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Houchens Head

Houchens Head

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I was kinda hoping for Wonga to be our new sponsors. Icing on the bloody cake!
 
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Kingokings204

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Surprised Ricoh haven't jumped ship and sponsored the team instead.
 
Mary_Mungo_Midge

Mary_Mungo_Midge

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covcity4life said:
good deal for the club, embrace technology
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How is it a good deal for the club? The cash deal signed with City Link in 2010 was the biggest ever in our history.

Now, it appears we're doing it for free, in exchange for a couple of laptops an some fancy software; which will seemingly have zero financial benefit to the club.

Fisher keeps on telling us it's about revenues. How does this stack up against that narrative?
 
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Mary_Mungo_Midge said:
How is it a good deal for the club? The cash deal signed with City Link in 2010 was the biggest ever in our history.

Now, it appears we're doing it for free, in exchange for a couple of laptops an some fancy software; which will seemingly have zero financial benefit to the club.

Fisher keeps on telling us it's about revenues. How does this stack up against that narrative?
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Exactly mate, makes a mockery of the FFP argument.
 
covcity4life

covcity4life

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Mary_Mungo_Midge said:
How is it a good deal for the club? The cash deal signed with City Link in 2010 was the biggest ever in our history.

Now, it appears we're doing it for free, in exchange for a couple of laptops an some fancy software; which will seemingly have zero financial benefit to the club.

Fisher keeps on telling us it's about revenues. How does this stack up against that narrative?
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its a good deal in terms of where we are at right now, we get to use their technology that we couldnt afford normally. city link sponsor was at a time we were at ricoh.

i didnt say sisu are great all of a sudden. but its prob best we can hope for this season.
 
Mary_Mungo_Midge

Mary_Mungo_Midge

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The Lurker said:
Exactly mate, makes a mockery of the FFP argument.
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Surely, in cash terms, the value of the kit deal from City Link was - in broad terms - similar to the margin on the F&B's we moved out of town for? Yet we're now supposed to forget that as Pressley's got an iPad? :facepalm:
 
Mary_Mungo_Midge

Mary_Mungo_Midge

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covcity4life said:
its a good deal in terms of where we are at right now, we get to use their technology that we couldnt afford normally. city link sponsor was at a time we were at ricoh.

i didnt say sisu are great all of a sudden. but its prob best we can hope for this season.
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Move back into the Ricoh, stop playing silly buggers and dragging the name of the club through the courts and the mud; and proper cash sponsors would appear again. Some of that cash can then be invested for the betterment of the squad via technology such as this. Maybe some of the Wilson money is too, just like Waggott promised? :sarcasm:

This agreement is the negative outcome of a cause and effect relationship that proves the perversity of the SISU line of argument
 
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Gosford Green

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It was quite embarrassing having no main shirt sponsor so this was probably face saving and they probably like the idea of 2 or 3 free lap tops and an association with someone serious, not many firms locally will go near SISU, they're viewed as either crooks or jokers.

Leaving the home shirts free is a good sign though.
 
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covcity4life said:
its a good deal in terms of where we are at right now, we get to use their technology that we couldnt afford normally. city link sponsor was at a time we were at ricoh.

i didnt say sisu are great all of a sudden. but its prob best we can hope for this season.
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where we are now is a self imposed position though, we should be pointing out and criticising every time this self imposed, ludicrous, nonsensical and downright foolish position causes the club harm. We shouldn't congratulate them on making the best out of a shitty situation, we should be demanding they end the shitty situation, it is and has always been completely in their power to do so.

I'm sure businesses particularly Coventry based ones would be falling over themselves to be associated with bringing the club back to Coventry.
 
Grendel

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Noggin said:
where we are now is a self imposed position though, we should be pointing out and criticising every time this self imposed, ludicrous, nonsensical and downright foolish position causes the club harm. We shouldn't congratulate them on making the best out of a shitty situation, we should be demanding they end the shitty situation, it is and has always been completely in their power to do so.

I'm sure businesses particularly Coventry based ones would be falling over themselves to be associated with bringing the club back to Coventry.
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True. Perhaps Elliot's and Tallon pens can scrap over who gets the name on the shirt.
 
Mary_Mungo_Midge

Mary_Mungo_Midge

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True. Perhaps Elliot's and Tallon pens can scrap over who gets the name on the shirt.
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You may quote the facetious, but by the looks of things, even the deal with Air-horn Joe's shop yielded more revenue than this one has. And surely, we're constantly being lectured to that this is what this whole charade is all about, no? Even you can't spin the perversity that's woven through this one?!?
 
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covcity4life

covcity4life

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Noggin said:
where we are now is a self imposed position though, we should be pointing out and criticising every time this self imposed, ludicrous, nonsensical and downright foolish position causes the club harm. We shouldn't congratulate them on making the best out of a shitty situation, we should be demanding they end the shitty situation, it is and has always been completely in their power to do so.

I'm sure businesses particularly Coventry based ones would be falling over themselves to be associated with bringing the club back to Coventry.
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but we are where we are. a council that tried to kill the club out of greed and owners who make very poor decisions.
 
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Noggin

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Grendel said:
True. Perhaps Elliot's and Tallon pens can scrap over who gets the name on the shirt.
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I thought you were always telling us how you love the club, you know full well that being at sixfields is devastating our sponsorship revenue (and ticket revenue, merchandising revenue, hospitality revenue) but you are much more interested in trying to get one up on the people who are criticizing them and their ridiculous decision making, I'm sure the deal with Tallon pens was competitive with what other similar sized clubs were getting at the time and was the best deal available to us, just like im sure chuppa chups was the best deal for sheffield wednesday when they took it. sad little sarcastic wind up merchant.

we should and would be getting six figures per season at the ricoh especially with owners that weren't seen as poisonous.
 
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Mary_Mungo_Midge

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covcity4life said:
no judges ruled on extortionate rent.
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No, and despite all the evidence; they didn't comment either did they? Yet they did go as far as to - very clearly - express their view on SISU distressing ACL and the end-game, didn't they?

It's like the Judicial Review never happened. It's like groundhog day. Every day....
 
covcity4life

covcity4life

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lol because you got it wrong that judges ruled/commented on extortionate rent?

you lied to win argument. i pity you.
 
James Smith

James Smith

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Actually the Sisu barrister and the judge did discuss the reasons for the high rent. The Sisu barrister blamed the loan as the reason why ACL were "forced to charge" the rent they did.
16 MR JUSTICE HICKINBOTTOM: I'm still not yet absolutely
17 convinced how important this will be to the issues 18 I have to determine. But commercially, ACL were in 19 a commercial mess. 20 MR THOMPSON: Yes.
21 MR JUSTICE HICKINBOTTOM: They were in a commercial mess
22 because the football club were not paying the licence
23 fees and rents that legally they ought to have been 24 paying.
25 MR THOMPSON: There were two reasons, my Lord. The reason
1 1 why the rent was set so high was because ACL had paid 2 off the entirety of the lease by paying £21 million
3 in June 2006 with a back-to-back deal with the bank, so 4 they had a debt of £22 million.
5 MR JUSTICE HICKINBOTTOM: Yes. I understand that.
6 MR THOMPSON: That was why they were forced to charge
7 what was, by any comparative standards, an extortionate 8 rent.
9 MR JUSTICE HICKINBOTTOM: I understand that. I understand 10 why the rent and the licence fees were so high. But 11 those were the contractual rent and licence fees -- 12 MR THOMPSON: Yes.
13 MR JUSTICE HICKINBOTTOM: -- which the club were bound
14 legally to pay, subject to renegotiation, but they were 15 legally bound to pay them. 16 MR THOMPSON: Yes.
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Judicial Review transcript day 1 pages 229-231 with my boldening
 
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