tbh I didn't particularly mean you, but your's was an apt one to quote. I know, for example, you buy into the concept of Michael Byng being a ridiculous buffoon who nullifies what little credibility SISU have to start with...
He really has nothing to do with sisu
But he's been referenced in this thread to back up a certain narrative...
Honestly he is mad and trust me he is not being asked to do anything on their behalf
He’s the joker who tried to head up the Chinese deal years ago I was on about in earlier posts, but couldn’t get a fax machine to work !! Hahaha
Are you sure the council would have called a match-funding arrangement a "bailout" ? They could easily called it an "investment opportunity" or a "regeneration project"
Then we can do some nuance, and accept his only role is a comedy character akin to Dale Evans
I pity your contact being in Byng's phonebook!
I know some and only what people have deigned to tell me and they’ll be good and bad reasons for that. They have not bid as far as I know but were and are interested.
Is that the meeting the public and media were excluded from? the one that no minutes were taken and oddly not a single person present made any notes? Not sure that's the best example as to this day nobody seems to have a clue what happened at that meeting past the result of the vote.The answer you’re searching for it “No shmmeee, of course they can’t because I have the first clue how council expenditure works”
Council vote unanimously on sale of Coventry's Ricoh Arena
Councillors supported a deal to sell the Council’s share in ACL – the company that runs the Ricoh Arena - to Wasps Rugby Club. The deal ensures the Council makes a return on its original investment of £13.7million into the Arena development alongside significant investment into grassroots and...www.itv.com
Who is that twat shaking Vaughan's (?) hand?
How do you honestly know there would have been no support to a new company to take on acl lease? That reeves still wants wasps around the city is beyond bizarre
Even if they did that on "Admin day" we wouldn't be having a different conversation because CCC have been desperate to try to get deals through with other parties. On "admin day" they were knee deep already with NEC group and talking of them as preferred bidder and having a period of exclusivity....
It's a pet project though, innit. And when they came, he could gather support as there was a material threat to the local authority functioning as it should, due to constant litigation against it, and he offered a solution. There's less need for that solution now.
Yep and why would duggins not just say reeves has spoke to many parties about the situation and is actively looking for solutions to ensure the future of the arena. Rather than conversations didn’t take place . Maybe just badly advised
did they make that clear before or after the possibility of a bailout was leaked to the local media and there was a public outcry?
tbf shaking hands can just be polite. The applause is beyond comprehension though. I mean, even for our own chairman and chief exec it'd be a bit odd if they walked into a room to whoops of approval, however well liked they were!
Old fiver is attempting to answer that for you without spelling it out.