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Works both ways, how much was the land worth before it was decided to build a football stadium and Ricoh complex there? And I don't think it was actually the council who did the Tesco deal was it? Didn't they just hijack it at the last minute?

The Ricoh needed £10m of the councils money and then the £22m YB loan to complete (that might not be exact, going from memory!). CCC could have taken a loan, assuming the football club couldn't get credit, on behalf of CCFC accessing the preferential terms available to them. The football club...

The Ricoh cost about £120m to build but if you look at the breakdown after all the grants, Tesco money etc CCC only put in £10m and then ACL put in the cost of the lease via a loan from YB. If we had been paying £1.2m a year for 100% ownership of ACL that would be more acceptable but it seems to...

I'm not sure I'd count £1.2m a year in rent as free!

At a guess this is where the idea of building a whole new complex rather than just stadium has come from. Its a shame CCC and the club aren't on better terms, with the main sports centre closing down a joint development on a new facility as part of the stadium complex would be ideal. Would also...

Plenty of blocks with whole rows of seats right at the front if you don't want be so far back :)

Hopefully that's true and the people of Coventry will go and watch the team that's been here for 141 years and is currently on a 13 game winning streak.

Just been on the pick you own seat page and there's only a couple of blocks that have been put on sale that don't have 6 in a row!

Can get 6 together on the halfway line right now so you might want to have another look.

Can't remember which is why I just put council!

They don't put the whole stadium on sale, it's gets opened up block by block. Edit: Just selected 6 tickets together in block 19. If it's the same as our games thats one of the fastest selling blocks as it's pretty much on the halfway line so it wouldn't really indicate they are flying out.

I would imagine it was included. Wasn't that the root of the problem when they were overcharged rates? But how much is the rent at the current shop, I'd guess next to nothing if they could't get any other tenant. And the offices are now at Ryton aren't they so not really costing anything.

Didn't SISU approach the council about that and got told that houses couldn't be built there?

If you go to see any sporting event in the US they have mobile merchandise stores all round the ground to make sure they aren't missing any potential customer. It's not a bad idea. The shop was always busy but how many people couldn't be bother to walk round to it or didn't go in as it was busy...

If you strip out all the free tickets that are going around todays attendance would be a lot closer to the one you've given for the same fixture last year. What do you think the attendance we be at the same match next year when Wasps existing fan base in London / Wycombe aren't being transported...

Afraid for me it all falls over on the first point. First things first if there is someone wanting to takeover the club why can't they do it themselves? Having fan ownership in the interim just seems to be an unnecessary complication. Secondly I can't see anyway for fan ownership to succeed...

We got a limited number of parking spaces as part of the lease, I'm not certain they were all for resale as there would be spaces required for players, execs, sponsors etc. As for catering we had to purchase that from ACL but were then free to charge whatever we liked, that's a lot less margin...

Pic of todays game stolen from Twitter

At some point you'd hope our never ending downward spiral will end and we'll get promotion and start moving back up. At that point how many of the lapsed CCFC fans now going to Wasps games will suddenly realise they preferred us all along and switch back?

I think I'm right in saying there's only a guarantee of 11 Wasps home games a year. If attendances do drop and in the future they don't qualify for Europe then things don't look quite so good I wouldn't have thought.