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I wouldn't mind, but my only real hope is that they'd leave Robins to get on with it for a least a couple of seasons - I think we owe him that much at least.

I can't get in the car now without going back to check that I've _definitely_ locked the front door of the house. 😂

Two questions: 1) Do you know where your glasses are? 2) Can you remember why you've just walked into the kitchen? Happens to us all mate, nothing to worry about. 😄

I don't think there's any great reason to be despondent. At the very worst, the club is in exactly the same position they were at the start of the season; renting the ground and with owners who are just about trickling in enough to keep us going. Now there is at least some reasonable hope of...

LIBOR's gone chap, we use SONIA these days. Insert own joke here. 😄

So having looked on the RFU site about 'phoenix' clubs, the regulations say this.... The primary considerations for the RFU if the Club wishes to transfer its membership and league position to a Phoenix Entity are: • Will the Phoenix Entity be able to play at its current ground next season and...

The council can't stop the reasonable assignment of the lease whomever buys it. And it looks to me like the admin process is intended to buy ACL as a going concern anyway. I'm yet to see a convincing argument that the Council, whether they wanted to or not, could stop a sale to SISU if SISU...

I think the only place I'd differ with that is that I'm not sure that the FA/EFL would be prepared to let us move again, given we've got eight years to sort it out. That will put SISU in a tight spot - build a new stadium, or sell to whoever owns the arena, or lose vast amounts on a new and more...

Just to make the point again though, the Council don't own ACL. I'm not sure how they could directly influence this process. I think it's much more likely that SISU were simply outbid rather than stitched up. All of the evidence points to them struggling financially. Is it possible that SISU...

Sub lease is protected in everything I've read about this so far. The only way it goes would be liquidation, which isn't happening now, it appears. It'll be hard for anyone to distress the club whilst the sub lease remains in effect. If it is Ashley, and there really isn't already a deal...

I don't wish the bloke ill. I've met or spoken to a few councillors and individually they all seem entirely pleasant (except Maton, he's a cock). However as a group they make terrible decisions, imho. Anyway, this is for another thread perhaps, sorry...

Putin's going to be looking to rehabilitate himself at some point over the next few years. And we used to have a big tractor factory here... I'll let you join the dots. 😄

Duh. Sorry!!

No mate. Not in my lifetime. Not ever. I'm a union man and an ex-Labour party member. Of the left and proud of it. That's why it hurts watching how this Council behaves (edit: with apologies if that's your point too). Edit2: Which it is, apologies. I'll leave the post here as a monument to my...

Is there a link anywhere to that regulation, it's a new one to me mate? And regardless, don't forget this is the same RFU that raised nary a whimper when Wasps relocated 80 miles north and next door to an established club. They won't stop Wasps moving back down towards their actual home.

Responding to questions with a one word reply? Following an outdated population estimate in order to permit unnecessary development of the green belt and the city's fringes and playing fields? Dragging his heels on HMO orders so that entire areas of the city become dominated by students to...

I'm not sure what the Council can actually do though, Pete. They don't have a stake in ACL or ACL 2006, so they have no say in the possible sale of those entities. They can't "unreasonably" prevent the transfer of the lease; "but SISU" isn't likely to cut it in court. The lease isn't going...

It would seem very odd. For better or worse, I don't really see him as someone who wants to make his name in arena management.

Naah, a bite would be telling him to fuck off like the boring twat he is. But personally, I wouldn't rise to that. 😁

Willingly or not, if any potential buyer isn't breaching the terms of the lease then I think there's very little the council could do about it without ending up in court again. In essence they can't "unreasonably" prevent a transfer (assignment) of the lease. Of course, I guess there isn't...