To be honest they're fucked either way. Losing £10m a year with a £35m bond due to be paid back is not a scenario anybody would want to be in. If we contribute, as claimed by Boddy, around £2m a year to them then this would only add to their problems. My instinct says that they wanted a large increase in rent to help their cash flow, legals dropping and any potential losses covered. We're now able to say it's impossible for legals to be dropped, you put our rent up too much and we'll just go elsewhere and you're mad if we think you're getting covered from any wrongdoing by a third party. Deal with us and take the cash or don't and the only thing different is you being a lot worse off. They can say we'd lose a lot of fans but my gut says we'd be in a lot better situation than Nothamption and they'd also be losing loads fo goodwill in the city. I can't see a deal not being done as it suits both parties, they way the PR campaign has twisted to saying how nice the franchise are shows we're at the end game.