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Where we are concerned assume the worst and you generally won't be too far out.

I didn't actually say that did I? You started off talking about the value of F&B revenues over the next 3 years. You then started on about stadium sponsorship which really has no impact on the club in a short term deal. The question I posed is that you can't know that Ricoh won't see a benefit...

Your main aim is to get a good ROI but there can be many paths to that. You may just want brand awareness, you may want to target a certain demographic who are likely to purchase your products. It could be numerous other things.

So basically you have no idea if Ricoh are intending to renew or not.

I wasn't aware it had expired, what is it called now if it's not the Ricoh Arena?

How difficult it would be would depend on whats already in place. As the stadium is in use for other events I would assume all the required H&S certificates are in place. The pitch must be there if other teams are using the ground. How many tickets have been sold? You could make it general...

Your argument is very strange. You're saying it is essential for us to get F&B revenues if we return but you then suggest they should be sold to us at a low price as they aren't worth much. You then dismiss other events that will most likely bring in more revenue than our matches as irrelevant...

I really hope all these rumours turn out to be true.

Good point. What generates more revenue, 10K turning up for a couple of hours on a Saturday for one of our home games or 10K turning up for Insomnia which runs for 3 days, all day and into the evening? I think the answer will be obvious so the question then becomes could ACL have booked...

But on that basis you are suggesting SISU pay a market rate to purchase them. From everything we have heard they don't want to do this, they expect them to be handed over for free whilst also paying what most would consider a low rent for the type of facility they are getting. If SISU want to...

I'm not entirely sure what point you're trying to make here Grendel. I would love us to get all the revenues I just think the idea that we are entitled to them for free is a bit wide of the mark and I certainly wouldn't be in favour of spending what we don't have just because the FFP limit we...

That will be the one where the amount hasn't been decided yet.

I have no clue what other clubs do but most other clubs haven't decimated their income streams in the way we have. Anyway it's not that we don't get match day revenues is it, it's more we sold them off. Plenty of other clubs have done that I'm sure. Cardoza when interview about the ground share...

Spending money we didn't have is what got us in this mess in the first place. Don't see how doing the same thing is going to help us in the future.

Where is that £1.85 million going to come from? Those revenues are going to generate that amount of profit so whats going to make up the shortfall. No point raising the amount you can spend under FFP if you don't actually have the money to spend.

I know the answer to this, Fratton Park is at the end of my road. Pompey are currently paying around half a million a season just to keep the ground open. Even spending that they are at reduced capacity as they can't afford to maintain some parts of the ground to pass health and safety. Some...

That's their biggest mistake, apart from buying a football club. Imagine if on day 1 they had purchased half the stadium. At that point there was no JV, they would have had all matchday revenues and would have owned 50% of the company who would be dealing with any rent renegotiations. How much...

The unknown is what would have happened if SISU hadn't come along. We've ended up in admin anyway so what we will never know is would we have been better off going into admin then. If we had where would we be now? Would we still be in the same mess or would we have emulated Southampton. I think...

The flip side of that is does it make good business sense to stay in Northampton and lose literally millions in other revenue streams over £150K? If the argument is that the revenues are worth next to nothing in the grand scheme of things then what difference does it make if the club get them or...

Matchday revenues were initial given to the club as part of their share in ACL, when they sold that share to Higgs they of course had the option to buy that share back at a formula price but as we know that option disappeared thanks to the non payment of rent. I don't think the matchday revenues...