So explain exactly WHY sisu couldn#t have purchased a licence for the F&B when they took over five years ago!
Bit of a pointless remark that. Why sell the original ground, why sell star players over many decades? Because we have sold star players for ever and a day are you saying we have to always do this?
It's all very well blaming "the bloody landlords" but Grendel seems to mistake sisu for CCFC - This is not and never has been the case!
I think you will find it is you that mistakes the club for SISU and this taints your already warped thought processes even more.
And who do the council ultimately work for ? The people of Coventry! HOW can this internet troll simply not get this? If the council makes money, then ultimately it is the people of coventry who get this money. It's a hobson's choice. Does this idiot GENUINELY believe that even if ACL or whoever gave away for free the concessions, that any of that money would be invested back in the club? Has he seen what sisu has done to this club during their time here?
A ridiculous statement with no foundation. Are you saying that the City benefits from profit from the stadium and not the ACL management company. Perhaps you should do a comparison with other communities that assist the clubs - Swansea as a prime example - and see if the population adversely suffers from restricted services and increased taxation.
The issue is not that sisu want the concession, it is that they want it for FREE! That simply is not on, and no matter what inane drivel is spouted about how the council has fleeced the club (even if you accept they have, which I don't for a second), this "fleecing" is utterly insignificant, when you compare that to the interest payments of loans taken out by sisu, in ccfc's names; the £2.6 million in management fees, and whatever else lurks in their confidential financial dealings".
The over payment at £900,000 a season already equates to over £5 million. Your argument is ridiculous.
I cannot believe after everything that has gone on there are people out there STILL ready to defend these people! The people who are supposed to have the welfare (after all the naming rights at this time, well at least under holdings), yet feel no compunction to threaten the very existence by claiming at one stage they will put the club into not just administration, but liquidation.
If SISU can benefit the shareholders by moving grounds I assume you will applaud this as you have already stated the council should look after tax payers and not supporter interests. If you take that stance (unlike me) you should welcome the move
Has he forgotten that sisu are threatening to rip the club out of its own city - just to avoid paying rent that it signed a contract to pay! By sisu's AVOIDABLE actions, the club incurred 10 points.
The council and ACL bought about administration
And where exactly did sisu get this mythical figure of an average rent of £170k? Certainly not from the clubs that the misguided sisu apologists put up as a simile. When you consider the running costs of the keepmoat (a 15k stadium) to the ricoh, it is not far off the mark!
Keepmoat currently costs £10,000. We already know maths is not your strong point -- let's just go easy on you on this one
And even now if sisu put a REALISTIC plan into action, with REALISTIC goals, and should a genuine desire to move the club forward, it could technically be possible for a deal to be struck. Sadly sisu are totally intransigent. They have proven time and again that they enter negotiations in bad faith. Just look how they Dulux attacked hoff's bid last time, yet claimed they couldn't reveal their own hand because of confidentiality! They refused because apparently a form wasn't on headed notepaper!
Realistic to who? You, the tooth fairy or them?
But even this pales into nothing when you look how they treat the fans. They rip down placards, try and silence fans, spread rumour and proven lies. How many times have they said they have listened to the fans and have learned lessons?
Fool me once shame on you - fool me twice shame on me! Sisu have treated the fans like mugs. They take for granted that ST holders will blindly renew their ST because they 100% support the club - thus they don't feel the need to do right by them.
ST holders -- remind me what are they?
And yet You STILL have people trying to defend these people!
THAT is just as indefensible as anything sisu have are and ever will do!
CCFC needs "fans" like this like they need a whole in the head!
They need fans who provide revenue -- you refer to them as scum I believe