so we appear to be back to Thursday might meetings.

DO - fair enough, I can see that. To be honest I think that, either way, this is the end of the DTB amateurs trying to run the club - the DT will soon find out, when faced with an investor who is providing all of the funding, that their wants and likes won't be taken all that seriously. I can see the "tear it down" attraction of administration but I wouldn't vote for that (not least because my DT bond investment would be lost)

Nick - unless the offer is a good one, if the alternative is administration, then I'd vote for administration. It would at least be the end of the navel-gazing DTB!

I walked up the pier 3 weeks ago Al, hard to see how a 10 mph was observed by plod .

Would be interesting to see what response to a question fielded about a pitch owners view would be...

Will certainly be an interesting meeting next week but I think that it is clear that (1) we will realistically have no option to accept whatever proposal is put to us, or see the club go under (2) [as REPD said below] in reality the new investors are going to be taking control, not just investing, though if they actually don't have a majority stake, we would still be be to stop any "move the club to MK"-type proposals (albeit at the cost if having additional funding cut off). This may or may not ultimately be a good deal, but it is unlikely to be as good as we could have got had we started looking seriously for investors before we were on the edge of the cliff, but short of someone inventing a time machine we are where we are and have to make the best of it.

The devil is in the detail

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It has to be Freshco's Supermarket.

I think we'll be waiting aldi to find out more.

In a Lidl bit we will know all

We just need to waitrose a bit, am sure someone will post something

Did my retailer-based pun break wup?

Exiled scroll down and Hash has handily pasted it on here. Shouldn't tesco too long to find it.

Great to see that Jack Rudoni was the player to score Coventry's first home top flight league goal for 25 years!! Well done Jack, you’ve come a long way from being a loanee at Corinthian Casuals in 2019 :)

I think that's why 21st October is important for them to explain their vision. And it's more important that members believe them, and that that belief turns out to be valid even though by then it will be too late if it's not. For me I think the 21st October really relies a lot on the investors' performance on the night. Football, isn't it.

Trigs-the worst one was Wycombe away in the 5th round of the Cup in 2001 when they scored a goal that was 10 yards offside

Is there a link to the email ? Asda some reason I have t received it !

My concern is simply around all the reported guff about becoming a youth factory and getting involved in the football side. That's not what we want or need. We can't be in a place where our manager is forced to sign or play players because they're an investment or saleable asset we want to develop. We'd be a basket case club in five minutes. Also, if that's the goal - what happens when it doesn't work? Do they walk?

All this and elections at the same time.

If it's the best out of the 20 investors, and we become a feeder team for premier league/ championship.it will show no ambitions to progress up the pyramid, just consolidating losses.

The problem with any of this is this mob could lie through their teeth, say all the things we want to hear as unless they are pig shit thick they will know what they are by now, acquire a stake in the club and then do what they like. They could even do nothing at all. In those circumstances are we just stuck with them as I cannot see how you could force them to sell or hand back their shares. Maybe there will be some side agreement that will provide a mechanism for this. I'm less interested in the DTB still theoretically calling the shots and more how the debt is cleared and a pipeline of ongoing cash is made available. If not, is there a Plan B or can we go back to one of the other supposed 19 interested parties and reopen negotiations with them?

21st November 1992. It was the match where "phases of play" was first mentioned after a dodgy offside goal was given against us I think.

"Through a thorough and considered process, one investor group has emerged as the strongest fit across all criteria ......." So we will possibly end up with a solution that pleases the clique because they will retain control of "their club" - and like lemmings we will vote for it out of fear for where the club might otherwise head - as opposed to being able to consider a solution (were there really 19 others when we were continually told there would be little or no interest?) that might actually be better for the club overall and in the long run (which we will not get to see) whilst, at the same time, it might be one that removes the clique from their ability to interfere negatively as we have seen so often over the last few years.

Trigger-I don’t remember 52 at Middlesbrough but that figure would seem about right as a low point