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That looks like a half-decent team at this level. I'm sorry that we've lost Clarke, but at least the 'replacements' look like they've got some promise. (Inverted commas because I accept these aren't really our players, and I'm trying to steer clear of that argument!). I'm hoping against hope...

How could it hurt, Nick. Anything that keeps up the pressure on the owners and the FL/FA, and keeps this in the public eye, has to be a good thing. Doesn't it?

Been to the Blaze a couple of times, although not in the last few years. Seriously impressed with the skating abilities of all of the players - there are some properly big units out there, and they all seem to have incredible pace and balance. How anyone could have a fight on ice skates is...

As long as there's a chance of CCFC coming back to the Ricoh, I wouldn't want any other club getting the *permanent* use of that facility. To be clear I couldn't give a monkeys about Lester or Villa reserves or U21s or indded anyone else using it on occasion, as long as it isn't on a basis that...

If the Football League hadn't bottled it, and followed their rules instead of using 'discretion', there would have had to been a deal at the Ricoh.

So the club never really owned the land then, just the option to buy back from HBG, presumably.

Absolutely mate, agreed. But inevitably the only 'big names' we're going to sign will be a bit like this won't they? Done well elsewhere (which is why we've heard of them), now on the slippery slope downhill (which is why we can afford them). :)

Wait.... wait. I was just doing some digging and found this: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/arena-2001-faqs-3172736 Did the club own the land at one point, and then sell it with an option to buy it back. That's kind of how this reads, I think. But then reading...

Fair enough. He had it wrong mate - they never did own all the land, just the option. What an epic, epic screw up by our owners at that time. But I fell for it - I can't remember really kicking up when Richardson sold us the dream. Taking all of the politics and the differences away, the one...

That'll be this bit... if you're talking about Haskell. And as we've said endlessly, if SISU pay the rent there's never any scope for changing ownership at CCFC, whether ACL wanted to or not.

Are you sure it was Ainsworth saying that CCFC owned the land? Anyway, the payments weren't unaffordable until the anchor tenant mismanaged itself down a division, and suddenly decided it was the rent wot did it. Even then, there was scope to renegotiate, in part because ACL had got better...

Ignoring the usual lazy sarcasm, and returning to the facts, which I know you're a bit sketchy on sometimes, y'know thinking that the club owned the land and everything... anyway... The build cost £118m. ACL facilitated it by taking on a mortgage. A rent was agreed with the club, which at the...

Close, but no banana. Landlord rents to Business A, everyone seems moderately content for a while. Then A has new owners. Rent wise, everyone still seems fairly content for a few years. After a little while A say they want to buy some of the property but then change their mind and walk away...

I agree - it's not like a house situation. It's a business, and in a business you don't ask your landlord to set the rent so that you break even - you know what your rent is and work out the rest of your costs accordingly. If you're struggling, you can always try to renegotiate, but you'll...

If you want to balance the books you can't look solely at the rent. You've got to look at all of the other things - player salaries, payments to other debtors, management charges, stuff like that. As has been pointed out more than a few times, the rent was a relatively small part of the club's...

I honestly don't think ownership is the issue, whether you're paying money in rent, leasehold, or interest on a loan. Ultimately that's always going to be a cost to the club, given we sold the only ground we owned outright. And access to income streams would be handy too - but you can't just...

In fairness, not many of us had heard of Nuddy, Gynn, or Emerson before they signed. Even GG and Babb probably went on to be bigger names after they left us. I don't mind if I haven't heard of our new signings, especially at this level. Some of our less able players were big names before they...

In fairness, he probably thinks the same about me. I wouldn't blame anyone who wanted to ignore me either! Even the people who live in my house ignore me, especially if the subject turns to CCFC. ;)

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck etc. Anyway, regardless of definitions I've found that by far most relaxing course of action is to simply ignore him. So that's what I've done. I'm a much happier person for it. :)

How about answering some straight questions without looking into the past: Could we make more money for the club by being at the Ricoh right now, or not? Does making more money, right now, make us more viable, or less viable?