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Then maybe it's a pity they were never offered the Wasps deal, or permitted to buy at least the 50% once they were aware of it, eh.

I can't quite get my head around this. If Wasps' owners say it's move or die, even if its 85 miles, most seem to be saying that's fair enough. Some are even going to go and support them. But if CCFC's owners say it's move or die, even if's just a few miles, the same people are outraged and...

I don't think either of us are best placed to decide on the legal merits of this case. You're welcome to your opinion, but if there is wrongdoing to be exposed I'd rather know about it personally. As to there being two potential buyers, the council clearly went out of their way to make sure...

I think you could reframe the utility argument a number of different ways here to come up with the opposite conclusion. Consider the utility of the disenfranchised Wasps fans, the utility of franchising in general, the fact that if CCFC fold or leave it will be measurably worse for the city...

When we get 50% of the revenues from the arena, it's a partnership. Until then we're just junior tenants. It's a pity the telegraph, and some other bigger papers like the Guardian are happy to just churn out any old tat from Wasps PR and ignore the bigger questions.

Please tell me you're kidding. Talk about bending over for the franchise. If Wasps want to throw over half of the stadium revenue to the club maybe this would be an almost-reasonable idea, I don't think they are though.

It might well be OK with SP, but it still pisses me off hugely. This should be our stadium, not theirs. Regardless of blame, getting kicked out of the dressing room and having Wasps logos all over the place doesn't feel right to me.

Bang on - regardless of timings a bit less analysis and a bit more football is the way to go for all of these programs I'd say. I want to watch the footy, and I'm happy to interpret the game for myself. If I want analysis of every decision, or a ten-minute feature on a footy club I've no real...

It's poor, isn't it. Anyone involved in business knows how hard it is to make sales even when you've got everything right - to have people wanting to buy things but not have the stock in place is just about criminal. My gut feel is that like a lot of hedge funds, SISU took a battering in...

And how exactly do SISU 'ride' on the back of a successful Ricoh? As it stands the club will gain precisely nothing from how well Wasps do - all of the money goes to them. As for Wasps being nomads, that's absolute rubbish used to justify supporting a franchise. Far better for those...

The problem is that it's not exactly polite. You could write the same sort of letter, formally, politely, without even the need to offer the trust's opinions, but asking for information. Instead, to me this reads as confrontational and critical, and with an unneccessary deadline - it's hardly...

Mate, absolutely, I couldn't agree more and I don't mean to snipe at the trust (or you) who are clearly trying to get answers - I just differ on the approach. SISU's model is completely opaque to me, and to those a lot cleverer than me too I suspect. Regardless of all of the Wasps stuff, I'd...

Yep, that's a fair point. But if the trust's open letter doesn't really show much respect for me as the club's owner, then I could just take the line that I'm wasting my time talking to them anyway. We know the club do not like the trust - what isn't needed is the trust giving them any further...

Mate there's no obligation on anyone at the club to provide information to the trust, so I don't know where any 'deadline' can suddenly come from, or how it can be 'six months overdue'. What the trust can do is ask, but if you're going to that I'd always say that it's better to be polite. What...

I'm in the trust, and there are a couple of things I don't like about that letter. First off, "Dear Tim" - that's not very professional, sorry, especially for an 'open' letter like this one. If you're going to make a set of formal statements and requests, then at least give the person that you...

That's the gamble that CCC and AEHC have chosen to take. Personally I don't feel obliged to support Wasps to back them in it. If the Ricoh ends up being turned into housing, or something else completely different now, so be it. I'd rather it was used by the club it was built for, but given...

CRFC just won ten on the bounce mate. Ten. How many more do they have to win before all of the people suddenly desperate to watch rugby in Coventry turn up at the Butts? And if you think Cov rugby are happy at the level they're at now, then clearly you've got no understanding of the game...

Otis mate, I take your point, but the more Wasps lose, the more likely the franchise is to fail. In the same way that it's just business to the owners, it's just business to me too. I don't wish current Wasps fans any ill, and I'm truly sorry that they find themselves in this situation. As...

It's not bitter mate, it's pragmatic. I want Wasps to fail because in the long run I think that offers the local football and rugby club a better chance of success. It also means something that I think is immoral, the franchising of a club away from it's core support, might ultimately fail. As...

If we can get some furniture around the edges and corners it should hold it down a bit - anybody got a spare sideboard kicking around? I'm going to guess that the landlord will insist that everyone going on the new pitch wears slippers, and I hope Tim's not expecting the damage deposit back...