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Of course there are obstacles, that's a given. I just think parking as a standalone issue isn't one of them for the reasons I gave above. In fact parking is more of an issue at an edge of town site because more people need to use a car to get there, and parking has to be provided on site...

The parking argument is bogus though. There are other larger city centre grounds (think 55,000 at St James Park, 32,000 at Bramall Lane, 80,000 in Cardiff). Look at aerial views of St James Park and see how much on site parking there is. I read something once about Newcastle, it was a study...

Totally agree. The BPA scheme pisses on any windswept out of town option from a great height. All of the objections about access and parking are bogus and easily debunked. It would feel like a proper home. As for the capacity - it would need to be 25K, but that has not been ruled out. Also...

I understand the sentiment - but it could be interpreted as apathy. There has never been a public display of anger directed at the council/Wasps and I think it is overdue, because the default position of the wider public seems to be that the fans are comfortable with the situation - there has...

The council are balls deep in this City of Rugby thing. A minor thing in the scheme of things, but I spoke to someone who worked in the council IT department not long ago. When the council website was redesigned a year or so ago, one of the design briefs was to scale back the amount of Sky...

Genuinely interested in what people think he should have done differently. Wasps would have pulled out of talks whoever they were speaking to. Short of SISU dropping legal action - the outcome was never going to be any different. Perhaps, and without knowing the full details, he was slow to...

I feel for the guy. Seems a pretty decent bloke, and quite switched-on - but he is in almost impossible position, sandwiched between SISU on one side who aren't willing to invest and who are insisting the club is self-sufficient, and on the other side you have those organisations who are trying...

Just spotted this beneath the article on the CT: Dont you just love it when a rugby club put one over on a second rate football club, sorry SISU you'll have to move out bet sixfields don't want you aswell, better get that new ground built or go out of business, no mmoney left soon from the club...

Totally agree. We can say what we like on here, but the people we really need to convince won't see it. Meanwhile, the London Wasps trolls on the CT comments stream go almost unchallenged.

The first batch of objections to the planning application have been published: http://planning.coventry.gov.uk/portal/servlets/AttachmentShowServlet?ImageName=1279709 We should bombard them with these.

The proposal will go before the committee, providing it receives 5 or more representations that are contrary to the planning officer's recommendation i.e if the officer recommends approval, but 5 or more objections are received, it goes to committee. The point of objecting is not about...

Unbelievable. Blatant PR? The Wasps PR machine has been in full throttle all day and you happily gloss over that. Like offering use of the facility at 'excellent' rates, knowing full well that rules surrounding academy status make that a completely empty gesture. Some people will swallow it...

I still don't know what they'll do if there is a high demand game, because while most of us don't understand why people don't buy online, they'll always be those that prefer to get them in person - or more specifically pay cash, a lot of young fans don't have debit cards. No ticket office in...

For two hours in the evening? If we can maintain academy status under those terms I would be amazed.

http://planning.coventry.gov.uk/portal/servlets/PlanningComments?REFNO=FUL/2016/1458

Yeah hopefully they'll be a late rush. Really important we back the team this season, have the feeling this could be the most important season for the club in a generation. Not a time for apathy.

As an example of what we're up against see the comments: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/ccfc-academy-crisis-alan-higgs-11415227#comments-section The Wasps/CCC unofficial PR team are out in force. I think I may be fighting a losing battle.

Wasps' promise to redevelop land around the Ricoh (the council really sold that idea) turns out it was an empty one. They have no intention of doing anything of the sort. Still, that empty promise got them a multi-million quid leisure complex on a 250 year lease for peanuts, so what the fuck...

See the CT have caught up. Just waiting for the usual suspects to post their gleeful comments beneath the article.

No, you only have to give your name and email address when you submit the objection.