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Apparently they're already knocking out cheap tickets to Ricoh staff, sure you'll be seeing the same at JLR. If they don't get a decent crowd for the first game its going to be a hell of job to get more people in after that. You only have to look at our first game back for that, once the buzz of...

Not excusing them in any way. Just saying if they've done it for Wasps they should do it for us and rather than waiting around to be asked someone from the clubs marketing department should be straight on the phone asking for it to happen. It's not that difficult to make it known if they get...

No we can't, we've to worry about being knocked out of the cup by Worcester!

Worth making a call, if CCC refuse they could 'accidentally' make sure everyone knows they have refused.

Just had a look on the Wasps forum to see what they were making of this bid and someone on there, no idea if they have genuine info or not, is stating that Wasps business plan allows for 50% ownership. Interesting if true, maybe an indication they wouldn't object.

Would be nice to see us, Cov RFC and anything else going on in the city on there. Not really in the habit of checking the CCC website, is this a type of thing they've not done before? Someone in the marketing department needs to get on the phone and get us on there, maybe the Xmas promotion...

How well are the catchment areas actually enforced? What happens if someone from Cov went into Wasps academy, would anything actually happen?

I suspect they will stay as they are for a couple of years and then the RFU will decide everything needs to be reorganised and Coventry and surrounding areas will fall under Wasps.

Personally if I was part of Higgs the through of a partnership with SISU would put me off!

I assume the creditors will be SISU and their related companies, ACL and HMRC. I have no idea who is owned what. Isn't ACLs open to interpretation as it has to include compensation for early termination of the contract? So my question remains, can SISU just say to Appleton we'll give you the £X...

While that is probably correct the point is that won't be what they say publically. They will say we rejected that bid as there was no long term security and that would impact on their ability to develop the Ricoh long term, or something to that effect. SISU are giving them a ready made excuse...

So lets say Appleton succeeds and now Ltd own the 50% share in ACL. How does that end up with Otium? Can they just buy it off him, wouldn't any money coming into Ltd have to be distributed to creditors?

I think most, if not all, of us want the club to own 50% of the Ricoh (which now seems to be all we can get). The problem people have is the way SISU are going about it makes it seem certain to fail. People aren't complaining about bidding for 50%, it's all the 'we're still building a stadium'...

This is the big concern isn't it. SISU claim they don't posture but unless they follow through with the stadium build they are backing themselves into a corner. At the end of that deal, assuming nothing is happening with the new stadium and Wasps have 100% ownership of ACL, we are in a very weak...

Think about what SISU are actually proposing here. We would own 50% of a 32K capacity PL standard ground. But we would be playing in a flat pack stadium with approx. a third of that capacity outside the city. Even if they build the stadium on the cheap we'd be looking at decades before there...

:claping hands: That's not actually the one he wouldn't play, that ended up never being released as once he said no there was no chance of any play from Radio 1 after we'd spent a small fortune on a 2 day video shoot at Pinewood. The labels idea was to release that one first as it was a bloody...

I'm pretty sure I can guess what response that is going to get! :facepalm:

That's not really how it works is it? If it was we'd still have the likes of Wilson playing for us. Players will go to the top level they can achieve. Do you really think any young footballer who is offered an academy place with one of the relatively close PL teams is turning it down to join us...

Is it not the case that Wasps can veto a sale to SISU? If so it's a waste of time isn't it?

Good stuff, this will be on TV won't it?