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No. Shipley certainly contributed more last season, than Bayliss did the season before last. I appreciate we probably had to sell Bayliss last summer, but I feel like he would’ve really prospered in that 4-3-3, the. 3-4-2-1 system we played last season.

That would be ideal. We certainly need to pad our squad out with quality options. At this moment, we lack options at LWB, CM, ST for definite, and perhaps even at CB. McFadz is certainly a top end L1 CB. Whilst Pask and Drysdale have looked good when they’ve come into the team, there’s still...

Perhaps. But, I doubt it. Gooden is a good, natural goal scorer. I could certainly see him scoring 10+ goals this season if he stays fit. Martin and Gooden upfront would compliment one another.

In fairness, we need a couple of experienced heads with no resale value. Our team‘s average age is around 23 and mostly without Championship experience. We need a couple of Championship experienced players to give us the best chance of staying up. All this said, I’d be pleasantly surprised if...

In the Covid-19 22 team playoff. Gotta love the playoffs!

You two need to sit down, face-to-face for an episode of 'The Gloves Are Off'. The result would be pure verbal entertainment.

The comment about the football revenues being ‘immaterial’ to Wasps was particularly striking.

For example, Kastaneer...

Agreed. Its been a stitch up since the council took all the money from the Tesco deal for the land. The club cannot continue to be ‘enslaved’ by the RICOH indefinitely. Regardless of tactics, SISU were right that it was totally broken and unsustainable relationship between the RICOH and CCFC...

What happens when two hedge funds are pitted against one another?

Regarding the sale of the RICOH. What legal action could SISU even take against Wasps alone? Obviously all action against the CCC impacts Wasps either directly or indirectly. But, I can’t think of what we take Wasps to court over.

Totally agree that we need to be on the owners case for getting this stadium built. However, I totally disagree that we shouldn’t be asking questions of Wasps and CCC. Everything needs to be done to ensure that we can get playing back in Coventry ASAP. If Wasps not the CCC are not asked...

I don’t disagree. Again, the Brighton example. One local authority agreed with the planned work, the other didn’t. The link I provided to NW outlined a few things. The main contention is a disagreement over interpretation of policy. Which clearly demonstrates that some of this is open to...

What other city that is similarly sized to Coventry in the UK would have 3 sports stadiums?

That’s simply not true. Key differences: 1) Developed land had intersecting council jurisdictions. Brighton Hove CC and Lewes District Council (LDC). 2) The planning permission for the stadium was submitted too, and approved by Brighton Hove CC and NOT to LDC. 3) The issue, therefore, was...

That sounds like a deflection. Either way, are these areas the size of Coventry? I get it it, from the council’s view, the RICOH is readymade for CCFC. It would be a waste with Wasps and Coventry can’t co-exist. Or, in a scenario where Wasps bail from Coventry, and a new CCFC stadium built...

The example NW and myself discussed was Brighton. Where the planning permission was submitted to a council supportive of their plans. It was an adjacent local authority that opposed the stadium. In that scenario, had the planning permission been made to Lewes Council, there wouldn’t be a Falmer...

Implosion impending...

Whether this true or not, the first of our statements made the claim that the NDA was signed ‘at the insistence of Wasps’. Presumably, as a precondition of entering negotiations. Maybe I’ve misread, but I can’t recall Wasps challenging that specific claim.

You’ve got a point. This wouldn’t stop Wasps also turning around and saying ‘we’ll drop the the NDA too if all parties agree’. Then you’re in a position where each third party has to agree. Since it’s not clear how many third parties there actually are, like Sepalla, Wasps could also be...