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And in Southamptons case telling SISU to get stuffed also helped!

You don't walk away, it's not a binary decision. You might however stop buying a season ticket and pick your games, the number of games you attend might decrease until you only go a couple of times a season and listen to the other games on the radio. You're still a supporter but you're not there...

Totally agree. Before Sepalla's statement through GCBTR and the rumours started by Reid I would have been up for attending an organised protest. Now I'm not so sure. If everything being said is correct it could even work out better for the club for this deal to go through. Yes we would end up...

Why are you trying to create a problem that doesn't exist and never will. It is very very simple. Football, both PL and FL, requires the club to have primacy on any potential match dates. Rugby, at any level, does not. Hence many football and rugby clubs share grounds. It really doesn't matter...

I'd take that, we could do with some good news.

You can't group all supporters together. We know there's a hardcore that will go even if we bugger off to Northampton, we know there's roughly 10K who will stick around no matter how bad the football if we're playing in Coventry. Problem is you need to get back the casual supporters or the ones...

You have to think that by far the busiest day would be matchday. Would be interesting to know the average take on matchday when we were last at the Ricoh with the shop open compared to now. They haven't even got the barrow organised yet have they?

There's much more chance of me going to see them at the Ricoh than any rugby!

Excellent, didn't take long to find a new excuse for people not to turn up.

Why is it incredible? Football, including the FL, requires primacy, rugby doesn't. Seems like a non issue to me. Besides its not as if the primacy rule was enforced when we were at Sixfields, if it was we would have played on Saturdays and Northampton would have had to move their games.

Why would ACL & CCC approach SISU when they are consistently saying, and have confirmed today via one of the people you are saying made the comment, that they are not interested in making an offer and are building their own ground? There is nothing now, or at any point previously, stopping SISU...

Additionally I can't see anything that says Wasps would need primacy. Other clubs manage to share so I think that would be the least of our worries. We managed a season at Sixfields without primacy anyway so it wouldn't be anything new. Not like a lot of football is Saturday at 3pm as it would...

They are, hence the rock and hard place comment. But given that they're both roughly as bad as each other I would take an option that has us permanently at the Ricoh, possibly with ownership under the same group of companies over one that seemingly has no idea where we will be playing in a few...

So if Les Reid is correct we have a side to pick out of: 1) SISU - have no plans to even attempt purchase of the Ricoh. Insist new ground, outside Coventry, will be ready within 2-4 despite zero evidence anything has actually happened. Have run up the largest debts we have ever had, 2 points...

That's not good news for Les, he's been endorsed by RFC :)

they are buying ACL so its for the current lease but it has been speculated that as part of the deal it will be extended.

I think if this is going to happen someone on the ground locally needs to get on the case and get all the details firmed up. To me it is absolutely essential to have a decent group of supporters from Cov RFC and Wasps there. I expect someone who lives locally could sort things with Cov RFC...

I can't really see much of a grey area with the golden share while SISU, or whatever name they are currently using, hold it. The FL aren't going to suddenly take it off them and hand it to someone else. The only scenario I could possibly see is at the end of the current contract the new Ricoh...

I would have thought if you considered yourself to be the only one with the facts in what is a fairly big story a journalist should be able to find a more significant outlet than twitter. Wonder if the tweets are just a build up to a piece in the press tomorrow?

They will still own the freehold so, assuming a new longer lease is issued, they could put in a clause saying the lease can't change ownership without their permission.