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Or you're just on a bit of a casual wind up, and having to discuss properly isn't as easy as chucking in hand grenades. And you didn't manage to work in a mention of the 'frothing masses' this time. I'm disappointed - I think you need to try harder too.

And again - a question that absolutely no one who says we need to do a deal with Wasps has answered: What exactly are Wasps going to offer us? They bought ACL for themselves, 100% for 250-years. Has anyone here even seen a hint of them offering the revenues to CCFC. It would be great if...

What's being hypocritical is supporting one franchise because you've suddenly found a passion for a sport that you couldn't even be bothered to go to the Butts (or Leicester) to watch, but being outraged when CCFC was moved to Northampton (or if it might be moved outside the city). That's...

Lloyd McGrath all day long for me. Not particularly subtle, not technically gifted, but the heart and soul of the team that won the cup and utterly, utterly fearless. You could see that he loved playing as well - that rare thing, a footballer who actually played with a smile on his face.

Kind of hypothetical, but regardless it wouldn't matter to me mate, quite honestly it wouldn't. If you believe franchising is wrong then you have to take a stand against it, even if that is at a financial penalty to the club (or the city) you support. Since we're on hypotheticals, what if...

Absolutely not, that would be supporting a franchise and that's not something that anyone should do, imho.

It's a fair point about his net worth, but I'd also have thought that any multi-billionaire Chinese investors might be a bit nervous about his reputation too. Getting slung out of your professional charter isn't something that would make me entirely comfortable if I was looking for someone to...

It does indeed make a difference, but it's described as greenbelt in a number of places, including here... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4601378.stm And it's also either within or adjacent to an Area of Outstanding National Beauty depending on how you read it.

Fair comment Monners - and I defer to your better knowledge here. When it comes to politicians national and local (or kleptomaniac collies), a little cynicism goes a long way. :)

Absolutely fair point, Albatross. In truth Brighton did ultimately manage to build their stadium in green belt, and next to the very protected South Downs to boot. But it took them a very long time, as others here have pointed out. Even if everything else was in Fisher's favour, like having...

OK, the claim is that Pickles 'found' it. A bit like Appleton 'found' the golden share. That is conveniently, for a tasty reward. Being on this board makes a person cynical, eh. ;)

Is that seriously the best argument you've got? They just had to make a statement or someone might have complained. Then why bother with the vote to demand SISU's removal? 'Rape' is an absolutely piss-poor choice of word by the way.

He stole it, the bastard. ;)

Stuff that's planned to be built in green belt is often passed up or called into central government for review - the point being that green belt by definition is designed to prevent urban sprawl and protect the greater environment. To me that's quite a good thing, I don't want Coventry to...

In fairness I think there were some very big questions about the number of jobs that it would create, but there's no doubt about the amount of money it could have made the developers. This is nowhere near as black and white as it's pictured in this one article.

That doesn't really make sense to me. If someone from the CET phones up someone from the Trust and says, "What does the Trust think about these calls for a public enquiry?", the reasonable response (to me at least) would be "We haven't had a chance to discuss it properly with our members yet"...

With a heavy heart, I read the latest news regarding Coventry City. (Apparently that's a fronted adverb. I had to look it up. Eight-year olds must be pretty smart these days.) :)

Hold up a moment. The trust, quite correctly, asked it's members to vote when they wanted support for the 'blunt instrument' route of demanding the owners leave. It was poorly done, imho, but at least they tried to be democratic. But when it comes to making a public statement about a broader...

Accept entirely that you don't want a public enquiry, but I think it's worth pointing out that the current legal action doesn't really cover the same scope as the enquiry proposed. And there's also no guarantee that it will even get to court. Personally, I'd like all of the council's actions...

Very true this. I don't really want to go down the road of sacking yet another manager, but he's making a rod for his own back when he describes a last-gasp draw with Scunthorpe as an 'exceptional performance'. I couldn't believe that interview; whether he believes it himself or not I'm not...