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Couple of ways, either 12ft.io or archive.today (y)

archive.ph sans paywall

Fairly sure that's a user on here (not G though).

Nick - 2 - Lucky to get away with only a booking for his early two-footer and the second booking for dissent claiming the ref 'had an agenda' was disgraceful.

Yes, amazing how people's loyalties change when the (marketing) money runs out...

Yup, Wasps simply don't seem too keen on paying for anything for themselves - https://www.cwlep.com/project/ricoh-arena-renewal Funding: Local Growth Fund: £310,000 / Growing Places: £1,095,000 / Getting Building Fund: £3,600,000 / Match Funding: £1,050,000 Delaware paid for the vast...

https://www.cwlep.com/sites/default/files/2021-03-22_cwlep_board_papers.pdf Looks like Wasps also tried to get funding for themselves and Hollywood Gaming to provide 'Spatial Audio' at the Ricoh... The guy from JLR - 'NS pointed out that this is a commercial transaction between to companies...

I think we can stand down the pitchforks gents (on this occasion anyway...)

Yes, that looks like how the CIF works. There's a bit about an Escrow account in this article on CIF funding for the Telegraph hotel - Councillor defends spending YOUR money on unviable hotel Note the CIF appear to give short term loans, not grants.

It was also in March 2022's Dashboard - https://governance.wmca.org.uk/documents/s6731/03.22%20CIF%20Dashboard%20-%20PUBLIC.pdf I haven't looked at all historical monthly dashboards to see when it first appeared, but seems separate from the £13m one?

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/rugby/wasps-rugby-news-24729548 "What an absolute bin fire Wasps Rugby is at the moment," he said in a Tweet. "The coaches, players and fans have been utterly let down by completely shambolic stewardship. They deserve so much better." A number of fans...

That only covers 6m though. I assume if 1 bondholder bought 18m's worth, they'd control the consent solicitation?

This was posted on this thread previously, but has more info on the technical side of grass growing! - https://www.pitchcare.com/news-media/coventry-city-and-wasps-sky-blue-thinking.html

Proof... 😬 https://www.arenashopping.com/local-events/

Well, call me old fashioned but I just want what's best for the team. And I'd expect decent owners to be the same.

Yup, when the opposite of what you're writing is the actual story, it might be time to flip flop!

And by the same token, if there's nothing in the lease, I'm fully prepared to accept that it's SISU's incompetence that meant we haven't checked on the pitch!

If the ten year lease does have something in there about pitch maintenance, then I'm fully prepared to accept that SISU just sat back waiting for this to explode rather than assisting getting the pitch ready.

Well, it was never offered 'cheap' to them TBF...