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OSB - exactly, agree 100% - therefore I again ask how on earth do SISU expect to make any money from this failed venture? Are they honestly going to wait the 10 or so years for ACL to pay off the loan? The HT option expires in 4 years and then the price will be much higher as like the council...

But how do SISU / Investors think they are going to make any money from the stadium? If they are struggling to find the £10m to buy the Higgs Charity share of ACL we can discount their ability to buy the freehold as that would be around the £100m mark. So how would they make money from a company...

I would rather have the patient ball retention football of Thorn than the mindless route one football of Boothroyd. However where Thorn has failed is not his system but the fact he hasn't recognised that he doesn't have the players to play in that system. It worked at the tail end of last season...

Crowy - you commented "do we need to worry about SISU anymore?" so I was just asking if they had fecked off in which case we don't but if they are still here then they are the root cause of our current ills and therefore we do have to worry about them and their intentions for OUR club.

So Godiva you are saying their investors have loaned £30m and are happy to not only not make any money on that loan but are happy to be charged for not making any money? I may not be a financial wizard but that makes no sense to me. I know in the greater scheme of things £30m is not a massive...

Why Crowy? Have the little darlings fecked off?

If we say it before every game then by the law of averages one day we will be right, may not be in this division but one day...................

Godiva / OSB - I agree with your analysis of the situation but the one aspect that puzzles me is the actual investors in these funds. They have put up the £30m and via the funds loaned it to the club, the club pays no interest on this loan therefore the funds receive no revenue on this...

Macca - as things stand I am in the SISU out / Thorn in camp but if by some miracle SISU do feck off and someone comes in with some serious dosh then would I want AT to go and an experienced manager with a track record to come in. Its not a case of AT is a great manager because he isn't...

I believe that the contracts were given to the players irrespective of their footballing ability, simply to increase the asset value of the club. I don't think AT had anything or very little input into the decision. I am sure it was his decision to let Turner go but only because he needed a...

Ichan - I fail to see how you can say that SISU have nothing to do with the playing side - they are the ones who failed to secure new deals for players at the end of the season, although I think Westy was never ever staying, they are the ones who gave the manager no budget for replacements, they...

No we need to be producing SISU OUT flags as that is where the real culprits are - OK Thorn may not be the greatest manager but he did Ok when he had some better players at the tail end of last season

If we had the money to sack Thorn and get some other sacrificial scapegoat in then I would rather we had spent that money on getting an experienced loan player in - managers can only do so much but when you have kids and crap to play with you are going to get results like we have. Thorn is far...

In the report it states 6 loan players - I am sure we only had 3 come in - Doyle and Turner (the two keepers) and Danny Ward. We loaned out some players, most significantly Thomas to Liverpool so does that mean we paid agents fees to loan players out? Seems barking but thats football.

Probably find Ken's, amongst all the other jobs he has (bless him - so selfless) he's also the clubs official agent and you wouldn't expect him to do that for nothing would you?

I have the new 2011 SISU advent calendar - on each door it says "Our Help To Coventry City" and when you open the door there's nothing there

How can you asset strip something that has no assets? Also I am sure Portsmouth will not get points deduction as its the parent company not the club thats in admin. "The club's parent company, Convers Sports Initiatives plc (CSI), has been placed into administration. Vladimir Antonov has...

I think its one of two scenarios Dave - a: slash costs so to keep running costs down this season to minimize losses and then sell off everything thats not nailed down as they are buggering off at end of season and therefore don't care if we go down or b: slash and cut get relegated and then more...

So why when asked the late Clouting didn't take the opportunity to rebuff the claims or try to explain the actual situation? Just to say that the season tickets credit side is being handled by a third party and they have paid in advance for the contract - he didn't need to explain the exact...

You can make the money from events etc at the stadium without owning it - thats what ACL is about. They have a lease with 45 or so years to run on the ground and any income from concerts, football, exhibition, etc goes into ACL coffers. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this OSB but I believe...