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Who'd have thought it? Incentives to encourage early purchase. Imagine how well that idea could go for trains/planes/theatres. 28,254/15,343/23,494/9,640(for a second team game)/16,116 coming in and spending money in a place you own, where you keep a big slice of the takings. Average spend in...

What a good idea. Buy one get one free. Why hasn't anybody ever thought of that before? Take the first letter of each of those words, and you could have a snappy little word like BOGOF. Sounds like the sort of promotion supermarkets and shops could do.

How original.

73% from CV and B postcodes. http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/rugby/wasps-rfc-set-smash-100k-8663915

I know quite a lot of people who signed the petition against the move from Wycombe. Funnily enough, many of them are now regular attendees at the Ricoh.

Would that be the same CCFC whose owners have long declared that they will be building a new stadium? If you want to believe that Wasps will put the rent back up to £1.2m a year, believe it. You'd be wrong. Still, nothing like blaming others.

If your fanbase is dwindling year on year, as it was, and you are losing millions every year, as we were, it would be sheer suicide not to find a life support machine. Our combined attendance for three games is just under 67,000. Average attendance in Wycombe last season, around 5,500. On top of...

Nick - I think most Wasps fans would be happy to see SISU go because they can see the pain they've inflicted on you. We've been through hard times ourselves, in recent years. We've come within a whisker of extinction and I don't think any of us want to see others going through the same torture...

I am a Wasps fan. As long as the club's business dealings are legal and ethical, that's enough for me. I have absolutely no interest in the world of business, other than to say that that I am very glad that my club is in the hands of somebody who is the complete opposite of the people who have...

I don't know the answer to your question, and I thought Wasps were supposed to be controlled by a Maltese hedge fund, rather than a company in Florida. Curiouser and curiouser and it all adds up to diddly squat. Wasps have bought a 250-year lease and no amount of SISU chicanery is going to...

Simple answer to martcov: I don't know.

When you say 'corrabitive', do you mean 'corroborative', as in "Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."? Are Moonshine the same as Moonstone? As I pointed out to another poster, some disgruntled Wasps fans have...

It's a conspiracy theory touted by some Wasps supporters opposed to the move. I know that CCFC supporters will have different theories.

The accusations levelled at DR, by the keenest conspiracy theorists, are that the Ricoh deal was done so that he could personally make a mint from future property developments. Rumour has it that he has discovered that Elvis is alive and well, and living in Coventry, and a month of comeback...

Why would Derek Richardson have talks before he became Wasps' main shareholder? He wasn't even next in line after Steve Hayes. Tony Kleanthous pulled out of a takeover deal at the 11th hour, nearly a year before DR arrived on the scene. Then a former Wasps player, Ken Moss, turned up as the...

Explain why Coventry RFC said they knew nothing about the Wasps move until it happened.

Yes, I suppose I've set myself up for a barrage of rotten cyber-tomatoes. But, if it makes them happy, I'll find solace in my suffering.;)

What he said when he became Wasps' main shareholder was this: ""We are not interested in a groundshare, which is prohibitive in terms of helping us to become self-sustainable. We are currently looking at sites and co-ownership options. Ideally we believe that West London is a natural future home...

Before this became a playground squabble, somebody asked whether Derek Richardson had invested any of his own money into Wasps. The answer is yes, plenty of it. Other points - Wasps are owned by a holding company, which is not a hedge fund, and DR is not interested in property development. He...

'Yes I have seen top class Rugby Union at Twickenham and elsewhere. The pitch looks nice and green and if you get up close about 6 inches in length. You couldn't play football on that. Of course you can play Rugby Union on a good surface but it's not that critical like it is for football.'...