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That's exactly my concern and the only response you ever seem to get is we can't know for sure they will do that so that argument isn't valid. To me that just seems to be burying your head in the sand and hoping for the best. Why risk it when there's solutions that give the same outcome for the...

Sorry, typo, I meant unencumbered freehold. If you think this is achievable can you explain how? As I see it ACL has contracts with various other companies, all those contracts would have to be cancelled and compensation paid for the cancellation. ACL would then have to be wound up, as this is...

Indeed but if we're going to take them at their word on that then we may as well give up all hope of the club ever playing in Coventry again. The unencumbered lease is essentially impossible to achieve, my feeling is SISU know this and that is the reason they have requested it, I don't think...

Seeing as you're the only Coventry fan I've ever know who has access to all Robinsons accounts can you let us know the net figure from all his dealings with the club.

There was definitely charity matches at the Ricoh before we left. And of course there's the Ricoh Arena Community Space project which has been there since the very early days of the stadium.

there's certainly been schools games there as well and I have a feeling the EFSA have run tournaments there as well.

Is the Higgs family not in anyway connected to the Higgs Centre which is of course our academy?

The rumour has always been, and Robinson has always chosen not to comment on it, that Robinson made a significant amount more out of the club than he wrote off thanks to a combination of interest payments and his cut of profits on player sales. As with much from that era I don't think we'll ever...

the government website concerning the register of assets of community value lists in among the examples of places eligible football grounds so it would seem they are indeed considered community assets.

That's exactly why I'd have the council retain the freehold with certain events causing the lease to revert to them. If SISU lost the lease if they attempted to borrow against it they wouldn't be able to secure any debt against our ground.

Have they just been allocated the usual away end or have they got that stand opposite the main stand that's usually closed as well? Would make sense to let them have that to avoid problems.

The deal as it was originally made was for it to be a short term thing, basically to ease cashflow problems the club was experiencing. It was essentially a pawn broker deal. We'll give you £6m or whatever it was now but we'll hold the share in ACL as security, when you've got the money to pay us...

For me the middle ground is for SISU to own the lease (essentially own ACL) and CCC to retain ownership of the freehold. Put clauses in the lease that revert the lease back to CCC if there's anything dodgy attempted by SISU. Best of both worlds, club has all the benefit of owning the ground but...

To an extent but as with Get Cov Back to the Ricoh anyone who wants to do this kind of thing really needs to speak to SISU and establish if there is a deal to be done. Lets say this chap raises the £3m and then SISU won't speak to him - it would be a lot of effort and raising peoples hopes for...

Not sure if you're just on the wind up but assuming you're not if you think this is Higgs families only contribution to the club, ignoring the rest of their work in the city, then you need to do some background research. No matter what anyone things of the current situation or the role any of...

Indeed it doesn't but it's not just him, it's also Fisher who has the same problem and not just in the way they present their points. The points they are trying to make keep changing, doesn't really leave you with the impression that its a solid plan they're all working towards!

There was a piece somewhere (probably the Telegraph or Midlands Today) about the huge amount of work that was needed prior to the Olympics. Every single logo (including manufacturers names on toilets, hand dryers etc) had to be covered so as not to upset the official sponsors would imagine all...

Officially I think the last thing was they were in talks with 2 sites and had a HOT agreed with 1 but couldn't tell anyone where either was or give a timescale on when anything would be announced.

The thing that always strikes me with statements, interviews etc from everyone other than SISU is that what they say is fairly consistent and seem somewhat balanced (at least as balanced as a statement from one side ever will be) and plausible. A lot of what we hear from SISU appears made up on...

While ACL do appear to have moved on somewhat and concentrate on their own business unless we get to a point where the stadium bowl is converted for an alternative use it will always be available for us to return. The only tricky part will be that they are taking bookings which block out...