Match Thread Polite Notice (AKA Grendel, Nick & Orca's Argument Thread) (14 Viewers)

[ajsccfc]

Ginnel I've heard, You can't watch Coronation Street as much as I do without knowing that all kinds of things happen in the ginnel

 

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[chiefdave]

You could also say that if wasps didnt happen to be looking for a stadium to buy at exactly the same time (coincidence?) That the only buyers would of been sisu, which is exactly what sisu were relying on.

SISU might have been relying on it but it was far from certain.

Of course now we'll never know but I could see the likes of the NEC Group (who have been diversifying to operate venues outside of Birmingham in recent years) or someone like AEG taking an interest. Anyone who potentially wanted to become the owner of CCFC would also surely be interested. And if the asking price was as low as Wasps paid even something like a trust led bid would't be entirely out of the question.

Of course you only need two parties to be interested and the price starts rising, much better for the local taxpayer I would have thought than a deal done in secret and only offered to one potential buyer.

 

[BackRoomRummermill]

ah, gamboling down the entry...sweet memories.

Oh course there was the forward and reverse gambol

 

[BackRoomRummermill]

It was either entry or jetty for me.

There was the back entry in Hollis road Stoke circa 1974

After that we moved to Ryton and the entry there was never referred as a back entry

 

[hill83]

Ginnel I've heard, You can't watch Coronation Street as much as I do without knowing that all kinds of things happen in the ginnel

Yeah she is from Manchester.

Actually, does that give me an 'in' to be a Man United or Man City supporter?

SEE YOU LATER LADS

Can't believe we only spent over £100 million this summer what a joke

 

[chiefdave]

I think the council/ACL may have known that ccfc were struggling with the rent for some time.

Of course they did. Mutton was council leader at the time and I seem to recall him firing off comments about the rent and how it wasn't an issue because of how much the club was spending on players.

 

[BackRoomRummermill]

Did anyone use the phrase chuddy instead of chewing gum , give us a chuddy ?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

That would of been ideal. But once sisu had tried to financially distress the council by deliberately withholding rent, I'm afraid the council were reluctant to even engage with them (this is where in starts to become personal with ego mania taking over)
I have no doubt that ccc could well of been looking to off load the ricoh to any other interested party.

Yep it was personal I know both sides personally

 

[Orca]

SISU might have been relying on it but it was far from certain.

Of course now we'll never know but I could see the likes of the NEC Group (who have been diversifying to operate venues outside of Birmingham in recent years) or someone like AEG taking an interest. Anyone who potentially wanted to become the owner of CCFC would also surely be interested. And if the asking price was as low as Wasps paid even something like a trust led bid would't be entirely out of the question.

Of course you only need two parties to be interested and the price starts rising, much better for the local taxpayer I would have thought than a deal done in secret and only offered to one potential buyer.

Whilst I can see your point here Dave and in general agree with the premise that sale should have been more open, I have a slight issue with what you've said about the other parties that might be interested. Whilst I appreciate that we were back at the Ricoh by the time the deal was signed, if the stadium had been put into the open market with no anchor sporting tenant, it would have been a big gamble for any party that wanted to be solely a stadium operator. As CCFC had left to go to Northampton, anyone doing due diligence over the potential purchase would have been massively put off as the only likely tenant (CCFC) had gone and that the reasons for leaving were due to (amongst other things), a dispute over the rent. All of a sudden Wasps appear and become their own tenant at ACL (which is still the name of the operating company).

The reason the Ricoh was valued at such a low price was that the valuation was completed when there was no tenant. In fact, in 2011 PWC did a valuation and gave a sliding scale of the valuation based on the amount of rent it brought it. I don't think it's in dispute that Wasps were lucky and got a great deal, but at the time the valuation was done, the Ricoh had no tenant and that has a direct impact on the value of a business.

 

[Orca]

Of course they did. Mutton was council leader at the time and I seem to recall him firing off comments about the rent and how it wasn't an issue because of how much the club was spending on players.

I think it was documented somewhere the rent was less than 10% of the club's outgoings.

 

[mark82]

Complete nonsense.
Ccfc had broken a legally binding rental agreement, moved out of coventry and made public their intention to build a stadium of their own.
Wtf did you expect the council to do then with an empty stadium?

Can't take you seriously after your conspiracy theories and talk of the Van Halen belt. :banghead:

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

It's the whole ethical point though, isn't it...why be party to ripping a club from its community in London? Yes Wasps might have been fishing for a move after the approach in 2012, but why get involved in something that could prove so divisive?

They (Council/ACL) would've known forecasted revenues from the Ricoh venture before it opened. Were they doing it raise more money...ie, getting in another sports team to bring more cash in? I just don't get their motives. We were paying a good whack when they approached Wasps. It was a personal move, not a business move, to bring them here.

Ultimately, ACL and Wasps tore a club away from it's community and moved them permanently approx 100 miles away. I'm sure if we moved to Bury or Bolton, there would be uproar. Not so much when it's Wasps coming to Coventry...

Rugby is different of course but even so!!!

 

[Grendel]

I think it was documented somewhere the rent was less than 10% of the club's outgoings.

It was 30% of league 1 turnover

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

I’ll help you out: the people on this site are CCFC fans, not Wasps fans.

Some of us saw this coming a mile off when we gambled on a rent strike and leaving the Ricoh to get us a better deal.

Don’t blame everyone else your hare brained plan backfired. Take some responsibility. Neither Wasps nor CCC have maintaining CCFC as their primary objective as much as you may wish otherwise. Put your big boy pants on.

If you want us to have special treatment ahead of any other business, you should probably be backing the Trusts attempts to get some level of fan ownership. Until then it’s down to Sisu to set our business strategy for better or worse.

What boils my blood is the likes of Nick, Grendel, etc going on and on about how the rent strike was genius and no one would want the Ricoh and the Council would come crawling back. Then getting pissy that the entire world isn’t playing along with their delusion. Now, like Brexit, it’s endless backtracking and distraction to avoid facing the fact they backed a stupid idea that’s made us homeless.

For the slow ones at the back: yes the rent was too high. At that juncture Sisu had several options, they chose the high risk one of legal action and rent strikes. It hasn’t worked.

I agree that Sisu messed up and have primary responsibility for ccfc but ccc have some responsibility surely!!

 

[Nick]

Whilst I can see your point here Dave and in general agree with the premise that sale should have been more open, I have a slight issue with what you've said about the other parties that might be interested. Whilst I appreciate that we were back at the Ricoh by the time the deal was signed, if the stadium had been put into the open market with no anchor sporting tenant, it would have been a big gamble for any party that wanted to be solely a stadium operator. As CCFC had left to go to Northampton, anyone doing due diligence over the potential purchase would have been massively put off as the only likely tenant (CCFC) had gone and that the reasons for leaving were due to (amongst other things), a dispute over the rent. All of a sudden Wasps appear and become their own tenant at ACL (which is still the name of the operating company).

The reason the Ricoh was valued at such a low price was that the valuation was completed when there was no tenant. In fact, in 2011 PWC did a valuation and gave a sliding scale of the valuation based on the amount of rent it brought it. I don't think it's in dispute that Wasps were lucky and got a great deal, but at the time the valuation was done, the Ricoh had no tenant and that has a direct impact on the value of a business.

So the Ricoh was valued at a low price with no tenant but the sale didn't actually get approved until there was a tenant?

Did nobody stop to think that the price should go up?

After all, if I was selling a house with no tenant and then got a tenant I'd sell it for the price with a tenant.

 

[Orca]

So the Ricoh was valued at a low price with no tenant but the sale didn't actually get approved until there was a tenant?

Did nobody stop to think that the price should go up?

So the Ricoh was valued at a low price with no tenant but the sale didn't actually get approved until there was a tenant?

Did nobody stop to think that the price should go up?

It would appear not.

 

[Nick]

It would appear not.

How's that the best deal for the tax payer then?

Wasps didn't appear all of a sudden, their owner was talking about it before he even bought Wasps....

 

[Grendel]

So the Ricoh was valued at a low price with no tenant but the sale didn't actually get approved until there was a tenant?

Did nobody stop to think that the price should go up?

After all, if I was selling a house with no tenant and then got a tenant I'd sell it for the price with a tenant.

The other absurdity of this argument is that ccfc were always going to have to pay substantially more than an organisation coming in from the outside - and the club were never offered the council share anyway

Sisu should have refused to pay the rent from day 1 that was their mistake

 

[Grendel]

How's that the best deal for the tax payer then?

Wasps didn't appear all of a sudden, their owner was talking about it before he even bought Wasps....

The tax payer isn’t impacted either way - it’s a myth

 

[chiefdave]

Whilst I can see your point here Dave and in general agree with the premise that sale should have been more open, I have a slight issue with what you've said about the other parties that might be interested. Whilst I appreciate that we were back at the Ricoh by the time the deal was signed, if the stadium had been put into the open market with no anchor sporting tenant, it would have been a big gamble for any party that wanted to be solely a stadium operator.

But you can't know that nobody else would be interested. The price Wasps paid was the price they were prepared to pay when nobody else even got to bid so you've established a baseline. The only way is up from there, you just need one other interested party and the price rises and the local taxpayer benefits.

If the council had already accepted they were happy to move clubs around the country while they were in the press at every opportunity saying how disgraceful it was for a club to be playing outside of their home city then who is to say there wouldn't have been other clubs besides Wasps interested?

Also what was stopping the council working to get the club back if that made the sale more attractive and / or potential owners speaking with CCFC to ascertain the possibility of them returning to the Ricoh with ACL under new ownership?

 

[Orca]

The tax payer isn’t impacted either way - it’s a myth

I thought you'd previously said that ACL was loss-making with no tenant?

 

[Grendel]

I thought you'd previously said that ACL was loss-making with no tenant?

ACL is a private company and has limited liability

 

[Ricketts]

Did anyone use the phrase chuddy instead of chewing gum , give us a chuddy ?

Yes of course.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Main characters in the council probably for good reason couldn’t and therefore wouldn’t work with Sisu. They hated one another

 

[fatso]

Can't take you seriously after your conspiracy theories and talk of the Van Halen belt. :banghead:

Lol, fair point.
Just a bit of fun with the conspiracy stuff, But I forgot the Oswald shooting JFK one.

 

[Ricketts]

Lol, fair point.
Just a bit of fun with the conspiracy stuff, But I forgot the Oswald shooting JFK one.

I'm sorry but you are going to have to submit to an IQ test before any posts can be taken seriously.

 

[RegTheDonk]

Of course they did. Mutton was council leader at the time and I seem to recall him firing off comments about the rent and how it wasn't an issue because of how much the club was spending on players.

WTF? That's like a millionare going into Tescos to buy a Mars Bar and being told as you can afford it, we'll charge you a fiver. Totally unconnected.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

So the Ricoh was valued at a low price with no tenant but the sale didn't actually get approved until there was a tenant?

Did nobody stop to think that the price should go up?

After all, if I was selling a house with no tenant and then got a tenant I'd sell it for the price with a tenant.

Which would be harder to sell most people dont want tenants involved.
I do buy to rent want my own tenants not someone elses.

 

[Liquid Gold]

the marmite factory?

I think they make poles.

 

[Orca]

Which would be harder to sell most people dont want tenants involved.
I do buy to rent want my own tenants not someone elses.

I'd boldly suggest commercial letting and buy to let are not comparable

 

[richnrg]

A bald, bold knight (in the day)

 

[SBAndy]

Which would be harder to sell most people dont want tenants involved.
I do buy to rent want my own tenants not someone elses.

Trust me, in commercial letting (especially purpose-built commercial letting) you want tenants in situ.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Of course they did. Mutton was council leader at the time and I seem to recall him firing off comments about the rent and how it wasn't an issue because of how much the club was spending on players.

But then at the same time using one of the meetings over the stadium to berate SISU over their lack of investment in the team. The bloke is an utter numpty.

 

[itsabuzzard]

I'm sorry but you are going to have to submit to an IQ test before any posts can be taken seriously.

What will the threshold be?

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[usskyblue]

What will the threshold be?

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The point at which the score can be considered as coming from someone intelligent ?

Basics m8