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SISU were not given the chance to bid on even terms. Not even close. When were SISU offered the chance to bid for 100% of ACL with a 250-year lease? Otium were grudgingly offered 50% after the fact, with a deadline on the bid and no scope for negotiation, so that Higgs fulfilled the bare...

If the financial miscalculation - ACL being definitively profitable and without risk when it needed bailing out, and then being unprofitable when it needed selling to Wasps wasn't a flat out lie, then boy was it convenient for Lucas and CCC that they were told exactly the wrong thing at exactly...

If I've read it right MMM, the 'unfettered freehold' comment by Lucas was in Jan 2014: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-city-council-leader-says-6600224 The letter stating 'long leasehold' might be acceptable was sent in November 2013, according to the Reid article...

Two things here that are factually incorrect: First, the idea that a letter written by (say) Seppala to Lucas would become Lucas's 'property' and then be either inadmissable in court or legally unpublishable. That's just not true SBK, not even slightly. Think it through - if your bank sends...

Mr SISU himself? It's good to see that you're not holding some sort of lazy prejudice here... Isn't the timeline like this: SISU say freehold or nothing in July, but then say they will consider a long-leasehold option in a letter in November? Regardless, the truth is that CCC didn't offer...

That's not a red herring Pete, that lie has indirectly lead to Wasps owning the stadium revenues for the next 250 years. At one point it was claimed ACL was making lots of money and there was no pressure to sell to anyone, let alone CCFC, then suddenly it wasn't and the Council had to sell to...

I'm not convinced that Allsop was a great keeper, but I really don't like the sound of how Pressley handled this. Surely as the manager you'd at least have a chat with the lad to explain what was happening - that seems like common courtesy to me. I do wonder about SP's man-management skills...

I'm not convinced that you understand business projections, if you're projecting profit, then you're projecting profit - not turnover. And she's probably wrong by less than 0.000001% of the gross national debt of Trinidad & Tobago too, which is about as relevant. When you're making unequivocal...

It's fair enough this stuff about looking forwards, but you've also got to have an eye on the past so that you don't make the same mistakes. What we seem to have learnt, is that CCFC can't do well as a tenant, and especially as a tenant without access to revenues. We've also learned that like...

How would you know mate, given that you've never actually said something funny? Anyway, like you, this is a bit boring now and I wouldn't want to stop you working on your next hilarious posting. Good luck with that by the way.

Says the man who gets the arse when he's asked a straight question - if you weren't trying to imply concern to Nick, then why not just explain that rather than heading down the old, tired 'tin-foil hat' route. That would have been fair enough. Maybe you're just not as funny as you think, eh.

Then it wouldn't seem that there would be much point in a tribunal, would there. I think you're making some pretty big assumptions here.

I'm guessing you struggle to understand that you're not actually being very funny when you come out with this kind of bollocks, no? When peoples eyes glaze over when you're telling another hilarious anecdote (maybe about someone wearing a tin-foil hat, or being sued for something), there's a...

Actually, it is unlawful if it's cost a bloke his job for it. And if that's the standard you want from your press and your council, then we differ hugely, because I expect the council to tell the truth, and the local press to hold them to proper scrutiny. If you're willing to accept less then...

It certainly helps, yes. To me your initial post read an awful lot like, "Nick you ought to be worried about this thread and reporting what Reid has said". Of course, if you disagreed with what Reid has said, then sowing that seed of doubt would have been a handy tool to stifle debate about it...

According to Reid, it would seem that the Coventry City Council and the editor of the CET prevented him from reporting the intention of Coventry City Council to bail-out ACL to the sum of £14.4m. If you're happy with that, then fair enough, but personally I'd see that as entirely unacceptable.

If you're going to chuck this sort of stuff about, then let's have some examples please. Of course, even if Reid had written something once that you didn't agree with, it doesn't mean that what he's said about the ACL/CCC/CET saga is a lie. I'll also make the point (fwiw) that at some...

If you keep quiet about it, I'll let you have a ride in my new speedboat. ;)

I'm not clear here, were you behind SISU when they took this line against the Sky Blue Trust with regard to linking to the Conn article critical of our owners? It's just I'm not sure here whether you're standing up for free speech, or only standing up for the free speech that you agree with.

My sincere hope is that all of this comes out in the tribunal regarding unfair dismissal that I believe is progressing. I've no issue with Simon here, who is fully entitled to support his current employer, but there's a slightly different take on the saga here...