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OK - the interview with the Wasps guy (Chief Operating Officer, I think) is here, 49 minutes in. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029h1n0 In a nutshell, they have sold 2,700 since October 20th, in the half-blocks that have been opened so far. Described this as 'sold-out', i.e. we've sold-out...

I only came in around half-way through the interview, but defensive was certainly the word I'd have chosen too. Or possibly passive-aggressive. He didn't like being put on the spot about how many fans he thought they'd get - and I'd got it in my head that we are talking about half-blocks here...

Not at all - it's just that the average number of legs (mean, technically) is less than two, for humans. And Nouble has at least two. I think. Possibly more. :)

Valium is the answer, according to at least one of my mates. You could ask your GP. That and sitting at the back of the aircraft - I do that on the basis that they very rarely reverse into mountains. ;)

Quite right. Statistically, Nouble's also got more than the average number of legs, which is something I always look for in a striker. ;)

Man, that pisses me off. Are the council going to promote other sports clubs, events and local businesses on their official site now, or the only the ones where they need to get a half-decent attendance to try to justify a fundamentally immoral decision. As the OP says, when was the last time...

Not sure it will be as simple as that, Chief. As well as Worcester, Leicester and Northampton might kick up too, and they've got a bit of clout. I'll be interested to see how well Wasps are doing in a couple of years in truth...

It's a daft amount of cash, but fair play to you because I can't think of a better reason for trying to get them. :) I don't doubt you'll have a great day, and by the time you're going, the pain of paying for the tickets should have long since passed. I'll look out for you on the telly!

I do wonder if someone at the CET is being a bit mischievous with their choice of photos sometimes. Anyhow, I'd see this as good news if they could just stop banging on about the new bloody stadium FFS! It gives the charity the perfect cover for turning down the bid to my mind, how can SISU...

You must be minted - the brother-in-law has got tickets for a Rugby WC QF too, £215 each I think he said. Can that be right?!

Yep, some figures here, Stu. I'm not a typical Daily Telegraph reader, but personally I think this is about right... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/10287856/Greg-Dyke-should-forget-about-England-winning-World-Cup-and-concentrate-on-fixing-grassroots-football.html

I hear what you're saying, but in some ways I think you've summed up the problem in a nutshell, Prefect. Millions playing the game, and very little chance of making it, but despite that five of your side played or had trials for professional clubs. That, to me, suggests a rather lazy 'shotgun'...

I'm with you on this, I think the crowds will very quickly drop off (entirely possible there's some wishful thinking from me here though, in all honesty). Fwiw though, I understood that Wasps will stick with playing their home games on a Sunday for the time being.

I'm impressed. I doubt I'd have got half of those if they were un-pixellated. They are pixellated, right? Fwiw, I spent a good year at the last place I worked grumbling that I'd been lumped with a cheap, old, out-of-focus screen. When I finally bullied the IT guys into replacing it the new...

Spot on. Even if my lad turns out to have any talent (which is unlikely given I've seen the milkman play and he's crap) I'll be telling him to just enjoy the game and play with his mates. It's supposed to be fun, ffs. Scouting kids at 7 or 8, and then taking the best ones away from their...

I must confess that I can't see a merger of Wasps & CCFC happening, but I can see that Wasps might be interested in taking over ownership of CCFC from SISU when they finally give up. I'm not saying that's necessarily a good thing by the way. Alternatively, SISU may think that Wasps have bitten...

Was that you running on at the end in the donkey jacket? ;) I was there too. I'd been to a few games before when I was even younger, but this is the first one that I really remember. Ah, nostalgia's not what it used to be. :)

Hi Dai, appreciate what you're saying here, and it's all fair enough. But as I see it there was always the hope that SISU would either see sense, or sell to someone that did, and either way the club would sooner or later have to get serious about a deal for the Ricoh/ACL. Almost everyone other...

It's an absolute insult that - they must think we're bloody idiots. The future of both those teams is now at the whim of Wasps. Whatever 'promises' might have been made clearly they are under no obligation to help either side, and it's hard to believe that an owner who doesn't care about...

Entirely fair points OSB, but again as much as Wasps might want a successful CCFC, I think we agree in that they only want it in so far as it makes more money for them. Reverse the question, and tell me what they're likely to offer for that. Rental discounts, a share of the profits from ACL...