No, ACL didn't because of the snidey stuff SISU had already done.
According to them and what they were expecting was that Haskell would be the new owner.
In hindsight it's easy to say "they never could have been owners". It's not what was thought at the time when nobody had known the shite SISU had got up to.
If they didnt get to administration, all that SISU had to say to any regime change was ..... NO
Who started the plan and route to administration? ...... SISU when they stopped paying the rent, then didnt even contest the various legal cases for recovery.... but even before that their plans were put in place it wasnt if it was when
CCFC limited (a shell company) went to administration because SISU chose to take the club there so that they could break the lease.
Because of the debt loaded on to the club or retained from previous years there were very clear barriers to regime change.
Did ACL line Haskell up - yes thats what was reported. There never was any guarantee of success in that. Everyone wanted SISU gone or regime change then and still 6 years later still want it dont they? Everybody bar SISU and to a lesser extent Wasps are powerless to make it happen
SISU were very safe in the knowledge it could not and would not work
The plan that actually happened by the way means that SISU were very prepared to allow the club to have points deductions - carefully orchestrated to blame ACL of course
Sorry the pattern was there for all to see the fact is that people chose not to see it. To keep going on about events over 4 months in 2013 is superfluous to what is going on now.
What you now have is two hard nosed businesses trying to distress each other. Neither side actually cares if the other survives. This situation is far more dangerous that some bright spark of an american who seemed to a short attention span and allegedly wasnt quite as rich as people thought