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I'm not sure how to respond to that hysteria. I will say this: yes, SISU will leave when they want to, but it is bizarre that fans are attempting to hasten that by breaking the club's finances through boycott. There are very few philanthropists out there; the club was hard enough to sell in 2007...

You accept that Hoffman is the only one out there trying, yet you want to kick out SISU without the certainty of a new owner ready to step in? Do you really want to gamble with the future of the club in such a way?

Charming rant, but complicated somewhat by the fact that SISU bought and/or provided the wages for Coleman, Dann, Fox, Gunnarsson, Westwood, Eastwood, Morrison, McPake and Bell in their first six months of ownership. It doesn't look like they set out with an "asset-stripping" strategy to me.

False. Scan your eyes across the online CCFC community - the likes of KDuffy, Macca, Nick, LordSummerisle, LeamingtonBootBoy, most of the boys at GMK (Knowl, USSkyblue off the top of my head). Are they all wind-up merchants? Do they all ignore the context? I normally wouldn't isolate one...

Yes. Lower gates and giving unconditional support to an ineffective manager have worked wonders so far. Diving head-first towards the non-league, but all part of the plan. Nothing delusional about that strategy, no sir.

A damn-near 30 paragraph explanation from Clive Platt as to why he left for Northampton? No ta.

Yes, far too controversial to suggest that maybe 30,000 people in Coventry should support their club and boost its coffers, local employment, and team performance instead of starving it to death. That'd be madness.

No, and frankly I wouldn't be thrilled if a free-spending billionaire with a clean track record became the new owner of CCFC. I want a football league with a level playing field, where the best combination of brains, effort and skill wins out - not the owner with the fattest wallet; that's a...

I didn't say I know - I said it was a fairly safe assumption, which it is. Cast your mind back over the last 10 years - we've had a couple of publicity-seekers (Alki David and Jo Dhinsa), two hedge funds (one of whom walked away), and Gary Hoffman express an interest. Hardly an indication that...

It is a fairly safe assumption considering: 1. the lack of interested parties in 2007 2. the fact that the club is less appealing than it was in 2007 3. that they agreed to meet Hoffman and hear an offer means they are open for business

That's what makes it so twisted - the only way to get SISU out of the club we love is to push for the end of the club we love?!

You really just proved his point with that post. The bluster is all well and good, but what is your preferred outcome to this situation?

Good choice.

No clue. There's a total lack of transparency when it comes to finances and football, which is one of the reasons one should take everything with a pinch of salt. Oh, for strong regulation in the game...

Since when has the council put CCFC's interests first? Back in Fletcher's day it was about giving the people of Coventry bang for their buck, and now it is about the untrustworthiness of SISU. It doesn't bother me either way, to be frank, but I don't like the snake-ish language from Mr Mutton...

Right on. This club has been in existence for nearly 130 years. Queen Victoria was on the throne and Gladstone was PM at the time of our establishment. SISU will come and go and be a footnote in our history; this whole notion of "starving" the club is, I fear, perilously close to putting our own...

"We won't consider selling our shares to Sisu. If we had a company we thought would take it forward we might" It's this line that bothers me. It's red meat for the anti-SISU majority and buys favour for the council, but is there an agenda?

AT may very well be an outstanding manager if he were to have a transfer booty containing millions, but he has proven he is no use with SISU-standard resources. It's really come to something when I want to see Gary bloody Megson as CCFC manager, but if it brings about a change in leadership...

You don't know for a fact that CM wasn't AT's first choice - you are just creating excuses for him (which, incidentally, you have no need to do in this instance - CM could very well be an excellent player for the Sky Blues).

Whatever one may think of AT, all these subjects are interconnected. It will be impossible to go a long summer without AT's management being discussed. For example, all it will take is for one post saying that the club's misfortunes this year were 100% down to SISU for the Thorn debate to...