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Confession: I met TF briefly on Thursday, after the trial, and although we didn't talk at all about the club (he offered to, anytime, in fairness), the one thing he did say is that 'we've made mistakes' - in the way that things have gone with the club, I presumed.
For me, that's good enough. I don't need to know the details, and I don't need apologies, I just want to see a willingness to move on. If we could get past all of the JR noise, and for that matter stop digging into all of SISU's past dealing to do that, then that's a price worth paying.
Apart from the fact I've never watched Jeremy Kyle (honest!) the problem with this is that we're never going to get to the whole truth and it will take forever.
We don't have forever, and I don't need 'closure'.
Confession: I met TF briefly on Thursday, after the trial, and although we didn't talk at all about the club (he offered to, anytime, in fairness), the one thing he did say is that 'we've made mistakes' - in the way that things have gone with the club, I presumed.
For me, that's good enough. I don't need to know the details, and I don't need apologies, I just want to see a willingness to move on. If we could get past all of the JR noise, and for that matter stop digging into all of SISU's past dealing to do that, then that's a price worth paying.
At the moment though, it feels like we're still stuck.
It is actually covered in the JR to great extent.
Here's just a part of it (after coucil QC accuses sisu of going to the bank behind ACL's back):
So sisu claim they were not going to the bank, but the bank came to sisu. Sisu claim that nothing but rent was discussed. And in the end it seems that Council QC leaves his argument and say 'yes, but they could have done it'.
Getting on will require all parties start treating each other with respect. I sense TF gained a little bit of respect from you when he actually admitted they have made mistakes.
And that is in a sense what I was aiming at previously when I advocated the parties need to sit down in private and agree to what has happened and try to communicate their reasoning. That is the way to build respect and trust.
They did do it. SISU went to the bank, off their own backs, in (I think) March/April. It's in the Higgs document, and it's not denied in the JR. It seems that the Council took exception to it too, at that point in time. SISU can claim what they want, but clearly they were prepared to go to the bank directly, and indeed did so.
It's only your opinion, with respect, that SISU wouldn't attempt to do a deal behind the Council's back to purchase the bank's debt and gain control of ACL that way. The council QC clearly differs, but that doesn't agree with your opinion so you've disregarded it.
Which is, forgive me, exactly what happens with the trial documents - we (both of us, I do it too) latch onto the bits that support our views and inevitably rerun the same arguments. It gets us nowhere and my dinner's getting cold!
Ah, I am sorry, you lost me there. What did sisu say is true/false? I don't think in the Higgs case sisu ever agreed their appetite to fullfil the termsheet ever ceased? It was the judges opinion - but it doesn't mean sisu necessary agree. It had no adverse effect on sisu's case as they won anyway.
And this is what I was saying is the difference between OSB and posters like here. OSB pionts out the facts and explains them.
You are showing *your* bias yet again Astute...
you missed off "and better looking and I love him, so there. .."So you know more than OSB? You can work this mess out better than OSB?
Or are you jealous so you just want to rip into OSB because he is much wiser and intelligent than yourself?
Wrong. He interprets data and gives his opinion - hence his sign off - just my opinion of course. It just so happens his opinion = your bias. When another poster presents a different scenario it makes you uncomfortable.
Wrong. He interprets data and gives his opinion - hence his sign off - just my opinion of course. It just so happens his opinion = your bias. When another poster presents a different scenario it makes you uncomfortable.
Ali, they did win. They defended themselves. The counter claim was just a means to illicit information.This post alone shows how biased you are in this thread. SISU never won. Nobody won the case. And that was because no side carried on with the so called road map. but you try to say that SISU wanted to carry on. It wasn't the fault of not wanting to pay 5.5m as agreed. They seemed to be looking for an excuse to pull out. And even the judge called it a 0-0 draw. But to you it was a SISU win :facepalm:
And this is what I was saying is the difference between OSB and posters like here. OSB pionts out the facts and explains them. Godiva points out the facts and his explanation is pointed towards blaming ACL/CCC for everything possible and some count them as the same. This is how petty it is getting in here.
If I thought that SISU getting the arena would benefit our club I would join in with trying to make crap stick against CCC.
you missed off "and better looking and I love him, so there. .."
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So you don't agree with most of what OSB says? Don't he help you to understand what is going on?
So you don't agree with most of what OSB says? Don't he help you to understand what is going on?
It isn't his fault that the truth goes against SISU a lot of the time. He never bitches against any side like most seem to do. But if someones points don't go with the points you want to make does that make it biased?
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. However, it was the sycophantic remarks that made me feel a little queasy.
No, he doesn't bitch and as others have pointed out he says he is giving his "opinion" and is pretty much hero worshipped by you and others on here. Godiva, for me, is the same. He never bitches, gives his opinion, yet you and Tony decide he's wrong and start having a go.
Both Osb and Godiva come up with good valid points. Osb is a little less subtle in his views and tends to plant seeds to make you think more. But they both have a bias.
You cannot possibly have read the quote I included in my post.
The meeting with the bank in March 2012 is in there. It was long before HoT with ACL was signed and it was long before the council had to make their decision.
I also included the council QC reply - and forgive me, but he clearly abandon his argument that sisu did appoach the bank and say 'they could have' (they had the option)'.
I read it Godiva - I just don't agree with your interpretation. You started off by saying that SISU didn't approach the bank behind the Council's back, but it's there in black and white that they did.
There might be some dispute as to whether they approached the bank again later - but rather than get into a debate about that, the point the Council QC makes is that they could do it again, and therefore it's a valid consideration for the judge.
It's kind of key this to my mind, although possibly not to the JR, because it shows SISU's tactics during the early stages off the negotiation which didn't seem (imho) destined to build trust. For SISU to complain about the Council going behind their back to the bank, whilst they attempted to do it themselves seems a bit rich to me.
It brings me back to the point that it seems that both sides tried to 'play' each other during these negotiations. The net result is where we are. If we want to get back, then the fastest way to me seems to be to start talking about where we're going, rather than where we've been.
Clearly the sisu QC accepts sisu went to the bank in March 2012 - and this is what you say, so full agreement on the fact.
If I understand you correctly you say this is the sort of behaviour that show their true character? And you suggest that ACL/CCC handled the negotiations and did their own planning 'knowing the true colour of sisu'? (Maybe I stretched it a bit there?).
But pre agreements with Higgs and ACL I cannot see why sisu couldn't explore their options - especially as they seemed on the brink of pulling the support to the club.
What matters more (to me anyway) is their behaviour after they signed term sheets and I can find nothing to suggest they did break their promise and approached the bank in an attempt to buy the loan. If they did I would think the bank had meeting notes to support that and that the council would have presented it ... from what I read this is quite material to the councils presentation, so they would have made a real effort to find evidence to back their claim.
So in my interpretation this is the council trying to demonise sisu to justify their own behaviour - signing an agreement (HoT) with sisu that they had no intention to honour.
Hadn't the (Hot) long ran out by this time with both the Higgs and Sisu no longer having appetite for a deal. So said the judge at the Higgs trial anyway ?
So in my interpretation this is the council trying to demonise sisu to justify their own behaviour - signing an agreement (HoT) with sisu that they had no intention to honour.
Clearly the sisu QC accepts sisu went to the bank in March 2012 - and this is what you say, so full agreement on the fact.
If I understand you correctly you say this is the sort of behaviour that show their true character? And you suggest that ACL/CCC handled the negotiations and did their own planning 'knowing the true colour of sisu'? (Maybe I stretched it a bit there?).
But pre agreements with Higgs and ACL I cannot see why sisu couldn't explore their options - especially as they seemed on the brink of pulling the support to the club.
What matters more (to me anyway) is their behaviour after they signed term sheets and I can find nothing to suggest they did break their promise and approached the bank in an attempt to buy the loan. If they did I would think the bank had meeting notes to support that and that the council would have presented it ... from what I read this is quite material to the councils presentation, so they would have made a real effort to find evidence to back their claim.
So in my interpretation this is the council trying to demonise sisu to justify their own behaviour - signing an agreement (HoT) with sisu that they had no intention to honour.
Hadn't the (Hot) long ran out by this time with both the Higgs and Sisu no longer having appetite for a deal. So said the judge at the Higgs trial anyway ?
No it's not, so feel free to continually ignore unbiased and informative posts.Not often, no and no again.
Is that a hanging offence?
The HoT with ACL was signed on August 2nd (I believe).
Emails and the infamous 'August report' written by Chris West has been presented at the two hearings showing the plan for CCC to buy the mortgage was formed just days later.
It's important because the centre piece in the agreements between sisu/Higgs/ACL was that sisu - or sisu/CCC jointly - should buy the mortgage. So when the council/ACL started planning for the council to go alone to the bank it was against all intentions (and the spirit) in the roadmap and in the HoT.
It is also important that emails, notes and reports repeatedly emphasized the importance of keeping the plan secret from sisu.
What had run out in August was the exclusivity sisu had to negotiate a deal with Higgs to buy their shares. But buying the shares depended on sisu- or sisu/council jointly - buying the mortgage and discharge it.
The HoT with ACL was signed on August 2nd (I believe).
Emails and the infamous 'August report' written by Chris West has been presented at the two hearings showing the plan for CCC to buy the mortgage was formed just days later.
It's important because the centre piece in the agreements between sisu/Higgs/ACL was that sisu - or sisu/CCC jointly - should buy the mortgage. So when the council/ACL started planning for the council to go alone to the bank it was against all intentions (and the spirit) in the roadmap and in the HoT.
It is also important that emails, notes and reports repeatedly emphasized the importance of keeping the plan secret from sisu.
What had run out in August was the exclusivity sisu had to negotiate a deal with Higgs to buy their shares. But buying the shares depended on sisu- or sisu/council jointly - buying the mortgage and discharge it.
Wrong. This ran out once they took our club away from the Ricoh after not paying the rent. Only the road map part of the discussions ran out at that time.
What on earth are you on about?
Why don't you read stuff yourself so you can make up your own mind, rather than make up stuff to fit the mind you've already made up.
Wrong. This ran out once they took our club away from the Ricoh after not paying the rent. Only the road map part of the discussions ran out at that time.
Pot, kettle......
So the exclusive part of buying the Higgs shares ran out in the August and not when the rental agreement was broke by SISU? Try reading it again and then checking out the facts. It was only the road map that stopped by the start of August. I suppose SISU offered 2m for the higgs share for a laugh did they?
The exclusivity period had ended.
So why were sisu pissed off when ACL then went to the bank?
Jealous that they missed their opportunity.
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