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Mate, if you can send one of the meeters and greeters my way I'd be very grateful. I've played a bit and watched rugby for a good few years now, and I'm certainly not sure that I understand the game! And you thought offside in football was confusing. ;) Brian Moore, former England...

I think that in truth the 27,000 at Gillingham, and then the subsequent attendances puts the lie to some of that theory. Wasps, like CCFC, will have some hard core fans that will always go. The rest will need persuasion and want value for money. The fact that they're already giving away...

Agreed - but if it was true, then surely he'd have gone by now...

Off topic, but man I miss Chippo. Hadji was the better technical player without a doubt, but Chippo loved playing football, it just shone through. So many players now seem to see being on the pitch as a chore...

In fairness WM, Reda played on the Thursday rather than the Friday, but I hear what you're saying here. I suspect that it was agreed beforehand, as you say, but the tone of the interview with SP just had an edge to it when this came up, which makes me think that SP wasn't happy even if he'd...

Fair enough Noggin, I respect that. There's no doubt that my anger about this has made me even snappier than usual, so apologies where that's leaked out. The frustrating for me, is that this should have been us. The one thing I'm sure we'd agree on is that with half-decent owners (even prior...

Me too, but in truth I think we'll see a decent turn out for the first game or two, supported by a substantial ticket giveaway, and then crowds will drop off as the novelty dies. I think it'll settle to not much more than they currently get at best, with the exception of Leicester, Northampton...

In fairness Noggin, it is just as reasonable to point out that it will be embarassing for Wasps (and CCC) to turn out in front of the kind of attendance they've traditionally had at Wycombe (6,000 - 7,000), at the Ricoh. The ghost town scenario, if you will. It's not unreasonable to point out...

If I was the team captain, being paid x thousand a week to play for Coventry, I'd feel obliged to try to make myself available for every game possible, yes. Wouldn't you? It could be it wouldn't make sense - as mentioned above for an outfield player two games in three days plus travelling...

He was coming back from Morroco, Agadir, which is hardly deepest darkest Africa. And as I pointed out, and checked myself, he could have got flights that would have put him in Heathrow by about four on Friday afternoon. Why he chose to take the longer combination of flights to arrive in...

Anyway, just to return to the OP, Adams Park is a Desso pitch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desso_GrassMaster). Expensive, hard-wearing, and we haven't got one. It's nothing to do with the relative abilities of the groundstaff. It's unlikely there will be any time to do anything about the...

Not worth debating if you don't trouble yourself with a few inconvenient facts that don't suit your "Victory!" argument, I'd agree.

I'm sorry - did the council say they wanted to take time to rebuild trust before talking about ownership, or didn't they? It's a simple fact. At the very time that the deputy leader of the council was talking about learning to not close doors on each other, they were shutting the door on CCFC...

The Wasps franchise argument holds plenty of water - the nomadic team thing is rubbish, I'm sorry. They're a West London team that bumped out to Wycombe - the farthest they've ever been from their original home in Sudbury. Their owner, at the point when he took over the club accepted that it...

It was probably against us, the same week that I drove back from Southampton. ;)

OK, see what you're saying. Let's just run this scenario one more time. Wasps go bust - ACL goes into Admin. The lease probably reverts to the council at this point, although it may suit them to allow it to remain with ACL perhaps, depending on whether there's a deal to be done with someone...

Which would be almost bearable as long as they weren't puporting to do it for the best interest of the city, and without risk to the existing clubs therein. And also if they hadn't cast the obvious lie that they wanted to 'build trust' with the club whilst simultaneously selling to Wasps. I...

I drove back from a big night out on the south coast, with a raging hangover, through a horrendous storm, and still made it time for kick off on Sunday morning. We didn't win though, and I played shockingly badly. But then that happened every week so no one was any the wiser. ;)

Erm... just to be clear then, it's OK for the owners of a sports team to demonstrate their unwavering support of it by relocating it to a completely different part of the country? I assume then you'd have no problem if SISU, or indeed any new owners of CCFC, chose to support us in that way (and...

Yep, I take the point, but we're not talking about playing two days running. We're talking about playing, and then having a day sat in an airport for a few hours, or on a plane for a few hours, and then playing. That, to me, isn't ideal but it isn't impossible either. In fairness I don't...