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That's would be my preferance, of course that doesn't give any oppertunity to scruitinse the new owners before they come in but it's not like we get any say anyway. The problem we have here is we are being told we should protest to force SISU out as there are 3 consortiums waiting in the wings...

See what you mean now, thought you meant 19.99 wasn't exactly half of 42.99, must pay more attention!

Half price sounds better than a bit more or a bit less than half price depending on if you paid by direct debit or not. That's not a very catchy sales pitch!

Wasn't there some clause in his contact that he could leave in Jan if he hadn't played a certain number of games?

Couple of people, not the most reliable of sources to be fair, have told me Pompey have offered him £5K a week as they're desperate to get him. Apparently the Pompey chairman gave him a standing ovation when he got subbed off at the end of the Pompey v AFC game (which AFC won 2-0 with Tubbs...

Think a lot of the questions are because people don't understand what the ultimate aim is. If people just want to shake their fists and moan that SISU are rubbish then fair enough, not many people are going to argue that they've been fantastic owners. The problem for me is what does it achieve...

Don't think so have we? It was one points deduction for going into admin then another for coming out without a CVA.

I don't think this has been very well thought through. If you're going to represent yourselves as an organised protest group then not having a named spokesman isn't a good start. If you believe you are in the right why would you need to stay annoymous? As for the questions you ask I think...

Problem with campaigns of this type is they can easily come off as false and backfire. How hard would it be for some Wasps fans from London or Wycombe to imitate this campaign for their own locations.

What winds me up, and I'm not sure if this is just a Pompey thing, is the number of dog owners who walk their dogs on the pavement next to the road without a lead on. I don't care how well behaved the dog is or how good his recall is you only need him to get distracted once and run off and there...

Give it a few years and if the Ricoh move doesn't work out for them they'll be talking about how much the love the local Newcastle community.

I think you're missing my point. The point I'm making is that at day one CCC could have provisioned a loan to CCFC if CCFC couldn't obtain credit themselves. I don't think it's correct to say they need to have a stake in ACL to make the loan, they don't have a stake in ACL now and the loan is...

I'm not sure you can apply the same process to a new stadium build as the Ricoh anyway. You won't get Tesco pumping millions in or any other similar store so what are the alternatives or do we just look for something as cheap as possible. We need to know what we're talking about in terms of...

In which case what is the point of the current CCC loan to ACL (or indeed other businesses), why did they not borrow commercially?

Works both ways, how much was the land worth before it was decided to build a football stadium and Ricoh complex there? And I don't think it was actually the council who did the Tesco deal was it? Didn't they just hijack it at the last minute?

The Ricoh needed £10m of the councils money and then the £22m YB loan to complete (that might not be exact, going from memory!). CCC could have taken a loan, assuming the football club couldn't get credit, on behalf of CCFC accessing the preferential terms available to them. The football club...

The Ricoh cost about £120m to build but if you look at the breakdown after all the grants, Tesco money etc CCC only put in £10m and then ACL put in the cost of the lease via a loan from YB. If we had been paying £1.2m a year for 100% ownership of ACL that would be more acceptable but it seems to...

I'm not sure I'd count £1.2m a year in rent as free!

At a guess this is where the idea of building a whole new complex rather than just stadium has come from. Its a shame CCC and the club aren't on better terms, with the main sports centre closing down a joint development on a new facility as part of the stadium complex would be ideal. Would also...

Plenty of blocks with whole rows of seats right at the front if you don't want be so far back :)