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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...

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