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Burge's whole career is iffy at best. Scott Loach was a decent keeper and was at a good level. Although you have to question his fall from grace. Its not the fact that he concedes goals, it's his kicking, his command of his area, the less than confident control of the ball. Can you honestly...

David Johnson is an odious man but the looks of it. The sooner something happens the better, he needs to just go into the wilderness. If anything he talks about Jimmy Hill..Jimmy Hill would never have sided with an out of town rugby team and the local authority no matter how bad SISU are

But that’s the thing, Stockdale just did the basics right. You’ve got to think how bad Burge is for something like that to impress the fans. Burge has improved but he’s a back up for a top league one side at best

Can’t we just enjoy the last few months of Coventry City? Maybe people will forget all this nonsense when they see that once we cease to exist SISU will not be bothered in the slightest, probably still be carrying on the legals. At least we can all sit back and enjoy the Wasps downfall...

For those watching, is it similar to all our games? Are we playing well and just not scoring?

SISU have totally screwed us - he is right about that, but IF the council realised the value of a football team to the city they’d have kept the RICOH. It’s a lot easier to go crawling back to a local authority who want the football team there for a deal to rent the stadium then it is to go to...

Good signing, I’m sure he was nearly in the England squad at one time

They also made sure SISU were the only game in town, so you can thank them for that aswell

We look at it from a fans point of view. The cold hard fact of the business world would see it as a business that was losing 7 million a year to breaking even. And As Grendel said, if it was such a treasured community asset, then the council wouldn’t have put the final nail in the coffin that...

Forgive me, I was catching up with previous responses as I was getting in this debate. My point related to the fact that they couldn’t actually get the powers you spoke of, without interfering with general laws in the country

Because the questions raised were based on what the EFL can do about dodgy owners. They brought this in so they could try to regulate ownership of the clubs, this in reality has never been effective or of use because said owners haven’t done anything that stops them running a business in the...

The sports governing body have no say over anything other than how their competition runs. You’re discussing club ownership - this can only be affected by the laws of the country

They can only suspend a purchase for a finite amount of time. The investigation is merely an excercise to find something that would hold wait in the judicial courts. Again, they have no laws, they’re simply following the countries legal process. There’s never been anything that can do, I don’t...

Fines are not the same thing as business ownership though are they? Fines are just part of the membership rules Business ownership though is governed through the laws carried out by parliament. You can’t just prevent someone from owning a business because you don’t agree with their methods -...

Their legislation is based on whether UK laws permit him to be involved in business. If they didn’t allow him, it’d open up a whole raft of legal challenges that the EFL are not capable of or have the appetite to be involved in. And they can’t suspend a sale because they don’t own or have an...

They’re not really a regulatory body though, they simply govern the running of a competition.

My point was it’s very difficult to say who is unfit. You have to follow what all businesses would deem unfit. If the Forest Owner is legally allowed to buy a company in this country by our laws, then the EFL Cannot call him unfit. Yeah, he’s dodgy but that’s no different to say Phillip...

We could name our greatest ever 11 at their peak in this fixture and we’ll still always lose at Rochdale... 2-0 defeat. Followed by a 2-1 win at home to Walsall

Thing is the EFL can only do so much and then they’re interfering with business practices. Football clubs these days are primarily businesses. They can only really make rules that follow the laws of the country when buying other business. If you start interfering in business practices in...

The problem people have is that they look at “fit and proper” as a moral/ethical thing. The fact is you only fail it if you have broken the law. SISU from a football fans point of view are a nightmare - we all want them to chuck millions in without adding to the debt, but reality is they’re not...