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Interesting again, I'd judge them by their results, not their qualifications (even if we knew what they were, which we don't). And their results here, have been terrible from a financial standpoint, no? They clearly had no genuine intention of buying half of the Ricoh, and their plans for...

I take your point, but don't mistake nasty for smart. I think their well started to run dry some time ago, around the time of the Fox & Dann sales, and ever since then they've been dribbling the bare minimum into the club, leaving us where we are now. And I honestly think Fisher should be...

How is it a loan. The offer is to play for free, and returns money to SISU. If they can afford it then why don't they pay? About as redundant as your 'who's the most pissed off' measure. I don't think they're doing it on their terms at all. They were pushed into admin, and seemingly...

I'm speculating too - but I think there would have been a far bigger outcry if they let SISU distress ACL into handing the Arena over for peanuts. However if I was the director of a company that had managed to blow £30-60m of my investors' funds, alienated the vast majority of my remaining...

Lord what a mess. I think the embargo is under the control of the FL, a bit like the GS. In essence it doesn't matter if CCFC Holdings has signed off accounts or not, the FL won't let us sign players at the moment. (Unless SISU pull another fast one... well yeah, I know it's in your rules...

Last I saw, Hoffman had a way of allowing SISU to stay at the Ricoh rent-free. That looks like 'something to offer' to me. I would've thought anyone with a brain would be pissed off by recent events. If you're determining victory by smugness quotient, then Fisher's a nailed on winner...

What a strange interpretation on all counts. Since when was reconciliation purely in the purview of the victor? I've always considered it required intelligent action from all aggrieved parties. However I note you seem to delight in the idea that SISU have 'won'. So what exactly have they...

I don't see where I implied that Hoffman was a winner in this. The reason for re-engaging is that it might offer a possible solution, whereas at the moment everyone loses. You make it sound like an irreconcilable divorce. That could be, but it's not too late to start behaving like grown ups.

Maybe because he gives everyone a way forward, and he's grown up enough to put the past behind him?

In fairness I think he's very able and I think he's done a great job. For SISU. I suspect he's clever enough to stay just the right side of his legal obligations, whilst clearly favouring his paymasters. I'd be delighted if he's screwed up though.

SISU have never been a willing buyer for the arena. They could have had 50% of ACL for around £6.5m, had they kept their deal with the Higgs Trust. Their whole plan has been to distress ACL and pick the arena up for nothing, or as near to it as they could get. The latest stuff, where they...

Erm... I thought the line broke up, they called him back, and then ended the interview reasonably normally given there were technical difficulties. You're making it sound like he hung up, which I don't think he did...

Hoffman on CWR now: Would pay rent for next 3 years at Ricoh. No cost to Otium. Assumes that 5000 more fans at Ricoh per game, equivalent to +£1.5m per season. Half of that goes back to SISU. Costs back to Hoffman and investors, who don't want to make money. Any profit back to Academy...

Loving Tim's Christmas jumper... you just know he's still got one of those... ;)

Surely this isn't possible. Could the FL be any more incompetent?

Yep, I remember that. I held off then in the hope that the matter would be resolved and a full scale investigation might get in the way. I'm not of that opinion now. I'd be very happy if the SFO started to look into things.

It's nothing to do with Bob, though I can see you've got issues with him. And it's nothing to do with SISU being a hedge fund either, they can have as many companies as they want, but each one has to be run according to the law. What you can't do, legally, is asset strip, the definition of...

The way that CCFC Ltd suddenly seems to have no (or few) tanglible assets whilst having massive debts is very interesting to me. I wouldn't for a moment suggest that anything untoward has occurred, but just out of interest here's a definition of fraudulent practice from the Serious Fraud...

It's a fair question, but in that situation I hope I'd either say I'm right behind your right to protest, and support them in that right, or just keep quiet. I wouldn't go on their message boards and say "I'm right with you but wouldn't it be better to protest somewhere else". They're not...

That might be the case, but to my mind we've had a couple of NTFC fans here preaching solidarity and saying that they're right behind us. However, their solidarity doesn't extend to them doing much of anything and they seem actively opposed to us actually protesting at our games. I find that...