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  1. Calista

    Interesting views on Wasps games at Ricoh.....

    I respect your view that Wasps shouldn’t be relocated, and I'm certainly not "rubbing my hands (or anything else) with glee" about it. But the truth is it’s very hard to define where they should actually be. The “London Area” is such a nebulous concept, as is shown by your suggestion of Upton...
  2. Calista

    Sepalla interview

    SISU, as Mr. Fisher has assured us, are “good at building relationships”. And to be fair, this interview with Ms. Sepalla contains some fine examples of how to convince another business that they should enter into a partnership with you … “It’s a complex situation having 50/50 but it’s not to...
  3. Calista

    Interesting views on Wasps games at Ricoh.....

    I know where you’re coming from Weeman, but I actually think sharing the stadium with Wasps would make us (and them) more prosperous than either party going it alone. 50% of a successful business is preferable to 100% of a struggling one. So if (and it’s a big if) CCFC can negotiate an equal...
  4. Calista

    The double bind

    NW, I hugely respect the fact that you are opposing the principle of moving Wasps to Coventry - but I think it’s a mistake to beat yourself up about it. I’ve looked online for the outrage from Wasps fans that you might expect, given the scale of the change that’s happening to them. Yes, there...
  5. Calista

    Higgs Share Update

    I seem to recall that CCFC Ltd. was a "non-trading property subsidiary"?
  6. Calista

    Higgs Share Update

    I think the £1.75m is probably a misunderstanding. I think it may be 1.75 million £1 shares, with the “£1 shares” just being a standard term for shares in the company. There’s a correction to this effect on the Twitter site, but I’m not sure whether Les Reid himself has issued it or someone...
  7. Calista

    Higgs Share Update

    I’m no financial expert (and I’m damned if I can work that Twitter thing!) but doesn’t the correction mentioned here solve the £1.75m vs. £2.77m conundrum? Surely “£1 shares” is just a standard term for the shares in a company – it doesn’t mean the shares are actually valued at £1 each. So...
  8. Calista

    Time to Go Sisu.

    I appreciate your anger at the Council’s apparent willingness to sell to another club when they wouldn’t sell it to us. However, as has often been said, as a football club we are never going to own a stadium anyway. If SISU had bought it, it would have belonged to them not CCFC, just as Wasps...
  9. Calista

    Joy

    You're not the only one who's "yyping in the dark" Wingy!
  10. Calista

    This might be a daft question

    By Maltesers
  11. Calista

    Positives

    Liam – your enthusiasm is awesome, seriously. You put the likes of me (who have finally lost it) to shame. I can’t say anything about today’s game as I wasn’t there, but I can say that football fans by their nature tend to over-react (to wins as well as defeats). We did play the runaway...
  12. Calista

    Stadium Ownership

    Don, I don't know how flippant your post was intended to be. But behind it there is surely a valid point. Let’s say CCFC did build another stadium with a modest capacity, and at some stage we were successful enough to get back to the Premier League. You would now have an unsustainable...
  13. Calista

    Les Reid Update

    I think I’ve got it. A is owned equally by B and C. B and C each have the right to veto the sale of the other’s shares to anyone they don’t like. In hard times, C sells its 50% share to D, and as part of the deal C gets a contractual right (with B’s full knowledge) to buy the shares back from...
  14. Calista

    Coventry City scrap match-day price increase, and beer reduced.

    A sensible move by the club which might make a small difference. For people like me who are no longer interested in a season ticket, it’s good to know that we can make a late decision to go to a game without feeling “ripped off”. After the ludicrous predictions of 20,000 for Yeovil, I think...
  15. Calista

    Fisher Mark II?

    I said on another thread that the Wasps consortium is SISU Mark II, and I’ve seen nothing to change my mind. They push out the same smarmy commercial drivel. Picking up a sports club and dropping it 80 miles away is a sickening approach. However, having looked at the Wasps forums, they do...
  16. Calista

    Anyone now thinking that SISU will jack the whole thing in ?

    I think OSB58 may have said that one option for SISU was simply to keep the football club barely afloat indefinitely, whilst it keeps on paying (very substantial) interest to them on the debt. Apologies if I’ve misrepresented that, and sorry if it sounds depressing. If that’s the plan, I can...
  17. Calista

    Anyone now thinking of jacking the whole thing in?

    Several posters on this thread have expressed my feelings exactly – it was the Northampton move that broke the bond. Prior to that, even though paying for a season ticket was a stretch, we kept doing it out of loyalty and habit. The loyalty was repaid with a gross insult, and the habit has...
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