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No problem with people putting stuff out there, but it does come across as a little confused. The FL statements about progress, and the eight-mile radius, does that really apply any more. Does anyone think that the FL would stop CCFC building a stadium further out of town than eight miles...

A lot of those are a bit before my time, but Babb I remember well. Are you saying that he had a chance to leave us but stayed and thereby improved his career, because I don't recall that?

It is harsh, because I think there's an implicit criticism here that isn't true. Namely that Maddison is just a money-grabbing bastard if he leaves us, uninterested in making it as a footballer. To me that's entirely without nuance - it disregards the fact that he's in a profession where one...

A bit harsh mate. Maybe first and foremost he's serious about making a living out of what is a perilous career. Like all footballers, he's one bad injury away from having to earn a living elsewhere. Staying with us for another season doesn't guarantee him success any more than does moving...

Exactly as happens at Pride Park. Large commercial estate, football ground right in the middle. Seems to work, my office was based literally opposite it for five years and it didn't cause us too many problems.

No because that's a ridiculous as the pretence that there's nowhere to build a stadium in the whole of RBC's patch. Which I think we've shown is a bollocks argument, frankly. Whether it makes sense financial sense or not is a different story entirely, but I get a bit tired of people saying "I...

We've been here before NW. I worked on a big industrial/warehousing/fleet movements site in Long Lawford close to where the Church Lawford airfield was. Plenty big enough to build a stadium on, and miles and miles away from the river, and about a mile off the A45. No floods there. (Edit...

It's entirely relevant, but you're trying to say that it's impossible, perhaps because you'd like to believe it isn't going to happen. But it clearly isn't impossible. There are locations in RBC where a stadium could be built, and a few have been highlighted here straight off the bat. It's a...

There are mixed/industrial sites with reasonable infrastructure that could be redeveloped in RBC, and some have been highlighted here. Politely, just because they don't meet your preferences in terms of location etc. doesn't make them unrealistic. I'm not for a moment saying that a new stadium...

We've already mentioned sites around Long Lawford/Church Lawford too, that might be possiblities. Currently mixed industrial/warehousing, just off the A45. Regardless of whether we should build a new stadium, it's daft to pretend that there aren't places where a stadium could be built.

So Wasps didn't really need to own somewhere to be successful then? Why did their owner turn down similar offers to the Madjeski in and around London, one wonders. He's justified the move to the Ricoh by saying Wasps wouldn't survive unless they owned their own stadium - surely he's not lying...

Personally speaking I'd like an experienced keeper, plus Leon Clarke and Jake Cassidy (both of whom know where the net is). Then a bit of pace down the flanks, a player with grit in centre midifield, plus someone to cover Reda if we're keeping him. So basically, a new team then. ;)

The high rising terminal? Which implies a question where there isn't one? As in... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtVjRG7PB_4

His hair would probably fall out first, if he saw his old pupils putting spaces before punctuation marks! ;) It has gone quite quiet though, to go back to the OP. I'm starting to think it ain't going to happen...

Simon, Don't get me wrong, but we've had more than a few dreamers say they want to takeover the club, buy the arena, etc. etc. What it tends to do is build up fans' hopes, only to dash them again later. I don't think that's a particularly nice thing to do, personally. On that basis, I think...

Utter rubbish. I know a bit about mortgages and lending, having worked in consumer banking and credit risk for a good few years. No bank in this country offers you a mortgage based on your asset value (or at least not any more) - they lend it you based on your ability to repay (edit: as...

I'm not saying that at all - I'm saying that the right course was the one the council outlined on our return, pause and build trust. Instead they sold it to a franchise. As if that's not bad enough, then there's this pretence that she's sad about it. Get real. It's absolutely fair enough to...

Anyone who likens the bond issue to a house purchase hasn't got a clue about either one or the other. You wouldn't be able to get a mortgage to buy a house if you showed that you consistently were in debt and relied on your father-in-law to bail you out every few years. However, you might be...

Sad my arse. If she cared about the club then she could have done what CCC said they were going to do, sit tight and build trust before talking about ownership. Instead they encouraged, of all things, a franchise club to buy ACL in secret. It's absolutely cowardly, this pretence to care about...

With our strikers you could give them real bullets, it's not likely that they'll hit the target anyway. ;)