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I’m still not clear on this. If Coventry City Football Club owned the Ricoh, would they be able to use the revenue from non-football activities at the stadium (exhibitions / concerts / hotel / casino) towards the FFP calculations? If so, owning the stadium could be a massive benefit to the...

I confess that the financial aspects of this whole saga are completely beyond me, but much has been made of the need for the club to have “access to all revenues”, and some people refer to this as the “pie money”. Can anyone on here clarify the Financial Fair Play rules? Can a club count ALL...

Got a map of Oxfordshire and an imagination?

Several people have suggested turning out in big numbers to a small club’s fixture. Sounds good to me – we are all starved of live football. But it needs to be somewhere that will grab the headlines, somewhere where a major public figure lives. Somewhere normally very quiet, and not used to...

"the auditor is satisfied there is no material uncertainty that he needs to refer to" What about the JR?!

"Of course, we understand that supporters want to know where the stadium is going to be and how long it will take to build. I know for some - probably most - it won't be anything more than a "PR" exercise until they see evidence of location and timescales etc.” He’s completely missing the...

This thread is very hard to read, I can fully identify with nearly every post. Some may think it’s down to a few bad results, but this is exactly how I’ve felt ever since we played our first match in Northampton. Can the complacency of the people running CCFC carry on in the face of this...

Can’t disagree with those things Macca – it would be nice wouldn’t it? A regards financial clout, that doesn’t look likely, since we still owe ourselves £60 million and rising fast. The only thing for which there’s an unlimited budget is staying in Northampton. Funnily enough, for me the...

You may take the piss out of “wrist-slashing”, but I don’t see that on this thread – I just see a lot of rational responses to the original question. Yes, lifelong fans are disconnecting from the club, it’s HAPPENING – read what people are saying and believe it. 1400 City fans at a home league...

The posts on this thread should be a wake-up call to the people running CCFC. I’ve been an avid supporter for over 50 years, and a season ticket holder for most of that time, until this season. I won’t go to Northampton, and have only been to three away games. I don’t listen on the radio...

Grendel and Stupot, thanks for the info - I’ve got no axe to grind and I’ve no reason to doubt what you say. If McDonald actually cost more money it’s even more annoying! My feeling at the time, based partly on comments made by le Fondre himself, was that we didn’t show sufficient ambition to...

Andy Thorn had to make do with Cody McDonald because our owners wouldn’t stump up the extra (relatively small) amount of money which was needed for his prime target – Adam le Fondre. He was twice the player, and that WOULD have been a good signing - I really believe we would not have been...

A huge “thank you” to Michael for organising this – he’s in a difficult position trying to come up with things that draw attention to the cause, yet won’t split the fans. On this occasion, it was a really effective and dignified protest - and a perfect response to the pathetic personal attack...

Message received and understood, just before I left the house. Thanks for that, much appreciated - might have saved me a big parking fine :-) Other posters - please ignore, unless you are seriously addicted to conspiracy theories!

Just to counter this pathetic assertion that going to an away FA Cup tie somehow conflicts with my refusal to attend matches at Sixfields. I don’t go to Sixfields because AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE Coventry City Football Club should not stage its home games in Northampton, when the move was NOT...

Thanks for that “Chief”, I bow to your knowledge. Boy could we do with a major investor that would see off ALL of the protagonists in our dispute!

If I’m not mistaken, SISU have said a few times that they wanted to “bring in” AEG to run the Ricoh. AEG were described in the Telegraph as an “events management company”, but if I’ve looked at the right website they look MUCH bigger than that to me. They not only own and / run over 100...

Regardless of administrative boundaries, Old Trafford and the City Ground are clearly in Manchester and Nottingham respectively. You can argue all day about whether Exhall is in Coventry or not (it comes down to whether you regard Bedworth and Coventry as one place). It doesn’t matter – what...

Once got “sandwiched” in the urinals by Ian Wallace and John Beck :o

In a Telegraph article back in September (http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-city-miss-eight-week-target-6039709), it was stated “CBRE [the Property Consultant] is providing regular updates to the Football League as part of the process.” Bingo – the fans’ friends at...