It's a sell out because it's their final league match of the season with them top vs 3rd place Saracens, just 2 points behind. In the context of domestic Rugby Union it's a huge game with the winner guaranteed a home semi final in the play offs - so don't think this is the norm yet especially as rugby pulls in a wider audience of casuals than footy does.Heard the depressing news this morning that Wasps are expecting a near sell out for their game this weekend. A lot of fans on here clung to the notion that when they got here the fans were only going because of the novelty factor, or because they gave out free tickets. Well unfortunately the novelty factor doesn't seem to have worn off. People accuse the CT of covering them a lot, but even the' Les Reid' Observer gives them big coverage. Even local TV sport cover them a lot,the only time apart from Wembley we seem to get a mention is with our ongoing protest against SISU.
The brutal reality is that Wasps can probably claim to be the number 1 sporting team in our City. We are fast becoming like the town of Northampton,where the Rugby team play at the top level,in a relatively big stadium, with biggish crowds, and the football team play at the lower levels in a virtual non league ground with small crowds.
The worry is that the gap between us and Wasps is only going to get bigger. In time younger people will just assume they are a Coventry team and not a franchise, and there seems little prospect of their team struggling.
I imagine this weekend they will take more non ticket revenue that they get from the rent we pay. SISU are talking of us building a 12,000 seater ground at the Butts, even if you swallow this fantasy what does this say about our future. That is why we so desperately need new owners, before we end up in non league and total obscurity.
i agree with you but imagine ccfc were playing in a top of the table premier league match i doubt you would be talking about a near sell out.
this is probably the biggest rugby match played in the area ever and i expect has pulled people in from all over the region.
It's a sell out because it's their final league match of the season with them top vs 3rd place Saracens, just 2 points behind. In the context of domestic Rugby Union it's a huge game with the winner guaranteed a home semi final in the play offs - so don't think this is the norm yet especially as rugby pulls in a wider audience of casuals than footy does.
Last week I spoke to the deputy head of one of Coventry's schools and he said they they are still giving away hundreds of tickets per school each week and essentially have access to as many tickets as they can give away each game, Wasps also come into the school and run regular training sessions with the kids. It's turned what was a state inner city school who played a bit of footy into a school with a passion for rugby union who are now beating the likes of Bablake/Henrys at various age groups. Wasps have had to do all this because of their invasion into our community and their desperation to lay roots here but it was sickening for me to listen to as a Cov fan in comparison to what CCFC have been doing at the same time, which appear to have been very much token gestures. There's an awful lot of repair in the community that will be needed when and if we get new owners.
It's a sell out because it's their final league match of the season with them top vs 3rd place Saracens, just 2 points behind. In the context of domestic Rugby Union it's a huge game with the winner guaranteed a home semi final in the play offs - so don't think this is the norm yet especially as rugby pulls in a wider audience of casuals than footy does.
Last week I spoke to the deputy head of one of Coventry's schools and he said they they are still giving away hundreds of tickets per school each week and essentially have access to as many tickets as they can give away each game, Wasps also come into the school and run regular training sessions with the kids. It's turned what was a state inner city school who played a bit of footy into a school with a passion for rugby union who are now beating the likes of Bablake/Henrys at various age groups. Wasps have had to do all this because of their invasion into our community and their desperation to lay roots here but it was sickening for me to listen to as a Cov fan in comparison to what CCFC have been doing at the same time, which appear to have been very much token gestures. There's an awful lot of repair in the community that will be needed when and if we get new owners.
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Drives me insane people stating Wasps do more etc. Simply not true.
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look at the reaction of kids when checkatrade build up when players visited,thats sort of thing that needs to be done much more.
True, but we don't any more thanks to SISU.there is no doubt wasps have been very clever in their PR but it would not matter a jot if we had a well run run successful football team,rugby will always play second string to football
It astounds me that people have a pop at the community work the club do but get a semi about what Wasps do. Why do we have fans intent on hammering the club at any opportunity? Fuck the owners and everyone else involved in the mess. SBiTC is a brilliant organisation. Let's give them the credit they deserve and show our appreciation. Not criticise them as they are not throwing free tickets around and have an inflatable tackling machine.
that better not be aimed at me as i am no wasps fan. just can see what they do works and is making an impact on the new generation.
i have been on Sbitc course and other than a free cov city water bottle you could be mistaken for having no clue it was run by ccfc tbh. also the people that ran it stopped caring after a month and it fell apart.
i hear they do good stuff of course but i wonder why i only hear kids yapping about wasps these days? is it simply because cov are in lower leagues?
If only you were as knowledgeable as you think you are.
The clubs marketing and PR is shit. Worse than that. The community work is brilliant. It annoys me that the coaches and volunteers don't get the credit they deserve, just the yeah but Wasps have inflatables.
Yeah, it was aimed at you. You were waxing lyrical about an inflatable tackling machine. Here's a thought, rather than saying Wasps do this and that, it works and blah blah. Why not positively promote what the club you support do? Say how they work really hard with the whole community, not just people they hope will come along and pay for a ticket. The idea about community work is to be beneficial to it, regardless of if you get a free gift or ticket. I was on the football session they run, people have been doing it for years. The walking football is that popular they had to put another session on.
If only you were as knowledgeable as you think you are.
People only act knowledgeable about things like this when they are saying nothing is done.
When there's a thread about something good it's silence.
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2 of 3 examples where you have to be a JSB member. 2 of them where the kids have to physically go to the Ricoh. The holidays camps, as I understood, are summer camps where again you need the families to sign up and take the kids. It's true community work SBitC do which will come with some passive marketing for CCFC, Wasps are aggressively marketing themselves and rugby - we'll come to you and get in your faces. Selfish, but currently effective. Wasps have been doing the aggressive side well since they landed, Cov did it too for a few weeks before the cup final.Home - Sky Blues in the Community
JSB area at home games. JSB training camps. JSB xmas party.
Drives me insane people stating Wasps do more etc. Simply not true.
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