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This is not an exhaustive list just off the top of my head: 1) oppose franchising of any team in any sport, provide support and advise to the trust of any team who are being treated with such a move. 2) work with all stakeholders in a professional manner to the advantage of supporters no...

How is it franchising building a stadium of the closest viable site to the city? Franchising would be if we moved to Manchester or something similar, nobody is suggesting SISU are about to do that. Are Grimsby a franchise, how about Man Utd or Brighton?

The distance is not immaterial that's a ridiculous statement. Wasps moving 100 miles from their home several impacts the ability on a large section of their supporters being able to attend, moving a couple of miles down the road does not. There's several football clubs that play slightly outside...

I think the trust should make it very clear they are against franchising and encourage all supporters not to endorse it by attending Wasps games. The only hope we have of ever gaining an ownership stake in the Ricoh is if Wasps plan fails so the less people attending the better. Exactly the same...

Merry Xmas to everyone. 2015 will be our year, we must be due a good year by now!

That first line sums up to me everything that is wrong with the trust. SISU didn't sell the Ricoh to a franchise rugby team from London, CCC & Higgs did yet there is no mention of them or any blame apportioned to them These caveats and string were projects to be more involved in the community...

You have no way of knowing that if ACL misses a payment CCC would foreclose. You have no way of knowing if there is something in the deal between Wasps, CCC and Higgs that, for example, allows a certain level of arrears to be built up before any action is taken. This is more important now than...

This is why I have repeatedly said SISU need to present a business case, with financial projections for a new stadium and compare it against an obtainable rental deal - I would suggest using the current deal as the basis for that. I won't blindly accept anything but equally we need something...

So before Wasps purchased the Ricoh. I would suggest this gives it very little meaning now.

Sounds like his injury problems are behind him but you'd def want a pay to play element in any contract he is offered. Obviously not a long term solution but if we could get 2 or 3 years out of him would be a good move and give some breathing space to bring someone else though if Burge isn't the...

To me that is a lesser question. SISU are a hedge fund, they don't have any responsibility to this city or its citizens. CCC on the other hand do and therefore should have, at the very least, given SISU the opportunity to match the Wasps deal.

CCC & Higgs repeatedly stated it was doing fantastically well without CCFC and was projected to do better and better. Convenient that Higgs decide to not have anything to do with sport anymore right after SISU suggest a joint venture community initiative. So everything Fisher says is untrue...

Exactly right. Why is nobody concerned that less than 10 years ago a 50 year lease cost £25m but a 200 year extension has been handed over for nothing. Surely that 200 years should have generated in the region of £100m for the city. We don't know as they refuse to say. We can guess and point...

What's his fitness like these days, is he going to manage more than a handful of games without being out injured?

Professional athletes should have rest days so why not Xmas Day? It's not like if they come in that day they will all suddenly become Messi. Hardly think he's saying stay at home get pissed and eat as much as you want.

Well you think they wouldn't and I think they would, either way the point is did CCC and Higgs make that offer. If you think back to when Lucas made those statements there were no posts on here that SISU had better get a bid in or someone else would buy it. I seem to remember many people...

Exactly right but it seems far to complicated for most people!

I've already laid out the scenarios in which it makes sense and pointed out that it's not the only option as you can build, or at least Bournemouth did, a permanent 15K capacity stadium for under £10m.

I agree. To me there's a big difference between building a 15K stadium and that's it for the next 100 years and having 15K now but being able to up it to say 25K before the start of next season if we got promotion.

If, and it's a huge if, it was found that the loan to ACL was now state aid as ACL is privately owned it wouldn't matter how well Wasps are doing would it? A judge wouldn't go, well lets not worry about it, seems Wasps are doing OK.