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I think the best we can hope for now is 50 / 50 ownership with Wasps keeping all income from rugby and us keeping all income from football. Anything less than receiving the money we generate puts us behind every other club. Even if we receive that we are still somewhat behind as other clubs...

Is that an assumption or something that has come directly from the council as it contradicts what they have said previously. When Dave Nellist questioned the loan to ACL whilst cuts were being made the response he was given was that the money used to facilitate the loan was already assigned for...

Isn't this where the city plan becomes key? If RBC say that SISU's proposed site can't be used for housing and is designated for a sports facility wouldn't that impact on the value as it could no longer be used for housing? For me the ideal location would be the chunk of land between Rolls...

Do we really want to have owners who will load any available asset with huge debt to pay themselves and happily move us 100 miles away? I'm not sure I'd be looking to move back to the £1.2m a year rent. If Wasps can offer us rent of £100K why should we pay more for being successful? I also...

Fisher and Waggott had a meeting with RBC. Specific sites were discussed but are block out of the meeting minutes. RBC appear to be interested and have told them to get something more formal submitted by September so they can consider it for inclusion in the Rugby city plan.

You would certainly hope it is a silly conspiracy theory. One easily ruled out by the CT asking the question of the council. Best to do that before the rumour spreads. You know how these things go!

The turnover of players is ridiculous. How you can build a team when there's a complete new set of players every few months is beyond me. Don't think it helps retain fans either. Its hard to feel a connection to players when most of them are here a season at most.

Think you might be hearing from SISU's lawyers to reveal some user details. Intheknow could be their star witness!

In general that would be the case but if it turns out CCC have purchased them then there are some serious questions to be asked. Surely they wouldn't be that stupid.

I was on tour when they want on sale. Was going to send my Dad up to get them until I saw people were queuing overnight. Decide to try my luck by phone but being on tour I had to use my mobile. Ran up a £50 bill repeatedly getting through to the clubs answerphone! Eventually got through and got...

You are Les Reid and I claim my prize :D There are many who claimed that was the case, Reid being one of them. The council refuted all suggestion that it was in any way a bail out and that the loan was made on a purely commercial basis. They claimed that commercial lenders were happy to lend...

Well I guess that depends on if you think the council were telling the truth or it was another lie to justify making the loan and allowing it to stay in place following the sale of ACL.

Not according to the council. Nellist raised this very issue as the amount made in cuts was approximately the same as the amount loaned to ACL. The response to him was that the money was from council reserves and assigned to specific things so even if the loan was called in the money could not...

The CCC / ACL / Wasps side of things is all financial. Mowbray has said he is not asking Sepalla for more money so I can't really see how it will be down to anyone but SISU if he doesn't return. He seems to be more concerned with being able to structure the club in the way he feels is best...

We know there's a big chunk of support that is very fickle and will turn up for big games. We also know PL tickets are not cheap. I would suggest that the lost ticket revenue for Wasps when those fans decide to watch CCFC instead of Wasps will far outweigh any additional F&B revenues they make...

Because when people objected to the loan being made the reason we were told it was such a good idea was how much the taxpayer would make in interest over the term of the loan. That interest will now not be received. Interesting to hear that from your position of being 'intheknow' you confirm...

I just ignore the franchise side of it. It makes no sense to me. Lived in Ottawa for a while and they're a relatively new team, at least in the modern era, having joined the NHL in 92. Being in between Toronto and Montreal the majority of their fanbase are people who have switched from one of...