Interesting the Northampton fc rejection of an out of court settlement for their legal action is getting little attention on here.
you could say the same about shitsu
The percentage game is ultimately pointless. It is arbitary and open to conjecture.
We know certain things. There is general acceptance among the general football world that the council dealt the club a very poor hand when they agreed the Ricoh deal. This, whatever arguments anyone cares to deploy is ultimately beyond argument. In fact no-one has ever produced any examples of a council treating its club so shabbily. Despite his bluster and fondness for admiration on here this is a question PWKH refuses to ever address.
The notion that anyone is a SISU fan is of course as absurd as absolving the council for their role in the clubs demise. Why is anyone a fan of the owners of the club? It's ridiculous and of course they have to accept responsibility for the decision to remove the club from its community and the potential catastrophic implications this may have.
However the irony of course is there for all to see isn't it? If our council and its management company had offered the club a fair deal at the beginning of its tenure and did not create a situation where the club had to increase its adult fanbase by 40% just to break even then we would not have even heard of SISU would we? It was only the unsustainable business model that introduced our evil hedge fund in the first place.
Fan hypocrisy is also significant. When fans bleat that the council saved us they also demanded the owners (prior SISU) purchased expensive players. They blasted the owners for selling McSheffrey but why? The council needed its pound of flesh didn't it?
Virtually every independent analyst said the model would never work and the club was dead the minute it entered into its pact with the council. They have been proved 100% correct.
Interesting the Northampton fc rejection of an out of court settlement for their legal action is getting little attention on here.
You seem to forget that had the CCC not stepped in with Millions of pounds to rescue the Stadium Build the Club would
have been homeless.
The Sky Blues want to buy back their Highfield Road ground - as a financial investment.
The team is still on course to move to a new home at the Arena in Foleshill by the start of the 2005 season. But club bosses are hoping to make a profit by buying back Highfield Road and then selling it on again.
They say they have no intention of keeping it as a stadium once they quit for the Arena, which is being built partly through public funds, including financial backing from the city council.
They have the right to exercise a buy-back clause put in the contract when they sold it to construction firm McLean Homes.
The club currently effectively leases the stadium from McLean.
The site has planning permission for 175 homes, ranging from two-bedroom flats costing £50,000 at 2000 prices, to four-bedroomed detached homes.
And the value of the site is going up, as it's close to a £1 billion redevelopment plan revealed this year by the city council.
The council wants to lower the ring road between Foleshill Road and Sky Blue Way, and and create a marina, with housing, shops, health facilities and a learning quarter around Swans-well, Foleshill Road and Stoney Stanton Road.
Club chairman Mike McGinnity confirmed yesterday that negotiations were underway and that the profit would not go to the Arena project.
He said: "It's a financial advantage to the club. It would be going into the football club - it helps us to survive. I'll be able to tell you something more next week."
He also confirmed the team was still going to move to the Arena.
Alan Stevenson, the man at the Arena company who is charged with organising selling off memorabilia from Highfield Road, said: "There's no truth in the rumour we're staying at Highfield Road.
If you saw all the preparations for moving, it's out of the question.
"We want to move anyway - it's the whole point of forward-thinking of the club. It's our lifeline to get back to the Premiership to get to the (new) stadium."
Originally Posted by fernandopartridge
The council partly bailed the club out though they've had more benefit from the Ricoh than the club will ever get.
Am I missing something? Which bit could you say the same about sisu? Did you mean the council bailed out SISU? Did SISU bail out the club? Or did SISU benefit from the Ricoh?
neither, i mean that you could argue that shitsu bailed the club out (without the benefit if hindsight) so we didn't go into administration when they bought the club. they continue to use the club as leverage in a property deal that's going/gone wrong but if joy does buy the ricoh on her terms as she has indicated then she stands to benefit more from the ricoh then the club. simple.
Didn't know they had Grendel. Do you have a link to post please?
Do you think NTFC will counter sue...we could do with another court action..would that please you G?
But the club would still benefit, more than they are doing now.
how?
Well we'd be playing in Coventry, we'd be getting money from stadium sponsorship, the catering, parking. And we'd be a more attractive proposition to prospective buyers.
"We"? So suddenly ACL are "we"? How informative. Thanks.
I don't think we need to shed a tear for poor little Cardoza.
As usual you miss the point. He has rejected an out of court offer of payment for costs incurred by the ACL buffoons. He wants more. I hope he sues their stupid greedy arse off. I hope he wins.
As usual you miss the point. He has rejected an out of court offer of payment for costs incurred by the ACL buffoons. He wants more. I hope he sues their stupid greedy arse off. I hope he wins.
That's more anti ACL than pro sisu no?
no, he's just not an ACL fan like some on here. Oh and give it a rest with the 'shitsu' crap, it's pretty pathetic.does this mean you are a Northampton town FC fan now Grendel?
no, he's just not an ACL fan like some on here. Oh and give it a rest with the 'shitsu' crap, it's pretty pathetic.
Jesus Christ, your more of a twat than I first thought, that's some achievement by the way.sorry Grendel's boyfriend, i didn't mean to dis ya bitch. as for shitsu, its not my fault shitsu are shit so the cap fits plus it annoys the shitsu fans.
just to add, calling them shitsu is the only joy I've ever got from them.
Jesus Christ, your more of a twat than I first thought, that's some achievement by the way.
He has rejected an out of court offer of payment for costs incurred by the ACL buffoons. He wants more. I hope he sues their stupid greedy arse off. I hope he wins.
Cardoza wants sympathy and 'costs' for defending a legal action that never even started? Bollocks. If he doesn't get his grubby hands involved, then he doesn't have to worry, and there's actually a chance that SISU and ACL work something out.
As for him sueing ACL, on what basis? The case never even made it to court, did it. Grendel, do you have a link to the news story you quoted regarding ACL making an offer of a proportion of costs? I can't find anything that mentions that anywhere on t'web.
And what costs would Cardoza have actually incurred? If the case was a spurious as he claims, then a junior solicitor could have told him that in half an hour, and all they'd have to do is write a letter refuting the claim. If not, then the case was not without basis, which shoots down his own argument.
In a vaguely related theme, dubious court actions, SISU, of course, are going to cost Cov CC money having to further defend the JR. Of course if that gets thrown out again in court then there likely will be an order for costs against them, I'd guess running into the tens of thousands of pounds.
Cardoza wants sympathy and 'costs' for defending a legal action that never even started? Bollocks. If he doesn't get his grubby hands involved, then he doesn't have to worry, and there's actually a chance that SISU and ACL work something out.
As for him sueing ACL, on what basis? The case never even made it to court, did it. Grendel, do you have a link to the news story you quoted regarding ACL making an offer of a proportion of costs? I can't find anything that mentions that anywhere on t'web.
And what costs would Cardoza have actually incurred? If the case was a spurious as he claims, then a junior solicitor could have told him that in half an hour, and all they'd have to do is write a letter refuting the claim. If not, then the case was not without basis, which shoots down his own argument.
In a vaguely related theme, dubious court actions, SISU, of course, are going to cost Cov CC money having to further defend the JR. Of course if that gets thrown out again in court then there likely will be an order for costs against them, I'd guess running into the tens of thousands of pounds.
Don't be too hard on him - he lives in Scunthorpe.
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