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How does your logic work here RT? It's given, by most, that the club needs some kind of access to revenues from the stadium and surrounds. It's accepted by you above, that it makes little financial sense to build a new stadium. The council talked about building trust when the club returned...

Big companies certainly give offers all of the time. But do really think this is an offer in that sense, or is it because they actually can't sell enough tickets and it's a little embarassing to have a half-empty (or worse) stadium for something that was supposed to be a big draw. Again, do you...

I'm not defending SISU's actions here - but the council went from rebuilding trust to selling ACL (without even making the same or a similar offer available to the club) in a matter of weeks. Do you think, as the financial reality of building a new stadium finally dawned on SISU, that there...

I'd agree with most of this. But it seems people haven't woken up to the fact that even when SISU have gone, and one day they will, ACL and all of the income streams therein will still belong to Wasps. Where does that leave CCFC?

The million write off was stated in CET amongst other places when the Wasps deal first went public. From a Cov economy point of view, if the tickets are being given away it points to both the likely success of the commercial operation, and also puts the lie to the fact that rugby is a huge...

Victory?! Incredible. All we've had from Wasps so far is hot air and free tickets. Rugby is such a huge draw in the city that they've had to give away thousands of tickets so as to make attendances a bit less embarassing. Thousands! And this is going to somehow make Coventry's economy...

In fairness it's not far off the kind of flannel that I suspect Wasps sold to the council. The difference is that being from SISU people will, quite rightly, look at it critically. Wasps clearly got a free pass on whatever they promised the Council and Higgs, who didn't seem to even realise...

In fairness if ACL are renting it out to all and sundry, then it wouldn't exactly seem reasonable to put the burden of upkeep on CCFC would it? Regardless, again given the number of games being played on it, and the gaming festivals etc., the best groundsmen in the world would be able to keep...

You might well be right mate - there's not much evidence either way. In fairness though, OSB did an analysis a while back that seemed to show that even if CCFC and ACL were merged in the way that Wasps and ACL are now set up, there might not be enough to keep it all going. And Wasps, as has...

I wouldn't want to speak for or defend SISU, but the truth is that there never was a 'first refusal' offer for ACL until Wasps came onto the scene. When CCFC returned from Northampton all of the talk was about rebuilding trust, there was no talk about inviting offers from anyone for 100% of ACL...

I don't think they hate the club, but I do think they hate SISU. Like a few others, I think that's clouded their judgement on this. As for planning permission in the city for a new stadium, whether the council are for it or against probably won't make much difference - it will be a long, hard...

I wouldn't claim for a moment to be an expert, but in truth I can't see that you'll be able to do too much in that short a window, particularly at this time of year when you can't really get stuff to grow. In fairness, a really badly damaged pitch can't always be adequately repaired even in the...

Strange that I remember a lot of those too, given that this was really before I was paying much attention to football. The player that I really remembered from Derby in my time was, strangely enough, Mark Wright. I recall a match up there when he'd absolutely dominated the game for a long...

No freebies until we hit the 'bottom of the cycle' mate. Surely you'd know that by now. :)

This actually happened - but being from Coventry my gran's pretty tasty. She slipped inside Fisher's first punch, then uppercut right, left cross, and it was game over. Being from Coventry she then kicked the crap out him whilst he was on the deck, and stole his wallet, watch, and mobile...

Fair comment, but long grass and short passing rarely works in my experience, and there's no real need for the pitch to be as smooth as you'd want it for that kind of footy either. As for the Butts, in the days (long gone) when I used to do a bit of coaching there the pitch was horrible for...

But why do they need to give out free tickets - I thought the demand for top flight rugby in the area was huge. If the council were so keen to promote sport to kids and the public, they'd invest in infrastructure rather than permitting (and seemingly) encouraging building over whatever sports...

Fair enough, but if Wasps coming here means that either CCFC stay rooted in the lower divisions, or leave the city, then this inevitably has to be a net loss of money. As for 'massive', much as I like rugby it's peanuts compared to football in terms of supporter base and status - and compared...

I think this is all part of the fun and games of being a tenant. ACL/Wasps are going to seek to maximise return from the facility now, and our concerns about the pitch won't be foremost in their minds. For rugby, I've always thought that as long as the pitch will take a stud, then that's good...

I feel a court case coming on. ;)