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There was at least 2 other interested parties. Manhattan Group and Sharpiro. Both lost interest after meeting with the council as both had identified stadium ownership as key.

Put yourself in Cameron's position. You're surrounded by numerous spin doctors and PR people advising you. You've made a comment that is drawing huge amounts of criticism because it has not been correctly interpreted. Would you: a) say nothing and refuse to apologise b) clarify what you mean.

If that was the case then why, when repeatedly asked to apologise to everyone, did he not just clarify what he said and who it was targetted at?

Yes we did. We went blundering into the Middle East with no proper plan. Removed, or supported the removal, of secular leaders creating a power vacumn for the likes of ISIS to take control. Not to mention we are doing nothing about Saudi passing arms we sell to them onto ISIS or Turkey funding...

There's enough time to completely redo the process for Quatar. For Russia its getting tighter on time. I'd be tempted to have a co-hosted World Cup split between the other bidders, not like travel around Europe will be a problem.

It was the tipping point really. It's where Ranson's plan fell apart. I suspect SISU gave Ranson X amount. He budgeted on a larger crowd. When the money ran out SISU wouldn't hand over more so he had to start selling. Wasn't it at that point he initially tried to leave? Knew his plan was...

Not quite true is it, don't we pay for the use of Higgs? So we hire an existing facility. Same as if you or I wanted to hire it. What Wasps are wanting is someone to pay for their own facility which may or may not be open to others. And if it is open to other it will most likley be at a cost...

Didn't Rob S post on here saying the club were furious details had been published?

No, I queried why Wasps couldn't start work on their promised state of the art facility, given they proclaim to be so well off, before finding someone else to pay for it. Your response was about who paid for the academy which is totally irrelevant.

Apologies Mart, got it wrong, they actually said richest club in the world.

Are you suffering from selective amnesia? When it looked like SISU were after the Ricoh there was template letters being passed around to send to the council pleading with them not to sell SISU the stadium as they would load debt against it.

What's that got to do with anything? Did CCFC promise a brand new state of the art facility in the city? Do they go around proclaiming to be the richest club in Europe?

I only need SISU can't afford to run the Ricoh and I've got a full house on italia bingo.

Don't forget they also used it to pay back the owner. Imagine if SISU had managed to buy the Ricoh and then mortgaged it to the hilt to pay themselves back.

But they haven't got a sponsor to do it. They are looking for a sponsor to pay for it. Why can't the self proclaimed richest club in Europe pay for a new (not refurb of Higgs, that's not what was promised) state of the art trainng ground in Coventry?

Why did people stop attending when we moved to the Ricoh? We were still in the city boundary.

No i'm saying 3K on a petition from a team with an average 5K attendance is pretty impressive. Especially when their forum bans anyone who speaks against the move.

Wasn't their average attendance about 5K?

I've got a picture in my head of kids running up to CJ yelling sic with faces painted, wearing half and half scarfs while doing the mexican wave!

Italia does, all the Wasps fans he talks to that go to the Ricoh don't mind them being at the Ricoh :facepalm: