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Turning Wood into glue would save a fortune in wages and get us £20 for the glue

Council - sound business as they now can protect a multi million pound asset that they own, they receive interest on the loan rather than it going out to a third party. I very much doubt it was done out of petulance or spite or even political dogma as some have suggested but rather that they...

They needed to buy the loan out a: to stop any third party buying it from Yorkshire Bank and thereby being able to distress ACL and b: to lower the monthly commitments to free up cash flow whilst the anchor tenant was on rent strike Just seems perfectly sound business - not sure what the...

For the umpteenth time - the deal that was on the table was giving the club ACL's profits from the F&B without the club having to fork out a penny in costs to get those profits. It was also getting the revenue and profits from the car parking. Owning the stadium would not guarantee a single...

Grendel - in my opinion the accounts may well not have been signed off as any auditor would have been cautious when the anchor tenant was refusing to pay rent and there was no resolution in the offing. The state of play is that the loan has been renegotiated and therefore the payments...

From Trust discussions with ACL the F&B figure is only for the concourse outlets and the numbers come directly from ACL. I too was surprised how low the margins are for this type of operation but subsequent independent enquiries have shown that 15% margin is about right. The corporate is on top...

Torchy - please explain why our future hinges on ownership of the ground?

Well he was a vegetarian - never trust a bean muncher, let alone a bean counter!

TF keeps banging on about revenue streams without actually defining what streams he wants. It should also be noted that CCFC sold the rights to the revenue when they sold their 50% of ACL to the charity for £6.5m. Its as if I sold you my car then complained when you wouldn't let me come round...

Guest speaker at the Sky Blue Trust meeting on Monday 4th March will be Steve Waggott. Steve will be talking about what is happening on the playing side and maybe even managerial side of things. All are welcome. Meeting is at the Squirrel Pub, Greyfriars Lane, Coventry, CV1 2GY and starts at...

Seeing as everyone is getting their proverbial knickers in a twist over facts thought I should point out that Saints are not currently expanding their ground. There have been plenty of plans, talks, consultations, even a share issue to raise £500k but no actual building work is taking place - so...

No vision - just thankfully w Sir Kenneth Dulieu back at the helm things have gone from strength to strength. His plan for drilling for oil in the Tesco stand was laughed at but who's laughing now

It just pisses me off now the waiting list for season tickets is now 2 years - always said the Ricoh wasn't big enough. Bloody council should do that second extension to 65000 as 45000 is clearly not enough. Damn you Lord Mutton

Just don't understand that now Guardiola has Platt back and scoring for fun how can England manager Dowie keep overlooking him

Worrying times though with PSG offering Ibrahimovic and £25 million for Bell - really need to hold onto our star players

Rubbish BSB - Iniesta has been rubbish in the last two games and its time to give Baker another try. Since his winner in the Champions League final he has hardly been given a look in and its not fair to the lad.

The Trust (seems an inappropriate word to use considering the current state of the two protagonists) has been constantly talking with both parties trying to get past all the sound bites, misinformation and let's be frank lies put out during this whole sorry affair. We have another meeting...

Dave - ACL are basically handing CCFC their share of the profits - £100k approx. Seperately to help CCFC with FFP they would cross invoice the value of the sales not the profit so it looks like the revenue (the sales value) is going to CCFC and thus increasing their published turnover and...

Torchy - a year ago SISU had discussions with the Higgs Charity to buy 50% of ACL. A Heads of Agreement was signed by Charity and Joy Sepalla. A fee for the shares was agreed. SISU wanted to stage the payments over several years charity couldnt agree to this as it would have been against Charity...

Not sure if anyone is actually bothered but here are a few facts that the Trust has learned about the proposed deal and some background info. 1. The money in the ESCROW account was never paid into that account by CCFC, it was money allocated to the whole Ricoh development project as a grant...