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See I read it differently - but let's say they didn't... What kind of business allows a partner to break a long term lease without penalty? And why was that arrangement not in place for CCFC?

I love how my post history is getting psycho-analysed. Have I upset you because i don't quite buy into the anti-SISU bandwagon? As for the SISU plant... That one gets funnier every time... Let me also clarify my cash cow comment. For years I was going to games thinking why don't the club...

I don't see why we have to build one. I can't see how ACL can go on long term, and SISU need what they already have. I just want a negotiation and eventual return. Perhaps if we could see true picture it may speed this up.

Maybe I am - I only said what I had read.. I did not determine it as fact. But equally you could argue that adopting a NOPM approach is an assumption that you are going to starve out a mulit-million pound hedge fund.

That's the question I think we all want the answer to. If they don't want to sell then that's fine, but we have to accept that we will never go back to the Ricoh. If they do decide they can make a go of it, are the council going to bail them out every few years? My original question was about...

Where to start.. OK the club has to be able to stand on it's own two feet. Unless we do we will never make any progress, and that's why since we were relegated in 2001 we have been on a downward spiral. Whoever did the Ricoh deal in the first place needs shooting. It has been a noose round the...

Clearly the main issue is the revenue streams. We could go around the houses forever about blame etc, but suffice to say that for the football club to be self sufficient it must have control of the money that comes into it. There is no other football club that had an arrangement that was like...

So that would seem a logical plan. But less than 3 yrs later ACL have to be bailed out by the council to the tune of £14m. Still sounding like a sustainable business?

I was referring to the original deal. The one where CCFC only got match day tickets revenue and that was it. An absolutely ridiculous deal to have been put in place. And although the subsequent rent deals were improved, the revenue conditions were never altered - which is why they can't come to...

It was kind of a tongue in cheek comment to be fair - but to say that the CET is the pantheon of accurate reporting is stretching it a little too far. You have to love how Les Reid was the voice for the fans to begin with, but now as he started to ask certain questions that didn't fit in within...

Thanks for the advice Tony - but I think i'm going to ignore it. If you're not interested in my questions, I'm not forcing you to respond. I do however find it intriguing that you seem to have got yourself in a tizz about this though. As for asking Simon Gilbert to investigate this for me - I...

Perhaps because CCFC are the vehicle that generates the revenue in part for ACL. I didn't say ACL wasn't a viable business if CCFC are there - although it is a pretty shitty deal for CCFC -and that would be the same if SISU or anyone else owned the club.

Let me quantify my first question. From scouring the internet I'm pretty certain that Isle of Capri had to pay a 'fine' to leave the Ricoh Arena complex as they would have broken their lease agreement. I can't 'prove' it so I wanted to ask. If it is true, then a multitude of questions stem from...

You don't see the link between CCFC accounts and those of ACL? The whole crux of the dispute is centered around revenue streams that currently ACL access, and CCFC cannot. And you can't see the link??

Blimey... Didn't quite expect that character assassination. I naively thought id ask the question in the hope I might get an answer to my questions direct from horses mouth do to speak. They may seem like obscure questions to some - but I believe they are fundamental to ascertaining the...

Seeing as PWKH has turned up to clarify some points for us, would it be so wrong to ask him some questions I have about this saga? I have tried to read as much information as possible but some points just keep sticking in my head. 1. Is it true that ACL received an 'exit fee' from Isle of...

ACL have profited... Higgs helped to create it... So where exactly do you expect those profits to have gone?

Yes I get that... Higgs helped to form ACL to run the Ricoh. So what I am failing to understand is why it was OK for Higgs to have the club over a barrel and pay them a pittance for their share, yet when the club want to have their rent to be manageable for League 1 - this becomes unacceptable...

So can PKWH explain why it was OK for Higgs to acquire their 50% stake of the Ricoh at a hugely undervalued price - what was it again? Allegedly £4m when it was probably worth ten times that. How does that demonstrate doing the right thing for the city or CCFC?