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It's funny how some people don't believe a word SISU say, unless of course it suits their argument, in which case SISU were definitely going to take the club out of the city in 4 years. Guff. As long as the possibility of ownership was there, we would have stayed at the Ricoh, and who knows if...

There was NEVER a 'significant' minority that blamed ACL/CCC exclusively - one or two individuals perhaps, but I've never actually met one. What some people have said is that the council have not been blameless. While it may have been possible to sympathise with them for having to deal with...

Of course, when you look at it in those terms, it makes no sense at all. It always made more sense to buy into the Ricoh, and had they behaved properly, the opportunity to do exactly that would have presented itself at some point. But that ship has sailed, in fact the prospects of Ricoh...

I haven't bothered to delve into SISU/Otium and their tangled web of companies to run credit checks, but I don't imagine they'll have much difficulty raising the money.

Of course. But on that statement "I would rather we stayed in league 2 than built our own ground", I think you may actually be on your own. And I wouldn't want that :)

Absolute guff. No club has anything like the rental arrangement we have. We rent use of the pitch on a limited number of days a year. Walsall, for example, pay rent that enables them to operate that stadium 365 days a year for their OWN benefit - they are the stadium operators. So that means...

It all depends to what extent repayments can be offset against revenues that the facility would generate. None of us know what is planned, it may end up containing an adjacent housing development for all we know. What will the naming rights be worth? Will the catering contract be sold off at...

Speak for yourself.

So you bought a house cash? Nobody has 'enough' money to buy a house. They borrow it. Virtually every new stadium built in recent years has been mortgaged in some form or another.

The slip road would be part of a planning application that doesn't even exist yet! It wouldn't appear on HA plans at this point. There is plenty of land too...

We haven't 'got' anything Otis. I've never heard anyone claim that renting a house is better than buying one - yes I know those sort of analogies do not always work, but providing it is financed properly, it makes perfect sense for us to secure our long term future with a home of our own. It...

I was with you up to the bit about a new stadium not making sense. It's about the only thing that does make sense at the moment.

So would finish 2 years ahead of the likely completion date for a new stadium. Not saying it will be there, just heard a rumour. Something about a slip road directly off the A45 to a new stadium site next to industrial estate opposite airport (by the air museum).

And I think most people are going to have to come around to this idea. Much as I'd love a ground in or close to the city centre, it isn't likely to happen. If it's marginally over the boundary but still part of the Coventry conurbation then it'll have to do. It is perfectly possible to be...

I seem to recall Bob Ainsworth putting a silly value on it too. Still, they all raised a glass when they received their whopping cheque for £2.77 million from a bunch of smug, opportunist egg chasers from London. Just a 250 year lease too. Hoorah for local democracy.

The council have recently identified a shed load of greenfield land within the city that they plan to build housing on, so it's not as though they can claim there is no land available. Whether or not a stadium proposal would have to include a residential element in order for it to be acceptable...