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I think there may have been a meeting where they discussed the deal and then the vote taken at a full council meeting which would be recorded. You can probably dig around on the CCC website to see if a vote was recorded.

Not sure if they could use commercial confidentiality as a get out for a FOI request but if SISU call their bluff and they refuse to give a valid response that by itself would be enough to see some people attitude start to change leading to pressure on the council. Going after the council is...

The last statement made by Ann Lucas, the 'we're moving on' one, included "I continue to be available on behalf of the Council to discuss with the owners of football club a reuniting of the Sky Blues with the Ricoh Arena". She has also stated repeatedly that any serious offer from anyone...

How? Did she go for the prisoner blanket over the head option, coat over the head, paper bag??? Did anyone actually see her leave or did she just vanish in a puff of smoke?

It's the best of both worlds, CCC retain security and the club, well hopefully the club and not SISU, get all the benefits of ownership. However at present SISU have given no indication that they would consider such a deal, stating they won't deal with the council and are only interested in the...

Ignoring the fact you've said no one is interested in buying the club what indication is there that SISU, who already claim to have put in £60m (plus last seasons losses and the cost of purchasing the freehold) would be prepared to sell the whole lot at a huge loss?

Any idea how long it will do on for? Are we talking a couple of days or will it be weeks of pulling out loads of irrelevant documents?

How are talks going to start when SISU are insisting they are building a new ground and are only interested in the freehold? If that stance has changed they need to make that known publically, state there is no new ground, they are interested in a leasehold and they will pay a fair price...

Don't think it's a problem if CCC retain the freehold. They can put clauses is which, if breached by SISU, cause the lease to terminate. Things like any attempt to put us into admin, charge us rent, take out finance against the lease etc.

So have they finally submitted a bid to purchase the lease?

A lot of people would agree with this, myself included, however SISU have stated they are only interested in outright ownership which would make this a non starter. If they were interested in going down this route then it's a fairly straightforward process. Make an offer for Higgs 50%, they...

It doesn't need to be made public for SISU to make a bid based on its contents. They have been saying they can't place a bid as they don't know the value yet they have their own report showing the value so why have they not submitted a bid? If their report says its only worth £1 then put in an...

People could try and spin that but the key thing would be if SISU had a valuation done which states ACL is worth, lets say £2m and they offer £2m they can show people the report and have proof they are offering market value.

So what do we have so far. Taken to court twice (not sure if it was the same case twice or 2 separate cases) by ACL over non payment of rent, lost both times - I seem to recall they didn't even enter a defence. Initial application for JR rejected. Initial application for access to documents...

Wouldn't that be in their favour? They could put in a low offer and if CCC reject it they can state that their offer is fair and in line with the valuation they have had done. That would put pressure on the council to justify their stance.

ACL have taken SISU to court twice over rent arrears and won on both occasions.

Seems odd then that our away attendance is higher than our home attendance and that we've taken huge away followings to grounds further away than Sixfields.

The tone of the judges summing up, well as far as you can tell from twitter, and a couple of his other comments seem to indicate he things SISU were wasting everyone's time. Can we read into anything the fact they wanted so many documents. Could that be an indication they don't have what they...

They certainly need a Palace-esque last few minutes to be able to spin this as anything other than a defeat.

The talk of it being pushed back was because SISU wanted access to so many documents. If they had been give access I suspect they would have been given more time to go over them resulting in the JR being delayed. Can't see any reason now that things won't go ahead on schedule.