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Well they don't have a particularly good history when it comes to negotiating in a straightforward way, do they? The Higgs Trust claims to be out about £30 - £40k as the result of preparing Heads of Terms etc., for SISU's proposed acquisition of their 50% of ACL - costs that SISU said they'd...

Why do the council need to commission an independent valuation? That would cost taxpayers money, and it seems unlikely that either side would respect each other's valuations in any case. If SISU have got a figure in mind, then let them make an offer. They seem to like doing these negotiations...

Well, I think others have already done it, but it seems that Man City are Swansea are at least two clubs that lease their stadium. Believe West Ham might be heading down that road too. Walsall rent and survive, at a higher cost (£460k) and lower gates than we would have, though in their case...

Still, in truth, a little confused. Surely they're losing more money than ever now, with even less prospect of reversing it?

I'm pretty sure there's more than one successful club that doesn't own its own stadium. As for your fact that CCC have refused to talk to at least five potential owners, can you provide some evidence please? If SISU have moved on from the Ricoh, fair enough and so be it, as you say. i just...

Can't really see how you can draw that conclusion, in truth. By any number you want to take, SISU's investment in CCFC has been a financial disaster. I doubt they've lost the £60m they claim, but they've taken a beating hand over fist ever since they've been here, and that's going to continue...

In fairness, I don't know the exact figures, happy to see evidence from anyone who does, but this suggests 500k in champ, 1.5m in the prem. http://m.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/news/810246 Take your point on the additional rent per seat over a certain amount, which might not have made it such a...

Yep, think that's answered here, the sliding scale offer.. http://www.skybluetrust.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/1-latest-news/227-full-version-of-qaa-to-acl-and-ccfc I guess you're too busy to answer the other points, or maybe you just haven't given them too much thought...

Politely, I think there are a few flaws in your argument. First off, from everything I've read the rent wasn't an issue when the club first moved to the Ricoh - this wasn't an unreasonable deal done at gunpoint, there was a lot of communication between the boards of ACL and CCFC at the time and...

Tremendous bit of work this. I don't know why the paper hasn't looked into this properly, or at least asked Fisher for an explanation, given that he's been signing off the accounts. Fisher is actually on record saying that he could explain everything, and yet it seems that no one with a bit of...

Is just me, or does this article basically read as a crappy bit of SISU PR saying, "We still don't have a stadium, or even a plausible plan for one. Nothing's really moved on any of the sites that we were really, really close to buying a few months ago. We're still definitely going to build a...

Yep, it's hilarious. As is lots of fictional comedy based on a ludicrous premise, in this case the idea that if 8,000 fans turned up at Northampton every week we'd be back in Coventry within a year through our owner's good graces.

To the OP and RFC - if you want to go, then go. No need to have a pop at those that can't or won't bring themselves to do it. If you really believe that the vast majority of stay-away fans aren't putting pressure on our owners though, then I think that you're kidding yourself. Are you sure...

With the small difference that they're at least Cov fans, and Joe at least has put his own money into the club rather than siphoning cash out of it. JE may or may not be misguided, and backing SISU turned out to be a mistake, given. But comparing him in any way to Fisher, who has been caught...

And the blog is a good read, and I agree with most of the points in it, fwiw. But I'm a bit tired of all this scab/pathetic/muppet shite to be honest, and I think it deserves challenge when it pops up. Just because someone has got a different view to you (me too, for that matter) doesn't make...

Just to be clear, it's not ACL defending this action, it will be Cov CC. They've got their own legal department, I believe, and very deep pockets. I don't think they'll be distressed into giving up on defending this JR, given what's in play. If SISU lose, again, they'll likely have to pay the...

Yep, although I don't necessarily agree with it I don't think we want to go down the road of calling any protest, be it against Cov CC or ACL or SISU, pathetic. People are entitled to stick up for their opinions.

Yep, good point, although it assumes that the £60m they claim to have already lost on CCFC is really the truth. I'm not entirely convinced it is, but it certainly begs the question.

That article's a bit more like it, imho. My only question is, do SISU really have £30-£40m to plough into the club to buy a ground and fund the losses at Northampton, or are they bluffing? Personal opinion, they've got nothing like this sort of money available to them, and if they can't get...

Spot on. It's why I don't quite understand the point of lobbying the council at the moment. I can't see how SISU won't move away from their position of non-negotiation if the JR goes against them, and they find themselves having to find £25m for a smaller, poorer stadium. It seems that the...