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Were your reasons for accusing him of being biased based on him reporting on what Sepalla has said? It's just that I don't seen much commentary from him, just direct quotes. Would you rather we didn't hear what she had to say? Les certainly offered an opinion at the telegraph that maybe the...

And how much money do you think Wasps will give CCFC to achieve that dream? Do you think they'll be offering a rent discount? A share of the profits from ACL? Like the council, it's easy to say that Wasps will want to see a successful CCFC - but also like CCC, I'm not sure (politely) that...

A lot of that is fair enough mate - but it's really not in Wasps interest that CCFC do much more than pay the rent. Wasps and SISU are now in effect in competition for the revenue from ACL - they both say they need 365/24/7 income and not just matchday streams. However Wasps will have 100%...

And with apologies to those I've insulted, which is probably pretty much everyone - I'll leave it there I think. I don't think, for all of the press stuff, there's any more mileage in this for me as a fan. The decision is done. The 50% won't come to CCFC, the new stadium won't be built. I'll...

I'm not trying to get anyone to say it, but it seems that there's a lot of people inferring it because he had the audacity to offer a different opinion. That's unworthy in my book. Accusing a journalist of being bent or biased is some special kind of insult. The same goes for anyone accusing...

I'm happy to answer this. I blame SISU 100% for the hugely stupid new stadium stuff, especially and most damagingly offered just after the return to the Ricoh. I blame Coventry City Council (and the Higgs Trust) 100% for selling ACL to an out of town franchise - especially when it was done...

I wish people would step away from the personalities involved here. This was an interview with Sepalla, and she's made her points clearly enough. What we ought to be doing is discussing the merits of her argument, rather than calling it a PR piece, or insulting a journalist who has at various...

Personally I think Clarke's been going backwards for a while at CCFC. I don't think it's worth blaming either the player or the manager for it, perhaps it's just the combination of the two that's not working. I hope, like Christie at Derby, he returns to some decent form at Yeovil and it all...

Fans of Wasps are bothered - it's simply not correct or fair to suggest otherwise. You can read their boards, or simply put yourself in their shoes. Some will follow Wasps up here, many, many more will not. Rugby fans are not happy to 'go anywhere' to watch top flight rugby - look at the...

Looks like an athlete to me. Given the distances that footballers have to run and the fact that the game has got less physical, at least at the top end, I can't see why for most players carrying less weight around would be anything other than advantageous. I doubt he's a weakling. Skinny...

I don't think it's unfair to ask for clarity. The council and others have made a big thing about Wasps building a training facility and encouraging kids into the sport - indeed it's one the justifications they've used for the deal. Where's the harm in pointing out that at best, it looks a...

Hi albatross, I wouldn't dispute the pedigree at all - but I'm not convinced they've necessarily got enough influence with the RFU to get their way against both Saints and Tigers. And again, I don't see that they'll ever let CRFC get to a point were they will challenge them at the top level, so...

Just PM'd you. He reads it out at the start of the show usually, but the quickest way to get spam is usually to put your email address on t'internet. Anyway, how do they know I need viagra and erm... larger equipment, and a cure for baldness - that's what I want to know. I've never even met...

So you think the RFU will roll over then, and let them build their academy here. Wasps are relatively small fry compared to Leicester and Northampton, do you not think they might not have the ear of the RFU too? And in what way are CRFC starved of local talent? If you're saying that they're...

So as above, you get a situation where their entire development set up, and where they are drawing their youth players from, is a hundred miles from their home ground and first team squad. Seems a bit strange to me - and hardly draws more local kids into the sport other than as spectators...

So they'd end up with a training facility up here, but their academy, which is in essence their whole development setup, that will remain in London? How will that work then? And how will that improve take up of sport in the city (something that councillors made a huge deal of in the debate)...

The problem with the training academy though, that isn't just financial - the governing board (presumably the RFU) said this... "Wasps' relocation to the Midlands is purely for matches and should not come into conflict with the Academy systems run by other professional clubs in the Midlands -...

I would much rather it was a Coventry team doing this, but I see what you're saying. I'm far from convinced as to the motives of Wasps owners though. I'm not sure that Wasps survival is necessarily the key driver here - what I see is someone motivated by profit who saw a very cheap stadium and...

Completely agree with the sentiments here - but I suspect that everyone else involved (Wasps, CCC, Higgs) will do everything they can to stop that happening. I do have serious questions about Wasps model - apart from the odd game against Saints, Tigers and Euro games against the Irish clubs I...

The only thing I can think of, is that Higgs were obliged to offer it to CCFC Ltd because of a contractual requirement, but made that offer in bad faith and can be shown to have acted outside the terms of the contract. In that case I guess you get breach of contract and subsequent damages. It...