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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.

What were these conditions? The only thing I have read is a joint community initiative which, until they changed them when SISU submitted their bid, were in line with the charities stated objectives.

The way the club is being run at the moment we have exactly the same problem at the Ricoh! Bournemouth completely rebuilt their ground (as in completely demolished it and started again) in about 3 months so it can be done. It's a rock and a hard place, we either stay as tenants of a rugby club...

I must be missing something as I'm not seeing anything that says SISU were offered the same deal as Wasps. I see Fisher saying they didn't want that offer, which may be true or may be him saving face with a touch of revisionist history but nothing to say it was actually offered.

I would make one suggestion. If the subject of Wasps first game comes up compare it to Gillingham rather than Fleetwood!

Make sure you tell them all about playing the Coventry way

So change our name to Coventry Wasps and we can move anywhere we like :p

Is there a Halfords nearby? Maybe it came out of their skip!

It's pretty simple to me. In my opinion CCC have a responsibility to serve the city of Coventry and the people of Coventry. They're aren't a private business and as such should operate in a different manner. I believe two things should have happened with regard to the sale of ACL 1) CCFC should...

Even if Puma can't supply shirts, which I find hard to believe, it can't be hard to find some random Puma stuff that's blue and stick our badge on it. Or even non Puma stuff. Suggests a cashflow / credit problem to me. To be fair I'd want cash up front off SISU!