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http://www1.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/12551/9588674/aviva-premiership-wasps-sell-17000-tickets-for-ricoh-arena-debut

Think you've missed the point. According to that article CCC dismissed the offer from Shaprio as derisory as they wanted some land by the stadium to develop. They then spent the next few years moaning that SISU wouldn't develop the land around the Ricoh for them.

If Wasps had been playing for over 100 years in Nuneaton but were in a similar situation to us, had sold their old ground for some reason and ended up with nowhere to play so had been playing in Northampton for the last 10 years (similar distance they moved away initially) and purchased the...

Wasps have played in various places in London from 1866 until 1923 when they moved to Sudbury in London and stayed there until 1996 when they moved to Loftus Road before moving to Wycombe, which is approx 20 miles from London. They've now moved to the Ricoh which is over 90 miles from what Wasps...

They must have called here in for some expert advice on the colour of the new curtains.

They'll want to stamp out people having fun pretty quickly, it's not the Coventry way! If there's so many such great fans of CRFC why aren't there more people at their games?

The only thing that will really work is a bit of success. Everything else is nice but you're not going to keep going if the product on the pitch is poor. If we were in the top 6 with 4 or 5 games to go and a shot at Wembley there would be 20K there easily. If we went up, and singed a couple of...

But that doesn't give CCC a green light to screw the club over. The club and SISU are not the same thing, long after SISU have gone the actions of CCC will still be having a negative impact on the club. A key point of Fishers was the claim he kept making that ACL were reliant on CCFC and not...

Interesting reading that article. At the time wasn't the rumour that Manhattan met with CCC and decided they couldn't work with them. It's laughable now to think the Shaprio bid was labeled derisory by the council as it would mean CCC writing off £4m and Higgs not getting every penny back, not...

Or you could say they were sold the ground for less than we paid in rent over the first 5 seasons we played there. Or you could say they've been gifted it for nothing as it is likely in the very near future they will receive more for the renewal of stadium naming rights than they have paid.

Some people would have you believe CCC were instrumental in SISU being given preference over other bidders. Don't think we'll ever know if there is any truth in that.

That's correct but thanks to the actions of CCC and Higgs it is now going to be much harder to find someone to replace them and if / when that does happen much harder for that new owner to achieve success. For me it's simple, SISU are temporary owners. They have been a disaster and their...

In 2 + 2 = 5 fashion I would guess at a new ground announcement. What else could it be really unless SISU are buggering off? That said I've never thought the new ground would actually happen but maybe they've backed themselves into a corner and now have to actually do it.

Not really the case is it, there's been plenty of posts on here prior to Wasps turning up about how poor the marketing and PR is and how to make it better. No ones blaming Wasps for having PR, although it is a piss take when they claim they don't have a PR machine when they seem to be...

So now Cov fans are going to get the blame for anything negative that happens at Wasps games? If it was done at a Wasps game it was either done by a Wasps fan or a fan of whoever they were playing.

The thing is what we are saying about the ability of a new stadium to attract business compared to the Ricoh is the same as they would have been saying at the NEC when it was announced a conference centre was being built next to a motorway in Cov. Offer the right product at the right price and...

Think SISU need to clearly show financial projections for if we stay at the Ricoh as tenants against building a new ground. I had a look at Bournemouth's ground today and when they totally rebuilt it cost under £10m (after adjusting for inflation) for a 12K ground. If that's the sort of figure...

Would be interesting to know what happens in the event of ACL / Wasps administration or Wasps defaulting on a loan payment. No doubt we won't be told that as it will be declared confidential.

You know where we've all been going wrong, we've been concentrating on CCFC, we should forget them and start campaign to get Man Utd to move to Coventry.

Of course they could open any business but most football clubs aren't doing that so to compare how any offer from Wasps stacks up you would need to be able to compare it with other clubs.