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Yep, work started weeks ago. Completion by May next year.

I know I did. As a proud Coventry kid I always look out for Cov's score and always want all Coventry based clubs to do well, even the Bees and I cannot stand speedway. I always want Coventry teams to do well. I sincerely hope that all the councillors will indeed do the right and proper thing by...

Yep, I know. I accept all that. Think that final point could be quite critical for CRFC. As for the seating, no, Wasps won't want to play in sky blue seats. On that I think there will be a compromise and it would end up as a mixture, with both brands clearly on display.

Yup. We just hoped that they did want to buy it.

I think, Michael, that after what the fans have been through these past few years they very much feel all but defeated. They fought tooth and nail to get us back home and within a few weeks it is all about us leaving again. Don't think they have the belly to fight any more and if anything, I...

Great post, OSB. And for me this bit is the most ridiculous of all. .... apart from the owners of CCFC no one has said they do not want CCFC at the Ricoh long term. The only people who have said they don't want to be here are the club itself.

I am the same. Was considering protesting, but the Seppala statement knocked the wind right out of my sails. If Sisu aren't going to 'interfere' andget involved with negotiating for a large chunk of the Ricoh, then what are we protesting against other than the franchising of Wasps? And though...

What I would maybe like to see would be both City and Cov rugby share the Ricoh, then the council can make some money in having the Butts re-developed.

Yep. Sisu buy the Ricoh and with ACL and CCC not at all trusting them, caveats are put in place to protect the Arena for the people of Coventry.

Not as bleak as us leaving in 4 years and having nowhere to play though, Stu. That scenario for me is so much worse. Is Sisu can't distress ACL or get the Ricoh on the cheap they seem dead set on moving to a new stadium that we pretty all believe will never, ever be built.

If we continue to slump on the field I don't see how a 5,000 crowd in a 20,000 seater stadium would be any better than 7,000 in a 32,000 seater stadium. People criticise the Ricoh, but what would Old Trafford be like with only 18,500 fans in?

But this is where a binding agreement needs to be included to guarantee a long term rental for us for decades to come. That is CCC's duty.

If that is the deal. I think most City fans would take that, albeit with great sympathy for Wasps fans. Maybe the council will develop a sense of morals, but I wouldn't count on it.

If the deal is to go through, we need included in part of the deal, a binding agreement that states that CCFC can play at the Ricoh for the next 99 years, or the longest it can possibly be.

I sincerely hope not. I hope that somehow Sisu see sense here and get invoved/put a bid in, whatever, into making the Rioch our permanent long term home.

Understand what you are saying, duffer, but for most people, us moving out is not the same as having someone else move in. And that is simply because it has nowhere like the same impact on us as it has on the club moving in. This is why I never really spoke out against Northampton. They should...

Because he played really well besides. I recall him having 3 shots (apart form his goal) and all 3 were pot shots that went well wide.

Or 'it!'

Just meant to ask, is it okay to put up a private email reply? Nothing contentious here.