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People keep repeating this nonsense about a permanent move. Presently, we have about 1000 supporters willing to travel 35 miles to watch their team play its fixtures away from its home on a temporary basis. That might feasibly increase to 3000 or so if the team continue to perform well and...

It is a fair assumption to make. The default reaction on Saturday for many, rather than show their delight at a thumping away win, was to agonise about how that might slightly increase the gate next week. You do get the feeling from some that they'd rather the team were struggling.

So, we have a place called Coventry. Has a football club with a long history, gets an average gate of nearly 11K playing at its lowest level in over half a century, down from 21K just a few years earlier in the 2nd tier of English football. Then we have Northampton, a smaller town with one...

Behave.

Lots of alarmist guff. A winning team will tempt hundreds back, not thousands, so no need to panic. Equally, I still think we'll be back in Coventry before Christmas. Those who say we will 'never' come back are being hysterical.

And if they default? Unless of course you can guarantee that ACL are good for every penny of that money over coming years? If we're talking about what is good for the taxpayer (why we would do that I don't know, who gives a toss), then I would suggest that the local authority loaning money to...

Another day, another 'Phoenix Club' thread/poll. Every time the consensus is that while CCFC still exists people will not desert it, yet people keep asking the same question. Until there is no CCFC then, as somebody suggested earlier today, you can stick your wishy-washy Phoenix Club idea up...

The irony of course is that SISU offered to pay off the mortgage. That would have been the best possible outcome for taxpayers (debatable whether it would have been good for the football club, but good for the taxpayers yes - the debt burden would have gone), and yet it was rejected and people...

Isn't it all academic though? Would any of the other bidders really have been in a position to offer a better deal to creditors than SISU/Otium - regardless of what assets were in Ltd? I suspect not, although we cannot know for sure, so an interesting development, albeit one that makes the...

Yup. Les Reid is king of the anti-climax.

Hypothetical question. City of Coventry FC (or whatever) starts next season in tier 8 (for sake of argument) and you and others switch. The idea of promotion every season until a glorious return to the FL is Roy of the Rovers stuff to be honest, and just because AFC Wimbledon achieved a swift...

It's irrelevant. Just abstain. What the poll does tell us though is that more people would rather there be no CCFC at all than a CCFC under the temporary stewardship of SISU. The lunatics have taken over.

Oh dear. I really can't be bothered to dignify that with an answer.

Anyone voting 1 has to have a serious word with themselves.

Why would they do that? That would make no sense whatsoever. What do you mean 'take' the stadium? What, like take it to Joy Seppala's hollowed out volvano in the Pacific to be used as a play house for all her sinister looking cats?

The dates are quite fuzzy on this. The CT reported as early as September that a deal had been reached - http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/exclusive-sisu-strikes-coventry-city-3019922 - but then as time went on there were suggestions talks were breaking down. SISU seem pretty...

You seem to completely ignore the fact that SISU have been subsidising the club for years. You can question the ability of SISU to continue to fund the club, and like you say, establishing the extent of their resources and where that money lies is no easy task and I don't imagine it is a...

Of course SISU can afford to pay it, their argument was always that the loss making football club they were subsidising couldn't - at least not when coupled with restricted revenue streams. They were trying to. They had a deal to do that last December but the council scuppered it at the 11th...

No dividends have been paid though as we know, and any profits have been reinvested to improve facilities. There is no reason to suggest that SISU would not do the same - because this reinvestment is key to making money in the first place - and everyone seems to think that is all SISU are...

It's OK, and for the record, I blame SISU for pretty much everything that has happened since that point (just getting that in before somebody labels me a SISUist or something). I do see that moment as pivotal though, and think the council made a huge mistake at that point. No going back...