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I'd dispute that, politely. All this move has done is given SISU an extension on how long they can maintain ownership of the club. If the FL had actually maintained their rules both before and after Administration I think the odds were that SISU would have gone by now.

Ah, traditionally you should just close your posts with 'end of'. Everyone knows that means that you're so right that there's no point in debating any further. ;) Let's just look at that 'excessive' claim. It wasn't excessive when SISU took over, or indeed for the first few years of their...

Quite. No answer from Grendel there, I note - or to me either. Seems like as soon as he knows he's lost the argument he either hides or changes the subject. Classic WUM, perhaps just better to ignore him, though I'd admit he is very good at getting bites. Anyway, work to do etc. My job...

Not sure we're making progress exactly, OSB, but I see where you're coming from. I'm also not sure whether SISU are making the structure of the club more or less complex, but my guess is it suits SISU to keep things generally as opaque as possible - they need to be ready to f*ck over the next...

Effectively a proportion of all taxes ends up with local government, because they are funded by a combination of local taxes and central funds. And you've got a serious answer, and you're disregarding it. The taxpayer would be worse off by the loss that the Council would incur by just giving...

I did that too - urged the Council to save the club and fund the arena. How wrong I was. The club has spent millions (if not tens of millions) on players and wages since then, and yet has somehow never had the money to buy back into the stadium, or seemingly now to pay the rent. And now...

Erm... assuming this is a serious question and not a pointless wind up (which is kind of a big assumption, given)... because of the value of ACL as it stands, and the value of it as an alternative development. And of course the money that the taxpayer has already sunk into it (10m grant, 14m...

And here's the key flaw to my mind in Les Reid's otherwise excellent article, the idea that the Council took a gamble on the football stadium, and now should accept a loss and sell to SISU for the good of the club. That's arse-backwards. The Council and the Higgs trust had to fund the...

Aww, really? I've only been here a few years so maybe I missed that. I remember when sentences used to start with capital letters; things move on, I try not to worry about it too much.

Dunno where my kids got hold of this book from, but I think it could be a million-seller in Cov. Timmy Failure, Mistakes Were Made. Sad thing is, they still are. I'm hoping Timmy Failure's next book is Crime and Punishment. ;)

It's rubbish isn't it, the new stadium plan. Everyone except the FL know it's never going to happen - in fact I think that by now even the FL know it, but they've painted themselves into a corner.

Thanks for your time - sorry about the nutters. This is what happens when you let them eat the blue smarties and stay up past their bedtime.

I think because there was really no choice in it; once SISU had filed for administration, they got to choose the administrator. Clearly ACL aren't happy now with how he's handled it. Might yet go back to court, perhaps.

Politely, I think I'm still missing the point. Are you really saying that watching CCFC on Sky is failing in some way to support NOPM? Personally, I think that's a pretty thin argument. I'd have said that the key to NOPM is to match attendance, a few thousand of us not watching Sky isn't...

I have a problem with not watching them too, but I don't for a moment believe going to the hill is just about watching the team for nothing. If Michael's said that, or believes it, I'd be amazed. To be honest I think it's completely wrong-headed and utter bullshit, but if it makes you feel...

Really. You really believe that. They go all that way to watch the game for free - and the reason they don't pay isn't because of SISU, it's because they're tightwads? That is a odd take on it, in my opinion. As for the 'Michael said so' thing, that sounds like playground stuff mate, and I...

Do really think that those who go and stand on the hill can't afford to go in? Do you really think they're going all that way because they can watch for free? C'mon. How likely is that, really. I've not been to the hill, but my understanding from those who have is that there isn't much going...

What's your point here? Does it upset you for some reason that you can see the game, or part of it, from the hill?

Thanks for that, I'd guessed it was along those lines. My mate, who went last week, said that he quite enjoyed it and that it was actually a bit like watching the game from the old West End (in that you could never really see the whole game from there either!). I'm not sure if he was being...

OK Nick, I'm still struggling in truth. I don't remember Michael ever using the phrase 'serious' or 'double serious' or asking anyone to turn up and be angry and shouty. I'm not sure that I've heard it described as a fun day either, but I suppose the idea of the picnic was perhaps to make it a...