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Hi albatross, I wouldn't dispute the pedigree at all - but I'm not convinced they've necessarily got enough influence with the RFU to get their way against both Saints and Tigers. And again, I don't see that they'll ever let CRFC get to a point were they will challenge them at the top level, so...

Just PM'd you. He reads it out at the start of the show usually, but the quickest way to get spam is usually to put your email address on t'internet. Anyway, how do they know I need viagra and erm... larger equipment, and a cure for baldness - that's what I want to know. I've never even met...

So you think the RFU will roll over then, and let them build their academy here. Wasps are relatively small fry compared to Leicester and Northampton, do you not think they might not have the ear of the RFU too? And in what way are CRFC starved of local talent? If you're saying that they're...

So as above, you get a situation where their entire development set up, and where they are drawing their youth players from, is a hundred miles from their home ground and first team squad. Seems a bit strange to me - and hardly draws more local kids into the sport other than as spectators...

So they'd end up with a training facility up here, but their academy, which is in essence their whole development setup, that will remain in London? How will that work then? And how will that improve take up of sport in the city (something that councillors made a huge deal of in the debate)...

The problem with the training academy though, that isn't just financial - the governing board (presumably the RFU) said this... "Wasps' relocation to the Midlands is purely for matches and should not come into conflict with the Academy systems run by other professional clubs in the Midlands -...

I would much rather it was a Coventry team doing this, but I see what you're saying. I'm far from convinced as to the motives of Wasps owners though. I'm not sure that Wasps survival is necessarily the key driver here - what I see is someone motivated by profit who saw a very cheap stadium and...

Completely agree with the sentiments here - but I suspect that everyone else involved (Wasps, CCC, Higgs) will do everything they can to stop that happening. I do have serious questions about Wasps model - apart from the odd game against Saints, Tigers and Euro games against the Irish clubs I...

The only thing I can think of, is that Higgs were obliged to offer it to CCFC Ltd because of a contractual requirement, but made that offer in bad faith and can be shown to have acted outside the terms of the contract. In that case I guess you get breach of contract and subsequent damages. It...

I must confess I'm confused by this. SISU are complaining to the Council about Higgs - where's that going to get them? I'm sure that Higgs don't want to sell to SISU because they've been burnt once already. I can understand that, but I'm still not having that the Wasps deal is in the best...

All of this is entirely fair, I wouldn't expect you to have to swear on your children's lives. As you say though, things have popped up on here in the past that were completely made up, and I don't think it's unreasonable to challenge them. As for Coventry having some nice places, where have I...

Those articles come from October 2013, mine represents the situation as stated at August 2014. I can if you wish, dig out the even older "Hell freezes over" (before we sell to SISU) quote from the council. It would make no more sense than what you're saying above. You'd like to believe that...

If the club doesn't want the stadium, then why have they expressed an interest in the Higgs share of ACL? I've stood up for the council a lot in the past on this, but I think people's understandable hatred of SISU has blinded them to the fact that the club weren't (at the least) offered the...

Rather than you try to interpret my argument, which seems to be confusing you, let's cut to the chase here: You said "They (SISU) were aware it was for sale.". You've provided no evidence of that. I've given you direct quotes that say that the Council thought, upon CCFC's return, that there...

There's nowt wrong with Aldi. Great chocolate, decent bike gear. But I don't bump into Wayne Rooney as often as I used to at Tescos. ;) And in truth, I still don't see Baker pushing a big trolley around Costco, getting a pallet load of bog roll to save a fiver, but I'm happy to have my...

Really? Because to be honest I think you're making things up to try and suit your argument. Here's the article with the "acting leader of Coventry City Council" welcoming the club back to the Ricoh. http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/council-chief-need-time-rebuild-7651892...

You could well be right, but I'd honestly be surprised - it's an OK place to pitch up, but it's not exactly mock-tudor and Bentleys. I thought most of the senior players headed out to leafy Warwickshire or Leamington, so they could avoid bumping into blokes like me. Saying that, Marcus Hall is...

RT, at the risk of going around in circles, you're not going to put an offer in if you're not aware it's for sale though, are you? The last thing the council said publicly was that they were welcoming the club back and looked forward to rebuilding trust. I think most people would, not...

The big flaw in this that I see is that Baker has been on, conservatively, £200k a year for a long time. I doubt he lives in Coventry or shops in Costco. I've no issue with either of those things btw (I like Aldi personally) but it's just that it seems a little unlikely. Regardless of that, I...

I think when they talked about rebuilding trust etc., that was a reasonably clear indication that ACL wasn't for sale - either to SISU or third-parties. And again - when did the Council offer the same kind of deal to CCFC that they've given to Wasps?