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Because you still have to raise the initial investment and service that debt. It doesn’t matter what’s cheaper in the long run or what might happen in the future. We might be able to go for 25-30k but there is no point us on here treating it as a minimum demand. If we can raise enough capital to...

Yes, obviously it would be raised capital and of course there is more detail to to. You still have to provide a business case to raise capital and pay said capital back. If we build a stadium that is too big we won’t be able to do that. Hence my comment that it would need to be sustainably financed.

Nottingham for one. Either way it’s irrelevant. It can be used as an objection but it’s not genuine. All that matters is can you afford to build it.

I said it won’t compete for the same events. I also said they might be an obstruction. All I’m saying is two stadiums is not a genuine reason to not build.

It’s not a deflection it’s just a statement of fact. You can have multiple stadiums in reasonable sized cities. It’s not even uncommon. It might feel odd to have two stadiums but the only relevant factors are can we get it built. It’s not likely to compete with the Ricoh for the same events so...

JLR are severely financially distressed atm.

There are plenty of areas with more than one stadium. Think the worry of multiple venues in one medium city is the least of our issues tbh.

I don’t see many people on here saying it’s all SISU. Council and wasps are massive dicks too but we are where we are.

Then hope SISU are stubborn enough to build a stadium.

Yeah let’s hope that’s the case.

Looks like he’s a defensive midfielder so makes sense.

Unfortunately Nick the only way I can see out of this is if we build a new stadium or the same owner controls both clubs. I’m struggling to believe we'll build a new stadium.

If both are true then as I say it’s not as black and white as people sometimes make out and calls Boddys statement about wasps running down the clock into question. It would suggest, as I say in a reply to Nick above, a game of chicken with both sides trying to make the other blink to get more...

It does and probably means we’re stuck in a game of chicken to see which club gets distressed enough they need the other. In the mean time we both get dragged down.

One thing we need to drop as fans looking on is the conflicting idea that wasps are skint and need us at the Ricoh yet are hampering our ability to do so. People seem to concoct their theories believing both. Pick one or accept the issue is less black and white and the two sides are just falling...

They must want something out of it. I’d hope a track in the stadium isn’t part of it but as I’ve said multiple times we’re not in a position to be picky.

Yeah. That decision being to ask the council to fund the Ricoh as we couldn’t afford to build it...

This is exactly my point. The size needs to be suitable to our current standing AND sensibly financed. There’s no point saying we’d like 30k plus on the off chance we make it to the prem. Even if we did want to do the debt incurred will hold us back and we could end up with another Ricoh...

Completely irrelevant as they didn’t build it from scratch but no and they are now struggling financially.

We don’t and we don’t have the money to pay for it. Let’s be realistic here.