have our council done enough (1 Viewer)

covboy1987 said:

The council have the power to solve this problem of where we play and put the people first if they really want it to happen.

Click to expand...

Sick Boy said:

Plenty were lauding SISU and were proud of their reputation. Some were even proud of what was reported in that article about the court case. They were regarded as 'hard-nosed business people', who would stop the club being messed about. It even went as far as goading Southampton for not accepting SISU's offer of a takeover and saying how lucky we were.

A lot of the most pro-sisu lot are now the ones who label others who don't support the council 100% as 'sisu rent boys'. Whereas a lot of the rent boys who were sceptical in the first place were originally labelled as traitors for questioning sisu. How times change, eh?

Click to expand...

Nonleagueherewecome said:

But I wasn't, so I don't feel any guilt about those who were! And as for those people-can't you see that the worse thing that they are guilty of is naivety? They wanted the best for their club but couldn't see past the "we're saved, hurrah!" aspect of being owned by a Hedge Fund.


I also think your assertion is a bit of an Urban Legend; I don't know of these "turncoat" SISU fans. I know Lord never liked them, and he still doesn't but attacks ACL instead now because he likes to swim against the popular flow....Torch liked them because "we had no option but them", and he's stuck to his guns. Who else? Frankly, who cares? It's a bit stalker-like to be taking such an interest in individual posters over a period of 5 years if you ask me!

Click to expand...

grego_gee said:

Going back to the op, I think the council have been very oportunistic in jumping into the Arena project and taking it out of the hands of the club who instigated the project. It is generally overlooked that the project grew into much more that just a football stadium.
Stokes stadium only cost £30m the Ricoh Arena as a whole cost over £110m. I think the rent of over £1m was always over the top and influenced by the whole project cost, when we only rent the turf and seats and then only on matchdays.

imp:

Click to expand...

Nonleagueherewecome said:

It always was, that was the point, at least according to Richardson-to make more money out of it than we ever could Highfield Road.

Click to expand...

Sick Boy said:

Plenty were lauding SISU and were proud of their reputation. Some were even proud of what was reported in that article about the court case. They were regarded as 'hard-nosed business people', who would stop the club being messed about. It even went as far as goading Southampton for not accepting SISU's offer of a takeover and saying how lucky we were.

A lot of the most pro-sisu lot are now the ones who label others who don't support the council 100% as 'sisu rent boys'. Whereas a lot of the rent boys who were sceptical in the first place were originally labelled as traitors for questioning sisu. How times change, eh?

Click to expand...