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It beggars belief that people would welcome this. Then again, we all seem happy to put our faith in an American tycoon with business interests in mafia controlled Russia and African banana republics, so I guess we'll go with anyone as long as it isn't SISU eh? Just waiting for Mugabe to be...

No, I'm Spartacus

I agree, I was just pointing out this key advantage of Walsall over Nene Park. Like you, I hope and pray it's neither.

No, nothing like that. I've heard WMP have insisted that direct trains be laid on and that they are priced at the same rate as normal trains - which is about 3 quid for a day return within the west mids I think? There's a bit of guesswork on the price and travel times - but I'm told direct...

Difference with Walsall though is that there will be special direct trains - there in 25 minutes and only 3 quid return. They would have to bus people to Nene Park, unless there is a train station there I am not aware of - been a while since I've been.

...another point about SISU capital is that they have a healthy net worth and a 5 star credit rating:

I'm surprised how little some people understand about the business world. It is a management company - of course it only just breaks even, that is surely the idea. My company just about breaks even every year (on purpose).

Been meaning to go in for a while so will definitely call in when I'm in town next. Amazing restoration job from the images I have seen. Businesses like this deserve to succeed and we should all support them.

Parking alone is worth a couple of hundred thousand a year is it not? The point that others seem to deliberately sidestepping is the massive contracts that they have with Compass and Ricoh - if either of those companies were to re-evaluate their position, and in the case of Compass that would...

It is the spin that grates. The emotional claptrap they wrap it all up in - this nonsense about the suffering of the fans. It is a commercial decision. There are stakeholders with multi-million pound contracts in place that would want a football club/anchor tenant to remain. Not only that...

Oh behave. Why so serious all of a sudden. I'll never regret making that comment, and of course 'come crashing down' can mean a number of things and I happen to mean it in a footballing sense. BTW, what is 'full administration'? I fail to see any scenario that is worse that the one we find...

Do you have access to information we don't such as management accounts? That last set of accounts filed were for the financial year ending 31 May 2012. Nobody knows what the profit was for the financial year just ended, or indeed if they made a profit at all. I suspect they probably did...

You can repeat it if you want, it's still nonsense. ACL cannot survive without the club, hence this desperate move. Do you seriously think compass have not been leaning on ACL to do something? Their contract was worth millions. Do you think they were happy at the prospect on losing all that...

I know exactly what the escrow was for, how it came about and where the momey came from. Point was it was there and they were able to draw on it - and the amount was greater than the proposed new rent deal. Quite an elementary point I was making I thought. And please don't argue that ACL...

Complete meltdown.

Their tactics at the end were all wrong, everyone agrees on that. The analogy doesn't work because it is too simplistic. The club are not purchasing goods, it is a complex tenancy arrangement in which both sides have a vested interest in making it work. To use your analogy though, if the...

One more season without promotion and the whole thing could come crashing down for them. Fingers crossed eh.

Agree. Since we fully expect the club to come out of administration once SISU regain control (hopefully they won't, but it the most likely outcome), then this offer seemingly becomes null and void. They need to clarify it really.

Fine, but that can be achieved without this two stage sale of the club - so throwing their hat into the ring is just muddying the waters as I see it. Far better that PH4 or another purchase the club via the administrator and then negotiate directly with ACL/Higgs re the purchase of the Arena or...

Since when did they 'allow' them to get away with it? They still received more via the escrow account than they were proposing to receive under the new deal that was/wasn't agreed. They then made moves to force the club into administration. I welcome this move by ACL, it is a sensible one...