She made that statement before SISU tried to bankrupt Wasps through spurious legal action. Any reasonable person would agree that CCFC being allowed to stay at the Ricoh would be conditional on CCFC/SISU behaving reasonably, which they have demonstrably not done. Wasps aren't obliged to provide a home for CCFC, nor are the council ESPECIALLY when SISU are trying to destabilise them.
At the risk of getting drawn into a very old argument here, there are a few points that you're clearly overlooking.
The first one is that the Council told a huge lie right at the start of selling to Wasps. It's well documented, and it's along the lines of 'we need to build trust before talking about the ownership of the arena'. If only that had been tried - within a couple of weeks of that claim, ACL had been sold.
The next thing that you've claimed that simply isn't true is that the club had the opportunity to buy ACL under the same terms as it was offered to Wasps. That's a complete fiction - the deal was done
in secret with Wasps and it was quite clearly a fait accompli well before the club had a chance to challenge it. (In this it is similar to the council's behaviour when bailing out ACL and pressurising the CET into witholding the story to prevent legal challenge). Again these are matters of record - the club was never offered the arena on anything like similar terms to those offered to Wasps, most notably in the case of the remarkably low lease extension price.
Then there's the next big lie - made time and time and time again at the council meeting when the deal was signed off - that selling to Wasps won't be allowed to hurt either CCFC or CRFC.
Again, this has been shown to be completely untrue. The only protection for CCFC was the
existing contract to play at the Arena when Wasps took over. No other legal caveat was put into place to protect the club, though as you'll presumably know, as the leaseholder the council could have written something into the agreement to legally commit Wasps into keeping the club at the Ricoh. Without something laid out contractually, the council's claim to want to protect the club was all hot air. Ditto with Wasps avoiding playing on the days when CRFC played. It was a complete pretence, the council took no real action to protect either CRFC or CCFC.
So if you're trying to make a case here that the Council have been fair and honest and open all of the way through this process, then I think it can be shown above that it is simply not true. No amount of crap from SISU makes that right in my eyes. We know what SISU are like, but we're entitled to expect honesty from our elected representatives and their officers.
The key to this is exactly the point Torchy makes again and again. We all know that SISU have damaged the club massively, but it's the deal with Wasps that is the one thing that can't be unwound. The final nail in the coffin, if you like.
To come back to the original point of the thread, that's one of the reasons why some of us here are perhaps hoping that Wasps might be in trouble. It may be our only hope of ever getting our hands back on the stadium - indeed it might be the only way that the club actually stays in Coventry.
