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I can see the point about the 'streaking contest' - clearly the Ricoh had done other, better business than that. Which presumably is why Ann Lucas had described ACL as profitable and sustainable right up until the point that the Wasps franchise offer came along, at which point it turned out...

Fair enough - clearly my sense of humour bypass operation has been a complete success. ;)

That's not quite right FP, sorry. In plenty of places, including Coventry, rugby is still a working man's sport, largely supported by the same sort of people who go to football. In fact at Cov RFC it seems like every other person I bump into either used to, or still does go to watch CCFC. The...

I think, like the Council, there are a few people kidding themselves here. You can go and look at the stats for yourselves... http://www.premiershiprugby.com/matchcentre/fixtures/fixtures.php?includeref=9229&season=2013-2014 The only team that get anything like 'decent' attendances by...

£6.73/hour. Not far above minimum wage. If you're fresh out of Uni and just starting out in journalism, I guess that's what they can get away with paying. I can't believe anyone with 18 months experience would work for that, but then it's not my field of expertise. I'll stick to the bins and...

I think there's a large element here of telling people what they want to hear. The true test of whether they want CCFC as a tenant or a partner will be if they allow CCFC to buy into the Ricoh (perhaps via the Higgs share). For what it's worth, I don't trust the Wasps owner any more than I...

It's a hideous assault that - it's the second punch, when the bloke is already laid out on the ground and clearly unable to defend himself that bothers me most. What kind of animal do you have to be to do that? One-year ban and up before the beak for assault at the very minimum, I'd say. He...

If there's a reason (beyond the simple morality of it) to discourage franchising, it would be what goes on in the NFL and baseball in the USA. You've basically got hugely rich corporations, often on favourable low-tax or no-tax deals, that can bully local authorities into building them massive...

At the time SISU said it was about the survival of the club, in the same way that Wasps owners are saying now. If you accept that Wasps owners can decide where their club should play, then you've accepted that model for everyone - you can't then complain when it happens to our club.

If you haven't cracked the offside trap by the time you hit 32, I'd sense you're never going to get it! ;) Saying that, the last forward we had who didn't understand offside was pretty decent in every other respect - D.Huckerby esq. :)

The existing stadium argument might have some effect, but whether a plan is financially realistic or not is not relevant to planning permission as far as I'm aware.

Other than all of the usual loss of amenity clauses, there's probably the point that there's a perfectly adequate stadium elsewhere in the city. All of this could be overcome in time, probably, but the bigger problem is - where could the site actually be? Also, if it's SISU, I think there will...

Not the nomadic club thing again. Go read their boards. Proportionally, we're likely to see as many Wasps fans come to Cov, as Cov fans went to Northampton. This isn't a 'nomadic' club that's finally settled down, it's a franchise. Whether you support that or not is up to you, but let's not...

I would never have backed a new ground until this happened - but now it's hard to see another way forwards. If we stay at the Ricoh, without access to the revenue streams, then how do we ever build a decent team? As for Wasps as owners, these are the crooks that have just moved the team...

How can that possibly happen? Wasps have them now, and presumably they need them for their business. Wasps primary requirement from CCFC is that they pay the rent. If CCFC are successful, I can see there's likely to be more money coming in through the doors of the arena on matchdays, but...

I don't think there's much scope for claiming injury because the council refused to sell to Wasps. The council made their case against SISU on the basis of ACL being profitable and sustainable, on that basis is there no obligation on them to sell. Similarly, they could've argued that the...

The Council said they were going to consult CRFC prior to any decision to bring in another rugby team, and they didn't. Even worse, one of their criteria for making the decision about Wasps was that it wouldn't hurt CRFC, but without that consultation there simply couldn't have established that...

But apparently there wasn't a financial problem - ACL was profitable and sustainable, according to the council when they took on the loan. Or are you saying that CCC were lying? As for a Judicial Review, I don't think you really understand how they work. There's no scope for a JR in the...

I'm with you on a lot of this Hobo. In actuality, the road-map proposal Fisher put forward way back when was a really clever, credible proposal imho. It wasn't far off the Wasps deal at all. The problem was that it didn't seem to be negotiated in good faith. It started with a threat to pull...