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Agree with much of the OP, but disagree that Wasps don't see CFRC as a potential threat. Of course they do. If they were to get their act together and rise up through the leagues (they're hardly lacking in pedigree) that would pose serious issues for Wasps. Another top flight Rugby side in the...

I understand the general thrust of the OP. An obvious one is property. It's a pretty safe bet. You buy an apartment block, channel rent revenues to the club and the asset itself would/should rise in value at the same time. Relatively low risk investment that could generate cash flow (relatively...

Don't know why people are flapping. The future looks decidedly less bleak than it did a week ago when there was seemingly no new stadium option. There is a solution, its called the BPA. Get behind it and stop daydreaming about yellow seats and a future in the shadow of a shameless rugby club...

The fee will be between 400K-500K, unless you think the board at D&R went to the same school of economics as you and decided to accept a much inferior offer to those they have previously received. Charlton had a 300K bid turned down last autumn. Of course it is the Maddison money that's being...

Sometimes I don't know if you're a parody account or if you actually believe this stuff.

No we don't. Based on what? There is absolutely no basis to that statement. We seem to now be in a position where no money is being put into the club, and no money is being taken out. The club is trying to be self-sufficient, and so while all of the money might not be used for transfers in...

What is a good long term deal? A good long term deal (financially) is still not particularly attractive if it means wall to wall Wasps branding, no club shop, no ticket outlet and an overwhelming sense that we're just squatting 23 times a year. The place feels less like home with every visit...

Think we're over-analyzing things a little here. I don't believe the SBT has an agenda at all. I'm not involved with the SBT, never have been, but just happen to sit next to Steve in B16 and a few others from the trust, and what is clear is that they are decent and passionate and care deeply...

TBF this is just standard practice everywhere to talk things up. I can't recall a pre-season where ST sales weren't "up on the same point last season". On that basis we should be selling the place out. Yeah, we'll sell about the same - but it might be up a touch because of the finance option...

But voted him play of the year the season before. Championship probably not the right level at this stage of his career. I always rated Baker (so did many others as we too voted him player of the year one season) but he is prone to inconsistency. Probably wouldn't want him back, not least...

No pay on the gate, ticket office closing at The Butts and no tickets to be sold at the club shop at all, even on a non-matchday. Mmmm. Get a big walk-up of say 3000, and the matchday ticket office would have to sell 25 tickets a minute in the 2 hours before kick-off. Good luck with that.

I'm looking forward to an epic week in June. Off to the Euros for final group game, fly back to watch ODI at Edgbaston, then next day off to O2 to watch Joshua. Missus is furious :p

League 1 assists: Tony McMahon Bradford City 13 Marcus Maddison Peterborough United 13 Romaine Sawyers Walsall 11 Bradley Dack Gillingham 11 Conor Hourihane Barnsley 11 Jacob Murphy Coventry City 10 Top 6 in the...

It's very easy to make the point that our change in fortunes coincided with the arrival of Cole, but let's not pretend that it was the cause. You could argue that our fall from grace started the moment that Ryan Kent left (which it did actually), but I don't see too many people blaming it on...

There isn't a single town or city where that happens.

It's not really the case, because a large portion of Nuneaton's population originate from Coventry is you go back a few generations. I remember after we won the cup CCFC flags were hanging out of windows all over the town. We've seen a bit of that with Leicester this week, but fortunately not...

Not really. People saying things like "if you'd offered me ninth before the season, I'd have taken it". That shows a startling lack of ambition. It's the third division, it's shit, and just because you have a poor season doesn't mean things can't turn around massively the following year...

Aye. Following season it was about the same. We never took advantage of that new stadium boost, whereas the likes of Leicester and Southampton did. We just went on a long downward spiral.

There has always been some, but 'full', behave.

I make 10 years ago to be 2005/06 when our average was 21,180. Better than some of the clubs he mentioned, but behind a few, but not massively. The general point stands I think. There is a huge gulf now, but back then there wasn't much in it.