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Problem with campaigns of this type is they can easily come off as false and backfire. How hard would it be for some Wasps fans from London or Wycombe to imitate this campaign for their own locations.

What winds me up, and I'm not sure if this is just a Pompey thing, is the number of dog owners who walk their dogs on the pavement next to the road without a lead on. I don't care how well behaved the dog is or how good his recall is you only need him to get distracted once and run off and there...

Give it a few years and if the Ricoh move doesn't work out for them they'll be talking about how much the love the local Newcastle community.

I think you're missing my point. The point I'm making is that at day one CCC could have provisioned a loan to CCFC if CCFC couldn't obtain credit themselves. I don't think it's correct to say they need to have a stake in ACL to make the loan, they don't have a stake in ACL now and the loan is...

I'm not sure you can apply the same process to a new stadium build as the Ricoh anyway. You won't get Tesco pumping millions in or any other similar store so what are the alternatives or do we just look for something as cheap as possible. We need to know what we're talking about in terms of...

In which case what is the point of the current CCC loan to ACL (or indeed other businesses), why did they not borrow commercially?

Works both ways, how much was the land worth before it was decided to build a football stadium and Ricoh complex there? And I don't think it was actually the council who did the Tesco deal was it? Didn't they just hijack it at the last minute?

The Ricoh needed £10m of the councils money and then the £22m YB loan to complete (that might not be exact, going from memory!). CCC could have taken a loan, assuming the football club couldn't get credit, on behalf of CCFC accessing the preferential terms available to them. The football club...

The Ricoh cost about £120m to build but if you look at the breakdown after all the grants, Tesco money etc CCC only put in £10m and then ACL put in the cost of the lease via a loan from YB. If we had been paying £1.2m a year for 100% ownership of ACL that would be more acceptable but it seems to...

I'm not sure I'd count £1.2m a year in rent as free!

At a guess this is where the idea of building a whole new complex rather than just stadium has come from. Its a shame CCC and the club aren't on better terms, with the main sports centre closing down a joint development on a new facility as part of the stadium complex would be ideal. Would also...

Plenty of blocks with whole rows of seats right at the front if you don't want be so far back :)

Hopefully that's true and the people of Coventry will go and watch the team that's been here for 141 years and is currently on a 13 game winning streak.

Just been on the pick you own seat page and there's only a couple of blocks that have been put on sale that don't have 6 in a row!

Can get 6 together on the halfway line right now so you might want to have another look.

Can't remember which is why I just put council!

They don't put the whole stadium on sale, it's gets opened up block by block. Edit: Just selected 6 tickets together in block 19. If it's the same as our games thats one of the fastest selling blocks as it's pretty much on the halfway line so it wouldn't really indicate they are flying out.

I would imagine it was included. Wasn't that the root of the problem when they were overcharged rates? But how much is the rent at the current shop, I'd guess next to nothing if they could't get any other tenant. And the offices are now at Ryton aren't they so not really costing anything.

Didn't SISU approach the council about that and got told that houses couldn't be built there?

If you go to see any sporting event in the US they have mobile merchandise stores all round the ground to make sure they aren't missing any potential customer. It's not a bad idea. The shop was always busy but how many people couldn't be bother to walk round to it or didn't go in as it was busy...