Difference being he is coming to the Ricoh to stop making a loss ( he hopes ), whereas Fisher believed ( and still does ) that you have to leave the Ricoh to stop making a loss. We shall see...
I certainly didn't expect most of them to come it's a bloody long way but Fisher was laughed at at the fans forum for his prediction, that article says thats what he was told at the fans forum, presumably anyone that cared enough could go and read their forums and see if it was an honest recollection of events.
Wasps are putting on free travel for this season which will certainly help alot and many may see out their season tickets but that doesn't mean they will repurchase next year.
Not really sure wasps success or failure attracting their own fans makes any difference to us though so I'm not sure why the fascination. I guess you can hope they will fail hard and need to sell the Ricoh and we could buy it but that would presumably be a very long time in the future, I'm sure wasps know full well that its going to take many years to properly build the fan base.
For Wasps' sake, let's hope not ... wouldn't wish that bell-end on anyone. That said, I am expecting a quick press release on the Offal any day now saying "Coventry City today announce the departure of its Chairman, Tim Fisher, with immediate effect...CEO Steve Waggot commented "on behalf of CCFC, may I thank Tim for all the work he's done, blah blah mutual decision blah, vision to move club forwards....blah blah worked tirelessly blah blah plans for the new stadium thanks to him blah blah fuckin blah"
I said on another thread that the Wasps consortium is SISU Mark II, and I’ve seen nothing to change my mind. They push out the same smarmy commercial drivel.
Picking up a sports club and dropping it 80 miles away is a sickening approach. However, having looked at the Wasps forums, they do seem to have a lot of supporters who agree with the Ricoh move – I think on the grounds that they want to remain at the top of the Rugby pyramid, and that this is the only way to do it without going bust. Their sense of geographical belonging is much vaguer than Coventry City’s – just a general feeling that they ought to be somewhere around west London-ish. They don’t represent a city in the way that we do, but all the same I feel really sorry for the people who’ve been supporting them in Wycombe these last few years, and have now been kicked in the teeth.
In the end there was only one banner, fluttering away in the top tier of the Frank Adams Stand. Even the message it bore was slightly hard to decipher, although it did include a clearly disdainful reference to “franchise rugby”. As riot incitements go, it was hardly going to precipitate tear gas or massed stand-offs in the car park.
Such is the nature of middle-class sporting protests in Buckinghamshire, even when the spectre of a club upping sticks and moving to Coventry suddenly becomes reality. There also seemed to be a collective acceptance there are no financially viable alternatives to Wasps’ impending switch to the Ricoh Arena.