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also wasn't it mentioned that the offer Higgs accepted from SISU (that they then never heard anything about again) was well under the formula price? if it's still in place who does it lie with? I was under the impression it would cease to exist as part of the liquidation process.

shouldn't this sort of decision be put to a membership vote? on the face of it Michael has made moves to start bringing the splinter groups together and has been dismissed out of hand. It's all well and good saying that the Trust doesn't do protests (what was that march through town if it...

That could be a problem then. Looking at the access assuming they're going to be routing people from the Coventry side (as that's where you'd expect the majority of traffic to be coming from) it doesn't look like there is the land available to widen the road off the roundabout to Brandon so...

If they were to buy the site at Brandon it's clear major road infrastructure improvements would be need. Would it be the case that some of these would be within the control of CCC? Where is the actual boundary?

Are you 100% certain on that. I was under the impression they had offered CCFC their share of the profits (70 something %), a meeting with Compass regarding access to their share and cross invoicing to increase spend under FFP. It was part of the offer to reduce the rent to £400K

They did exactly the same thing with Portsmouth, they had to agree to make certain payments to be issued with the golden share. Of course the follow on question would be what will the league do if and when Otium fail to make the payment.

Isn't it one of the league rules that the football club has to have first option on all dates? Games get moved for TV and on safety grounds and I think they can be randomly moved with the agreement of both teams but if the Ricoh was unavailable on a date we were scheduled to play and the other...

Is it just me or is anyone else finding there is no option to comment on any CCFC story on the Telegraph website these days?

I think the £7m valuation came from Yorkshire Bank who were getting concerned about ACLs ability to pay the loan as SISU weren't paying the rent. It's not a sale price valuation, more how much would the bank be able to recover if ACL did default and they took owership of ACL and had to shift it...

I thought people had been taking the piss when they said this, says it all really when the person who's supposed to be in charge has to have bodyguards to go to a game. I'm pretty sure if I needed bodyguards to go to work I'd resign.

You're spot on there, they can't even use the fact that there's already a stadium in Coventry against any planning application SISU put in. If they did reject it just because they don't like SISU it would very quickly move beyond the councils control anyway. That's why its never made sense to me...

Don't think it will be a rental deal, in my opinion the only reason to be so desperate to obtain the freehold is to be able to load it with debt. Get the freehold for well below market value, take out credit against the freehold up to the amount SISU want as a return and then they walk away...

Totally agree with you there. People can moan all they want about the council and / or ACL but SISU need to formally put in an offer. We're not going to make any progress until that happens.

I don't think the numbers they announce are the numbers that get used for tax purposes which dates back to the days before electronic entry where they had to do a manual count through the gate. That means they could, if they wanted to, give out a totally made up figure. I suspect the truth lies...

Can't read what it says but that can't be for football, is it for the rugby? I don't for a minute think SISU have some grand plan to franchise us out to Northampton but you have to wonder if it will cross their mind at some point. Especially if Northampton continue to struggle or even drop out...

Mate of mine, who has a business in Northampton, got a couple of freebies tonight. Not the first time he's had them this season either. Offered me one but I can't bring myself to go to Sixfields. Just gave him a call and asked about attendance. He reckoned about 700 - 800 Orient fans and he said...

I think there's a problem at the moment that a number of people think they have to pick a side and don't view things like the protest today, NOPM, KCIC as being alongside the trust more choosing one over the other.

had another look, there's a story on the protest as the lead item on the website. No mention anywhere of the new documents revealed by Bob or the meeting in parliament, that doesn't even make the live feed thing. not being funny but they've managed to find time and space for "A greedy possum...

Think I'm right in saying that since making £1.1m with the club paying a rent of £1.2m they have massively reduced costs. They've restructured their debt and changed the staffing of the company to reduce costs, hence why the could offer a much lower rent to SISU.

Is there not already a council meeting scheduled to discuss the plans for the Ricoh and it's sustainability without CCFC?