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I don't quite understand your use of the word viable here. Sooner or later it may become a reality though. If SISU fail in the JR, and ACL survives, SISU will be faced with mounting losses and the commitment to build a new stadium. At that point it could be selling and cutting their losses...

Remind me again, why are we 'toughing' it out at Sixfields, when we could be at the Ricoh, right now, and doing much better financially? We didn't have to end up where we are, and we certainly don't need to stay there - trying to defend SISU's actions by saying this is the only way the club can...

I think there's an option (c) here that you've overlooking. I think SISU are also likely to ditch the club at the point that they realise that the gamble has failed, they're still taking losses, and there's no scope of them creating something that will turn a quick profit. I think that happens...

I'll be at Cov Rugby this weekend too. I haven't managed to see them much this year, but typically enough as soon as I get some free time to start watching them the bloody wheels fall off! I'm beginning to wonder if I'm the common factor. ;)

Happy to stick a tenner on it, edgy. CCC wins the case, and then wins any subsequent appeal if one is permitted. Not a wind up, it's my honest opinion. Shall we shake on it - loser donates to the winner's chosen charity via something proveable like justgiving, or something like that. At...

Damages is going to be a bit tricky isn't it. Let's say the court find against the council. In this case what should have happened is that ACL were obliged to find funding elsewhere (assuming YB withdrew their support). If they could have found funding elsewhere, then it's unlikely that SISU...

1/10 is good odds, I'll have a £100 on the appeal please. Also can I have a tenner on the HT/FT market, I'm going CCC/CCC. ;)

Apologies - it's not a pretty sight, I'd agree. At least on my motorbike I could wear a full face helmet! The frustration is that until my late teens I used to cycle everywhere, school, paper-round, out with mates, the works. Probably 100 miles a week or more. I don't even remember getting...

Absolutely. I didn't intend to start that row up again, but I don't think we're a team (or perhaps more accurately, play in a style) well suited to poor conditions at the moment.

I'm doing it too - but mostly so that I can wear lycra outside the house, legally. Fwiw, I much preferred my two wheel days when there was a big oily engine in the frame, and I was mostly made of bone and gristle rather than fat and sweat. ;)

I do worry that we're the kind of team that might struggle in crap conditions - a bit lightweight and inexperienced, perhaps. It's doubly worrying because I think it's likely that we'll face poor pitches at Sixfields for the rest of the season. I wonder if we're looking for a more traditional...

And I also take the point - regardless of what side you're from, we should all try not to let every thread turn into the pro/anti SISU argument. The problem is that it's easy to bite - and I should know because I'm probably one of the worst offenders. Luckily, my valium arrived in the post...

Is that half of the Liverpool back four of the eighties?

Given how few we probably sell, maybe it's like the Book of Kells - we can have a monk hand drawing the letter at the start of every paragraph... Joking aside, fair play to the designers, always nice to have your work recognised. (Or so I'm told, I spend my working life trying to make sure no...

I think ACL did explain their reasons, and with a reasonable degree of clarity, here... http://www.football.co.uk/coventry_city/acl_not_stopping_ccfc_ltd_being_liquidated_rss4395693.shtml You may not agree with why they did it, but there's your explanation for why they did it. As to why we...

I'm not sure your figures are quite right, but ACL weren't 'pocketing' those F&B revenues, they were sold them. By the club. And if they were making a huge, excessive profit out of the club, where is this reflected in ACL's books? I think you might have also missed out interest payments and...

Right. See what you're saying. Maybe they meant the 03/04 accounts. To be honest, I don't think it's as big an error as the one about the club owning the Arena site, when in fact they only owned the option. Fwiw, I didn't use the figures from the linked documents - but do you think it's more...

I think the complaint here isn't that it's truncated, potted or brief - I think it's that it's selective. In fact in one key aspect of your understanding, ownership of the land by CCFC, it's also simply wrong. I like anyone who's willing to bring real evidence to the table though, especially...

I'd say yes. Even at 1.2m, the break-even attendance to pay the rent is just 2,300. The rent was not the driving factor behind the debt that the club built up whilst at the Ricoh.

I'm a bit confused here - this game was supposed to be at Sixfields, right? http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/feat/ed16/city_u21s_remaining_home_game_venues_announced_822672/index.shtml As are some others there. All politics aside, given the already poor state of the pitch wouldn't it make...