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Wasps do own the ACL. Someone else then owns Wasps, and that someone else is owned by someone else etc etc, eventually at the top you have Richardson. Still not sure if MGI is a hedge fund though.

Well Wasps want to play fast running rugby, so will very likely have exactly the same goals in mind. I don't know if I'd say excellent, since that's quite a lofty aim, but confident that it'll be good :D.

You're possibly right about the infrastructure from before, but these things have natural lifespans anyway, normally around 10 years, so it could just be it's the best solution too. From what I can tell from promotional videos and this site: http://premierpitches.com/pitch-types Desso is...

Sarries is a completely artificial pitch, not allowed for football. Reading with London Irish is a Desso I believe, but well overdue replacement. Same with Wycombe and Wasps, Desso coming to the end of it's lifecycle. From what I've understood Desso introduces plastic fibre to an already...

The numbers of the original offer don't work. You state that £7mil must be paid off the £14mil debt, and that leaves CCFC with £3.5mil debt. Basically this means that Wasps have to pay down the debt before it is split, otherwise £3.5mil of the debt that Wasps just paid off should have ended up...

Then if we discount the loan, given the stipulations the offer is only £2mil ,( as the rest is on the loan) and still less than half.

Including debt, which you are doing, wasps paid £20mil. You are offering £9mil for basically half... The value would have increased with wasps coming in. Why would they sell half for less than they paid for it.

Litigation costs and a loan are two rather different things. One of them goes to the lawyers, the other does get repaid (in half the time, with the same amount of interest now).

When was the formula price decided? Because if it was before the ACL owed £14mill then I suspect it may have been a little different.

Did the formula prices include taking on £14.4 million in debt? Or was it without that debt?

So 2 years ago it was from reserves, 2 months ago, it was still reserves, but as the report stated, after the initial years (2 years for instance), it would switch to borrowing... So, why can't it be simply that the initial years are up, and it was switched to borrowing in Feb?[/COLOR][/COLOR]

Wasps fans requested Wasps to make the matches an event. The idea being if they're having to travel for an hour or more to get there, it needs to be a day out with the family etc, rather than having the travel time making up more of the day than the match itself.

12,000 freebies for 3 of the first 4 games. I'd guess the Leinster match won't have any serious freebies since it's likely to be a high seller all on it's own. LV cup is a development competition and a chance to run out the 2nds, I'd guess a large number of freebies will have been given for...

Just to add, there are 2 (sort of 3) tiers to the european cup, so even if we do not make 6th or better, there will still be fixtures, just less conveniently timed and less likely to be on TV. Definitely a loss of funds through multiple streams, but not simply nothing.

Richardson said he's not a property developer. A lot of people (wasps fans) were concerned that he didn't care about the club at all, and simply wanted the Ricoh and surrounding lands to building housing on the spare land and sell it off, perhaps the stadium too, and leaving Wasps stranded...

The picture on the article is from Xtragrass, the people who laid the first Ricoh pitch (which is what is in the picture). The temporary pitch being laid now is not the same thing, and there are plenty of photos of the before, during and now the after... There'll be a new xtragrass pitch laid...

Bee stingers generally (not all species) have a barb on the end, this means it gets ripped out of the bee, but the venom keeps getting pumped in. Wasps do not (usually) have a barb, so less venom, but can sting multiple times. If I had to guess I'd assume that it's down to the normal size of a...

I can just speak from what I've heard from fans of those clubs, most seem to rate the loaned players quite highly. One of our most recent loan players was with London Welsh, he actually ended up signing a contract for them after they promoted and was one of the few to stay in the 1st team both...

The current setup is an odd one, it can help clubs, and hinder them. Their players often get exposure to better coaching and facilities, but equally they can lose those players, since who's going to refuse and AP contract. Wasps being in Cov will make it harder for CRFC, but the reality is...

It's not really dip in and out, loan players tend to spend the entire season with the club, sometimes multiple seasons. But this is almost certainly happening already with Worcestor, except Worcester will be claiming those players earlier, and loaning players that aren't as good.