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The difference between confidentiality and exclusivity is key here. Confidentially means there is absolutely nothing stopping CCC informing anyone that they had better get a bid in quickly as a sale is about to take place. In reality taking and successfully action for breach of confidentially in...

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-city-fcs-ricoh-arena-8108559

There's two ways of looking at this. The first is that the role of CCC is to work to the advantage of the city. I would say that would mean they should be putting the needs of the likes of CCFC and CRFC above the needs of a rugby club from London. Therefore it would follow that before selling...

I think if you read between the lines, especially to some of the direct questions PWKH was asked you could easily draw the conclusion that the club made approaches about renegotiating the rent but there were never any actual negotiations as ACL wouldn't come to the table. This was around the...

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-city-fc-chairman-tim-8801109

Tony, unless I'm misunderstanding your argument seems to be that SISU could have, and should have, made the exact same deal Wasps made. There appears to be no evidence at all to support your assumption. CCC could easily have said the same terms were available to SISU but were rejected by them...

If we're on a tight budget and as TM says a little extra money would make a big difference then think what 1000 extra season ticket sales could do. The ST sales are shocking really, if people aren't going to put money into the club how can they expect it to be spent?

Joking aside it could be the case that SISU have a legal team permanently employed. If they use these kind of tactics regularly it would make sense as it would be cheaper than bringing them in on an hourly rate for every case. If that's correct then the cost to SISU doesn't really change no...

When people are buying season tickets in the shop what is it that's taking so long? Surely you just pick where you want to sit, give them your details if you're not already on the system and then pay. There's not any finance option to deal with so what takes them so long?

The obvious solution here is for Just Sports to polybag the tops being sent through the post.

all sounds fairly positive.

Are they talking about trying to make this viable using the player budget they have for this season or extra money from SISU to fund a pre-season tour? To be honest given that we will be getting players coming in well after the season has started I'm not sure there's a huge advantage to a...

That seems very low to me with the sort of crowds they are hoping to attract. Given they want crowds 2 - 3 times the size of ours shouldn't they be aiming to have sold 10K - 15K season tickets by now?

You can't separate the sale of ACL and the fact that Wasps moved 85 miles to facilitate the move as they are inextricably linked. SISU would have reasonably assumed that it was a 'one horse race'. Who else in Coventry would have need of a 30K capacity stadium? There was mentions of CRFC moving...

We'll hit the same problem the men's game has. Lack of facilities and lack of qualified coaches. Suspect if someone like Cahill had done the same thing in injury time in a World Cup semi we wouldn't be seeing the level of praise we are seeing now, think it would be more likely he would be...

But without the lease that has little value. My understanding is the lease is not tied to Wasps and is held in a separate company, also a separate company to ACL itself, so if either company fails the ownership of the lease does not revert to CCC I said full time as anything else really is...

According to the CT this deal runs for 15 years, up until 2030 so that makes turnover £13m a year. That is only £0.5m a year higher than was claimed when the original deal with Compass was signed. Be interesting to see how accurate that projection was and how that equated to profit for ACL...

I can imagine what this forum, the CT comments and CWR phone in would have been like if SISU had purchased the stadium then immediately asked fans to loan them millions to pay off the money owed to themselves.

TF says a lot of things. He said they wouldn't have bought with the loan outstanding after they had put in an offer to pay the same as Wasps with the loan remaining outstanding so SISU's actions would appear to contradict Fishers words. What did anyone expect him to say after the sale? That he...

How about if you went to speak with your neighbours and they said they wanted £5m for the house but they'd retain ownership of the garden, if you wanted access to the garden you'd have to pay extra. A few months later they sell it to someone from London for half the value of your house?