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At the time ACL had a relatively short lease, something like 45 years left to run. So the pertinent question would be at the meeting mentioned did Lucas make any mention of a 250 year lease being available? A 250 year lease is, to all intents and purposes, the same as freehold.

Depends on your definition of forced, we had no other option than to agree to whatever deal was offered. If we didn't we had nowhere to play. We were already paying huge penalties at HR for being late moving out and delaying the development. We couldn't afford to exercise the buy back clause, if...

At this stage of the season are triallists going to be players who have managed to go all season without getting a club (not a good sign I would have thought) or are we getting an early look at players who will be released at the end of this season?

I got the retro style one we had a few years back and I got one of the Puma FA Cup replica's. Prior to that probably one of the late 90s ones. Used to buy them every season when I was younger.

I think F&B is often used as a bit of a catchall term. While getting the matchday revenues would be nice I can't imagine there's millions to be made there. The revenues are non-matchdays are the most crucial. That said if I thought the money was going to the club I'd spend a lot more. At the...

Lived in Ottawa for a while. That was our PL days and as they showed 3pm live matches and all the 'big' games got moved for Sky we were on fairly regularly, certainly more than we were ever on TV at home.

The sliding scale also had us paying a lot more than £1.2m a year on some points of the scale. As for the rent being the same as at HR you need to read very carefully what was said about that. It was actually set as the same as the final rent at HR, negliting to mention that the final rent at...

Didn't realise we were paying David Bell that much!

It won't be so much an issue of permission. I suspect so long as we hand control back over to Wasps in the same state we received it in on a matchday they won't really care (unless we're messing with advertising or things that make them money). The issue will be time, we only have a short period...

Oddly their share price has gone up after they announced this! Seems to be based on the idea that the worst is over and it will get better from here.

Because we're only getting 8K there and the more of the ground the open up the more staff they need and the more it costs at a guess.

have you allowed for parts of the ground being closed off?

If they don't offer credit people could always get a 0% interest credit card, stick it on there and pay it off over a few months.

ACL / Wasps apparently, think it was at one of the SCG meetings. Said they didn't have access to it this year and it would have taken to long to order the cards when we returned unexpectedly anyway hence paper tickets were being used. Also said they were hoping to have further discussions with...

We had this, it was called FlexCard. I've still got mine. They binned it, along with the cashless payment thing, as everyone kept moaning about it! From what I understand we can't use it now as it's an ACL owned system and they aren't giving us access to it.

You'd still be selling a club that would be millions, if not tens of millions in debt. You'd get a £1 and most likely have to write of a good chunk of the debt.

Unfortunately not, I'm working in London this weekend. I planned which weekends I'd work when we were at Sixfields so I've not managed to get to a lot of home games this year. Thanks for the offer anyway.

There seems to be a bit of an upturn recently. Saw something on facebook about kids parties on a matchday as well. Wonder if they've got someone new in marketing or given them a kick. Either that or the PR firm they hired have got involved.

So for example the other side of the motorway from the Ricoh or Warwick Uni or Ansty Park would all be considerably harder to get to than the Ricoh? Don't buy that for a minute. If people don't go to a new ground, if there ever is one, that won't be the reason. It might be used as an excuse like...

They might have first been talking to ACL about using the Ricoh for European games. I believe their ground at Wycombe didn't meet the requirements for those. Wouldn't surprise me if that's all they were interested in and then the idea of buying ACL was put to them.