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Erm... you missed a bit out of your quote there... "Would you rather the trust lie (like others do) and say they are happy with Sisu and want them to stay..." Who are the others who are lying and saying that they are happy with SISU?

Coulda, woulda, shoulda, didna. ;)

I work for Microsoft and this looks like a virus problem. Nick, if you can just send over your bank details I'll have it sorted for you in a jiffy. :) (It's ripping along for me now, btw).

I think the key phrase here DTD, is 'well run club'! I'm not trying to defend what SISU do, I'm just suggesting that it might make more sense to rise above it. What SISU did in terms of threatening legal action against the trust for linking to the Conn article was scandalous - I'd absolutely...

Let me give you two coarse examples to try to explain where I'm coming from. 1) Trust approach currently: Mr Fisher, we want you personally to be sacked, and SISU to sell up and feck off. By the way, would you mind answering these questions about your latest accounts? 2) Possible trust...

Sorry Hobo - missed that!

Now that the trust have come out with the simple blunt instrument of the anti-SISU line, it's clear to me that the club will largely disregard them. Demanding the owners sell might well reflect what most feels, but it just plays straight into their hands in terms of trying to get information...

Nope - I'd rather they stayed as neutral as they can, and offered what support they could to the club whilst continuing to ask difficult questions of the owners. That doesn't mean being pally - it just means being calm and measured. "SISU out" might well represent what most of us fans and...

Now that the trust has set themselves against the owners, then I guess this is all that we're going to see from now on. Variants of the "Sell up SISU" message. It's fair enough, and undoubtedly it represents how the majority of the trust and probably the fans feel. I'd certainly like SISU to...

You know what, I think I could kind of live with that if we were still at Highfield Road. I really, really miss the place. When I'm going past on my bike, as I do from time to time, I like to do a quick lap of where the pitch used to be. How sad is that!

I appreciate your honesty there MMM. Let me just say, I absolutely agree that SISU handled this all incredibly poorly from the first attempt to buy into ACL through to the JR, and until the Wasps deal I can understand a lot of what the council did. What kills me mate, what absolutely kills me...

I'm not trying to take it anywhere, I'm just pointing out that no bid was invited from the club along the same lines as that offered to Wasps (5.4m and 250 years). Everything Lucas said about the "door being open" was before we came back from Northampton. Once we got back the council clearly...

Yes I did, unless you've got a problem with your reading comprehension. No bid was invited for the Council's 50%. The council said that they wanted to build trust before talking about ownership, and then did a secret deal with Wasps. What part of that are you struggling to understand?

Regardless of the wages we'd then have to pay to stay in the division, how do we pay for the team to get us there? Or are you saying, as the expert seems to be, that we just take a punt and hope it all works out. I'm going to use my favourite (non-Simpsons) quote here. "For every complex...

We probably need to do both mate - but it's not unreasonable to point out that the ability to be able to pay half-decent players has to be impacted by our lack of revenue from elsewhere. I bridle slightly when an expert is put forth who seems to disregard this, especially when it's one who...

Forgive me Simon, but that's not really clear in the article - he mentions rent, which he doesn't see as an issue - but not the lack of revenue. If he's suggesting we should focus on promotion, where's he saying the money should come from?

Can I just say that I always thought Stead was a pretty decent player. Not the best out-and-out striker I've seen, but a tidy footballer good at bringing other players into the game. I hope he has a stinker, obviously. :) My gut feel is that we'll lose, in truth. I think their players are...

Because no bid was invited. Let's not pretend that the same offer was made to the club as to Wasps, we all know that simply didn't happen. ACL wasn't even put up for a public sale; CCC decided they wanted to sell to Wasps, and did it behind closed doors whilst telling the club that time was...

Until we've some sort of figures for the new stadium, I'd agree it looks very unlikely. But staying at the Ricoh on a rental deal doesn't look good either. Maybe the best hope really is that Wasps fail.

Where are you going with this? The point here is that the so-called expert that the CET have put forward hasn't actually troubled himself to comment on this aspect of the rental deal - the lack of revenue. Whether it's the council's fault, SISU's fault, or someone else's fault isn't relevant...