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I dare say you're right, it's probably all a bit too late now.

Nice try Tony, but please remember it's an established truth around here that you never go to the games ;)

Unfortunately it would also mean splitting the liabilities, and SISU don't think the Ricoh is a viable enough business to carry any debts. That's how we got here.

If this is indeed the case, it would introduce a strange new sense of sanity to proceedings. I’m not sure I could cope with that.

I’m going to assume for argument’s sake that Les Reid wouldn’t have got this completely wrong. I don’t see why CRFC shouldn’t have two suitors? Anyway, I’ve really felt good at the Ricoh recently - so if CCFC seriously want to move out and build another stadium, it would at least help if I...

Danny Thomas 60s

Good luck with that :)

Not so sure about that - each of the three areas appear to be almost Ricoh-sized. But I agree that the locations in and around a complex series of junctions are awkward. It still feels barmy to even imagine the city having two large stadiums, located at successive junctions of the M6 on the...

Sorry to distract from what we can all agree has been a very productive debate, by posting something on-topic. Apologies if it’s already been raised by someone else, but I’ve noticed that a few days ago Rugby Borough Council published their proposed Local Plan for consultation...

Glazier 60s

I feel like Fisher about this – something along the lines of “I get the anger but I don’t understand the surprise”. From around Christmas time before the Wasps sale, Lucas made it absolutely obvious that another buyer was interested and was prepared to meet the Council’s expectations far more...

Just one question for everyone who thinks the Council and Higgs should have sold the stadium to CCFC. When did we ever put in a bid that was even close to being accepted? To draw a football analogy, we didn’t lose 4-3 in the final to a last minute offside goal. We lost 6-nil in the...

These worries are very rational I’m afraid! It seems to me that the nature of SISU’s business is not to pay full price for anything. I’m a bit like that, which is why the Christmas presents people get from me are from the previous January sales. It’s all very well if you can pick up a big...

Presumably all the reporters, all the city’s local government officers, and all the elected members from all the parties? I guess like Grendel you believe the whole lot of them have had an agenda to screw Coventry City Football Club, not just since SISU took over but for years before that? Not...

No, there is just one reason - that it fits 100% with everything SISU have said and done all the way through. At every stage they have made absolutely clear that they didn't want to buy the stadium (or even half of it) with all the debt intact. So we don't own it. Which is surely a very good...

Don't worry tisza - there's a guy on here called Ian who was born in 1779, and Tony is 176.

48 is the new 18 :)

I googled this, and it turns out to be Finnish for “heads of agreement”.

This for me is the absolute crux of it all. I don’t regard the high rent as a greedy fleecing of the club, but an inevitable consequence of the Council and the Higgs getting sucked into the whole unaffordable project. The same goes for the formula for buying back the club’s share. SISU...

Yeah, it’s a dangerous place. Any poorly-considered remark can be retrieved by some terrifying process years later and thrown back in your face. And there are teams of people who see it as their spare-time duty to keep a count of which threads you read. The exact assessment criteria haven’t...