I just want to say what I hinted earlier. A stadium plan with Warwick Uni is a long term thing. It usurps CCC as planning is not in their jurisdiction, so on the face of it a good move. As I understand what does involve CCC is the road and light rail upgrades, but those apparently are already approved, if not funded.
So we have a situation where SISU can get a medium term agreement with the Ricoh landlords or stay in Birmingham (or A.N.Other) with the promise of a future stadium on the drawing board with agreements in place with Warwick Uni. This will give SISU their attractiveness for any buyers of the football club which I still think is their goal.
Mean time WASP do look a little shaky financially, and the pending EU decision could potentially be the final straw in their finances, or would it? But short of begging CCFC to return they will suffer from not getting a deal with us. If they do make a deal eventually, and we return halfway through the season or next season it still keeps SISU with that 'home base' strategy for selling us on, be it potentially continuing at the Ricoh or with the Warwick Uni deal in place. But SISU must be thinking before any spade is put in the ground at Warwick, that the Ricoh still looks like it could become available in some shape or form. They will continue to hover like vultures with this in mind I don't doubt. As the city of culture looms, CCC will be mindful of their football club not playing in the city. As it is the local community is losing out with shops and businesses unable to benefit from what the football club can generate with their presence.
So I'm disappointed SISU have turned away from playing at the RICOH, as it certainly would have been more financially beneficial than being in Birmingham. But we can all make our best guesses, but without the inside knowledge and this insistence on a NDA we really are trying to navigate through cloudy waters looking for the answers we so deperately want to hear. I think the fans are owed some real truths from SISU, and not fobbed off with the Warwick Uni deal. They have earned a bit of credit recently but that will soon drain away. We should be back at the Ricoh now. We are all asking what possibly is the problem? Those that say the council are pulling WASP strings are clutching at straws. What I do recall, is the lease granted WASP had a clause that undrwrote every reasonable consideration must be given to CCFC to play at the stadium. So with imdemnities dropped, what is the spanner in the works?