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I don't know if you are right about Wasps - but I think their recent actions are questionable in the extreme. The council? There are certainly some elements who want to harm SISU, and inevitably that harms the football club by association.

I think that point was point to them and they basically said what they would sacrifice in parking revenue would be eclipsed by income from revenue streams that would open up (income that will never be available to them as it stands). They are only dissatisfied because it is currently one of the...

I think I read somewhere a while ago that the site was gong to be redeveloped. Not sure though. On a separate note, isn't the hotel and office complex next to BPA still up for sale? Won't happen, but if the financial clout was there it would be a good idea to buy it. On site offices, a small...

I was referring to existing car parks used by businesses, not new ones. People coming from out of town would have no issues - they drive to the city centre, park, and then walk to the ground. How does St James Park cope when 55,000 people rock up to a ground right in the city centre with about...

15,000 is not enough, that is broadly accepted - but it is evident that the club want more. 25K would be great, so we should work with the club and make is clear that is what we want. Tight ground? Would take that any day. Proper football ground, unlike many of the modern efforts where the...

Why? If I chose to park at Belgrade Plaza and walk, I wonder enter via the Radford Road and exit the same way? Same goes for any other city centre car park, or I could approach from the other side a park in a private car park - plenty of those would pop-up Some of those areas are a good walk...

Of course there are obstacles, that's a given. I just think parking as a standalone issue isn't one of them for the reasons I gave above. In fact parking is more of an issue at an edge of town site because more people need to use a car to get there, and parking has to be provided on site...

The parking argument is bogus though. There are other larger city centre grounds (think 55,000 at St James Park, 32,000 at Bramall Lane, 80,000 in Cardiff). Look at aerial views of St James Park and see how much on site parking there is. I read something once about Newcastle, it was a study...

Totally agree. The BPA scheme pisses on any windswept out of town option from a great height. All of the objections about access and parking are bogus and easily debunked. It would feel like a proper home. As for the capacity - it would need to be 25K, but that has not been ruled out. Also...

I understand the sentiment - but it could be interpreted as apathy. There has never been a public display of anger directed at the council/Wasps and I think it is overdue, because the default position of the wider public seems to be that the fans are comfortable with the situation - there has...

The council are balls deep in this City of Rugby thing. A minor thing in the scheme of things, but I spoke to someone who worked in the council IT department not long ago. When the council website was redesigned a year or so ago, one of the design briefs was to scale back the amount of Sky...

Genuinely interested in what people think he should have done differently. Wasps would have pulled out of talks whoever they were speaking to. Short of SISU dropping legal action - the outcome was never going to be any different. Perhaps, and without knowing the full details, he was slow to...

I feel for the guy. Seems a pretty decent bloke, and quite switched-on - but he is in almost impossible position, sandwiched between SISU on one side who aren't willing to invest and who are insisting the club is self-sufficient, and on the other side you have those organisations who are trying...

Just spotted this beneath the article on the CT: Dont you just love it when a rugby club put one over on a second rate football club, sorry SISU you'll have to move out bet sixfields don't want you aswell, better get that new ground built or go out of business, no mmoney left soon from the club...

Totally agree. We can say what we like on here, but the people we really need to convince won't see it. Meanwhile, the London Wasps trolls on the CT comments stream go almost unchallenged.

The first batch of objections to the planning application have been published: http://planning.coventry.gov.uk/portal/servlets/AttachmentShowServlet?ImageName=1279709 We should bombard them with these.

The proposal will go before the committee, providing it receives 5 or more representations that are contrary to the planning officer's recommendation i.e if the officer recommends approval, but 5 or more objections are received, it goes to committee. The point of objecting is not about...