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Can't keep track of what is confirmed and what is rumour but I think it was stated last night that one of the sale conditions was the seats staying Sky Blue.

It was being posted about on here a couple of years ago, although it was dismissed by many as there was no chance of anyone else being interested in the Ricoh. Find it hard to believe that forum posters heard about it but SISU had no idea.

Best bet is SISU to purchase Higgs 50% share. Come to a deal with Wasps where we get all football revenues, they get all rugby revenues and everything else is split. To be honest, if you ignore the huge franchising issue, that wouldn't be a bad result all round.

Not seen it as it's gone to Wasps ST holders, just posting what they are saying on there forum so who knows but if Lucas is being reported as saying it is 50% and Wasps are saying the same then you would assume they would both know!

Apparently Wasps fans have been emailed and they are moving mid-season. They are being offered pro-rata season ticket refunds or free travel / food for home games. Also says that Wasps own 50%.

That press release also says they are moving in December, that would be mid-season wouldn't it?

Exactly, at that point they could have made it publically known that they were interested in a stake in the Ricoh and would appreciate an opportunity to match the offer. Instead they said no problem, we're building our own ground anyway.

Can I have some of what you are on?

Are we playing "the style of football its come to be known for"?

Better hold onto your ticket stubs, we're off to Wembley!

That was only because the fixtures had already been released when we moved. I would imagine either RFU or FL will supply fixtures to the other and they'll work around each other. they must do that already for other teams that groundshare.

Of course if the implication is that Wasps have purchased the stadium on the cheap it makes even less sense for our owners not to have put in a similar bid.

Depends how you look at it. Some people think the Ricoh is a cash cow and the council and Higgs are making millions out of it, they would think it was a bad deal. Others things the council has no business being involved in stadium management and would think getting their money back was a good...

If true that would be the sensible thing to do. Then an agreement so we get all football revenues, they get all rugby revenue and everything else is split.

It's not complicated, Wasps have said they are playing there games on Sundays so in your scenario we'd play on the Saturday and they'd play on the Sunday. In any case having to move an occasional cup game to a Sunday is the least of our worries.

He'll be happy if he's binned off international duty to play for us and SP hasn't picked him.

I'm not convinced ccfcway was typing what he was saying, it all seemed too much like a parody. The guy is a prize idiot and absolutely delusional (Fisher not ccfcway!)

well I for one can certainly see how much things have improved since SISU took over :facepalm:

That's what I thought was happened. Can't remember where that came from though but if that hasn't happened its a fairly fundamental change to what we thought was happening.

Seems a done deal, sounds like Wasps are holding a press conf at the Ricoh tomorrow and announcing JLR as club sponsors, most likely they will be the next stadium sponsors. There were rumours they were looking for finance and didn't have the money yet but it doesn't' come across like that to me.