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I tihnk in High Court terms getting a date within a few months would be considered unusually rapid - iirc the Council have asked for an early date (which perhaps suggests they have some confidence in their case), I presume SISU will want the same.

Blimey, remind me not to get you in as a valuation agent. I hate to shoot you down here, but you're just using ACL's figures based on the revenue you think they may receive from the club. ACL themselves claim a lot more than that as revenue, and show more both in their past books and...

Good memory. The problem is that there's no legal aid for defamation. Court costs can run into tens of thousands. If you're telling the truth, or it's fair comment (even if exaggerated, obstinate, or prejudiced), then there's a defence...

Just to go back to the letter, were I the trust I'd be minded to take this approach: Contact the Guardian, and see if they stand by their article. I note that at this moment in time they have neither taken down the article nor inserted/added any correction. At the same time, I'd send Speechly...

I'd just like to be get this straight. As I understand it the club have threatened to sue the Sky Blue Trust for linking to an article written by a widely respected journalist, published in The Guardian here...

I'm well up for safe standing, it's just that it's nowhere near happening yet - if ever. http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/nov/30/bristol-city-safe-standing-british-football-grounds The problem is that to me this all looks about as well thought through as the overall plan to build...

Apology my arse. More bullshit plus a cheap dig that does nothing to help any possible negotiation. 'Staying out of the spotlight'?! In any other business in the country he'd be on the dole queue for mismanaging his company into administration and liquidation, to say nothing of reducing its...

I'll not have a word said against Jarni. Immaculate player, never put a foot wrong for us. ;) For younger viewers, check out my avatar.

Offering £4m is taking the piss, frankly. The widely quoted £6.4m was the worst-case value of the leaseholder, ACL, when under distress from the rent strike, and before they'd started to put together a post-CCFC plan. It's nothing to do with the value of the freehold and the land, and it's...

In your opinion. Have you a single bit of evidence for this? I don't doubt you're quite fond of your opinion, but it doesn't excuse your stating it as a fact. Again.

No evidence for that either. Just wishful thinking.

Maybe there are Cov fans who are also Cov taxpayers, and don't expect or want the club to be subsidised by the council when there are other more pressing needs on local finances. And maybe there are some others who think that SISU are such terrible owners that the best thing for the club would...

Maybe you could see that as a reflection of recovering part of the massive build cost, combined with the fact that the club didn't put much of anything in.

I can see your point, but actually I think making the offer through the FL is quite smart. Otium can't deny it's been made, and it makes the FL clearly aware that there's a reasonable offer on the table for the club to play in their home town. Personally, I think that puts both Otium and the...

I haven't seen any evidence whatsoever to suggest that the boycott isn't working. On a PR front it's clearly drawing national attention to our plight, and it's obviously hurting SISU financially whether they admit it or not. I would imagine the latest news regarding the zero rent deal will...

I blame SISU. Just kidding - I think whoever the owners are this kind of thing happens in football if you're a success, and the Academy is a success. I suspect he'll pop up at a 'bigger' club sometime soon. If he doesn't, then maybe there is room for speculation around the current issues, but...

Yep, that's as I understand it too. About 85% of these reviews fail. Where the review succeeds, about the same percentage fail when it gets to court. In other words, the odds of SISU winning are pretty long (based on a coarse statisitical analysis at least, plus the fact that the original...

From what I've seen kids tend to play reasonably fairly, when they're left to it. They don't tend to shout at their teachers when they're reffing games, but once out of that environment they start to see how certain adults behave towards referees. If even their coaches, who should know better...

C'mon Nick, you've given an single example of something you've witnessed, where a ref appears to be a manager's friend and you're suggesting that he's favoured the other team. The other is a story about a ref who's clearly a inconsiderate twat, and should be suspended. No refs punching players...

If you can see why a ref 'gets a slap', then I'm afraid you pretty much are condoning it. I played at a pretty crap level of football for around twenty years, and managed for a fair bit too. I even had to step in and referee sometimes, mostly because dickheads with no self-control had made the...