Search results

Whitewash, more likely. ;)

It was either that, or blow them on the offer of the free pizza and large bottle of coke. Tough decision. ;)

I think a quick point to make regarding Evans is that it isn't an appeal - he's had one of those, and the conviction was upheld. This is a case review, very unusual and not something he'd be likely to get if he wasn't high-profile and didn't have a lot of money behind him. I don't think it's...

The council are going to look a bit daft if it ends up in a few years time with Wasps getting 7,000 - 10,000 for fewer games at the Ricoh, and CCFC playing outside Coventry (or worse, not existing at all). How exactly is that going to help the city? Sorry, been trying to avoid all of this -...

To go back to the OP the published facts are that on the return from Northampton the council stated that time was needed to rebuild the relationship with the club before talking about ownership. Within a few weeks the council, in secret, under the cover of NDAs, then sold to Wasps. If...

Just to bring this briefly back to the OP, at the end of the day we're all city fans. We're in the fairly unique situation though of not just being able to grumble about the players, the manager, and our owners, but also a whole bunch of third-parties like CCC, ACL, Higgs and now Wasps...

Then maybe it's a pity they were never offered the Wasps deal, or permitted to buy at least the 50% once they were aware of it, eh.

I can't quite get my head around this. If Wasps' owners say it's move or die, even if its 85 miles, most seem to be saying that's fair enough. Some are even going to go and support them. But if CCFC's owners say it's move or die, even if's just a few miles, the same people are outraged and...

I don't think either of us are best placed to decide on the legal merits of this case. You're welcome to your opinion, but if there is wrongdoing to be exposed I'd rather know about it personally. As to there being two potential buyers, the council clearly went out of their way to make sure...

I think you could reframe the utility argument a number of different ways here to come up with the opposite conclusion. Consider the utility of the disenfranchised Wasps fans, the utility of franchising in general, the fact that if CCFC fold or leave it will be measurably worse for the city...

When we get 50% of the revenues from the arena, it's a partnership. Until then we're just junior tenants. It's a pity the telegraph, and some other bigger papers like the Guardian are happy to just churn out any old tat from Wasps PR and ignore the bigger questions.

Please tell me you're kidding. Talk about bending over for the franchise. If Wasps want to throw over half of the stadium revenue to the club maybe this would be an almost-reasonable idea, I don't think they are though.

It might well be OK with SP, but it still pisses me off hugely. This should be our stadium, not theirs. Regardless of blame, getting kicked out of the dressing room and having Wasps logos all over the place doesn't feel right to me.

Bang on - regardless of timings a bit less analysis and a bit more football is the way to go for all of these programs I'd say. I want to watch the footy, and I'm happy to interpret the game for myself. If I want analysis of every decision, or a ten-minute feature on a footy club I've no real...

It's poor, isn't it. Anyone involved in business knows how hard it is to make sales even when you've got everything right - to have people wanting to buy things but not have the stock in place is just about criminal. My gut feel is that like a lot of hedge funds, SISU took a battering in...

And how exactly do SISU 'ride' on the back of a successful Ricoh? As it stands the club will gain precisely nothing from how well Wasps do - all of the money goes to them. As for Wasps being nomads, that's absolute rubbish used to justify supporting a franchise. Far better for those...

The problem is that it's not exactly polite. You could write the same sort of letter, formally, politely, without even the need to offer the trust's opinions, but asking for information. Instead, to me this reads as confrontational and critical, and with an unneccessary deadline - it's hardly...

Mate, absolutely, I couldn't agree more and I don't mean to snipe at the trust (or you) who are clearly trying to get answers - I just differ on the approach. SISU's model is completely opaque to me, and to those a lot cleverer than me too I suspect. Regardless of all of the Wasps stuff, I'd...

Yep, that's a fair point. But if the trust's open letter doesn't really show much respect for me as the club's owner, then I could just take the line that I'm wasting my time talking to them anyway. We know the club do not like the trust - what isn't needed is the trust giving them any further...

Mate there's no obligation on anyone at the club to provide information to the trust, so I don't know where any 'deadline' can suddenly come from, or how it can be 'six months overdue'. What the trust can do is ask, but if you're going to that I'd always say that it's better to be polite. What...