No one's happy about moving 35 miles down the road, not the manager, players or supporters but basically we didn't have a choice!
CCC refused point blank to renegotiate our unsustainable rent ( £1:28 million ) so the owners called their bluff. The rental model has never worked ( we got fleeced that way when we sold Highfield Road ), we must own our own stadium and be in full control of ALL it's revenue streams.
Yawn - the alst paragraph is the worst bit - "we must have this, we must have that" - then re-fund the build cost of the stadium. The most odious moment of the whole saga was when SISU QC argued "ACL should have been allowed to fail" to get SISU off the hook for the build cost. SISU can't have all the revenues and pay nothing for the stadium - what do the council, who baled out the whole project, get in return?
That's not me "defending the council," that's just commercial common sense! You can't walk into another busienss, say that you need everything you want, and expect it on a silver platter, than say no when you get refused.
P.S. the new £400k rent deal, without extra revenues, wasn't too much of a problem for Tim when he shook hands with ACL on it - only to be over-ruled by Joy. He's not shut up about F+B since then, though we never heard of it before.
Do you think that with 10,000 paying spectators for each home game, even without F+B revenues but on a lower rent, we couldn't be able to outspend the likes of Oldham and Vale under FFP (including SISU's ability to get round FFP rules)?? If not, you're a muppet
