Really? I've never really seen many. I saw 1 guy at Ryton Pools in a Wasps hat. (other than matchdays).
Kind of makes you wonder whether at some point those people wearing Wasps gear will receive a fair amount of hostility from city fans in the street.
Yes, perhaps we can start on the kids first because they won't fight back. :angelic:
Can't see people lowering themselves to that.
No it's not the Wasps fans fault SISU can't run a bath, so I don't agree with this idea. Rugby's a equally great sport and the Wasps are doing what they can to improve themselves. If you want to blame someone, tell SISU to either learn how to run a club or leave.
So, just to be clear, you don't agree that they should try to improve themselves here in Coventry? Because I know of another club who didn't keep fighting to do that now in league 1 with awful owners with poor business skills...
So, just to be clear, you don't agree that they should try to improve themselves here in Coventry? Because I know of another club who didn't keep fighting to do that now in league 1 with awful owners with poor business skills...
Bit different and you know it.
Bit different and you know it.
Is it? Why?
Bit different and you know it.
Because the club couldn't survive in their previous home. Their options were limited, they nearly went bust, they didn't have a permanent home, their local council and them couldn't make an agreement on a new stadium and worst of all, their support was small. It wasn't in till cups at the Ricoh they saw crowds for them increase dramatically and with situation with the Ricoh giving them more choice and freedom, they made the jump.
The Premiership club were invited in as partners by the landowners, Legal & General, and the local Hertsmere Borough Council, with a 15,000-seater stadium worth £22 million and a hotel on site for added revenue. But Wasps wanted to own and control it. End of deal.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...e-to-send-themselves-to-coventry-9789348.htmlBecause the club couldn't survive in their previous home. Their options were limited, they nearly went bust, they didn't have a permanent home, their local council and them couldn't make an agreement on a new stadium and worst of all, their support was small. It wasn't in till cups at the Ricoh they saw crowds for them increase dramatically and with situation with the Ricoh giving them more choice and freedom, they made the jump.
Because the club couldn't survive in their previous home. Their options were limited, they nearly went bust, they didn't have a permanent home, their local council and them couldn't make an agreement on a new stadium and worst of all, their support was small. It wasn't in till cups at the Ricoh they saw crowds for them increase dramatically and with situation with the Ricoh giving them more choice and freedom, they made the jump.
Why is it CCFC fans are on here preaching about Wasps having to move because they couldn't survive, just as CCFC are in a much worse position?
Might as well. They're not even a shadow of the club they once were thanks to awful owners. The last nail went in when Highfield went.Our club can't survive without a ground and the academy. Options are limited. Is it OK if we build a stadium just outside Newquay?
Yes, exactly. They didn't as the attendances wouldn't keep them safe
Might as well. They're not even a shadow of the club they once were thanks awful owners. The nail was when Highfield went.
That article repeats everything I've just said. Also, stop blaming Wasps for SISU being shite at their job.
The nail was when Highfield went.
Sad, but true. Can you blame people though? There comes a point where you just think enough is enough.Ha, I think that pretty much sums up our support doesn't it.
Fucking jokers.
Indeed
Sad, but true. Can you blame people though? There comes a point where you just think enough is enough.
Indeed
Sad, but true. Can you blame people though? There comes a point where you just think enough is enough.
I didn't say they had to move. I said SISU's awful management is what's causing these issues.
I bought a Coventry business a few years ago, with an established reputation and plenty of customers. Although not an expert myself, I was happy with the management team I installed, and everything went well for a while. I even managed to sell a couple of assets that I'd inherited with the business (although a few of my customers got twitchy feet about this, asking me where my 'ambition' was...)
After a while it became obvious to me that serious investment was required to take the business to the next level. Unfortunately the funds were not available - my modus operandi is not to invest but asset strip, so I decided on a different path. I could keep the business running by selling assets, including new assets that my business had developed.
By selling these assets I was also cutting my operating costs. However there was one cost that remained constant - the rental on my newly built business premises. When I took over the business this rent amounted to circa 10% of my total costs - now, through shrewd selling of assets and reducing wages, I had stripped my fixed costs to the bone, yet the rental remained the same.
So I decided to just stop paying the rent! My plan was simple - distress the operating company which ran the business premises, hopefully bankrupting them, then buy them out for peanuts! Trebles all round for us. It was disappointing that a lot of my customers didn't agree with this way of doing business, and my company's turnover decreased as a result.
Eventually I had to file for administration because the management company didn't like the fact I wasn't paying rent.
Happily my company came out of administration and shrewdly kept the important 'operator's licence' to carry on in business.
And I had yet another clever plan - I took the business over the county border to smaller premises. Because it was an hour away customers and turnover dropped to a bare minimum, but this was all part of my master plan. Using the legal system I could blame it all on established local businesses/charities/councils and batter them in the courts!
Although it's cost my business a lot of funds to go to court, and a succession of judges have ruled against us, I'm pleased to say we're still trading. And we're still threatening court action!
What amazes me is that despite all of this nobody wants to agree rental deals with my company.
Honestly, you couldn't make it up.
Perhaps you could write a Wasps themed one where they abandoned their home, having scant regard for their fans, heritage and history, followed by an anthology of superb business skills based on spending other people's money, despite making out they are some financial powerhouse.
It would be a fucking hoot.
It could be called; London and Coventry a Tale Of Two CitiesPerhaps you could write a Wasps themed one where they abandoned their home, having scant regard for their fans, heritage and history, followed by an anthology of superb business skills based on spending other people's money, despite making out they are some financial powerhouse.
It would be a fucking hoot.
No they didn't.They had to 'abandon their home', so your premise doesn't make any sense. Perhaps you could write it yourself. What have these Wasps got to do with my story exactly?
They had to 'abandon their home', so your premise doesn't make any sense. Perhaps you could write it yourself. What have these Wasps got to do with my story exactly?
They had to 'abandon their home', so your premise doesn't make any sense. Perhaps you could write it yourself. What have these Wasps got to do with my story exactly?
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