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Nailed it.

Deluded doesn't even get close. So closing the door on ownership of the Ricoh is a good thing for the football club because the people who own it will probably be nice and friendly for a couple of years? Jeez. The fact they will 'respect' CCFC in the short term is of little or no consolation...

Of course they had a choice - we all know that as long as the option to buy the Ricoh was there CCFC were going nowhere. The council could have sat on their profit-making management company for a few years until bridges were rebuilt and/or ownership of the club had changed. Why they did was...

What wider benefit? In many ways the football club IS the city of coventry - it is pretty much the only vehicle through which we can display pride in our home city en masse. It matters to people, it is the only thing capable of bringing the people of the city together. 250K greeted the team...

Anything that is bad for CCFC is bad for Coventry by default.

It is weird how some people would be genuinely annoyed if Bigirimana came back on loan. After all, who'd want that dynamic duo of Finch and Barton to miss out to a talented youngster who has proven himself at a higher level. Ain't gonna happen now anyway.

Good post, and point 4 is on the money. Those who think Wasps have any plans to buy the football club are, indeed, delusional.

It's funny how some people don't believe a word SISU say, unless of course it suits their argument, in which case SISU were definitely going to take the club out of the city in 4 years. Guff. As long as the possibility of ownership was there, we would have stayed at the Ricoh, and who knows if...

There was NEVER a 'significant' minority that blamed ACL/CCC exclusively - one or two individuals perhaps, but I've never actually met one. What some people have said is that the council have not been blameless. While it may have been possible to sympathise with them for having to deal with...

Of course, when you look at it in those terms, it makes no sense at all. It always made more sense to buy into the Ricoh, and had they behaved properly, the opportunity to do exactly that would have presented itself at some point. But that ship has sailed, in fact the prospects of Ricoh...

I haven't bothered to delve into SISU/Otium and their tangled web of companies to run credit checks, but I don't imagine they'll have much difficulty raising the money.

Of course. But on that statement "I would rather we stayed in league 2 than built our own ground", I think you may actually be on your own. And I wouldn't want that :)

Absolute guff. No club has anything like the rental arrangement we have. We rent use of the pitch on a limited number of days a year. Walsall, for example, pay rent that enables them to operate that stadium 365 days a year for their OWN benefit - they are the stadium operators. So that means...

It all depends to what extent repayments can be offset against revenues that the facility would generate. None of us know what is planned, it may end up containing an adjacent housing development for all we know. What will the naming rights be worth? Will the catering contract be sold off at...

Speak for yourself.

So you bought a house cash? Nobody has 'enough' money to buy a house. They borrow it. Virtually every new stadium built in recent years has been mortgaged in some form or another.

The slip road would be part of a planning application that doesn't even exist yet! It wouldn't appear on HA plans at this point. There is plenty of land too...

We haven't 'got' anything Otis. I've never heard anyone claim that renting a house is better than buying one - yes I know those sort of analogies do not always work, but providing it is financed properly, it makes perfect sense for us to secure our long term future with a home of our own. It...

I was with you up to the bit about a new stadium not making sense. It's about the only thing that does make sense at the moment.

So would finish 2 years ahead of the likely completion date for a new stadium. Not saying it will be there, just heard a rumour. Something about a slip road directly off the A45 to a new stadium site next to industrial estate opposite airport (by the air museum).