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Wouldn't have throught. At most you'd only ever be unpaid for one or two games I would have thought so shouldn't be a problem not having a credit license. Something for the SCG to suggest at the next meeting if the club say they don't have a monthly payment plan.

You could make the opposite argument. If SISU believed ACL was a company in trouble (and it would now seem they may well have been correct) would it not have been better to stay at Sixfields and wait for Wasps to fail? An argument against Sixfields was that CCC had deep pockets and could prop up...

There's definitely an argument that if you've got 20K empty seats you're charging too much. The problem is dropping the prices doesn't seem to ever cause a decent increase in attendance, certainly not enough to offset the lost revenue. And of course we're in a position where if there's twice as...

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We all know football is an expensive day out and that tickets should be cheaper but is there not a potential banana skin here? The PL teams can use their TV money to reduce prices but won't that impact on the lower leagues? If you can get a PL ticket for £20 more people will view our prices as...

Not really, any enquiries about anything to do with the deal are met with 'confidential'. If you look at that CT piece that's not a quote so where have CT sourced that information from, its certainly not been made public by CCC. And of course if that £1m was not, as some guessed, a payment for...

Not for a second but what I can imagine is someone in Wasps PR machine (you know, the one they say doesn't exist) thinking it might not look good if Wasps buy the Ricoh on the cheap, causing CCC and Higgs to lose millions, while the football club is playing in Northampton and there's 10,000...

Isn't that CT piece about the accounts before they took over ACL? How does that show they paid £1m off the loan or is it CT guesswork? Is there anything from the council that actually confirms the change of terms to the loan and any down payment?

About £40 in petrol £3 to park cost of the ticket if it's winter I might even stretch to a cuppa don't spend anymore on F&B, stop off at the parents on the way there and back and its free!

Neither of those were people as was referring to as intelligent and having common sense :D

You can tell us Houch, was it deliberate? To be honest that would never have crossed my mind. There's a chap down here that's opened restaurants called Relentless and J's Italian, both with practically identical logos to the more famous versions. He's had legal action taken against him and has...

I would bet my house on that being true. I spent some time a couple of weeks ago going back over old posts and comments from ACL, CCC and Higgs, wish I'd taken a note now as they'd be good to post in this thread. Knowing what we now know you can easily reinterpret a lot of the comments that...

I think they would probably say they've already made their high risk investment in us and aren't making the same mistake again! The problem is they could spend that £4m and it could get us promoted, although as you say not guaranteed. The problem is how do you recoup? We have evidence from past...

So is it the old Fisher talks shit except when him telling the truth would be useful to support a standpoint? Fisher said we were never coming back - no one believed him; Fisher said we weren't interested in the Ricoh - no one believed him. Now we're being told CCC sold to Wasps because of a...

Corrected that for you. Still amazes me that the vast majority of our fan base are not in the slightest bit bothered about the council's role in this. Just in what you've quoted there we can some more outright lies yet its all OK because they got one over on SISU.

I wasn't thinking you did. Just shows all those City fans who mysteriously signed up right after Wasps purchased ACL might not be telling the whole truth when they keep insisting the free tickets aren't being dished out left right and centre anymore.

That can't possibly be true, the free tickets were only for the first three games :thinking about:

And of course whoever was in charge of the project ballsed it up so we couldn't have a pre-season money making friendly to open the ground and had to have a reduced capacity for the first game which would have more than likely otherwise been a sell out.

But as a JR deals with the situation at a single point in time isn't there pretty much unlimited scope for them to mount new JRs as and when the current one gets struck down?

State aid seems a bit arbitrary to me. CCC claimed we couldn't own 50% of the freehold, which was the original plan, as it would constitute state aid. Yet loaning ACL millions to purchase a lease on that freehold is not state aid. Where does that line get drawn. Strikes me that some of it is a...