The HIggs 'don't sell to SISU' clause, combined with the termination of the lease by CSF, and the refusal of Wasps to look for their own academy site but instead to take over ours, surely does spell the end for the academy in its current form.
Let's be clear here: No one is forcing CSF to take the Wasps deal, and no one is forcing Wasps to takeover the Academy. This is a deliberate choice those parties have taken, despite the fact that there are alternatives and it is clearly not in the interest of the football club, or the vast majority of children in the city who play football rather than rugby.
Neither Wasps nor The Higgs Charity are at any risk from the continuing or pending legal action from SISU, so the sell-on 'clause' from Higgs and the insistence that SISU drop legal action from Wasps can surely only be intended for some other purpose. I can only presume it's to help out their 'friends' at the Council.
SISU aren't blameless here, but clearly Wasps, Higgs, and CSF have colluded between themselves to further harm the club.
Wasps owners were always going to look after themselves and nuts to anyone else (including their own fans), that's why they moved. Only a few complete idiots in the council and elsewhere thought any different.
But CCC, CSF and Higgs are supposed to have broader remits than that for the good of the city. Once they've screwed the club over completely, and our best kids don't have a local team to follow or aspire to play for, then the only thing the people behind this will have left is a warm glow from having finally beaten SISU and a lot of free tickets to a game they neither understand nor care for.