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Aren’t there basically three businesses? The Arena / stadium; Coventry City Football Club; Wasps Rugby Union. The football club is never going to own the Arena, and nor is the rugby club. Wasps (rugby club) didn’t ‘steal our stadium’. One hedge fund took it from under the noses of another. Sisu...

Thanks for looking that up. Maybe we’d be a better side if we could swop Kelly’s head onto Hamer’s body? (And sneakily put the guy with Hamer’s head and Kelly’s body on the market for £5m).

If anyone on here can be bothered to do the stats, it would be interesting to see the win % with and without Kelly last season. Not an exciting or hugely eye-catching player, but does he influence games nevertheless? Of course, even if he returns his fitness is going to be questionable.

You do make it sound 'refreshing' and simple. But this relies on the notion of Sisu paying a mutually-agreed price for something (as opposed to exploiting a distressed business) and making an investment that would benefit other parties. Not sure the idea will appeal to them.

Well this is really cheering me up

Yuk

I still suspect Wasps will find a way to hang around, but let’s imagine they are gone. I want to believe CCFC might gain – but how exactly, apart from a flatter pitch? The web of companies is way beyond me. Who would be calling the shots if Wasps were out of the equation? Would Sisu be looking...

I’m not suggesting he’s a top Championship keeper, just pointing out that he’s doing a “pretty decent” job. In recent games he’s made some good saves, he’s been alert enough to come out and sweep up a few times, and got just enough of a fist on some wicked crosses into a packed 6-yard box. We...

Can’t be arsed to go through the whole team, but Bidwell was obviously great, and surely Ben Wilson is worth a mention. If you didn’t have the benefit of the expert opinions on here, and simply watched his recent performances, you’d think he was a pretty decent keeper.

The majority of people here didn’t rate Gyokeres at all when he was on loan, with just a few of us seeing the potential and wanting to keep him. The same person who claimed ‘none of us would care if he never played for us again’ still seems to think we’d be better off selling him. Baffling...

Nah, Wilder is a much shorter guy and has grey hair.

If I'm not mistaken, we turned down Kevin Keegan as a triallist because he was 'too small'. He might have strengthened our team of Kevs bit, and would no doubt relish playing alongside the stylish Kyle.

In our case, the war chest has been slammed shut

Sisu’s stadium strategy was based on a complacent assumption that they were the only game in town, trying to play financial hardball with local councillors and a charity, and pulling a bunch of smartarse moves like the golden share and the move to Northampton. Contracts all to be paid off by the...

I guess that's robbiethemole? Nice boots robbie ;)

Thunderbird 7. International Rescue’s new service, responding to urgent distress calls for replacement of life-threatening divots. I can hear the music now! But how do they deploy it? I think it would need to move a bit quicker to achieve take-off from that ramp that Thunderbird 2 used.

Leif Bløwer (Don’t bother googling for this, he’s just a completely imaginary Norwegian sweeper)

Noel Wheelbarrow Mower Konjic Nicky Planter Roger Van Tool And if the sprinkler system stops working, time to bring on Willo Flood

Dimitri Compostopoulos

Fair comment Robbie, and I agree with the sentiment, but in practice if Wasps had been rejected on those grounds, SISU’s track record suggests they would have continued their distressing tactics until they got whatever they wanted. The interests of the Council, the charity and even the football...