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Maybe they're still hopeful that the club will see sense, and this is just one of a few things we'll see along these lines (like the U21 game). It looks to me as though they're just tickling things along at the moment, with regard to the pitch usage side, but at some point I'd guess they'll...

CCFC never did build the thing, there's the problem. But if they had, they'd had have to have found a lot more than £1.2m a year to finance it. (Edit: There's a lot of "have's" and "hads" in that last sentence, but I think you get the idea) :)

I'm sorry, remind me, how much money are we as taxpayers putting in ACL at the moment? And tell me again how much money Coventry City Council made from the CCFC "cash cow"? (... tumbleweed) Once again that you're pretty quick to spout off this rubbish, but very slow to answer questions that...

Unusually incoherent response, even by your normal standards. Too much coffee, perhaps? And there's that bullshit "cash cow" phrase again. Remind me again how much profit the council made from the club. I'll give you a clue, it's a million times the total dividends that ACL paid its...

Actually, I always thought Stead was a reasonably tidy player, and I think he'd do well at this level. Quite intelligent, decent touch, reasonable finisher. There's probably more than one reason why he doesn't want to come here - again despite my dislike for SISU this isn't perhaps one to lay...

Ah, gentlemens' rules only work for gentlemen. This is football. He'll play against us, no doubt. On the upside, given half a chance Murphy will be able to drown the bast*rd in that puddle on the penalty spot. ;)

I don't remember the brochures, but I did go to a forum where they had a live, working scale model of Arena 2000, complete with sliding pitches and roof. Strachan, ham-fisted dolt that he was*, broke it during the demo (or had broken it earlier). But it was still very impressive. * Actually...

I've got say, I'm seriously impressed with your memory! However, that one was at HR rather than the Ricoh. Bloody HR, how crap was that place. ;) On the upside though, did you check out the rest of the news for that day. Lee Mills signed. Turned our season right around that did. :)

Can't use the weather as an excuse for having an already poor pitch battered by two teams either. I don't remember the winters at the Ricoh always being dry and sunny, and yet somehow we always managed to fulfil our fixtures.

If the pitch is that rough already, then it's going to be knackered by the end of Feb with two teams playing on it. That certainly isn't going to help our style of football, and it probably doesn't help in terms of injuries either. I doubt this was given any real consideration by our owners...

Spot on. Are we really so petty that helping out another team for a one-off U21 game becomes a big issue. If we were using the pitch, it's another matter, but this doesn't harm the club in any way. Leicester aren't even in our division! The only thing that would bother me is if the Ricoh...

Come on then. What else should the council do? Before responding, consider these facts: ACL is not controlled by the council. So they can't just liquidate ACL. I believe that the Higgs Trust could also veto the sale of the Council's 50% of ACL shares and vice versa. The freehold contains...

And if they are absolutely true to form, the player will get the blame. Actually, that's a bit of a cheap shot in truth. In this case, the player perhaps does share some of the blame - but then he's only doing what he's always done, why would we be surprised....

I think Clarke goes the last day of the transfer window, because that's the way this game is played. He wants to go and whatever our owners say, we need the money. And the most significant thing in all this is that the player doesn't want to stay. So now it's just about extracting the most...

Ah, with regard to SISU, ACL the council and the freehold, I have just come across an inspiring quote. "For every complex problem there is an answer which is clear, simple and wrong." (H.L.Mencken). This one I think relates especially to Timmy, and the odd person here perhaps, who seem to...

Indeed, and can I just point out that I think there are lot of steps before SISU end up owning ACL. First, let's presume they win the JR and the Council are forced to call in the loan. At that point ACL might be able to refinance elsewhere and effectively buy the loan back off the council. If...

Sorry, crossed posts there. It's far from irrelevant. It's absolutely key to where we play for the next few years. I'm sure ACL don't trust SISU either, but they've made a reasonable offer to play at the Ricoh whilst the mess is sorted out, or the club actually move on to building a new...

Yes, but it's not just words is it, we've seen SISU's actions which would seem to suggest that this was said. And to get back on track, here again is the nub of the question (which I'm sure you didn't mean to ignore). There's an offer to move back to the Ricoh that would make financial sense...

It does. Which is why I offered the supporting evidence of SISU's willingness to pile into legal threats and action. I forgot to offer the "We batter people in court" line, which I think was Fisher at one of the fan's forums. But for sure, use your own judgement as to whether this is...