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E-sports is big business apparently, but I think for people of a Certain Generation it will always look completely inscrutable. Personally, I never understood why you'd rather watch a game than play it yourself (because unlike, say, pro sports, you're at least theoretically able to play well...

Apparently so! Like I said, I’ve kind of stopped paying attention to the whole court case over the last few months.

Aren’t all contracts and obligations usually void once a company goes into administration? I would have assumed the new owners would have to agree to those terms too?

Christ, really? They really do deserve to lose this.

I see others in this thread talking about how it compares badly to other Championship and some Premier League grounds — any examples spring to mind (I’ve literally no idea how much they’d typically rent for, in fact I always thought most clubs owned their grounds)?

Potayto, potahto — it’s the same end result when looking at the bottom line.

I always felt the rent agreement was naïve - it should have been written to scale down in the event of relegation. So yeah... basically what BHSB said. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you’re paying the same rent and your crowd drops, so it’s costing you more. Pretty self explanatory, I thought?

I’ve been ignoring the court case for so long I’d forgotten what it was all about. Just reading the CT article about it there I have to wonder if there’s not a chance SISU might actually win. If they do what’s the likely impact for the footballing side of the business. Is there any chance this...

No option of getting the train down the night before and staying over in a cheap B&B / AirBnB / Travelodge?

I don't think this is that big an issue. Sure, we'd have to compete with clubs like that, but they all have to adhere to financial fair play, and unlike the majority of clubs down there, a couple of years ago we were pulling in home attendances of 18,000.

The two aren't strictly mutually exclusive. As I say: the ultimate objective is to ensure that there is a club playing in Coventry in sky blue, with a long-term future and the support of the majority of fans. Whether that's CCFC (existing) or CCFC (new) is up for debate, but I would suggest that...

This, to me, is the biggest point every CCFC fan needs to understand if they want to get a positive outcome from this sorry story. Protests mean diddly squat to a hedge fund driven by a rational interest in maximising their profit. At this point they are almost certainly running a substantial...

If it succeeds, great — it becomes unnecessary. But I think given that any new club would have to wait until 2014-2015 to play means we should be planning all the same. Hell, if you got all the pieces into position you could theoretically go to SISU and say: we're going to do this unless you...

Do you think any fans of the various clubs who have gone under and been reborn feel like they've transferred allegiance? I doubt it. I also suspect that with a strong campaign in the city and serious backing a large majority of fans would prefer to support the new club. I still feel like the...

Funnily enough, I started working on doing that before realising I just don't have time for it. I don't meant to be taking a dump on anyone's hard work, but if you're going to gather people to the cause you have to go about it in a focused fashion.

Does anybody seriously believe that any of the potential investors have anything else in mind other than getting hold of the Ricoh at a knockdown price? The AEH Trust have said they'll sell their share for £4m, which immediately makes it a bargain to anyone who can get their hands on it. But...

If there's going to be a new club it needs to start from the basics up. Creating some generic template crap CMS website like that doesn't help make the issues clear. Start with a manifesto that a large majority of CCFC fans agree with, and then draw up a plan of action from there. We don't need...

What's the story with this little boxout I saw on the BBC Sport report? So, we have our own version of Wimbledon's Murray Mount now? If so then I propose it be referred to as The Jimmy Hill.

It's been 12 years since we were relegated from the Premier League, and it's been a downward spiral of misery since then. 8 years is nothing in the grand scheme of things.