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Absolute guff. No club has anything like the rental arrangement we have. We rent use of the pitch on a limited number of days a year. Walsall, for example, pay rent that enables them to operate that stadium 365 days a year for their OWN benefit - they are the stadium operators. So that means...

It all depends to what extent repayments can be offset against revenues that the facility would generate. None of us know what is planned, it may end up containing an adjacent housing development for all we know. What will the naming rights be worth? Will the catering contract be sold off at...

Speak for yourself.

So you bought a house cash? Nobody has 'enough' money to buy a house. They borrow it. Virtually every new stadium built in recent years has been mortgaged in some form or another.

The slip road would be part of a planning application that doesn't even exist yet! It wouldn't appear on HA plans at this point. There is plenty of land too...

We haven't 'got' anything Otis. I've never heard anyone claim that renting a house is better than buying one - yes I know those sort of analogies do not always work, but providing it is financed properly, it makes perfect sense for us to secure our long term future with a home of our own. It...

I was with you up to the bit about a new stadium not making sense. It's about the only thing that does make sense at the moment.

So would finish 2 years ahead of the likely completion date for a new stadium. Not saying it will be there, just heard a rumour. Something about a slip road directly off the A45 to a new stadium site next to industrial estate opposite airport (by the air museum).

And I think most people are going to have to come around to this idea. Much as I'd love a ground in or close to the city centre, it isn't likely to happen. If it's marginally over the boundary but still part of the Coventry conurbation then it'll have to do. It is perfectly possible to be...

I seem to recall Bob Ainsworth putting a silly value on it too. Still, they all raised a glass when they received their whopping cheque for £2.77 million from a bunch of smug, opportunist egg chasers from London. Just a 250 year lease too. Hoorah for local democracy.

The council have recently identified a shed load of greenfield land within the city that they plan to build housing on, so it's not as though they can claim there is no land available. Whether or not a stadium proposal would have to include a residential element in order for it to be acceptable...

Aye, a lone ranger myself tomorrow by the looks of it.

Believe or not, Swindon see Cov away as a bit of an occasion. Brought 3K last time iirc. More trouble at that game than I have seen for a long time.

Note on their forum fans are already calling for the seats to be changed to black and gold, which I am sure will happen eventually. Personally wouldn't mind that - I think it would convince many doubters that our future really does lie elsewhere. If only we can convince Fisher that any new home...

You mean 3% of the population. Simple maths Ash :) You can do the same calculation for most clubs in the lower leagues and the results will be largely the same, and our crowds are artificially low at the moment. Not sure why that dig is necessary.

Makes you wonder why they didn't accept the offer for double that amount from SISU a couple of years ago eh? Talk about not seeing things straight.

Always very wary of those who accuse others of "not knowing the bigger picture", as if they have some sort of unique insight not shared by the rest of us. You can be as condescending as you like, you can spin the facts this way and that, none of it can deflect from the undeniable truth - that...

We need Bristol City at home in the next round. In a one off game I would fancy us. Over two legs with the Wembley carrot dangling they'd turn us over.

I'm sure there is a fairly reasonable explanation for it, but of all the teams it could have been, had to be Leicester :facepalm: