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Sorry Matty, as part of the Irish contingent in Coventry, I can honestly say that there's feck all interest in London Irish. If you got Munster over here you might drag in a few, but I'd venture from personal experience that most of them here have far more interest in football than rugby.

There is a minor factual error in the report as pointed out by others - as it stands there may not be 17,000 watching Wasps, it assumes 100% take up of free tickets and all existing season ticket holders will turn up. That's not certain. Regardless, it's a one-off game, an occasion. The true...

Thanks gents - I'll just go with the walk up. I was being a bit precious about seats, but I reckon we should be able to squeeze in somewhere. :)

Quick question, has anyone bought tickets online, and if so can you print them off or do you need to collect them from the stadium? I'd ask the ticket office, but obviously there would need to be someone answering the phone for that to work. They don't want to make it too easy, eh. ;)

I'd have him back too. As an aside, a manager that operates a bomb squad policy and is more than happy to cut players out when it suits him, can hardly complain when it occasionally works the other way. Similarly, as fans we expect unswerving loyalty from players right up until the point that...

Albatross - fair enough. I see where you're coming from here. I don't necessarily agree with you, but I don't think you're blinkered - your opinion is just as valid as mine. To be clear I'm not in denial about SISU's failings, which are manifold. There's no doubt that a smarter, or at least...

They've washed their hands of the club in that they no longer have any dealing with them. Surely that's incontrovertible. When CCC had a 50% share of ACL they had to deal with SISU/CCFC, and now they don't. The rest of your post, is with all due respect a giant straw man - it has nothing to...

Don't agree with me Gent, that way lies disaster! In truth I wasn't talking so much about the sale of the stadium which is done, gone, finished (although again I'll make the point that the deal offered to Wasps was never offered to CCFC, and when they did try to get it, it was declined by...

Why would they want to keep CCFC rent down? Wasps are a business, not a charity. They'll want CCFC to pay as much as they can afford - Wasps crowds will be an irrelevance to this. I don't know whether some people here have really grasped this yet - Wasps buying out ACL isn't (despite CCC...

Chief, wouldn't agree with all of this necessarily, but elegantly put as ever. I think you'd be a half-decent journalist - but can you make a good cup of tea, that's the question?! ;) As for tin-foil hats, what's wrong with them. Keeps the heat in and the voices out. I've hardly set a...

SFP, I wouldn't want to lie and say that I welcome the fact that Wasps are here, but it's always good to have someone with a sense of humour on the forum. Having said that, I wonder if there's more truth in this than we know. Owning both clubs and the stadium makes more sense than the current...

Cheers mate - that probably means I'm on a whole load of other people's sh*t list though. ;) Joking aside, these things don't worry me. We're all bound to differ on stuff from time to time, my opinion's certainly no better than anyone else's, except to me. :)

I think that the mistake that you're replicating here, politely, is thinking that because he writes articles critical about the council or individual councillors, that he's somehow anti local government or that his politics are different to those he criticises and that's why he does it. I just...

When my kids go quiet I always know that they're up to no good. Just saying, like. ;)

It would seem odd that Reid didn't seem able to comment or write about the Ricoh until he resigned from the Telegraph. Given the amount written about it by him up until then, it seems to strange to think that he'd suddenly shut up if there hadn't been some pressure to bear. Also, clearly he's...

Fair enough SBS, in the same vein I apologise if I've been unfairly harsh here. For what it's worth I think you and Reid both did some really incisive work around all this. I came more from your standpoint than Les's at the time, and we've had our rows on twitter etc. too. For all that...

Wasps have got what they wanted, 100% of ACL for 250 years. Initially their PR was about making a case that the councillors could sell to the Coventry public, which was basically pushing against an open door given what had gone on with SISU. Now there will be a bit of PR about how great the...

Would it really make you sad though, or are you just implying something under the pretence of sadness. Get over the fact that you got your feelings hurt by having to take down a few cheap insults, and open your mind to the possiblity that there might actually have been something unpleasant...

Hi SBS. I sense a bit of sarcasm here, which is a pity. I liked your blogs a lot, but if you're going to go into the realms of unnecessary personal slights then you can't grumble too much if someone takes offence. Like other people here, instead of taking issue with the message you decided to...

Because they can? It might well be something of nothing, but in general where we might have had some ability to influence CCC, Wasps won't really give a monkey's about us, and won't feel obliged to make anything public that they can keep secret. The club's future at the Ricoh is now at the...