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The council stance is idiotic and wreaks of short-termism. It makes no commercial sense. Council's in places like Swansea and Southampton talk endlessly of the wider economic benefits of having a top-flight football team. It is fantastic PR and can change perceptions and encourage inward...

Sorry but that's just rubbish.

'7500 Ricoh attendees'. We get a crowd that low for the first time in 2 generations and suddenly you are using it to make a lame point? This club means a great deal to a great many people. 250,000 welcomed the team home in 87. Nothing, NOTHING, comes close to bringing this city together than...

Most of the crowd will be paying on the gate for this so there ought to be. Whether they'll be enough remains to see. Seem to remember a lot of people missing kick off for the Sheff Utd and Preston JPT games. Will easily be more there tomorrow than went on Saturday. Easily.

I think you are referring to Paragon Park - that is a big site but there is a current planning app for housing on that site. Yeah, lots of greenfield sites/parkland within the city, and it is these sites the council are planning to build housing on.

Not sure, but the actual amount of green belt within the city boundary is 6500 acres (the council only intend to build on 10% of it). Lots of small sites I suspect but a few large areas that have potential. Don't know about 60 acres though. I doubt this will ever happen for other reasons, so...

Plenty of suitable sites within the city boundary. Would actually be harder to find somewhere outside of the city. Lots of reasons why the ground will never be built, but finding a site isn't really one of them. The council have just earmarked 710 acres of vacant land within the city for...

5000 have already been sold. Day to go plus walk-up I think 8.5K minimum.

No, of course not. That's not the point though is it. What it will mean is that the club will not have any hope of ownership for the foreseeable future, and thus will not have the resources it needs to succeed. All we want as fans is a couple of years under the current arrangement in the hope...

I know a little bit about this sort of stuff, and with some clever design you could get to 18,000-20,000 at the Butts, but you would have to swallow up the park and rotate the ground clockwise a bit to make best use of the space - that's as it stands, but of course there is a giant retirement...

Those 'dodgy tenants' are Coventry City Football Club, the city's biggest civic asset, just about the only thing that has to power to bring the people of the city together. Fucking unbelievable statement. Somebody from Leicester council was on the TV the other day talking about investment and...

Not at all chaps. We had only sold 4000 on the morning of the Sheff United JPT game. There was a huge walk-up for that. I could be wrong, but pretty much everyone I have spoke is going Tuesday, and yet I doubt many have got tickets yet. My point stands, unless of course we do get 5K at...

Depends how far back you want to go. Go back long enough and Leeds/Man City aside there are times when we have been better supported than all those clubs when playing at the same level. Portsmouth averaged 8000 in the second tier as recently as 1997. Anyway, did any of those clubs go a whole...

Agree with this. On Tuesday we'll have 11-12K for one of the most unattractive and pointless football fixtures imaginable. Of course, there is no way prices could go anywhere near that low on a regular basis, but it will show that some people are prepared to trudge up there on a Tuesday night...

People getting hysterical. It was a shit gate, get over it. Having only 4600 season ticket holders means that a bad run of results and these sorts of attendances become inevitable. In years to come we'll look back at this period as the darkest period in our club's history (things can't get...

There's one idiot in every village. It's simple - a bit like you. While the council retain ownership the door to ownership remains open, hopefully to new owners at some point in the near future. The moment you hand control to a group of businessmen that have no emotional ties to the city, you...

The stadium is being sold to all intents and purposes. A long leasehold is 'ownership' whatever way you look at it. Unless you think people who buy flats and apartments don't own them? Of course Wasps could sell on a stake in the future, but they doesn't mean they will. Why, after having...

I don't think anyone believes they will want to us out, it is more that WE will want out. How long will people tolerate the idea of subsidising a rugby club that has no historic links to the city? The idea of a team that (with the best will in the world) will only pull in 3000-4000 being part...

What, and your agenda is? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem somewhat indifferent to the prospect that the city council may vote through a deal that closes the door on the prospect of CCFC ever owning the stadium that was built for it. How is that for the 'well being' of CCFC?

None of that really matters does it? That SISU are to blame for where we are now is indisputable. What is at stake here is the future of our club with and (hopefully) without SISU. Like it or not, the council's current actions could well engineer a situation where nobody will be willing to...