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Fair comment this. I wouldn't deny that I've been to more games at the rugby than the footy recently, but personally I'd never go to Wasps and I'd much rather people didn't. Regardless the footy club is in an awful state now, and I'm not surprised that you and others will look elsewhere...

You can kid yourself all you want, but whilst I'd absolutely stand by your right to go (and others' too) Wasps will always be a franchise team, currently based in Coventry. Football might have been forgotten by you, and possibly the council (some of whom seem to regard the team as an awkward...

Ah, sadly I was around in the eighties (but I've done my best to destroy most of the photographic evidence of this). And you and tisza are bang on, it's a daft comparison for Fisher to make.

Hi Matty, appreciate you're not trying to provoke an argument, but I'll just make the polite point that there was a better chance of that happening and Cov getting in the Prem before Wasps landed on their doorstep. As an aside, CCFC being so crap probably isn't hurting CRFC's attendance either...

Why would you offer £10m for 20% of something that's just been sold to Wasps in it's entirety for around £6m? Are you saying the council have undersold ACL by over £40 million here? Tell you what Steve, how about this. You've made some contact with Wasps - why don't you ask them what they'd...

Funny, I only noticed two Wasps flags in the main stand, but there definitely was some overspill from Wasps - I met a couple in the bar just prior to the game, and there were others about wearing crisp new Wasps merchandise. Of course given this would likely have been a big attendance anyway...

Same here - free entry with the season ticket, and it was the only time I got to sit in the main stand. Boy, I must have been in love with the club then - I'm struggling to motivate myself to watch the first team nowadays.

Very nice of you to say so Astute - I think I better quit whilst I'm ahead! In fairness mate I know that everyone here is just trying to figure out a way through the pain. I'm not saying I've got any better ideas than anyone else - there's plenty here like you who make a lot of good points...

Kick off has been changed to 3:30 Wingy, if that helps. Suspect there will be a bit of a queue at the turnstiles though! I'll be there too, fwiw. With regard to the Telegraph on the rugby page in I counted ten articles about Wasps (including one that makes me want to puke frankly, talking...

And that's exactly what I'm talking about. If you went up to Fisher and said that, would you be surprised if he just ignored you. Sure, you'd feel better, but other than that where does this kind of approach actually get us?

I don't mind the trust holding a poll at all, at least there's an attempt to be democratic. However what strikes me is that once again the actions proposed aren't going to do anything other than alienate the club, who clearly already don't trust the Trust. How can you now sit down and talk...

I'm not sure the bank did reject it out of hand, but clearly they weren't going to sell it at the kind of discount SISU said that they'd want to buy it at in the original proposal. I think before any genuinely serious attempt was made by SISU the deal had already gone south because of the...

I don't think you would have been the person hitting me with the 'SISU apologist' line OSB, but some others here are a bit quick to chuck that one out without merit. I just thought I'd get my retaliation in first, so to speak. ;)

What other opportunities? What are the club missing out on?

You're right about being confused. Only 60% of turnover can be used to pay player salaries. If SISU were to put £1m into the club as advertising revenue that counts as turnover. In which case only 60% of it can go towards wages, no?

Doesn't the playing budget come from Otium though? In fairness I think there's a reasonable argument that ultimately all of the money comes from SISU, but I think also that there's no evidence that SISU would put the money that they're currently ploughing into the court cases into the playing...

I think the theory is that SISU could sponsor the club, or buy fake advertising to the tune of £1m to boost the club's turnover. I'm not quite sure how permissable that is, but assuming it's OK even then only 60% of the money can be used towards player wages. It's probably fair enough to say...

I don't think it's quite that simple. http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/scmp.php "Clubs in the League 1 and League 2 operate within a Spending Constraint framework termed Salary Cost Management Protocol (SMCP). SCMP limits spending on player wages to a percentage of club Turnover. In League 1...

Why - at this point in time it's not exactly relevant to what's happening on the pitch anyway, is it? I'm struggling to see how having another tilt in court at something could actually make things any worse for CCFC, it's not as though there's any commercial relationship with CCC to damage now.

It's a fair point, but as has been picked up elsewhere, it's not as though they're putting money into the club now anyway. In truth, under FFP and without other income streams, there's only so much that they could throw into the club now isn't there? Happy to be corrected if I've misunderstood...