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If they turn us into a stable Championship team then that would be an improvement, we were flirting with relegation to League 1 before they arrived.

better days said:

Won't comment on past mistakes, of which there were many but at the moment they are playing a blinder
Dave Boddy was a very good appointment
I understand his communication is first rate, players, management team and staff are being looked after and it's a happy ship
Helps that we've been winning and top of the league but that's happened because Boddy and Robins have been given resources and allowed to run things

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Yeah agree completely with all that.

better days said:

Won't comment on past mistakes, of which there were many but at the moment they are playing a blinder
Dave Boddy was a very good appointment
I understand his communication is first rate, players, management team and staff are being looked after and it's a happy ship
Helps that we've been winning and top of the league but that's happened because Boddy and Robins have been given resources and allowed to run things

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Boddy has done a great job. Odd that when he came here everything we heard about him was negative.

Hopefully when promotion is confirmed I would love official plans to be released for a new 20000 stadium in Coventry, not in Warwickshire not just over the boundary but in Coventry as central as can be, then I may let Sisu off!

Sky Blue Pete said:

We were a league 2 club and if the vote had been taken we could have been a championship one today.

lots of work still to do off the pitch but what a phenomenal job Robins and Boddy have done.

Any room for any credit to the owner?

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Credit for what? We're homeless(again).

HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:

If they get us a rental deal Better than 1.2 million we will be in a better position then when they found us

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How? They threw away any chance of us buying into the ricoh and put us at the mercy of a rugby club for the foreseeable.

Sick Boy said:

If it had been Hoffman and Elliot taking the council on over the non-negotiable £1.2M a year rent and breaking the lease and having to leave the city, the reaction to it would have been a hell of a lot different.

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No it wouldn't.

higgs said:

Fair play to Tim Fisher working away hard in the background turning our fortunes around. Has he any progress made on the new ground does anyone know?

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Working away hard on what exactly?

Sick Boy said:

You do realise we don’t have a stadium and that the franchise will be looking to get as much out of us as possible?

We desperately need our own stadium and to get away from the Ricoh.

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So why do sisu seem to get a free ride with this? We cant move grounds every other season.

The coventrian said:

So why do sisu seem to get a free ride with this? We cant move grounds every other season.

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They don’t get a free ride, there are multiple parties involved. The non negotiable rent was too high though and not sustainable. Ranson should have addressed it when he was first about but didn’t seem to bother.

Sick Boy said:

They don’t get a free ride, there are multiple parties involved. The non negotiable rent was too high though and not sustainable. Ranson should have addressed it when he was first about but didn’t seem to bother.

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Theyve been given a massive free ride on the lies they told during the sixfields era about a new stadium and theyve been pulling the same stunt over the last couple of years but nothing gets said to them. Nothing not a peep. People seem to be happy that there being lied to but turn a blind eye.

The coventrian said:

So why do sisu seem to get a free ride with this? We cant move grounds every other season.

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Free ride? Hardly.

Sick Boy said:

They don’t get a free ride, there are multiple parties involved. The non negotiable rent was too high though and not sustainable. Ranson should have addressed it when he was first about but didn’t seem to bother.

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That’s not the debate though. The debate is given the problem of the rent was turning us into the littlest hobo the solution?

The seasons away from the Ricoh will have cost us more than the old rent would’ve been, before you take into account the loss of goodwill with both fans and the local authority/local businesses.

It’s a gamble, and one in progress. If we come out the other side in an equally secure tenancy with far lower costs it’ll have been worth it in the long run. If we end up paying the same or worse terms to Wasps because we have no alternative it’ll have been a massive failure.

You can’t just keep going “but the rent was high” as if it forgives any action. The question is was the response to the high rent either appropriate or effective.

The coventrian said:

How? They threw away any chance of us buying into the ricoh and put us at the mercy of a rugby club for the foreseeable.

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Have they ever had the chance to buy the stadium, I cannot recall they had even before Sisu and certainly not on the ridiculously cheap rate the London Rugby club got it for!

Sky Blue Pete said:

For anything! You’re answer can be no of course

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Sorry lol. The mere thought of our owners boils my blood!!

shmmeee said:

That’s not the debate though. The debate is given the problem of the rent was turning us into the littlest hobo the solution?

The seasons away from the Ricoh will have cost us more than the old rent would’ve been, before you take into account the loss of goodwill with both fans and the local authority/local businesses.

It’s a gamble, and one in progress. If we come out the other side in an equally secure tenancy with far lower costs it’ll have been worth it in the long run. If we end up paying the same or worse terms to Wasps because we have no alternative it’ll have been a massive failure.

You can’t just keep going “but the rent was high” as if it forgives any action. The question is was the response to the high rent either appropriate or effective.

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And In the meantime we're all knocking on for ten years older from when this all started. 10 years we'll never get back!

Gynnsthetonic said:

Have they ever had the chance to buy the stadium, I cannot recall they had even before Sisu and certainly not on the ridiculously cheap rate the London Rugby club got it for!

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They had an option didn't they.

The coventrian said:

They had an option didn't they.

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But how much would it of cost them?

The coventrian said:

They had an option didn't they.

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To buy it for the same price Wasps did? Really? Are you sure?

shmmeee said:

That’s not the debate though. The debate is given the problem of the rent was turning us into the littlest hobo the solution?

The seasons away from the Ricoh will have cost us more than the old rent would’ve been, before you take into account the loss of goodwill with both fans and the local authority/local businesses.

It’s a gamble, and one in progress. If we come out the other side in an equally secure tenancy with far lower costs it’ll have been worth it in the long run. If we end up paying the same or worse terms to Wasps because we have no alternative it’ll have been a massive failure.

You can’t just keep going “but the rent was high” as if it forgives any action. The question is was the response to the high rent either appropriate or effective.

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Paying £1.2million a year rent in League 1 or 2 would have bankrupted the club, no doubt about it and was always unsustainable.
A sliding scale rent was sought by Fletcher and turned down, defending the council in all of this is absurd.
Let’s not forget what was going on behind the scenes before we’d even left as well Email shows Ricoh Arena firm planned bid to BUY Wasps