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Not sure it will be as simple as that, Chief. As well as Worcester, Leicester and Northampton might kick up too, and they've got a bit of clout. I'll be interested to see how well Wasps are doing in a couple of years in truth...

It's a daft amount of cash, but fair play to you because I can't think of a better reason for trying to get them. :) I don't doubt you'll have a great day, and by the time you're going, the pain of paying for the tickets should have long since passed. I'll look out for you on the telly!

I do wonder if someone at the CET is being a bit mischievous with their choice of photos sometimes. Anyhow, I'd see this as good news if they could just stop banging on about the new bloody stadium FFS! It gives the charity the perfect cover for turning down the bid to my mind, how can SISU...

You must be minted - the brother-in-law has got tickets for a Rugby WC QF too, £215 each I think he said. Can that be right?!

Yep, some figures here, Stu. I'm not a typical Daily Telegraph reader, but personally I think this is about right... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/10287856/Greg-Dyke-should-forget-about-England-winning-World-Cup-and-concentrate-on-fixing-grassroots-football.html

I hear what you're saying, but in some ways I think you've summed up the problem in a nutshell, Prefect. Millions playing the game, and very little chance of making it, but despite that five of your side played or had trials for professional clubs. That, to me, suggests a rather lazy 'shotgun'...

I'm with you on this, I think the crowds will very quickly drop off (entirely possible there's some wishful thinking from me here though, in all honesty). Fwiw though, I understood that Wasps will stick with playing their home games on a Sunday for the time being.

I'm impressed. I doubt I'd have got half of those if they were un-pixellated. They are pixellated, right? Fwiw, I spent a good year at the last place I worked grumbling that I'd been lumped with a cheap, old, out-of-focus screen. When I finally bullied the IT guys into replacing it the new...

Spot on. Even if my lad turns out to have any talent (which is unlikely given I've seen the milkman play and he's crap) I'll be telling him to just enjoy the game and play with his mates. It's supposed to be fun, ffs. Scouting kids at 7 or 8, and then taking the best ones away from their...

I must confess that I can't see a merger of Wasps & CCFC happening, but I can see that Wasps might be interested in taking over ownership of CCFC from SISU when they finally give up. I'm not saying that's necessarily a good thing by the way. Alternatively, SISU may think that Wasps have bitten...

Was that you running on at the end in the donkey jacket? ;) I was there too. I'd been to a few games before when I was even younger, but this is the first one that I really remember. Ah, nostalgia's not what it used to be. :)

Hi Dai, appreciate what you're saying here, and it's all fair enough. But as I see it there was always the hope that SISU would either see sense, or sell to someone that did, and either way the club would sooner or later have to get serious about a deal for the Ricoh/ACL. Almost everyone other...

It's an absolute insult that - they must think we're bloody idiots. The future of both those teams is now at the whim of Wasps. Whatever 'promises' might have been made clearly they are under no obligation to help either side, and it's hard to believe that an owner who doesn't care about...

Entirely fair points OSB, but again as much as Wasps might want a successful CCFC, I think we agree in that they only want it in so far as it makes more money for them. Reverse the question, and tell me what they're likely to offer for that. Rental discounts, a share of the profits from ACL...

Were your reasons for accusing him of being biased based on him reporting on what Sepalla has said? It's just that I don't seen much commentary from him, just direct quotes. Would you rather we didn't hear what she had to say? Les certainly offered an opinion at the telegraph that maybe the...

And how much money do you think Wasps will give CCFC to achieve that dream? Do you think they'll be offering a rent discount? A share of the profits from ACL? Like the council, it's easy to say that Wasps will want to see a successful CCFC - but also like CCC, I'm not sure (politely) that...

A lot of that is fair enough mate - but it's really not in Wasps interest that CCFC do much more than pay the rent. Wasps and SISU are now in effect in competition for the revenue from ACL - they both say they need 365/24/7 income and not just matchday streams. However Wasps will have 100%...

And with apologies to those I've insulted, which is probably pretty much everyone - I'll leave it there I think. I don't think, for all of the press stuff, there's any more mileage in this for me as a fan. The decision is done. The 50% won't come to CCFC, the new stadium won't be built. I'll...

I'm not trying to get anyone to say it, but it seems that there's a lot of people inferring it because he had the audacity to offer a different opinion. That's unworthy in my book. Accusing a journalist of being bent or biased is some special kind of insult. The same goes for anyone accusing...

I'm happy to answer this. I blame SISU 100% for the hugely stupid new stadium stuff, especially and most damagingly offered just after the return to the Ricoh. I blame Coventry City Council (and the Higgs Trust) 100% for selling ACL to an out of town franchise - especially when it was done...