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The most interesting thing today is that SISU have been ordered to pay CCC's costs. From what I gather from speaking to my lawyer this doesn't happen too often in this kind of case and is basically done when the judge thinks one sides case has no merit and they're wasting the courts time. Now...

I would guess the theory would be CCFC under SISU ownership sign into a long term lease. SISU then put the club up for sale, into administration or threaten to liquidate leading to someone like Hoff or the trust taking over. You're right to say from a business standpoint it wouldn't make sense...

that could be a great game at the Rioch if both sides still had something to play for. They could fill a 6K allocation and we could get 20K home fans in. Hopefully we'll be back home by then and not still pissing about in Northampton.

they are cutting it a bit fine. Is anything likley to happen over the weekend? Doubt it as most of the staff probably don't work weekends now we're not based in Cov. Presumably they'll have to have a priority sale for ST holders so even if that's quite short and starts on Monday it doesn't leave...

2 ways of looking at this. You could look at it from an atmosphere perspective and it would be likely that a full ground every week would be a better atmosphere than a half empty one. The flip side of that would be to look at it purely on a business basis. It will cost more in the long term to...

Well CCC own 50% of ACL so they can agree to sell them that part and an agreement was reached with Higgs previously to buy their 50% of ACL so assuming a similar offer was on the table that's not too big of an issue. Bigger potential problems I can see would be SISU wanting to scrap the deals...

Why would Martin Reeves and Chris West want to listen to a presentation from Fisher about the benefits and economic impact of a multi-purpose stadium. They will already know that as they've already got one! If they're talking about forming consultation groups now and still looking for ideal...

maybe they'll put a big screen up at Sixfields :whistle:

wonder what checks they do to see if the sky subscription ties up with the broadband. I have 4 offices with BT broadband, wonder if I could use one of those accounts to get BT Sport free at home.

Les is a bit behind isn't he? Has he only just got round to reading the councils statement from last week? :p

I live too far away to be able to attend every game but if they ran a scheme like Pompey do down here where you can buy a season ticket and then donate any games you can't attend to charity I'd be up for that.

This point seems to be missed a lot. Most, if not all, clubs that have new grounds have had to pay for them. They've not just been built by someone else and then handed over! Let's say we had built the Ricoh ourselves, chances are our mortgage would be more than £1.2m a year so would we be much...

only an hour up the road from me, hopefully it being a Friday night and on TV will put people off going and I'll be able to get a ticket!

I suspect the answer to that must be yes. Down here in Pompey the local swimming pool, despite always being rammed, manages to lose around £1m per year. The facility is privately run but the losses covered by the council so from that I would guess that the council can do pretty much what they...

I was under the impression that the freehold was owned by the council but the stadium was operated by SMC which is owned by Assem Allam (the father of Ehab Allam, the owner of Hull City). Is that no longer the setup?

don't think the Hull situation is quite as straightforward as it appears on the surface. Allam owns the leasehold (or at least the right to run the stadium) but has in the last few months been under increasing pressure due to the high charges levied against both the football and rugby team. A...

ACL's lease has something like 40 plus years left to run. During that time SISU would not be able to (fairly and legally!) do anything to remove them other than offer to purchase the lease back therefore they would make zero over that period as the lease was paid for in one lump sum up front...

spot on, this is the only thing that makes sense to me as a means to SISU getting their money back. pick up the freehold for well below market value, load as much debt as possible against the freehold. use that money to pay off the clubs 'debt' to SISU and then just walk away or stop paying the...

If they own the stadium (freehold) they get zero revenue for decades. The people who get the revenue are ACL who own the lease (which would still be valid should SISU but the freehold) but that's not what SISU are saying they want to buy. There is no benifit whatsoever of ownership of the...

sure you're right for some people. personally I would love SISU to issue a statement that gave the answers to the questions that are repeatedly posed. At the moment I wouldn't be in favour of SISU being allowed to take ownership of the Ricoh but that doesn't mean I won't look at any evidence...