sky blue john
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How much did Sisu offer for the stadium?
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How much did Sisu offer for the stadium?
Liquid Gold
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I have to say the council should absolutely have given the stadium to the club when it was built. We might have actually had a chance at attracting decent owners and making the PL then. The money generated for a city having a club in the PL is obscene. The below says that Swansea generated £58m for the local economy in the first year of premier league football alone. They've been there for 5 years now. Our council have always viewed CCFC as a way of making some extra cash. One positive to come out of sisu, once they finally leave, is that the council will hopefully not treat the club with such contempt as they won't want to go through it all again.
You are if you think that people would be happier with an empty stadium and the council in debt. The judge said that the stadium with a tennent is worth more than any empty stadium.
If our council really viewed CCFC as a way of making cash they would have backed us more at the beginning as you suggest.
Captain Dart
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You don't understand the nature of the beast.
I do. Hence the word "hope". I have been hoping for years that we get a solution - I just don't want to give up ....
sky blue john
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I hope i'm wrong but fully expecting Joy not wanting to extend Ricoh deal in favour of moving our club out of Cov again.
We all know which sheep on here will follow her !
We all know which sheep on here will follow her !
Nick
Administrator
And we all know you will vanish when there is talk of football. Strange, you appear again and haven't bothered to even look at last night's match thread.
chiefdave
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No at all concerned that is was being reported as a close vote until the councillors met with Wasps in secret, a meeting at which no minutes or any record whatsoever were kept, and came out of said meeting voting unanimously to sell ACL at a loss.
sky blue john
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And we all know you will vanish when there is talk of football. Strange, you appear again and haven't bothered to even look at last night's match thread.
What would you like to know great result.
Probably not in the style a lot of the usual whingers would like. Myself i respect a defensive display. Robins has to play a style/system which suits the players at his disposal to get results.
chiefdave
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I believe they offered more than Wasps for the Higgs 50%. They were never given the opportunity to bid on the council's 50% on similar terms to Wasps.
chiefdave
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But ACL was doing just fine without CCFC. I distinctly recall the likes of Ann Lucas and PWKH telling us that at every available opportunely.
sky blue john
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You believe ?
Based on what evidence?
So Joy didn't say stadium was worthless and when offered to make a bid declined?
ajsccfc
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Sometimes it's safe to assume.
chiefdave
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Was reported in the CT as £2.8m which Higgs didn't deny when saying they were rejecting it.
Why would they do that after taking legal advice? I suspect the advice was to take it as it was the best option at the time.
Probably not. Have you ever sold a car? Would you get more if you said " it's a great runner" than if you said "it's fxxked actually"?
Sky Blue Kid
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Elaborating on whether or not Wasps would be willing to take part in mediation as the club looks to secure a long term home, Mr Eastwood said: “Our position remains the same – we would like Coventry City to remain at the Ricoh Arena and are willing to listen if they do make an approach to discuss options.
“That is not, as far as we are concerned, an issue which requires mediation as we are open to an approach.”
sky blue john
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A lip service bid from Sisu for gullible fans like you after half the stadium had already been sold to Wasps!
I can tell by your posts you genuinely believe Sisu have been hard done by, but your a clown if you think that was a genuine bid.
Even when they made the bid they said they was still going to build a new stadium!
Three years on where is this stadium, what have Sisu done towards it?
One minute they are in court saying the Ricoh is worthless then they are in court saying it was under sold!
How can anyone take anything Sisu say seriously?
Astute
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Nobody believes it would be 1m and 50 years without a break clause either.
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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But they'd like others to believe it
ajsccfc
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I didn't think anything would be worse than the Sixfields move, but "communiversity" and a "communicafe" take the prize
Grendel
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No ome believes that but clearly many people want it believed that wasps are the good guys.
clint van damme
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what's the correlation between the two things?
Just because sisu didn't make an offer, (if they didn't), doesn't mean people are happy is was sold to wasps at a loss.
Many people want it to be believed that Wasps are in the driving seat because of SISU's bad negotiating policy. The reality of that is that we have to deal with Wasps whether they are good or bad if we want to play at the Ricoh - a stadium built for CCFC. Pathetic.
Gosford Green
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Statement from CRFC
Program notes about where we are playing next season from Boddy, although it was a long winded way of saying we do not have a clue either.
Maybe that the FL have said something to the CCFC, probably their representative at that recent meeting. As not one mention of moving out the city has been mentioned or threatened the FL might have actually grown a pair of bollocks, or the club are worried about protests and fan discontent.
Program notes about where we are playing next season from Boddy, although it was a long winded way of saying we do not have a clue either.
Maybe that the FL have said something to the CCFC, probably their representative at that recent meeting. As not one mention of moving out the city has been mentioned or threatened the FL might have actually grown a pair of bollocks, or the club are worried about protests and fan discontent.
Sky Blue Kid
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You are correct Dave. SISU did make a slightly higher offer than Wasps, but were with conditions. Wasps offer was unconditional.
People were less happy when the stadium was empty and the council owed 14 million.
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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Really? None of them are the good guys but you don't believe that do you?
letsallsingtogether
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Oh so now you believe something written in the telegraph
Grendel
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Who wasn't happy?
oucho
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Not sure you understood the point I was making!
The council - who represent all of Coventry and were elected by the people of Coventry to do that. Plus I take if for granted- unless you can show otherwise- that most of Coventry accepted the council's position- there have been no campaigns or marches against the council selling to Wasps. Yes, we are pissed off, but apart from waiting for SISU to come back - them having said that they weren't going to - there weren't any other obvious solutions to the problem.