IA has just told you what he is permitted to. Joining a Trust committee like this comes with huge responsibility and that includes keeping schtum during these delicate procedures.

There was nothing new yesterday, just updates on what we are already aware of. We do march on towards a point in the not too distant future where we will either be presenting the results of all these meetings or asking for a call to arms because we have not got to where we are satisfied with the deal - at that point, and probably not before - will we be able to discuss in more detail what is being discussed.

Sorry, but that's where we are.

As I have said before - I do not give dates / timescales because they just inevitably set you up for ridicule when they fail and when it is something not in your own full control, there is nothing you can do.

There will be no news this side of Xmas!

Yes - it means the fight continues and that we still believe there is something worth fighting for at the end of all this!

Phil your again reading into something that isn't

Has anything happen yet regarding Belle Vue becoming an ACV? Whats the timescale on that?

No, no news means nothing has altered and that there is no good or bad news to tell you hth.

It's the way you tell em snowie

Its a cracker, Christmas cracker

Honestly wasn't - just used the excuse to put a bit more to IA's update.

It is all frustrating and should have been sorted by now, but rather take a little longer and get the right deal.

40 pages of this thread & what have I learned that you might as well blame it all on climate change.

It's about time this fairy tale thread was locked to stop certain posters raising false hopes.

Proof if it were needed that free speech isn't always a good idea.

Are there any deals on the table?

Think, regarding the Stadium, any news is bad news. Supposedly good news will never be satisfactory until the build is complete. Bad news is ...er bad.
Would prefer that nothing at all was posted until stadium construction contractors move onto the site or refurb contractors into Belle View.

Bloody hell, we have been busted... you are right, this is all just a ruse! We just love winding everyone up on internet forums. In fact, that is exactly what we do at trust meetings, discuss the weather, each others ailments, have a cup of tea and some biscuits at WMDC council tax payers expense and then make stuff up to not then tell you about. How we laugh and laugh... we are having a ball!

- Quality.

Do they have Chocolate biiscuits, bet they do

God, I didn't know you did comedy IA. Made me chuckle that.

Not old enough to remember it personally but wasn't there a saying, theres many a true word spoken in jest

If you're not old enough to remember it how come you've just quoted it ?

This maketh that oure wyves wole assaye
Religious folk, for ye mowe bettre paye
Of Venus paiementz than mowe we;
God woot, no lussheburghes payen ye!
But be nat wrooth, my lord, though that I pleye.
Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd seye!”

Bloomin' 'eck - Culture corner!

NB - I have no idea what that says!

Chaucer... the first known use of the phrase... see last line.

If he is involved we had better change this thread to City of Canterbury Community Stadium.

Or The Inferno Stadium