4 years at the helm for old Tony today. The journey continues...

I'm sure Rich Sharpe will be asking the right questions🙄

It's a win-win for Tony the Tedious. If Nyambe gets injured again he can blame the fans. If Nyambe plays and we lose he can blame Nyambe. Man of dignity.

OTIUM ENTERTAINMENT GROUP LIMITED - Company Credit Reports, Company Accounts, Director Search Reports (companysearchesmadesimple.com) This is the company that bought Coventry's training ground (on the cheap apparently) and sold it on for housing. They were/are an offshoot of SISU, the people who owned CCFC. Anyway, contained in the link is an interesting 'timeline overview' of appointments to the board of the company.

How do you feel about the proposals?

If we played them both, but didn't play a right winger, would that really be to the detriment?

Find me another club with as many Academy Graduates in it's 1st team squad, especially at Championship level. Our success rate is exceptional.

Chrisprior @chrisprior77 · 5h Replying to @richsharpe89 Jeez, just drop this. No other company has to tell the general public of their plans. I think we should focus on why we can’t score rather than a training pitch. An actual tweet. FFS!

Thanks. And Waggott left CCFC in 2015. He was brought in by SISU in 2011 (which was linked to Otium Entertainment - the company who bought Cov's training ground and sold it for housing) Steve Waggott: Coventry City chief executive leaves club - BBC Sport Another who was a director at Otium Entertainment was Mark Venus if this link is correct. One Possible Explanation For Mark Venus At The Ryton Parish Council Meeting - Coventry MAD (coventrycity-mad.co.uk) Oh, and CCFC sold their training ground to Otium Entertainment in 2013 at a knockdown price, when Waggott was on the board at CCFC. And Waggott left CCFC in late 2015, shortly after it became known the training ground was going to become housing - June 2015. Training Ground Sell Off To Go Ahead - Coventry MAD (coventrycity-mad.co.uk) Detailed plans announced in late 2016. Coventry City plans unveiled for 76 new homes at Ryton training ground - CoventryLive (coventrytelegraph.net)

link doesn't work for me.

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He speaks highly of you.

Interesting they are already over-stocked with housing in that locale. You would think that would make turning down the application even more likely.

Raya, Nyambe, Lenihan, Travis, JRC - that's just in the last few years. That's a lot of talent, and mostly because we were Cat1, certainly in the cases of the players we take from the big city clubs when they get released. (JRC, Travis etc). Jeopardising Cat 1 status is lunacy, especially when there are very limited transfer funds. Without the Academy we wouldn't have a team.

The Brockhall Village People!

Interesting discussion (to me anyway😉) but I'm still none the wiser! And very tired!

You're misunderstanding my point (this could be my fault), see my edited post above. I understand the £39m loss, my point has always been how much can the owners inject every season as part of FFP rules in order that they comply with FFP rules and offset the losses. You said they could inject £39m, but that is wrong. You seem to be confusing losses with external funding. My edited link gives the answer - £8m a season. http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/financial-fair-play-explained.php So, back to my original point, Venky's are exceeding that in share issues every year. How are they doing this?

That's the bit I don't think is right, but would love to see a link. edit: Only thing i could find which comes close to explaining it. Limits for clubs in Championship in 2016/17 season http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/resources/limits%20for%20cship%2024.jpg FFP Explained (financialfairplay.co.uk) So it's £8m a season by the looks of it (£39m minus £15M).

If shares issues are external investment then we are breaking the rules anyway. There is a limit on how much the owner can put in every year/3 years. I'm pretty sure it's not £20m or so every year. I think under FFP external investment by the owner is classed as a 'shareholder' investment and it's limited to about £5m a year. Venky's have been going waaaaaay beyond that with their share issues. Can you explain? I'm aware of the £39m and fines/embargos etc. That's all fairly straightforward.

I get that, I just don't understand the difference between share issues and external investment? Why is the £20m they've invested this year to keep the lights on not part of FFP calculation? And how much are owners allowed to invest each 3 year cycle? Googled it but not easy to find info.

Unless.... Big Baz - Tony, we need money quick. Flog a player. Tony - But what about promotion? Big Baz - Don't take the piss Tony, there's more chance of Shebby Singh getting us to the Prem. Mark - Don't talk to my Tony like that. Big Baz - Shut it, Venus the Penis Tony - OK, OK. What if I give up the STC. We could get promotion and build an estate? Big Baz - Done. Now fuck off. And tell Mark to stop crying.

Exactly. It doesn't make sense. Mowbray was telling us he'd essentially put off prospective Prem buyers of AA by telling them he wasn't ready. I don't buy the argument all this is just to cover costs.

So explain the £20m in share issues put in the club every year to keep it going? What are the FFP rules regarding owner investment? I genuinely don't understand it anymore.

Venkys do. Nothing stopping them putting money in.

Last sentence - thats the worry.