...

The East Stand is now half built. Double-decker etc. Would make the ground nice and smart...but work has stopped! Not quite sure why, NTFC very quiet. But it seems your old mucker Cardoza is into legal issues about it all. Rumour is £10m of the £12 loan from the council is already spent...but...

A loss making football club with virtually no chance of ever making a profit in its own right isn't going to be attractive to any owner (other than a fans group). For SISU (or any other owner) they need real estate to make 365 income...hotels, conferences, restaurants etc. Any club that...

This won't be a popular comment. But FFP means clubs that don't own their stadium are vulnerable to being franchised. You had a taster of that with the bizarre move to Sixfields. Next time SISU might get it right and franchise you permanently to Brum or London in a tax efficient Enterprise Zone...

That's something then. Their franchise is more of a threat to CCFC long term than the ridiculous move to Sixfields.

Good thing you won't be sharing the pitch with a plastic franchised rugby club then. Oh wait......