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Calm down lad, all that shouting will give you a sore throat. ;) If you read this thread I think there are a number of excuses being made. From poor due dligence to it's Richardson/McGinnity/The Council's fault. Not sure I agree with that, to be honest.

Of course it's the owner's fault - who else could it possibly be? SISU knew exactly where we were at the point of taking over - there are people here who must think due diligence is rocket science. The lease and terms were by far the simplest things to see out of the whole package. Seriously...

She's almost certainly, and by her own and Fisher's admission, a 'shadow director'. I can't see any reason why she'd fail the 'Fit & Proper' test as it stands, especially as it's laughably weak and self-certifying. However, if CCFC were to go into admin again (which isn't beyond the bounds of...

I think there are any number of things we can blame the owners for, but this probably isn't one of them. It does seem a bit strange, but then footballers can be a bit dim. Did he perhaps think he could engineer a move back to his home town club after signing the loan deal? Still, if it's...

Good work mate. And agreed, Saints fans are solid, good to see them doing well.

Sort of, except that it's one side challenging the other with respect to a single point of law. The judge isn't going to ask questions about how SISU have run the club, for example. An independent investigation would have a much broader scope. It would presumably try to draw out the situation...

I hear what you're saying, but the question was "So - what exactly would we demand from the council, what would our protest ask for?". Apologies, but I don't think you've quite answered the question. I think we can all guess that there have been local businesses hurt by all this - but it...

The thing is, there's a very clear and obvious thing to protest about with regard to the owners. The simple fact is that they could bring the team back to the Ricoh and still do all the things that they seem to want to do (negotiate to purchase freehold or bits of ACL, or even build a new...

Absolutely. I know this phrase is often used as a wind-up, and I don't intend it as that, but I am genuinely struggling to see what the complaint is here. CCFC don't play at the Ricoh any more. I wish they did, but they don't. ACL are a business, and need to bring money in. I don't think...

Indeed. In other news I hear they've taken the word 'gullible' out of the OED. Look at all of the available evidence, RFC. This isn't a project that's slipping, this is a project that hasn't even started. They'll be no dotting of i's or crossing of t's until there's an end to the j's and r's...

Blimey £20k - do you think they could turn me into at least a League 1 striker? It's a lot of money for me to find, and I'm knocking on a bit, but I don't need to improve much 'cos I hear that Wolves will buy any old tat. ;)

What, you mean really fast and scores loads of goals? That wouldn't be an absolute disaster. ;)

Maybe they're still hopeful that the club will see sense, and this is just one of a few things we'll see along these lines (like the U21 game). It looks to me as though they're just tickling things along at the moment, with regard to the pitch usage side, but at some point I'd guess they'll...

CCFC never did build the thing, there's the problem. But if they had, they'd had have to have found a lot more than £1.2m a year to finance it. (Edit: There's a lot of "have's" and "hads" in that last sentence, but I think you get the idea) :)

I'm sorry, remind me, how much money are we as taxpayers putting in ACL at the moment? And tell me again how much money Coventry City Council made from the CCFC "cash cow"? (... tumbleweed) Once again that you're pretty quick to spout off this rubbish, but very slow to answer questions that...

Unusually incoherent response, even by your normal standards. Too much coffee, perhaps? And there's that bullshit "cash cow" phrase again. Remind me again how much profit the council made from the club. I'll give you a clue, it's a million times the total dividends that ACL paid its...

Actually, I always thought Stead was a reasonably tidy player, and I think he'd do well at this level. Quite intelligent, decent touch, reasonable finisher. There's probably more than one reason why he doesn't want to come here - again despite my dislike for SISU this isn't perhaps one to lay...

Ah, gentlemens' rules only work for gentlemen. This is football. He'll play against us, no doubt. On the upside, given half a chance Murphy will be able to drown the bast*rd in that puddle on the penalty spot. ;)

I don't remember the brochures, but I did go to a forum where they had a live, working scale model of Arena 2000, complete with sliding pitches and roof. Strachan, ham-fisted dolt that he was*, broke it during the demo (or had broken it earlier). But it was still very impressive. * Actually...

I've got say, I'm seriously impressed with your memory! However, that one was at HR rather than the Ricoh. Bloody HR, how crap was that place. ;) On the upside though, did you check out the rest of the news for that day. Lee Mills signed. Turned our season right around that did. :)