skybluehugh
New Member
Couldn't have put it better myself, so won't
1. The RICOH
2. Hav'nt they consistently said the doors to the RICOH are open . Even hiring the Groundsman.
It must be a tad difficult if the other party are putting out Continual PR to the opposite while holding a Judicial review over you. Where is the hard evidence of playing elsewhere apart from carefully placed PR stories and Tims Diatribe to the Media .Where people who Argue that NOPM for the purposes of keeping the team there ,laudible as that may be is harmful ,it is In essence Tims get out of jail card ,I'd prefer seeing him exposed for the Fraud that heIs.
Only during admin which will be a few weeks away before we come out of it under voluntary agreement. Then what? Keep up lad, keep up
With all the cloak and dagger stuff going on and rumour about what will happen before kick off thought it would be the right time to poll the general feeling about:
1. Where you think we will be playing this season?
2. How many feel ACL/Council should be doing all they can to ensure our football club plays at the Ricoh?
i actually have a colleague who thinks this should happenThey have offered to play at the ground for free. What more do you want? Give them the ground for free?
It's multiple choice so you can put what you like on the first two and the third is there for opinion gathering. Simple.
Again what some seem to not realise: The football club must have the income from the stadium it plays in. is that such a crazy idea? That will not come about by buying the Higgs share. There you have it in a nutshell. It's not about SISU failing to take up that option, they negotiated as far as they could on income streams being made available to them and may not have done very well at it and so stubbornly backed out because clearly the only offer was one which will not help income streams. That can only come about with some ownership. That is where the two sides for me at any rate, have an impasse. The council refuse to see the benefit long term but should do so quickly.
SISU did not put the club into admin until the last moment to avoid the same happening by ACL's action? Are you suggesting they meant to? Not so ACL caused that absolutely.
I'm no SISU fan, never will be but as a businessman I have to see the merit in the actions taken by either side. SISU have played dastardly yes but I have to accept their actions no matter how distasteful but can't for the life of me think what ACL were thinking when they acted how they did?
When all said and done there can only be one way forward for the council if they want a football club at the Ricoh. Negotiate with the current owners, offering something far more concrete than before which will give access to income from the stadium or lose your football club.
This is now not the time to say he said you said but to make a deal happen. If they don't then there will be a stadium empty and ACL will surely go broke. Sometimes in life even when you hate it you have to do the only thing you can or suffer the consequences. |You get to pick up the pices and go again, damaged but still intact. This should be bigger than SISU...it's the Cities football club and will be long after SISU.
The final offer from ACL gave the club the chance for revenues to be cross invoiced for FFP purposes. Taking the Higgs option converts the club from being a mere tenant in the ground to being a bigger part of the furniture-it does not of course give us the full perks of stadium ownership but it's a big improvement on where we currently are. The council's view is a little harder to understand however since the Ricoh project is part of the wider regeneration of North Coventry then their interest can only be sold to a party with a clear interest in continuing this.
ACL initiated administration in response to Fishy's comment on impending liquidation which meant that administration had to be filed for on ACL's part to stand a chance of recovering the arrears SISU racked up. Nobody forced SISU to initiate a rent boycott but this steamrolling strategy coupled with the ARVO charge last April suggests that SISU never had any intention of negotiating with ACL but to bust them out. If you go back to ACL's final offer you will see huge concessions made in their bid to keep the club on side-and I really don't see what else can be done aside from just handing over the freehold.
1. The RICOH
2. Hav'nt they consistently said the doors to the RICOH are open . Even hiring the Groundsman.
It must be a tad difficult if the other party are putting out Continual PR to the opposite while holding a Judicial review over you. Where is the hard evidence of playing elsewhere apart from carefully placed PR stories and Tims Diatribe to the Media .Where people who Argue that NOPM for the purposes of keeping the team there ,laudible as that may be is harmful ,it is In essence Tims get out of jail card ,I'd prefer seeing him exposed for the Fraud that heIs.
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