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Within the city boundary it wouldn't be major issue, unless it was a nature reserve or something similar. It's when you encroach into greenbelt at the edge of the conurbation that you run into problems. If you incorporated housing and employment provisions into the application I doubt the...

What? Of course people can see that. Are you stupid? But why does that mean we all have to sign up to the utterly pointless and damaging sale of ACL to a group of businessmen with an agenda that is not known? Are ACL losing money? No. Why would the council sell needlessly and expose the...

That's wishful thinking on a epic scale though. I doubt for one minute the consortium has any interest in the football club other than to use it as a cash cow. If there was the remotest chance of that it would have leaked out in order to soften opinion. This will be a game changer, it will...

What are you waffling on about? You have contradicted yourself so many times in order to justify your indefensible position that you are beginning to make a tit of yourself. "If it means the Ricoh still exists for Cov to play then I don't care"...give me strength. Why, are ACL about to go...

The council stance is idiotic and wreaks of short-termism. It makes no commercial sense. Council's in places like Swansea and Southampton talk endlessly of the wider economic benefits of having a top-flight football team. It is fantastic PR and can change perceptions and encourage inward...

Sorry but that's just rubbish.

'7500 Ricoh attendees'. We get a crowd that low for the first time in 2 generations and suddenly you are using it to make a lame point? This club means a great deal to a great many people. 250,000 welcomed the team home in 87. Nothing, NOTHING, comes close to bringing this city together than...

Most of the crowd will be paying on the gate for this so there ought to be. Whether they'll be enough remains to see. Seem to remember a lot of people missing kick off for the Sheff Utd and Preston JPT games. Will easily be more there tomorrow than went on Saturday. Easily.

I think you are referring to Paragon Park - that is a big site but there is a current planning app for housing on that site. Yeah, lots of greenfield sites/parkland within the city, and it is these sites the council are planning to build housing on.

Not sure, but the actual amount of green belt within the city boundary is 6500 acres (the council only intend to build on 10% of it). Lots of small sites I suspect but a few large areas that have potential. Don't know about 60 acres though. I doubt this will ever happen for other reasons, so...

Plenty of suitable sites within the city boundary. Would actually be harder to find somewhere outside of the city. Lots of reasons why the ground will never be built, but finding a site isn't really one of them. The council have just earmarked 710 acres of vacant land within the city for...

5000 have already been sold. Day to go plus walk-up I think 8.5K minimum.

No, of course not. That's not the point though is it. What it will mean is that the club will not have any hope of ownership for the foreseeable future, and thus will not have the resources it needs to succeed. All we want as fans is a couple of years under the current arrangement in the hope...

I know a little bit about this sort of stuff, and with some clever design you could get to 18,000-20,000 at the Butts, but you would have to swallow up the park and rotate the ground clockwise a bit to make best use of the space - that's as it stands, but of course there is a giant retirement...

Those 'dodgy tenants' are Coventry City Football Club, the city's biggest civic asset, just about the only thing that has to power to bring the people of the city together. Fucking unbelievable statement. Somebody from Leicester council was on the TV the other day talking about investment and...

Not at all chaps. We had only sold 4000 on the morning of the Sheff United JPT game. There was a huge walk-up for that. I could be wrong, but pretty much everyone I have spoke is going Tuesday, and yet I doubt many have got tickets yet. My point stands, unless of course we do get 5K at...

Depends how far back you want to go. Go back long enough and Leeds/Man City aside there are times when we have been better supported than all those clubs when playing at the same level. Portsmouth averaged 8000 in the second tier as recently as 1997. Anyway, did any of those clubs go a whole...

Agree with this. On Tuesday we'll have 11-12K for one of the most unattractive and pointless football fixtures imaginable. Of course, there is no way prices could go anywhere near that low on a regular basis, but it will show that some people are prepared to trudge up there on a Tuesday night...

People getting hysterical. It was a shit gate, get over it. Having only 4600 season ticket holders means that a bad run of results and these sorts of attendances become inevitable. In years to come we'll look back at this period as the darkest period in our club's history (things can't get...

There's one idiot in every village. It's simple - a bit like you. While the council retain ownership the door to ownership remains open, hopefully to new owners at some point in the near future. The moment you hand control to a group of businessmen that have no emotional ties to the city, you...