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Dunno Nick, you may be right – it’s getting late :) Like everyone else, I’d love to know the reasons why all this happened. And I find it hard to go with the theory that “the Council” (i.e. professional officers, and members of all parties) have been pursuing some kind of vendetta against...

When Tim is being glib, he likes to be quite specific as well doesn’t he? http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/dec/23/coventry-city-wasps-ricoh-arena “City’s chief executive, Tim Fisher, insists they do not regret failing to buy the Ricoh, saying they could not agree to taking it on, as...

Off the top of your head?! My mum told me never to trust a man who can instantly recall the floorspaces of sporting retail outlets :)

I appreciate the trouble you took answering my question Dave, and can see what you mean now. I still believe that SISU got this completely wrong. People can say the stadium business was worthless as much as they like, but IMO it was (and is) crucial to the future of the football club. If...

Not trying to be confrontational here, just trying to understand the answers given by you and ChiefDave. I wasn't talking about dividends. Would the rent be going to a company we had a 50% stake in? And wouldn't we have had a say (as opposed to no say) in that company's policy towards the club?

I'm not sure I phrased the question very well. I realise that the rent would still have been £1.2M, but our owners would have had a 50% stake in the company it was being paid to i.e. half the rent would in effect be being paid to ourselves (if you equate the club with the owners)? Obviously...

If the club had got the 50% Higgs share wouldn’t it have effectively halved the rent, and therefore been worth about £600K a year, as well as giving us a seat at the table? And if that is the case, can anyone somehow explain why it wasn’t absolutely at the top of SISU’s agenda when they took...

Weirdly enough I was concerned about the performance at home to Gillingham. Yes we’d had a brilliant purple patch in the first half and stuck four past them, which was so much fun. But we were frighteningly poor in the second half. People said afterwards that it was understandable to “take...

My Sky Blues starting XI for 2016-17: ------------------------ Lord-Justice --------------------- Highcourt------Barrister----- Liquidator(c)------Escrow --------------------Profit-----------Loss------------------ Cashflow-Neutral------- Shareholder ------- Leasehold...

Regarding Djibril Cissé, here’s what Wikipedia says:- “On 20 October 2015, Cissé announced his retirement from football at the age of 34 due to injury” So perhaps he got on the list because he’s unattached to one of his kneecaps or something?

Almeida Jeroen Lumu Jo can bang them in alright. Not 100% sure that I’ve got the line breaks in the right place though.

They're all very clever idiots though :)

… and the crap deal was a natural consequence of the Council and the Higgs having to sustain a load of debt to keep the stadium project afloat. The way for CCFC to get out of paying so much rent and to get us back some control over the Ricoh was to cough up the (again inevitably high) formula...

I agree with much of that (except to say that I could see ability in Barnett even when some were saying he was the worst player ever, and I wasn’t alone. He needed time to find his feet, just like Stokes did and Bigi could well be the same). Knowing how players are going to develop is very...

My take on it is that the owners have said no more money will be put in, so the club must pay for itself. Selling Maddison is the only way to keep it going competitively (ish). The manager advised Joy that hanging on to him for a couple more years could pay off handsomely, but she’s sticking...

What I don’t get G is that you spend a lot of time around here spouting off about other people not being genuine fans, just because they don’t meet some invisible quota of posts on a match day. Yet you seem to be brushing off the sale of Maddison as if it didn’t bother you one way or the other...

NW - I've "liked" this not because I like it (if you know what I mean), but because I think you are spot on with your interpretation. But the problem remains that we have sold this outstanding young player too soon and for too little money. He might have funded us for several seasons if we'd...

I can’t believe the philosophical reaction of so many posters. The shitfest of the last few years has hardened me to most things about CCFC, and the ups and downs don’t affect me anything like they used to. But for me, this ranks alongside the sales of Dennis Mortimer and Robbie Keane on the...

If Vincelot and Rose both played, maybe Fleck would have more freedom to get forward - personally, I'd like to see that. Fleck works well when operating from deep, but I think he's capable of doing more damage. On the other hand, the team pretty much picked itself at the start of the season...

Armstrong is currently slightly ahead in terms of development. I really like him, and he’ll probably make a Premier League striker. But if Maddison can fulfil his potential, I reckon he will be the better (and more valuable) player, maybe a regular international. The question is...