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Me too, but in truth I think we'll see a decent turn out for the first game or two, supported by a substantial ticket giveaway, and then crowds will drop off as the novelty dies. I think it'll settle to not much more than they currently get at best, with the exception of Leicester, Northampton...

In fairness Noggin, it is just as reasonable to point out that it will be embarassing for Wasps (and CCC) to turn out in front of the kind of attendance they've traditionally had at Wycombe (6,000 - 7,000), at the Ricoh. The ghost town scenario, if you will. It's not unreasonable to point out...

If I was the team captain, being paid x thousand a week to play for Coventry, I'd feel obliged to try to make myself available for every game possible, yes. Wouldn't you? It could be it wouldn't make sense - as mentioned above for an outfield player two games in three days plus travelling...

He was coming back from Morroco, Agadir, which is hardly deepest darkest Africa. And as I pointed out, and checked myself, he could have got flights that would have put him in Heathrow by about four on Friday afternoon. Why he chose to take the longer combination of flights to arrive in...

Anyway, just to return to the OP, Adams Park is a Desso pitch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desso_GrassMaster). Expensive, hard-wearing, and we haven't got one. It's nothing to do with the relative abilities of the groundstaff. It's unlikely there will be any time to do anything about the...

Not worth debating if you don't trouble yourself with a few inconvenient facts that don't suit your "Victory!" argument, I'd agree.

I'm sorry - did the council say they wanted to take time to rebuild trust before talking about ownership, or didn't they? It's a simple fact. At the very time that the deputy leader of the council was talking about learning to not close doors on each other, they were shutting the door on CCFC...

The Wasps franchise argument holds plenty of water - the nomadic team thing is rubbish, I'm sorry. They're a West London team that bumped out to Wycombe - the farthest they've ever been from their original home in Sudbury. Their owner, at the point when he took over the club accepted that it...

It was probably against us, the same week that I drove back from Southampton. ;)

OK, see what you're saying. Let's just run this scenario one more time. Wasps go bust - ACL goes into Admin. The lease probably reverts to the council at this point, although it may suit them to allow it to remain with ACL perhaps, depending on whether there's a deal to be done with someone...

Which would be almost bearable as long as they weren't puporting to do it for the best interest of the city, and without risk to the existing clubs therein. And also if they hadn't cast the obvious lie that they wanted to 'build trust' with the club whilst simultaneously selling to Wasps. I...

I drove back from a big night out on the south coast, with a raging hangover, through a horrendous storm, and still made it time for kick off on Sunday morning. We didn't win though, and I played shockingly badly. But then that happened every week so no one was any the wiser. ;)

Erm... just to be clear then, it's OK for the owners of a sports team to demonstrate their unwavering support of it by relocating it to a completely different part of the country? I assume then you'd have no problem if SISU, or indeed any new owners of CCFC, chose to support us in that way (and...

Yep, I take the point, but we're not talking about playing two days running. We're talking about playing, and then having a day sat in an airport for a few hours, or on a plane for a few hours, and then playing. That, to me, isn't ideal but it isn't impossible either. In fairness I don't...

In the scenario I outlined, where Wasps have gone bust, and CCFC have moved on (or gone under, or can't or won't pay to take anything like this on), how could you guarantee someone being willing to take it over with a multi-million loan attached? The current claim by the council is that ACL is...

Erm... I think you're forgetting one important fact. The council said on August 21st 2014, that time was needed rebuild trust before there could be discussions for ownership. How much time, exactly, did they give for that trust to be rebuilt before they sold to Wasps? There's a fact, a...

It's a fair point this, in that the lease would presumably revert to the Council if ACL fail. But who would they sell it to in that circumstance - presumably Wasps would have folded, and CCFC (certainly under SISU) aren't likely to want to pay full value for it, assuming that they haven't gone...

As I understand it, the loan remains with ACL, the only thing that's changed is that Wasps now own ACL, rather than CCC/AEHC. Wasps haven't taken the loan on as such - in other words it doesn't stand against their holding company. The risk here is that if Wasps goes pop though, and as a result...

I'm not sure where I failed to recognise that. Clearly trust had been lost. The council highlighted that, and said that it needed time to be rebuilt. Rather than allowing that to happen though, they were actually in the process of selling to Wasps. Let me just reiterate that. At the very...

I notice that Pressley commented on this in his post-match interview. Though he wouldn't be drawn on whether he was disappointed in Reda, he was very pointed in his praise of Carroll. I've got to say that in my opinion Reda could have made it back to Heathrow by Friday afternoon, had he so...