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Right, and he said 99% of fans would be happy with that, which is what I was disagreeing with! Others have said we can't even concern ourselves with the quality of the stadium. I'm not saying it's retractable pitch or go home, but it's crazy how low some of our expectations have gone while...

Is pursuing a solution at the Ricoh so impossible, so disastrous and so unimprovable that it would be better to spend millions on a crap new stadium that we can never leave? That literally a field with a bar attached is the better outcome? Personally I'm not going to celebrate trading one shit...

Uhh yeah, put me down in the 1% of fans who wouldn't be content, happy and grateful if this is what we get after five years.

Is there a contingency plan to abandon/scale back the new stadium project were the Ricoh to become a viable long-term option during its construction? And if so, what is the point of no return?

The Athletic ploughed millions in venture capital money into signing up the best writers in the game, and is already laying them off because it's losing cash hand over fist. The CET doesn't have anything close to the resources and never will - hence it throwing up these copy and paste jobs just...

Nothing in the Wasps statement which seems intrinsically more or less believable than the Boddy statement over the weekend. In the absence of the facts, I'm not going to sit here celebrating or criticizing either one, because clearly someone isn't telling the truth. Right now we're at a...

Great news imo, Sam Rogers Intergalactic Space Travel Agency wouldn't just put their name to any old statement, wouldn't take long to build a new railway station in Baginton etc etc

Wasps are shit-scared that they'll get blown up in the crossfire of the holy war between SISU and the council. They have no control over that conflict. The only way they can protect themselves is to exploit the only leverage they have over the party that instigated the EU complaint in the first...

They sound devastated at the loss of the city's only football team!

I would actually be interested in a discussion about whether Wasps have a right to be upset about the EU complaint bought by SISU (which Andy Goode seems to be conflating with a lawsuit). Mainly because it seems like a pretty big deal in terms of us resolving this stadium bullshit and I could do...

This guy deserves a proper tribute - maybe some kind of banner or sign?

It's largely academic given there aren't vast swathes of land under CCC jurisdiction that could work as a stadium for us. We had to partner with CCC to make the last stadium happen, and we can never do that again as long as the current SISU and council leaders are in charge. So it makes sense we...

Yes. If progress is made, then I agree the Ricoh appears to be Plan B. But I'll believe it when I see it. Joint statements don't cut it. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that after six years (!) of talks with UoW, we only got news of this latest new stadium project a few days before we learned...

The EU complaint rules the agreement with Wasps was illegal and either levies huge financial penalties or somehow declares the original deal void (Wasps are supposedly sufficiently worried about this scenario that they're demanding indemnity) Wasps face bankruptcy and are forced to either bail...

The situation has changed since 2008, but also hasn't changed materially since 2014 and Wasps coming in! If SISU saw that as the death knell for any deal with the council, we should be a lot further along with a new stadium - after all, what hope would there be for anything else? SISU thought...

Agree that from a negotiation standpoint, it is smart for SISU to give the appearance of having other options in Coventry. But that doesn't mean it's SISU's end goal. Why did they buy CCFC in the first place?

Yeah very true. The crests, however, would be no problem. If they were serious about moving on, we could just ask. It would be a statement of intent to do something that I'm far from convinced SISU actually intend to do. And it's the kind of thing that's contributed to negotiations being so...

SISU could do this tomorrow but they won't, for the same reason they haven't done it all the other times they've promised to move on - they really, really want control of the Ricoh.

Having a total normal one here.

I mean, if we're going to avoid the worst-case scenario of spending five more years playing in Birmingham, then we need all of the above to have happened in the next 18 months at a bare minimum.