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is there anyway to stop Puffin timing out? I have to reload the page 2 or 3 times a game as the flash player seems to stop after a while.

Down here Portsmouth Council reckon the football club is worth £300m a year to the local economy. It was looked into as part of the loan offer to their trust. £300m does seem a touch on the high side to say the least but I think the loss of CCFC would have a much bigger impact than many people...

Assuming its roughly the same as going Portsmouth to Cov you won't get it cheaper than that. The other way to do it is megabus / megatrain, Birmingham to London then London to Portsmouth but it only runs at certain times so I doubt it would work out that you could get there and back on the same...

For me unless they've got someone exceptional like Adkins lined up, and there's not much chance of that, we'd be better off sticking with Carso till the end of the season. The rent row surely has to be resolved one way or another before the start of next season so get that done first and then...

They are already past the year for administration but have had an extension. The more pressing deadline is that the FL have said they have to be out of administration by the end of the season or they will be thrown out. I would imagine their 10 point penalty will apply next season as it will...

Agree with you that some sort of merger or takeover by ACL is the way forward but SISU would still be looking for some return and given how much they say they have put in the only way I can see it happening is if SISU walk away and we go into admin. Even then ACL would have to have some plan as...

depends who else has applied. the one thing it would do is stop people asking for him every time we need a new manager!

is it possible for them to file accounts with the rent situation ongoing? Presumably ACL can just show what is owed in their accounts and get that signed off but would anyone sign off on CCFC accounts without a resolution on the rent?

So does that mean the profit goes to CCFC rather than ACL but ACL then invoice CCFC so the club doesn't have a real increase in income but it has more revenue going through the books for the purposes of FFP?

Have a feeling that the no debt Ranson kept mentioning turned out to mean no debt to the bank but the money SISU had used to pay of Robinson etc still had to be paid back at some point. Even so we're still losing millions every year and until someone comes up with a solution to that we're just...

SISU are far from my first choice to own and operate the club but as noone is coming in to takeover what can we do? If there was a clear way for CCFC to run at break even then probably the best bet would be to force CCFC into admin and have ACL takeover the club. That would be the only way...

So whats the answer. Either SISU are taking money out of the company in some form, and I haven't seen any evidence to support that, or the loss is genuine. If the loss is genuine where can they make £6m in savings? I can't see much inroad by making changes to the business operation or cutting...

But they didn't make the original agreement is what I was getting at. Plenty of businesses need to renegotiate terms at some point and in the case of most other businesses if you couldn't afford your premises you would move, but this contract with ACL doesn’t' allow that as it seems to run for...

At a guess it can't be sold to a 3rd party until the option CCFC have expires but I'm sure that's not far off so in theory it could be sold to anyone, subject to the council approving the new partner.

SISU didn't agree the rent and it seems that when the rent was agreed there were people on the board of both CCFC and ACL, surely a conflict of interest? Now of course you can say SISU should have addressed this when they took over but Ray Ranson was running things then and SISU have said that...

It's not ACL selling. ACL is a company owned 50% by Higgs and 50% by the council. SISU could, and possibly did, agree terms but the council can block any sale. Higgs have stated they want to get out of ACL and use the money elsewhere. As there seems to be zero chance of the council allowing a...

This to me is where the whole of football has a problem. You could say run it as you would any other business in which case you would cut staff costs to an affordable (ie: not loss making) level. However, as we saw last season, doing that leaves us playing kids and struggling to stay in the...

it's to do with when contracts were signed I believe. As FFP is being phased in over several seasons some of our older contracts, and most likely higher earners, were excluded from the calculation this year. My understanding is that next season that won't be the case so even if we have the same...

We wouldn't be doing the same as Wimbledon, that was a permanent move from London to MK and a rebranding as well, essentially a franchise team. We would be looking to build a new ground in the Coventry, or possibly Warwickshire, area which is a totally different thing. In the short term we may...

if anyones going by train you're better off going to Pokesdown than Bournemouth station, you can walk it from there rather than getting a bus / taxi.