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C'mon mate. You think that CCC offered that exact deal to SISU when they came back from Northampton do you? It's just that there was nothing in the papers about it, and a boatload of NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) regarding the Wasps deal, this at almost exactly the same time the council...

After being told it was time to rebuild trust rather than talk about ownership. Regardless of what happened before Northampton, there's some convenient rewriting of recent history going on here.

Lazy rubbish, more like. When did I ever give SISU an easy ride? Like a lot of people here, you're thinking that because SISU lost everything about this is OK. Now you're even pretending that the only people against this are pro-SISU. That's utter bollocks, admit it. To get one over on...

When were they asked to put an offer in then? It's just that on our return from Northampton the council quite clearly said that it was time to rebuild trust before talking about ownership. In the meantime, could you answer the question please - it's a really, really easy one. I'm not making a...

Were they offered 100% of ACL and a 250-year leashold for circa £5.5m? A simple yes or no will suffice.

You can try, but I'll tell you the answer. NDA. If you want a few questions Steve, try these. Are Wasps likely to allow CCFC to buy a share in ACL in the next few years, or do they require all of the income generated by ACL to keep the rugby club afloat? If a stadium deal became available in...

Sorry Matty, as part of the Irish contingent in Coventry, I can honestly say that there's feck all interest in London Irish. If you got Munster over here you might drag in a few, but I'd venture from personal experience that most of them here have far more interest in football than rugby.

There is a minor factual error in the report as pointed out by others - as it stands there may not be 17,000 watching Wasps, it assumes 100% take up of free tickets and all existing season ticket holders will turn up. That's not certain. Regardless, it's a one-off game, an occasion. The true...

Thanks gents - I'll just go with the walk up. I was being a bit precious about seats, but I reckon we should be able to squeeze in somewhere. :)

Quick question, has anyone bought tickets online, and if so can you print them off or do you need to collect them from the stadium? I'd ask the ticket office, but obviously there would need to be someone answering the phone for that to work. They don't want to make it too easy, eh. ;)

I'd have him back too. As an aside, a manager that operates a bomb squad policy and is more than happy to cut players out when it suits him, can hardly complain when it occasionally works the other way. Similarly, as fans we expect unswerving loyalty from players right up until the point that...

Albatross - fair enough. I see where you're coming from here. I don't necessarily agree with you, but I don't think you're blinkered - your opinion is just as valid as mine. To be clear I'm not in denial about SISU's failings, which are manifold. There's no doubt that a smarter, or at least...

They've washed their hands of the club in that they no longer have any dealing with them. Surely that's incontrovertible. When CCC had a 50% share of ACL they had to deal with SISU/CCFC, and now they don't. The rest of your post, is with all due respect a giant straw man - it has nothing to...

Don't agree with me Gent, that way lies disaster! In truth I wasn't talking so much about the sale of the stadium which is done, gone, finished (although again I'll make the point that the deal offered to Wasps was never offered to CCFC, and when they did try to get it, it was declined by...

Why would they want to keep CCFC rent down? Wasps are a business, not a charity. They'll want CCFC to pay as much as they can afford - Wasps crowds will be an irrelevance to this. I don't know whether some people here have really grasped this yet - Wasps buying out ACL isn't (despite CCC...

Chief, wouldn't agree with all of this necessarily, but elegantly put as ever. I think you'd be a half-decent journalist - but can you make a good cup of tea, that's the question?! ;) As for tin-foil hats, what's wrong with them. Keeps the heat in and the voices out. I've hardly set a...

SFP, I wouldn't want to lie and say that I welcome the fact that Wasps are here, but it's always good to have someone with a sense of humour on the forum. Having said that, I wonder if there's more truth in this than we know. Owning both clubs and the stadium makes more sense than the current...

Cheers mate - that probably means I'm on a whole load of other people's sh*t list though. ;) Joking aside, these things don't worry me. We're all bound to differ on stuff from time to time, my opinion's certainly no better than anyone else's, except to me. :)

I think that the mistake that you're replicating here, politely, is thinking that because he writes articles critical about the council or individual councillors, that he's somehow anti local government or that his politics are different to those he criticises and that's why he does it. I just...

When my kids go quiet I always know that they're up to no good. Just saying, like. ;)