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In the scenario I outlined, where Wasps have gone bust, and CCFC have moved on (or gone under, or can't or won't pay to take anything like this on), how could you guarantee someone being willing to take it over with a multi-million loan attached? The current claim by the council is that ACL is...

Erm... I think you're forgetting one important fact. The council said on August 21st 2014, that time was needed rebuild trust before there could be discussions for ownership. How much time, exactly, did they give for that trust to be rebuilt before they sold to Wasps? There's a fact, a...

It's a fair point this, in that the lease would presumably revert to the Council if ACL fail. But who would they sell it to in that circumstance - presumably Wasps would have folded, and CCFC (certainly under SISU) aren't likely to want to pay full value for it, assuming that they haven't gone...

As I understand it, the loan remains with ACL, the only thing that's changed is that Wasps now own ACL, rather than CCC/AEHC. Wasps haven't taken the loan on as such - in other words it doesn't stand against their holding company. The risk here is that if Wasps goes pop though, and as a result...

I'm not sure where I failed to recognise that. Clearly trust had been lost. The council highlighted that, and said that it needed time to be rebuilt. Rather than allowing that to happen though, they were actually in the process of selling to Wasps. Let me just reiterate that. At the very...

I notice that Pressley commented on this in his post-match interview. Though he wouldn't be drawn on whether he was disappointed in Reda, he was very pointed in his praise of Carroll. I've got to say that in my opinion Reda could have made it back to Heathrow by Friday afternoon, had he so...

How does your logic work here RT? It's given, by most, that the club needs some kind of access to revenues from the stadium and surrounds. It's accepted by you above, that it makes little financial sense to build a new stadium. The council talked about building trust when the club returned...

Big companies certainly give offers all of the time. But do really think this is an offer in that sense, or is it because they actually can't sell enough tickets and it's a little embarassing to have a half-empty (or worse) stadium for something that was supposed to be a big draw. Again, do you...

I'm not defending SISU's actions here - but the council went from rebuilding trust to selling ACL (without even making the same or a similar offer available to the club) in a matter of weeks. Do you think, as the financial reality of building a new stadium finally dawned on SISU, that there...

I'd agree with most of this. But it seems people haven't woken up to the fact that even when SISU have gone, and one day they will, ACL and all of the income streams therein will still belong to Wasps. Where does that leave CCFC?

The million write off was stated in CET amongst other places when the Wasps deal first went public. From a Cov economy point of view, if the tickets are being given away it points to both the likely success of the commercial operation, and also puts the lie to the fact that rugby is a huge...

Victory?! Incredible. All we've had from Wasps so far is hot air and free tickets. Rugby is such a huge draw in the city that they've had to give away thousands of tickets so as to make attendances a bit less embarassing. Thousands! And this is going to somehow make Coventry's economy...

In fairness it's not far off the kind of flannel that I suspect Wasps sold to the council. The difference is that being from SISU people will, quite rightly, look at it critically. Wasps clearly got a free pass on whatever they promised the Council and Higgs, who didn't seem to even realise...

In fairness if ACL are renting it out to all and sundry, then it wouldn't exactly seem reasonable to put the burden of upkeep on CCFC would it? Regardless, again given the number of games being played on it, and the gaming festivals etc., the best groundsmen in the world would be able to keep...

You might well be right mate - there's not much evidence either way. In fairness though, OSB did an analysis a while back that seemed to show that even if CCFC and ACL were merged in the way that Wasps and ACL are now set up, there might not be enough to keep it all going. And Wasps, as has...

I wouldn't want to speak for or defend SISU, but the truth is that there never was a 'first refusal' offer for ACL until Wasps came onto the scene. When CCFC returned from Northampton all of the talk was about rebuilding trust, there was no talk about inviting offers from anyone for 100% of ACL...

I don't think they hate the club, but I do think they hate SISU. Like a few others, I think that's clouded their judgement on this. As for planning permission in the city for a new stadium, whether the council are for it or against probably won't make much difference - it will be a long, hard...

I wouldn't claim for a moment to be an expert, but in truth I can't see that you'll be able to do too much in that short a window, particularly at this time of year when you can't really get stuff to grow. In fairness, a really badly damaged pitch can't always be adequately repaired even in the...

Strange that I remember a lot of those too, given that this was really before I was paying much attention to football. The player that I really remembered from Derby in my time was, strangely enough, Mark Wright. I recall a match up there when he'd absolutely dominated the game for a long...

No freebies until we hit the 'bottom of the cycle' mate. Surely you'd know that by now. :)