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You recall incorrectly. The deal was scuppered by the council when they stepped in with their £14 million bailout - up until that point, SISU were offering to settle the mortgage in return for a 50% stake (with CCC retaining the freehold). As for public statements, there has never been one...

You give Clarke way too much credit - as if he understands SISU and their tangled corporate web. This has been done to death, but seriously, anyone who starts dissecting the accounts of SISU Capital attempting to make any meaningful conclusions about their ability to fund the club is wasting...

If SISU are not interested in a 50% stake in ACL, why did they negotiate a deal to buy 50% of ACL just last December?

To be honest, if people are going to keep going on the the forums of other clubs asking that they boycott Sixfields then this is the response they are going to get. I couldn't give a toss how many away fans attend Sixfields, but I know that come the end of the season it won't average much more...

Thanks for clearing that up. Those fees are staggering.

I expect the crowd to go up for the Preston game - there will undoubtedly be a few that sat out the first game and went to the Ricoh instead, but who will now start going (I'm talking a few hundred), but I think its fair to say that when the midweek games come along, and as the season drags on...

You're getting your timings mixed up. Yes, their argument was that the rent was too high, but this was the basis of their attempts to secure a half share in ACL last December. Negotiations concerning the rent (and offers of a reduction) came after that original deal had been scuppered by the...

Have to confess, I greeted yesterday's result with just as much delight as I would have done a similar result this time last year. The only difference being that I wasn't there to see it.

Your knowledge of these matters is clearly better than mine, but I'm struggling to believe that £600,000 earmarked for a creditor is then ALL retained to pay the fees for liquidation. It would be suspiciously convenient if the fees happened to match exactly the amount offered to a particular...

You lost me with the 'modern day Hitler' thing. One of the most despicable human beings ever to walk the earth? Daytime drinking is never a good idea.

Angry? We're all angry - the only difference is how we choose to channel that anger, and in which direction. Let's be clear, there is FAR more criticism channeled at SISU on these forums, and that is both understandable and right. I have not seen the same sort of vitriol directed at any ACL...

Two things stand out from that: 1. Pile of steaming wank. 2. The call for them to get a spine AND a backbone. May I suggest the phrase 'pile of steaming wank' is included in every letter to the FL from this point forward. Great stuff.

Trust you to come along with your minor technicalities ;)

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But then EVERYTHING you type is seemingly done in an effort to make yourself look clever. I am actually disappointed that you failed to pick up that I was deliberately trying to mimic that pompous, all-knowing, pseudo-intellectual tone that permeates just about everything you post. I failed...

No. The fact that some refrain from the more vitriolic, foaming at the mouth anti-SISU rhetoric has more to do with the fact that they do not posses the somewhat crude two-tone view of the world that you seem to suffer from; an unfortunate affliction that renders the sufferer prone to...

No idea. Wasn't there some talk of an area of land close to Pro Logis that was part brownfield? Greenfield is highly unlikely, but again, not impossible. Either way, they surely need to state their intentions on this issue sooner rather than later. Then again, perhaps it is all just...

Who said they have? I don't think a new ground is feasible because I don't think they can sustain the club in exile for the length of time it would take to build it - as suggested by TP above. I was just making a point about planning on its own. Bring the club back to the Ricoh temporarily...

The difference between an average of 2K and 4K is not that significant in the scheme of things (the revenue difference might feasibly be eclipsed by the proceeds of one FA Cup tie at OT, the Emirates or somewhere similar). The fact they don't have to pay 600K to ACL has probably eased things a...

Any proposal will surely be nowhere near those built up areas being referred to (it will be on the edge of the Coventry administrative boundary). For example, build a stadium next to the A46 in an area covered by Rugby District Council (say at Ansty Park), a location just yards from the edge of...