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Problem is we just don't know the figures for a new ground. Spend the same as Bournemouth (£10m) and it generates £1m additional profit per year it's a great plan. Spend £40m and have minimal additional profit and it's a terrible plan. If I was SISU i'd be doing a full analysis of both options...

Would depend on the contract but I'd expect a financial penalty would be most likely.

Starting to look that way isn't it. Wasps come in and say exactly what CCC want to hear.and get the Ricoh for next to nothing. I'm sure if Wasps undertaking development was part of the deal it will all be legally binding with penalties if it doesn't' happen. After all you'd have to be a...

I don't think we have any chance of getting the type of deal at the Ricoh we need. We need all revenues generated by CCFC at a very low rate and access to non-matchday incomes as well to b on an equal footing with other clubs. I just can't see Wasps offering a deal that works for us. That's...

SP says we have the greatest strikers in the world so I'll go for 3-0 to us (yes I have been drinking before you ask)

Losing millions every year for years apparently. Bound to be some lay offs in the city as they have their head office in Cov. Not great news at anytime but would be awful to have this uncertainly over Xmas. Wonder why they're losing so much money, badly run or a problem with the whole industry?

Nothing is straightforward in this whole sorry saga is it. Seems the deal with Higgs was £2m cash with a buy back formula price that was over £10m!

Good idea, so everyone back for an argument bright and early tomorrow? :p

It's amazing that a very simple question that just requires a yes / no answer has generated hundreds of posts across various threads from people desperately trying to defend the council without being able say they did actually offer the same deal to CCFC that they offered to Wasps. I would...

I love how when it suits an argument Fisher, who apparently never tells the truth, has his word taken as gospel. The problem with asking the question now is there's no way he can get the Ricoh on the same deal as Wasps so if he answers yes we would have liked that deal he's basically saying he...

In hindsight the best way to 'save' the club would have been to rent them the whole Ricoh complex on an annual basis at an affordable rate.

Would be interesting, not to mention a bit worrying, to forge ahead without the council and see what happened. I think the owners at the time were reluctant to give up power and step away as much of the debt was to them and walking away would undoubtedly have meant writing some, if not all, of...

You're all forgetting that our squad has many players in it that are as skilful as those in the PL.

Number 2 for me, the whole 91-94 period really where we started the managerial merry go round and Richardson gained power. I'll admit at the time I paid zero attention to financial and legal matters and just turned up to watch the games. Enjoyed watching some great players of course during...

So at HR we paid, according to PWKH, 900K a year which gave us complete control of the ground and all revenues. Despite that income we were in a mess financially. The way out of it was to pay £1.2m a year and not get complete control of the ground or all the revenues. Doesn't take a genius to...

That's exactly the problem. From observing Pompey the first season everyone was on a high from the takeover by the fans. This season it's been increasingly voiced that more money, which they don't have, or they need to sell to someone with money. If they can't compete in Div 2 with crowds of 15K...

Self sufficiency is a strange one. It sounds a perfectly reasonable aim but would it work. How many clubs, in any division, that aren't running at a loss experience any success. Would be interesting to know. Pompey are being run on a long term self sufficiency plan that actually allows them to...

We definitely had the right to buy HR road back, can't remember if we sold the right or just didn't use it.