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The council has an obligation to protect its assets. It has no obligation to a private business, ACL should be applauded for not evicting their non paying tenant months ago.

How dare the council save a £113m project for the benefit of the City that was in danger of going under due to the mismanagement of the football club.

Tim says he's written off the debt so their should be a queue of people wanting to take it on now.

Not what I was suggesting. I have no doubt they have spent that much on the club. That is why they are so incompetent.

This is a world apart from sisu's bullying tactics of trying to destroy a business that belongs to the people of Coventry.

<p> My point was that any business people that can lose £45m and make a company worse is surely incompetent.

Some of the debt was written off, most was just transfered to Sisu. Which I don't actually have a problem with, but Ranson should have been honest about this from day 1.

Do all other clubs not have those outgoings though?

First thing you've said I agree with!

Can you buy tickets in there using flexi tickets or is it cash sales only?

We repeatedly hear that sisu have put in £45m, and that we should be grateful for that. In any other business, if the owner invested £45m and actually made the company substantially worse, would you not think they were incompetent?

Doesn't seem that strange, Swindon are certainly one of the bigger league 1 clubs.

<p> Is that not exactly the reason why sisu should have asked acl for help rather than making demands in the style of a 2 year old? Act with some humility and they would have had a lot more support.

<p> Coventrians do, unfortunately successive players, managers, and owners dont.

I've never said £1.2m was a fair rent. I have no problem with the club ASKING for a reduction, and accepting that the club is in this mess because of it's own actions over the last 10-15 years. If they went to ACL and asked for help, whilst accepting that ACL were under no legal obligation to...

Think you mis understood me. You said we should fill the ground, I was just saying no league 1 club is capable of getting over 30k average.

Shane O'Connor actually did a really good interview on him.

No league 1 club averages over 30k, and I imagine you have to go back about 50 years to find one that did. So why do you expect CCFC fans too?

Yes he did. He also claimed that the auditors had praised him on doing a fine job on turning the clubs finances around.

Exactly. Our crowds are 5000 above the 'average league 1' (to quote Tim Fisher), which at an average ticket price of £15 equates to £1.72m. It must be compulsory at other clubs to buy an overpriced pie.