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That's why I said in the long term, when the mortgage is paid - I've explicitly said that.

Am I sidestepping the issue? You said they've invested nothing, which is untrue, they invested, but invested badly, but worse still, we were losing money, so we had to sell players whilst bringing players in for less but to say they've invested nothing when on fees alone it totals 8m in total...

Maintenance costs would neutralised by either F&B or money we don't spend on rent, so we'd profit on one or the other... I don't know because this stadium doesn't exist so we don't have any figures, it's purely hypothetical. 2nd question Depends what the capacity is, it might not need...

Lets not kid ourselves, we aren't a premiership club anymore, you have to earn the right to call yourself Premiership club, we're in L1 and get attendances of 10k including ST holders who may not even go... We're embarrassing ourselves, Pompey managed to get more than us and their situation is...

For his fabulous work at CCFC I think he deserves a statue next to Jimmy Hill. Anyone agree? ;)

Have you got a loving wife? Would explain your anger and your drunken outbursts.

Where has it been said that we'll rent this new stadium? - No conspiracy theories please - not like the MR backhander. I can't even believe I'm having this argument because: - We won't even leave Coventry - Therefore, we definitely won't build a new stadium - I don't even want the club to...

What happened is that we lost money, effectively every week, and measures were taken to balance the books, that's why we had to sell Dann and Fox. The next season we brought in Clingan (650k), McIndoe (250-350k), Cranie (500k), Wood (undisclosed, but around 500k I believe), Hussey (50-100k)...

What about that team? I can remember that it actually got improved in their first 2-3 windows: Dann & Fox - 1m - received good bid for Dann and (in hindsight) a satisfactory bid for Fox. - Fox in the prem and Dann was linked with Arsenal + L'pool Eastwood - 1.25m - biggest waste of money...

I can't remember saying we'll top the league? I said we have a squad that is worthy of a top 10 spot. I said that we'd get a good turnout, even if we're away from Coventry if we are top - that's saying something completely different. The L1 season just past was in fact a good season (not...

Well yes I do believe it, because it's fact we signed 20 players last season.

Less revenue? Where do you get that from? We. Don't. Get. Any. Revenue! That's the problem! Where have I said I support this move? You're making up things I've said. In the short term, there are more losses, but long term - that isn't the case. Why do we need a complex stadium? HR was...

Yes, That's a fairly simple concept. If you were on the property ladder, looking for a permanent home, would you buy or rent? You'd buy because although you have massive debt and a mortgage to pay initially it's difficult, but you enjoy having no mortgage to pay once you've paid it, but if...

No, ACL are earning off the fruits off CCFC's labour, we brought the site, which the Council decontaminated for Tesco (their money helped pay for RICOH) and when we moved there, we paid 1.28m, a rip off, but worse still, we get no revenue off CCFC events - morally wrong IMO - and ACL benefit...

I wouldn't know. Like Grendel said, revenue is king, if you have a lot of revenue, you can take on more debt, at the RICOH, the problem is, we get nothing from it, if we owned our stadium, we'd save because we don't have to pay rent and make profit off the stadium so you can pay debt...

Fair enough, but when the mortgage is paid off. This is why I've specifically said that LONG TERM, it'd be better than renting, short term I've admitted it's better to rent - but that's not the bigger picture.

And renting our stadium for 1.28m p/a whilst we get no revenue streams from it has contributed greatly to our current demise.

I've always said 20-25k so I'm not changing anything, 15k or less is simply pointless. Facilities we don't benefit from anyway. Still waiting for you to publish your maths... By your logic, I assume you'd rather rent your home than buy one? So when you're old, you won't enjoy life more...

Parasite: - An organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense. derogatory. A person who habitually relies on or exploits others and gives nothing in return. I think that could applied to ACL as well.

Where have you got 50m from? They're looking at 30m. Some will probably get wiped when we come out of admin, then the stadium money will get paid off over time.