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It's a fair point about his net worth, but I'd also have thought that any multi-billionaire Chinese investors might be a bit nervous about his reputation too. Getting slung out of your professional charter isn't something that would make me entirely comfortable if I was looking for someone to...

It does indeed make a difference, but it's described as greenbelt in a number of places, including here... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4601378.stm And it's also either within or adjacent to an Area of Outstanding National Beauty depending on how you read it.

Fair comment Monners - and I defer to your better knowledge here. When it comes to politicians national and local (or kleptomaniac collies), a little cynicism goes a long way. :)

Absolutely fair point, Albatross. In truth Brighton did ultimately manage to build their stadium in green belt, and next to the very protected South Downs to boot. But it took them a very long time, as others here have pointed out. Even if everything else was in Fisher's favour, like having...

OK, the claim is that Pickles 'found' it. A bit like Appleton 'found' the golden share. That is conveniently, for a tasty reward. Being on this board makes a person cynical, eh. ;)

Is that seriously the best argument you've got? They just had to make a statement or someone might have complained. Then why bother with the vote to demand SISU's removal? 'Rape' is an absolutely piss-poor choice of word by the way.

He stole it, the bastard. ;)

Stuff that's planned to be built in green belt is often passed up or called into central government for review - the point being that green belt by definition is designed to prevent urban sprawl and protect the greater environment. To me that's quite a good thing, I don't want Coventry to...

In fairness I think there were some very big questions about the number of jobs that it would create, but there's no doubt about the amount of money it could have made the developers. This is nowhere near as black and white as it's pictured in this one article.

That doesn't really make sense to me. If someone from the CET phones up someone from the Trust and says, "What does the Trust think about these calls for a public enquiry?", the reasonable response (to me at least) would be "We haven't had a chance to discuss it properly with our members yet"...

With a heavy heart, I read the latest news regarding Coventry City. (Apparently that's a fronted adverb. I had to look it up. Eight-year olds must be pretty smart these days.) :)

Hold up a moment. The trust, quite correctly, asked it's members to vote when they wanted support for the 'blunt instrument' route of demanding the owners leave. It was poorly done, imho, but at least they tried to be democratic. But when it comes to making a public statement about a broader...

Accept entirely that you don't want a public enquiry, but I think it's worth pointing out that the current legal action doesn't really cover the same scope as the enquiry proposed. And there's also no guarantee that it will even get to court. Personally, I'd like all of the council's actions...

Very true this. I don't really want to go down the road of sacking yet another manager, but he's making a rod for his own back when he describes a last-gasp draw with Scunthorpe as an 'exceptional performance'. I couldn't believe that interview; whether he believes it himself or not I'm not...

Clearly the council were 'in a rush', and despite saying they were going to build trust with the club before discussing ownership they had already done a deal with Wasps. They forced that deal through under a cloak of secrecy, within a matter of weeks. Just like the bail-out of ACL...

Not really much to add to what ChiefDave's said to all this. As an article it's a cheap piece of PR without an awkward question in there. Three questions: Why were we (and the club) told that time was needed to rebuild trust with the club with regard to buying the ground, when the deal to...

I keep saying to myself I'll keep quiet about this, but I hate with a vengance the rubbish that some people use to excuse the move. Wasps are a franchise who came here purely for financial reasons - not because of some love of the city. Just because they moved out to Wycombe after spending...

Absolutely. I made that very argument myself a number of times. I always thought it made much more sense to invest £20m into getting hold of ACL than it did to spunk it on a new, crappier, smaller stadium elsewhere. It looks like that hypothesis might yet be tested.

Good question. I think the CRFC crowd are probably well established now and have seen more bad times than good. I don't think crowds there will change overmuch if promotion fades away, but then you're only looking at 1,200 - 1,500 typically. For Wasps I'd contend that the opposite probably...

A well-reasoned analysis as ever, OSB. However until (or unless) we get some light shone on it I'll always have serious doubts regarding how the council have played this. You'll remember I'm sure to what lengths I've defended them in the past, so you know I'm not coming at this with some kind...