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This actually happened - but being from Coventry my gran's pretty tasty. She slipped inside Fisher's first punch, then uppercut right, left cross, and it was game over. Being from Coventry she then kicked the crap out him whilst he was on the deck, and stole his wallet, watch, and mobile...

Fair comment, but long grass and short passing rarely works in my experience, and there's no real need for the pitch to be as smooth as you'd want it for that kind of footy either. As for the Butts, in the days (long gone) when I used to do a bit of coaching there the pitch was horrible for...

But why do they need to give out free tickets - I thought the demand for top flight rugby in the area was huge. If the council were so keen to promote sport to kids and the public, they'd invest in infrastructure rather than permitting (and seemingly) encouraging building over whatever sports...

Fair enough, but if Wasps coming here means that either CCFC stay rooted in the lower divisions, or leave the city, then this inevitably has to be a net loss of money. As for 'massive', much as I like rugby it's peanuts compared to football in terms of supporter base and status - and compared...

I think this is all part of the fun and games of being a tenant. ACL/Wasps are going to seek to maximise return from the facility now, and our concerns about the pitch won't be foremost in their minds. For rugby, I've always thought that as long as the pitch will take a stud, then that's good...

I feel a court case coming on. ;)

C'mon SBB, as a proper footy fan you know the season is the true definition of the year. Everything else is some kind of pagan holiday or incrementing integer, to be celebrated only because we can squeeze more games into a short space of time. If we can get to Wembley at the end of the year...

Respect to any fan willing to drive from Plymouth and back to watch a midweek JPT game. If it was me I'd let you in free, personally! ;) Obviously you're only really coming to watch City. Regardless, the home thing probably isn't as much as an advantage as you'd think. It could be that your...

Cheers for the update MMM, it's much appreciated. Always good to get this sort of stuff first-hand. Having said that, there's a few points from this and some of your later posts that I'd politely dispute. Firstly, I've got to make the point that Eastwood is going to say what he thinks people...

It's a good point this, why is he taking such an odd route back? He could fly from Agadir leaving at 9:00, change at Casablanca, and be at Heathrow by 4:00pm on Friday. Someone could presumably pick him up from the airport and have him back in Cov so that he gets a good night's rest (or more...

There's the key line - selling ACL to Wasps isn't reversible, it's done. No matter what owners CCFC gets in the future, or however nice they are compared to SISU, there's no way back from that. Wasps have been quite clear that they want 100% of the 24/7/365 income from the Ricoh, and that's...

Yep, but I can't recall the Council promoting CCFC or CRFC this way, which makes it look a tad unusual. It's almost as if they're worried that Wasps won't be particularly well attended and the City won't be bringing in £6m a game etc.. How awkward if this is how you justified at least in part...

Fair point all of this - I'd agree with all of it, personally. Thinking about it I don't really want Wasps go under as a club, that's just mean, but I would definitely like them to fail up here and ideally, go back south.

I'd agree it's an odd one. London Irish isn't it (based in Reading). Can't see it as a massive draw. I'd think some of the Irish in Coventry (who mostly support football in my experience) might turn out for say Munster at the Ricoh, but London Irish don't really hold the hearts of the...

OK - the interview with the Wasps guy (Chief Operating Officer, I think) is here, 49 minutes in. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029h1n0 In a nutshell, they have sold 2,700 since October 20th, in the half-blocks that have been opened so far. Described this as 'sold-out', i.e. we've sold-out...

I only came in around half-way through the interview, but defensive was certainly the word I'd have chosen too. Or possibly passive-aggressive. He didn't like being put on the spot about how many fans he thought they'd get - and I'd got it in my head that we are talking about half-blocks here...

Not at all - it's just that the average number of legs (mean, technically) is less than two, for humans. And Nouble has at least two. I think. Possibly more. :)

Valium is the answer, according to at least one of my mates. You could ask your GP. That and sitting at the back of the aircraft - I do that on the basis that they very rarely reverse into mountains. ;)

Quite right. Statistically, Nouble's also got more than the average number of legs, which is something I always look for in a striker. ;)

Man, that pisses me off. Are the council going to promote other sports clubs, events and local businesses on their official site now, or the only the ones where they need to get a half-decent attendance to try to justify a fundamentally immoral decision. As the OP says, when was the last time...