Hang on a tad though, I thought very much amongst the list of complaints about sharing with Wasps was about them buggering up the pitch.
Do Cov play in carpet slippers or something?
it like people saying how great the Bristol pitch was and the Ricoh is shit.....depends on the surface laid rather than who plays on it!
It currently has a capacity of 3,000. Can't see anyway it could ever become a 15,000 seat arena. No room to develop.
Bit like those who said a certain cabbage patch couldn't handle two football teams playing on it.
Lets not forget SISU have invested more in Northampton's pitch than the Ricohs....perhaps they shot themselves in the foot yet again!
Like to see a bigger ground but I like the idea. Although that would mean forcing SISU on CRFC which I wouldn't wish on anyone.
Well no as they have had training sessions there - which the council always charged for.
As for investing more - i would suggest the £200,000 a year paid above the £1.3 million was more than enough - wouldn't you?
most don't want to train on their own pitch....they use their training facilities.
They never train on the pitch -- ever? That's odd - I've seen the team train on it on 3 separate occasions.
A lot more than we pay to rent the Ricoh.
I suppose if we paid more rent we could have more facilities.
We'd sooner pay more for a shop somewhere else.
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where in my sentence was the words 'never' and 'ever'? How many times have you seen a smoking gun?
That I am afraid is a desperate answer. This is a discussion regarding the Ricoh.
I asked are we the only club in the UK that's ever had to pay or ask permission to play at its own stadium. I believe the answer is yes. Rather than try and divert the question - either answer it or don't but do not try and skirt round the issue with mentions of other grounds.
I know it is a discussion about the Ricoh and to suggest it is to blame for poor performance is ridiculous.
my desperate answer actually alludes to one of your desperate answers.
In recent years we haven't had players with the desire and mentality for winning. They have failed to make it our own.
If it was doable I would be happy with us sharing with Cov. I go past the Butts regularly though and there's just not the room to develop and nowhere to park either.
SISU do not run or lease the Ricoh and are not responsible for the pitch but WASPS/ACL ARE!
Try and get your facts right.
We 're paying £1:28 MILLION and CCC refused to negotiate a sensible and realistic rent but Ann Lucas tempted the club back with £100,000 deal over 2,years with 2 year option with the knowledge that she'd been deceitfully negotiating with WASPS over a lease deal for over 6 months.
Why doesn't somebody (CT - CWR - Observer) ask her why the current deal £100,000 wasn't offered before the temporary move to Sixfields?
I think it's because no rental deal would have got them to stay. Moving to Sixfields was all about distressing ACL. A judicial review judge, being in receipt of an incredible amount of evidence from all sides concluded this. There's no need to ask a question again that's already been comprehensively answered
I was scrolling through trying to see how many turned up to the Wasps game (curiosity, couldn't give a damn about Wasps) but thought the words under the Ricoh logo were somewhat ironic, given our current circumstances !
P.S. The logo put me off finding out how many turned up
you need to factor in that Sixfields was inclusive of matchday costs which add around £300 - 400K a year on top of rent at the Ricoh.
Sorry but the question hasn't been answered, if it was my money invested in CCFC I'd be challenging the JR judgement just as the owners are!
If you are the leader of a council and instruct all 54 councillors to vote for on a deal to bailout a business that they have a 50% interest in and ALL 54 vote in favour with no abstentions then more questions need to be asked and answered.
Where could you or I get a loan (and remember this was £14:4 million) over a repayment period of 43 years??????????
Clever or smart then to suddenly take a huge loss on the Ricoh (WASPS paid just £2:75m to CCC & Higgs) but took on the balance of the £14:4 million loan but OVER A REPAYMENT PERIOD OF 20 years, with interest!!!!!!!!!!!
Far too many unanswered questions.
Actually CCC councillors are free to vote in whatever way they wish. That's called democracy, I know your not a fan of it, but its the system we have so learn to respect it.
They don't have to answer any questions regarding that if they do not want to. They have the authority to act on behalf of the people of Coventry, and do not have to answer questions on any matter unless a crime has been committed.
Very different to the reality though. Unless it was declared a free vote we all know legal technicalities don't come in to it. In fact I seem to recall there were suggestions it should be a free vote but it not happening.