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Just out of interest, what would be a fair rent for stadium costing £30m - £60m? If it's so unfair, where has all of the egregious profit made from it gone? If it was so unfair, why did CCFC sign up for it without complaint, and why did they only push for a reduction in the last year or so?

And you can stack it any way you want, but the simple fact is that that document represents the money paid into the final build, and that without the council it simply doesn't get built. I've got a very clear memory of this too, and the Council investment very nearly didn't happen - in fact it...

Absolutely. Because of the cost of the stadium, it seemed a reasonable enough figure at the time the deal was signed. It also seemed a reasonable enough figure to SISU when they took over, and indeed was reasonable enough to them for a few years after that. In fact, it only seemed to get a...

Can we just nail down this illegal thing. It is absolutely not illegal for the directors of ACL to decline to sign the CVA. Their duty is to act in the best interests of the company, and given all of the circumstances they could reasonably argue that ACL's best chance of a future return is to...

We're a club with a multi-million turnover and we can't afford to keep our most valuable assets in good order. Some kind of false economy there. When you've got a player that you're paying, in effect, a few thousand pounds for per game, then he doesn't have to miss many games to make even an...

It did happen, I'm sorry if that doesn't suit your perspective on this, but it did. See official report and cost breakdown. linked by JG above.

Must confess that I've not heard that rumour before - where did you get that from?

All fair enough, but please don't buy this myth that there's no taxpayers' money in the stadium. Cov CC put £10m in as a grant, and now hold £14m as a mortgage. Higgs trust paid £6.5m for CCFC's 50% share, part cash, part debt write-off.

Personal opinion, I think the delay is positive. I thnk SISU would like this all to go away now, and I can't help but think that it's ACL who are stalling, perhaps in the hope of further investigations and/or pressure on the FL to change their stance.

I guess you might take your senior physio, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't someone on the club payroll that he wouldn't normally see in this situation. Even then, would you expect your players to pay for their treatment? Looks a lot like spite, to me.

If any of our players have to pay for private treatment to get fit more quickly, then we've really lost sight of what's important at the club.

Two reasons. One, maybe the payoff wasn't for the full value of his contract, or even close to it. Two, he's been here before and forced his way back into the squad. In fact given our record with managers it's not unreasonable to assume there will be someone else in charge long before McSheff...

Yep. If you're a good player or manager and you leave the club for a better deal you're a 'judas'. If on the other hand you're a player that we don't want anymore, and you don't leave when you're told to, you're a waster. When you've got a squad as thin as ours, with the embargo likely to go...

To be honest, I think most people have drawn their own conclusions as to who got us into this mess, and the vast majority seem to come out against SISU. That's hardly surprising, there's a stack of pretty robust evidence against SISU in terms of published accounts, £60m debt, Fisher's...

Let's be honest - Robins knew nothing other than what TF told him. I'd respect him a lot more if he told the truth, which was that he'd been offered a lot more elsewhere. Didn't even TF allude to that in one of the forums. Regardless if you're going to use Robins statement as evidence that...

I can't see how in a legal sense Appleton can 'demand' a blackout. He can ask both sides to keep quiet, but I'm not aware of any legal powers that he has in this regard. Given how pathetically badly he's handled this, I think if I was ACL and it suited me, I'd just tell my side of the story...

I see your point, but actually I don't thnk it is pretty sensible. It breaks their own rules, leaving them open to legal challenge from the other side in this specific case, and in some ways actually gets in the way of negotiation. If the FL say "play by the rules", SISU have to talk to ACL...

So then, we're still in Admin, and likely to remain so for at least another six weeks. I presume that the offer to play for free at the Ricoh still stands, and Otium can't legally do a deal to play at Sixfields (given that CCFC Ltd hasn't actually been sold to them). Over to you, Football...

One, actually, she is a complete mug when it comes to her involvement with a football club Two, the couple of reports you linked to regarding planning strategy don't exactly make CCC a bunch of liars. Three, the Caps Lock button on your keyboard seems to be stuck. You can get a new one at...

In fairness, if that's true and he's wearing one of those special jackets that do up from the back, he's pretty good at typing with his nose. ;)