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  1. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    So we are now ignoring anything that happened in the past. Anything that SISU did under Ranson and Delieu's leadership is off limits, any of Fishers previous statements can no longer be mentioned? Or is it just when CCC are found out that this applies? You're the only one going on about...
  2. chiefdave

    Steven Pressley stamps on rumours he's lost the dressing room

    I'm not sure he's watching the match at all. Maybe he's watching something else on his iPad and that's what he was showing Madine.
  3. chiefdave

    Gillingham match thread

    2-0 to them, Cody will get at least one.
  4. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    There's more than one lie that's come to light in the last couple of days. I suggest you go back and read the thread from the beginning. I would suggest that by creating a false picture of how ACL was performing it very much impacted on the sale process. Although there wasn't really a process...
  5. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    Exactly, they did't say it was being sold. They also made repeated claims about the performance of ACL without the club which would lead you to believe they could quite happily sit on ACL until SISU moved on. Nobody seriously thought they were holding talks for 2 years with Wasps, they seemed to...
  6. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    I'm saying there should have been a fair and open process without the Council and Higgs lying about the status of ACL. I would have expected the club to bid, I would also have expected the fans to be pressing the club to bid if it was known ACL was being sold. Have you been in a coma the last...
  7. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    Can you give me a link to the the statement from Lucas that ACL was being placed on the market for sale with a 200 year lease extension.
  8. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    I didn't say at what price, just say what is for sale. I can't understand why people are objecting to the idea of a fair and open sale process with the people of Coventry being consulted.
  9. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    I don't believe I have actually said they did want to do a deal have I? Although saying that I think it would be somewhat ridiculous to assume, were the right deal available, they wouldn't have been interested. What I have said is that there should have been a fair and open process based on...
  10. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    MMM I don't think you're a stupid person so I really don't know why you are finding this so hard to understand. Rewind to before talks of average rent, unfettered freehold ownership or anything else. Fisher claimed that the rent was too high - it was; he claimed ACL were not viable without CCFC...
  11. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    So you've seen both Wasps and CCFC's non-existent bid to purchase ACL with a 250 year lease, interesting to know. Care to tell the rest of us what both contain and on what basis Wasps would win?
  12. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    What I'm suggesting it that there was an open process. Clearly state what is for sale and invite bids with a bidding deadline. Thats very different from saying I will listen to anyone who happens to rock up. We don't even know if the club were ever told a 200 year lease extension was a possibility.
  13. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    The same old argument that SISU are 100% truthful but only when it suits the point you are trying to make.
  14. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    As a public body the council have some leeway to accept a bid that is in the best interests of the city over one that is simply higher. Of course that would depend on the actual values and proposals involved. what businesses linked to ACL would be in trouble? The Ricoh would more than likely...
  15. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    Its very simple MMM, I'm sure you can understand what I'm proposing here. CCC and Higgs say we are inviting bids for ACL, as part of the sale we will increase the lease to 250 giving effective ownership of the freehold. All bids must be received by this date following which a period of...
  16. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    If there had been a fair and transparent process then, although I would be against Wasps moving here as I am against franchising and certainly wouldn't support them, then a fair fight would have been lost. I do feel that any process for inviting bids on ACL should not have just been based on the...
  17. chiefdave

    Lowest crowd since 1962

    I agree it is highly unlikely we can persuade SISU to walk away but if it was known that there was a serious takeover bid on the table I think you would see fans unite behind it. I can't see any hope of uniting fans behind the unknown.
  18. chiefdave

    Lowest crowd since 1962

    Not sure about that as the flip side is somehow force SISU out and go into administration with no one interested in buying us, is a slow death better than a quick one? I don't think anyone who had made a serious attempt to buy the club and had been turned away would have an issue with going...
  19. chiefdave

    Council admits Ricoh Arena was not sustainable without CCFC

    Mark, If ACL had gone bust the lease would have reverted back to CCC and a fair sale process could have begun with all parties bidding for the same thing. Ideally the taxpayer would not lose money in such a scenario but if the taxpayer is to be put at risk of losing money there is absolutely no...
  20. chiefdave

    Lineup V Gillingham

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