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  1. duffer

    Block 15 - Closed off section

    Joking aside, I'd hope not - it would be a bit petty. Their fans didn't have much choice in it, and rented or not it's still our home too.
  2. duffer

    CCBCFC Stadium

    My end of town, more or less. Pretty much all green belt when you get past the old Massey's site, until you hit Solihull. HS2 is carving through this gap too, which will cause moderate carnage, but wouldn't in itself probably matter to any new stadium. It would be very hard to build something...
  3. duffer

    Upcoming Changes At The Ricoh

    I'm a CRFC fan - in fact I've been to more CRFC games than CCFC games over the last couple of years. I'm not happy about what's been done to CRFC. I'd much rather you didn't pretend to speak for CRFC fans when you've clearly no idea how we feel. It's actually kind of offensive. As for Wasps...
  4. duffer

    Upcoming Changes At The Ricoh

    I beg to differ. I've certainly not made a case for Sixfields or ever defended SISU that I'm aware, but I'm certainly not happy with Wasps being allowed to buy 100% of ACL for 250-years. As for bleating about a situation that I cannot influence (other than perhaps via a personal choice to...
  5. duffer

    Upcoming Changes At The Ricoh

    You've got it. Here's a list of the most common ones, as I recall. There are others. "Coming in from the side", penalty. "Side parting on the wrong side", penalty. "Not entering via the gate", penalty. "Leaving the bog door open", penalty. "In front of the back foot", penalty. "Standing on...
  6. duffer

    so it was Reda

    Yep, he probably worked up more of a sweat carrying his suitcase to his car. :)
  7. duffer

    Upcoming Changes At The Ricoh

    Mate, if you can send one of the meeters and greeters my way I'd be very grateful. I've played a bit and watched rugby for a good few years now, and I'm certainly not sure that I understand the game! And you thought offside in football was confusing. ;) Brian Moore, former England...
  8. duffer

    Upcoming Changes At The Ricoh

    I think that in truth the 27,000 at Gillingham, and then the subsequent attendances puts the lie to some of that theory. Wasps, like CCFC, will have some hard core fans that will always go. The rest will need persuasion and want value for money. The fact that they're already giving away...
  9. duffer

    so it was Reda

    Agreed - but if it was true, then surely he'd have gone by now...
  10. duffer

    so it was Reda

    Off topic, but man I miss Chippo. Hadji was the better technical player without a doubt, but Chippo loved playing football, it just shone through. So many players now seem to see being on the pitch as a chore...
  11. duffer

    so it was Reda

    In fairness WM, Reda played on the Thursday rather than the Friday, but I hear what you're saying here. I suspect that it was agreed beforehand, as you say, but the tone of the interview with SP just had an edge to it when this came up, which makes me think that SP wasn't happy even if he'd...
  12. duffer

    Upcoming Changes At The Ricoh

    Fair enough Noggin, I respect that. There's no doubt that my anger about this has made me even snappier than usual, so apologies where that's leaked out. The frustrating for me, is that this should have been us. The one thing I'm sure we'd agree on is that with half-decent owners (even prior...
  13. duffer

    Upcoming Changes At The Ricoh

    Me too, but in truth I think we'll see a decent turn out for the first game or two, supported by a substantial ticket giveaway, and then crowds will drop off as the novelty dies. I think it'll settle to not much more than they currently get at best, with the exception of Leicester, Northampton...
  14. duffer

    Upcoming Changes At The Ricoh

    In fairness Noggin, it is just as reasonable to point out that it will be embarassing for Wasps (and CCC) to turn out in front of the kind of attendance they've traditionally had at Wycombe (6,000 - 7,000), at the Ricoh. The ghost town scenario, if you will. It's not unreasonable to point out...
  15. duffer

    so it was Reda

    If I was the team captain, being paid x thousand a week to play for Coventry, I'd feel obliged to try to make myself available for every game possible, yes. Wouldn't you? It could be it wouldn't make sense - as mentioned above for an outfield player two games in three days plus travelling...
  16. duffer

    so it was Reda

    He was coming back from Morroco, Agadir, which is hardly deepest darkest Africa. And as I pointed out, and checked myself, he could have got flights that would have put him in Heathrow by about four on Friday afternoon. Why he chose to take the longer combination of flights to arrive in...
  17. duffer

    Adams Park pitch looks Superb

    Anyway, just to return to the OP, Adams Park is a Desso pitch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desso_GrassMaster). Expensive, hard-wearing, and we haven't got one. It's nothing to do with the relative abilities of the groundstaff. It's unlikely there will be any time to do anything about the...
  18. duffer

    Victory for the City of Coventry yesterday

    Not worth debating if you don't trouble yourself with a few inconvenient facts that don't suit your "Victory!" argument, I'd agree.
  19. duffer

    Victory for the City of Coventry yesterday

    I'm sorry - did the council say they wanted to take time to rebuild trust before talking about ownership, or didn't they? It's a simple fact. At the very time that the deputy leader of the council was talking about learning to not close doors on each other, they were shutting the door on CCFC...
  20. duffer

    Victory for the City of Coventry yesterday

    The Wasps franchise argument holds plenty of water - the nomadic team thing is rubbish, I'm sorry. They're a West London team that bumped out to Wycombe - the farthest they've ever been from their original home in Sudbury. Their owner, at the point when he took over the club accepted that it...
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