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That would be an obvious plus but is it achievable? I would imagine the whole point behind the creation of IEC and partnering with Compass is they can operate at a much lower cost than if ACL, or in the future the club, operated themselves. Should that not increase the margin?

at some point the lower league teams will start going out of business one after the other and / or not be able to afford to develop youngsters to the required level. What then? There will be just the premier league teams left who can't develop their own youngsters. Their answer will be to rely...

That's great but the FL don't have to do that. All they have to do is enforce their own rules and say Coventry City must play in Coventry. Doing that doesn't say they have to play at the Ricoh, that may be the only available ground up to league standard but that's hardly the fault of the FL and...

a paying customer is a paying customer. everyone keeps banging on about the stadium never being used but that's now two tenants they've got in. better for them than it not being used surely? as we're not playing there the only real issue is if this causes a problem should we decide we want to...

What would you call a young player who was the 3rd highest L1 goalscorer last season? Surely that's the definition of a hot prospect. Was interesting to see when I looked up the L1 top scorers last season Wilson is the only one who has left so the idea that it was inevitable that he would leave...

Don't get too excited. Apparently goals in anything but league games don't count :D

Our squads going to be huge with those players plus the ones we get with the cup game money and the Wilson and Clarke money.

The season before last he won every player of the year award going. Six months ago SP was saying there was no way we would be selling him and how important he was to the team. Now we've stripped him of the captaincy and won't even give him a squad number. Something definitely seems off and with...

I think if you've rented a football stadium without thinking to check if there was a decent pitch you've made a slight oversight!

This is the biggest reason the franchise idea is nonsense. Look at the most populated areas in the country and work your way down the list until you find somewhere without a professional football team. At one point with Northampton in trouble and ground upgrades on the way at Sixfields I did...

Surely the players who have left were also getting paid or were they playing for nothing as they loved the club so much?

Murphy was out of contract therefore questions were being asked about his contract being renewed.

I hope our new signings aren't being led to believe we'll be back at the Ricoh in the near future. If they are and it doesn't happen that could backfire and leave with a load of pissed off players who don't want to be here.

Don't think people should get two excited. We have one of these every year it will just be about the playing side of things not the Ricoh / SISU / CCC / Higgs / ACL or any other business stuff.

Look at the overall picture. It is hard to imagine Baker was told he was off at the end of last season as he's bought a house down here over the summer, if he was surplus to requirements would it not have been courteous to tell him before he did that? He then turns up for pre-season and gets...

If you don't need someone then that's fine but there's a right and a wrong way to go about moving people out of the club.

Sums up the state of English football pretty well.

Its getting worse and worse. Of course we always had the odd player going off to play for a top team when we were in the prem which was annoying but now its out of control. You've basically got the top handful of teams and then everyone else. It does make me wonder what success if for a club...

With IEC would the idea not be that amount ACLs % generates exceeds the amount they were generating when doing it themselves as cost prices etc go down? That's normally why you would make a deal like this. If that is the scenario then isn't IEC a bit of a non issue? For example lets say ACL...

Sometimes when you read articles like this you have to wonder if they are deliberately taking the piss. How can he say we're paying for the pitch with a straight face after banging on about how the cost of renting Sixfields was all inclusive.