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My understanding, from speaking about this to an HMRC officer when one of my companies was being audited, is that the policy is HMRC reject automatically when the football creditors rule is involved to give others preference over HMRC which wasn't the case with our CVA.

She definitely said the unfettered freehold was not for sale. Didn't specifically say the freehold was for sale with the existing lease in place but by specifically saying unfettered wasn't for sale implies it is but as we all know owning the freehold is not beneficial from a CCFC point of view.

Of course if SISU had paid what was owed there would have been no administration and no points deductions so maybe the better question is was not having to pay the owed rent / breaking the lease worth missing the play offs for?

protest was shown on the ITV highlights show last night as well.

Couple of pissed up blokes ran on the pitch. That's all I remember happening.

You'd have to purchase several parts to end up owning the whole thing. To get the leasehold you'd have to buy out Higgs, around £5m would do that if they offer the same deal they did to SISU. If it was me I would offer the council £14m to repay the loan in exchange for their share as a starting...

Isn't this how we ended up with SISU? We were told there wouldn't be anyone else interested so everyone should hand their shares over for nothing. Of course there's a risk there may be no potential buyers but surely in a worst case scenario a consortium of local businesses could take over, fair...

Interesting point. Lets say there were breaking the law who would be the ones to take action, companies house? Wonder what their defence would be, they can't really come out and say we're trying to bankrupt another company causing taxpayers and a charity to lose money!

Certainly didn't turn them against us, as he was being led away in front of the home supporters they gave him a standing ovation and clapped him.

Buyers pulled out so still 1 ticket available at face value.

I was proper excited when we signed him. Seemed like we'd been after him for years and everyone kept on he was going to be amazing. Shame injuries got the worst of him. Was fun when he came on against Bournemouth after he'd been out for months, signing "we thought you were dead" and cheering...

Gone now, Chapman has one going as well which is still available.

Didn't we go down this road before and it was said it was near impossible to identify who the investors in the funds were? That said if more coverage was gained in the likes of the FT that could lead to questions being asked of SISU.

So that could be an incentive for SISU to stick around? If they were to leave they would have to right off the investment and then questions might be asked. Wonder if there are any rules about what you can invest in, I know all investment is a risk but could SISU face any kind of action for...

I don't mean written off at our end so it's not owed by the club anymore (even tho Fisher did state around 18 months ago that every penny put in by SISU had been converted to equity!). I meant do they decrease the value in the pension pot so that over time its not as noticable if it all goes...

Of course if they could buy it at such a knockdown price that the profit on selling it at market value covered their investment then that is a sensible approach but if it doesn't then they need to look at other options. The mortgage would come into play as if they sold they would need to repay...

It's not really if it matters or not more that you can't go back in time and change it so you really need to just draw a line under things and look at what is happening at the present time.

Fair point but equally PWKH told us, and I have no reason to disbelieve him, that other offers were on the table and the club picked the £1.2m flat rate. I can only guess this was down to them thinking we would be back in the prem and the deal would work to their advantage. If that had happened...

Not yet mate.

I'd be interested to know if the amount they've invested still sits happily on the balance sheet. Could explain their reluctance to let go of CCFC as that would be the point at which they'd have to write that money off? Is that how it works or have the been slowly writing it off over time?