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Exactly that. It's a start, but this doesn't look anything like a serious attempt to get to the bottom of what's gone on here. At various points when it suited the council, ACL was either profitable or unprofitable. Then it was either for sale, or not for sale. There's also a pretty serious...

I'm with you entirely on the pointlessness of just saying SISU out, and I'm interested to see what the people proposing this at the trust think this will achieve. What I'm really talking about here though is what I see as the somewhat lazy complaint that the trust don't do anything (tea &...

You mean you've lost faith in them - neither me nor you can speak for the majority here. I don't know about posting suggestions on this forum, that's hard enough to follow at the best of times, but have you or anyone complaining about the trust here actually troubled yourselves to contact them...

If anyone here isn't happy with the way that the trust is run, then rather than sniping pointlessly here why not get involved? For example I'm not entirely chuffed with the direction that the trust has taken, but they put it out to vote, and went with the majority decision. To me, as a member...

Yep. It does make the point that the Wasps deal has rather scuppered the club now, although it's also fair to point out that the owners can fund the club with 'donations', at least in this league. On which note, is there a 'waiting patiently' smiley that I can use here?

Is the issue at the casino that they don't let anyone in wearing replica shirts, home or away fans. Or am I just imagining that? Either way, I'm not sure that the Rochdale lads missed much, I hate the casino for drinking personally - no atmosphere, expensive fizzy beer only, and slow service...

Brilliant! I trust this is incorporated in his team talks. "You've been at teams where the manager has asked you for 110%. Well this is a massive club, and so I expect massive numbers. In fact I want such a huge percentage of effort that you're going to need to write it down on a bit of...

At least our town centre doesn't end up under three-feet of water everytime it rains, eh Torchy. (Appreciate you're probably talking about the Ricoh here rather than the City, but who could resist a cheap shot at our south Warks cousins.) :)

A bit like that, except he calls you back and says that actually I'm not going to sell the car for a year or two so let's talk about it later. Then next week he flogs it to some bloke from London. Where this leaves your trousers I'm not quite sure, I generally leave them on when I'm buying a...

Nowt wrong with being average. Half the people (and players) that I know are below average. ;)

Hi James, welcome to Coventry. The bus will be cheaper if you're on your own, but if there are a few of you a taxi will be quicker and easier and not much difference. Does the Ricoh bus go direct from the train station, does anyone know? I've not made that journey, I always get a taxi from...

Accounts will have to be produced, though not necessarily on time, and whilst receipts are on their arse it's also got to be true that the wage bill is low now too. If you don't think we're close to breaking even cash flow wise, then you'll presumably you accept that SISU are continuing to pump...

If we are, as Fisher claims, cash-flow positive then the only thing they need to do is survive and wait on the payoff. We're down to the hard core now, even if we lose another 1,000 the relative losses won't hurt them enough to dissuade them if this is their plan I'd venture. To them, it might...

'Conficting' is a tremendously polite way of putting it. Who could blame anyone for thinking that it's flat out bullshit! I think they're actually serious about building a new stadium - but like everyone else I can't really see how it adds up. I also think it's entirely possible that they are...

I hear what you're saying mate - but my point is that there was a chance to rebuild trust, the council indicated that they wanted to rebuild trust but then they sold to Wasps almost immediately. It's kind of old ground fella, and I don't want to start winding people up. I'll bet we agree on...

Brighton built a stadium not just on green belt, but by an Area of Outstanding National Beauty. I'm not saying that that's right, but it can be done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falmer_Stadium

Mate, I'm not denying that SISU screwed up hugely in the initial negotiation before the rent strike and subsequently in taking the club away. But it's also clear to me that on the return to the Ricoh the council didn't even give a chance to rebuilding trust, they sold out to Wasps instead...

Unless we're looking to buy land without planning permission for commercial use, and then try to push it through. Given SISU's apparent love of taking councils on, I wouldn't put this approach past them. If you promise enough jobs, it seems that you've got a chance of getting anything through...

Let's use facts then, I'm up for that. In fairness, I asked first, where's the evidence that Wasps would sell part of ACL to SISU? As for SISU not wanting to buy into the Ricoh - fair enough, it looks like Fisher has admitted that they didn't want to, at least on those terms. That seems odd...

Fair enough, I've taken the 25 acres from the SCG minutes, which I thought implied that they could build just a stadium in the smaller area. They considered 24 acres at Brandon, and 23 at Ryton, according to Fisher.