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I know where you’re coming from Weeman, but I actually think sharing the stadium with Wasps would make us (and them) more prosperous than either party going it alone. 50% of a successful business is preferable to 100% of a struggling one. So if (and it’s a big if) CCFC can negotiate an equal...

NW, I hugely respect the fact that you are opposing the principle of moving Wasps to Coventry - but I think it’s a mistake to beat yourself up about it. I’ve looked online for the outrage from Wasps fans that you might expect, given the scale of the change that’s happening to them. Yes, there...

I seem to recall that CCFC Ltd. was a "non-trading property subsidiary"?

I think the £1.75m is probably a misunderstanding. I think it may be 1.75 million £1 shares, with the “£1 shares” just being a standard term for shares in the company. There’s a correction to this effect on the Twitter site, but I’m not sure whether Les Reid himself has issued it or someone...

I’m no financial expert (and I’m damned if I can work that Twitter thing!) but doesn’t the correction mentioned here solve the £1.75m vs. £2.77m conundrum? Surely “£1 shares” is just a standard term for the shares in a company – it doesn’t mean the shares are actually valued at £1 each. So...

I appreciate your anger at the Council’s apparent willingness to sell to another club when they wouldn’t sell it to us. However, as has often been said, as a football club we are never going to own a stadium anyway. If SISU had bought it, it would have belonged to them not CCFC, just as Wasps...

You're not the only one who's "yyping in the dark" Wingy!

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Liam – your enthusiasm is awesome, seriously. You put the likes of me (who have finally lost it) to shame. I can’t say anything about today’s game as I wasn’t there, but I can say that football fans by their nature tend to over-react (to wins as well as defeats). We did play the runaway...

Don, I don't know how flippant your post was intended to be. But behind it there is surely a valid point. Let’s say CCFC did build another stadium with a modest capacity, and at some stage we were successful enough to get back to the Premier League. You would now have an unsustainable...

I think I’ve got it. A is owned equally by B and C. B and C each have the right to veto the sale of the other’s shares to anyone they don’t like. In hard times, C sells its 50% share to D, and as part of the deal C gets a contractual right (with B’s full knowledge) to buy the shares back from...

A sensible move by the club which might make a small difference. For people like me who are no longer interested in a season ticket, it’s good to know that we can make a late decision to go to a game without feeling “ripped off”. After the ludicrous predictions of 20,000 for Yeovil, I think...

I said on another thread that the Wasps consortium is SISU Mark II, and I’ve seen nothing to change my mind. They push out the same smarmy commercial drivel. Picking up a sports club and dropping it 80 miles away is a sickening approach. However, having looked at the Wasps forums, they do...

I think OSB58 may have said that one option for SISU was simply to keep the football club barely afloat indefinitely, whilst it keeps on paying (very substantial) interest to them on the debt. Apologies if I’ve misrepresented that, and sorry if it sounds depressing. If that’s the plan, I can...

Several posters on this thread have expressed my feelings exactly – it was the Northampton move that broke the bond. Prior to that, even though paying for a season ticket was a stretch, we kept doing it out of loyalty and habit. The loyalty was repaid with a gross insult, and the habit has...

If Byng has serious money behind him, and good intentions for Coventry City, it’s a pity that he can’t ever seem to get his act together. I mean, he “asked the Council for the information required to make an offer for ACL” back in June. He did this by email for God’s sake - who exactly did he...

Sadly Fred, I don’t – I came along just a few years too late! But I have it on good authority (the very best authority in fact) that Norman was a fine player, and it’s great that his playing days are still remembered. Thanks for the response.

Just listened to the PWKH interview for the first time. I don’t pretend to be an expert, so apologies if I’ve got any of this wrong (and especially if I’m sowing false seeds of hope). 1) He said that Higgs “would like to accept” the Wasps offer for their shares – that suggests to me that no...

"Put it this way, if he wrote 'Our business is based on the football club staying here' he'd be a complete laughing stock." Otis, I suggest you read it again - that’s almost exactly what he DID say, then IMMEDIATELY contradicted himself! He’s already proving himself to be the type who will say...

How much further can we sink into this swamp of nauseating commercial bullshit from EVERYONE involved in this saga? Please tell me it’s all just a bad dream. “Our whole business plan and vision is about generating footfall through this fantastic facility, to have 25 weekends a year with...