NortonSkyBlue
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As much as I would like to say fuck off and do one, Bargpole has summed it up perfectly.
As much as I would like to say fuck off and do one, Bargpole has summed it up perfectly.Having supported Wasps originally in Sudbury, then Loftus Road, then at Adams Park which was great as I live in Wycombe, the move to Coventry was not welcomed unilaterally in my household. It's a great stadium, but the price for seeing my team play there is that it takes nearly all of Sunday including travelling, compared with 3 hours previously. But I'd rather give up that time and see them thrive, rather that live from hand to mouth as tenants of a football club.
But the sad reality for CCFC fans, despite the frustration, anger, bile (and some bad grammar) on this thread is that the people of Coventry are voting with their feet - around 17,000 average home attendances for Wasps, compared with 7,500 for CCFC (both numbers include freebies).
It was the CCFC owners who caused this situation. Wasps simply took advantage of a good business opportunity. End of.
Welcome to the forumHaving supported Wasps originally in Sudbury, then Loftus Road, then at Adams Park which was great as I live in Wycombe, the move to Coventry was not welcomed unilaterally in my household. It's a great stadium, but the price for seeing my team play there is that it takes nearly all of Sunday including travelling, compared with 3 hours previously. But I'd rather give up that time and see them thrive, rather that live from hand to mouth as tenants of a football club.
But the sad reality for CCFC fans, despite the frustration, anger, bile (and some bad grammar) on this thread is that the people of Coventry are voting with their feet - around 17,000 average home attendances for Wasps, compared with 7,500 for CCFC (both numbers include freebies).
It was the CCFC owners who caused this situation. Wasps simply took advantage of a good business opportunity. End of.
Having supported Wasps originally in Sudbury, then Loftus Road, then at Adams Park which was great as I live in Wycombe, the move to Coventry was not welcomed unilaterally in my household. It's a great stadium, but the price for seeing my team play there is that it takes nearly all of Sunday including travelling, compared with 3 hours previously. But I'd rather give up that time and see them thrive, rather that live from hand to mouth as tenants of a football club.
But the sad reality for CCFC fans, despite the frustration, anger, bile (and some bad grammar) on this thread is that the people of Coventry are voting with their feet - around 17,000 average home attendances for Wasps, compared with 7,500 for CCFC (both numbers include freebies).
It was the CCFC owners who caused this situation. Wasps simply took advantage of a good business opportunity. End of.
Look I disagree, deal with it and stop banging on to try to prove your point.
Just grasp that the people I know who support Rugby teams don't swap between the Premiership teams, and yes the people who know do.
Oh sorry posters, this is the Moff thread and Moff is always right.
Having supported Wasps originally in Sudbury, then Loftus Road, then at Adams Park which was great as I live in Wycombe, the move to Coventry was not welcomed unilaterally in my household. It's a great stadium, but the price for seeing my team play there is that it takes nearly all of Sunday including travelling, compared with 3 hours previously. But I'd rather give up that time and see them thrive, rather that live from hand to mouth as tenants of a football club.
But the sad reality for CCFC fans, despite the frustration, anger, bile (and some bad grammar) on this thread is that the people of Coventry are voting with their feet - around 17,000 average home attendances for Wasps, compared with 7,500 for CCFC (both numbers include freebies).
It was the CCFC owners who caused this situation. Wasps simply took advantage of a good business opportunity. End of.
Fuck me, I said I disagreed with you, and not that you were wrong.Oh sorry posters, this is the Moff thread and Moff is always right.
Why waste your breathe on the attention seeking lunatic?
You gave up with me when you got properly shown up to be a liar about that bet. I hope you've got your money ready for that charity when McNulty hits 20.Because he is capable of reasoned debate.
As pointed out before unlike some who are not and so they have resort to childish digs and name calling ect. Think they are more commonly known in the internet world as trolls and wums. Rather perculiar existence, but hey ho each to their own.
Having supported Wasps originally in Sudbury, then Loftus Road, then at Adams Park which was great as I live in Wycombe, the move to Coventry was not welcomed unilaterally in my household. It's a great stadium, but the price for seeing my team play there is that it takes nearly all of Sunday including travelling, compared with 3 hours previously. But I'd rather give up that time and see them thrive, rather that live from hand to mouth as tenants of a football club.
But the sad reality for CCFC fans, despite the frustration, anger, bile (and some bad grammar) on this thread is that the people of Coventry are voting with their feet - around 17,000 average home attendances for Wasps, compared with 7,500 for CCFC (both numbers include freebies).
It was the CCFC owners who caused this situation. Wasps simply took advantage of a good business opportunity. End of.
1 game, what about the rest?We got 32k for a jpt game
1 game, what about the rest?
You've missed the point a bit, there.1 game, what about the rest?
Get real, our club has gifted Wasps the stadium, the city and we can't fill 25% of the stadium.Ha ha ha, voting with their feet. We got 32k for a jpt game and wasps can't fill the stadium when they play in the the European cup. We'll see in 10 years just how well they're doing. Hope the bond scheme does well, other than that good luck finishing 3rd and losing in the play off semi.
The usual dulusional fayre.....The council gifted the stadium to a London rugby team. Not CCFC. It's appalling we have fans who are ok with wasps being here and go to lengths to excuse it.
Believe me the financial shit you have wrapped around London Wasps neck for a rugby team is simply not sustainable. You will have to win everything in sight for the next five years to have a chance. You have no chance. You will suffer in the long term and the Coventry people won’t shred a tear.Having supported Wasps originally in Sudbury, then Loftus Road, then at Adams Park which was great as I live in Wycombe, the move to Coventry was not welcomed unilaterally in my household. It's a great stadium, but the price for seeing my team play there is that it takes nearly all of Sunday including travelling, compared with 3 hours previously. But I'd rather give up that time and see them thrive, rather that live from hand to mouth as tenants of a football club.
But the sad reality for CCFC fans, despite the frustration, anger, bile (and some bad grammar) on this thread is that the people of Coventry are voting with their feet - around 17,000 average home attendances for Wasps, compared with 7,500 for CCFC (both numbers include freebies).
It was the CCFC owners who caused this situation. Wasps simply took advantage of a good business opportunity. End of.
Get real, our club has gifted Wasps the stadium, the city and we can't fill 25% of the stadium.
The usual dulusional fayre.....
I think it was the council that made the decision but I agree SISU (not CCFC) didn’t help pulling the club out of Coventry. How Tim Fisher still survives to this day...
That Sisu (CCFC), were not in any way responsible for losing the Ricoh to Wasps. They gave the council ample justification for doing so. See Jr's, 1,2 and the subsequent appeals for details.
Having supported Wasps originally in Sudbury, then Loftus Road, then at Adams Park which was great as I live in Wycombe, the move to Coventry was not welcomed unilaterally in my household. It's a great stadium, but the price for seeing my team play there is that it takes nearly all of Sunday including travelling, compared with 3 hours previously. But I'd rather give up that time and see them thrive, rather that live from hand to mouth as tenants of a football club.
But the sad reality for CCFC fans, despite the frustration, anger, bile (and some bad grammar) on this thread is that the people of Coventry are voting with their feet - around 17,000 average home attendances for Wasps, compared with 7,500 for CCFC (both numbers include freebies).
It was the CCFC owners who caused this situation. Wasps simply took advantage of a good business opportunity. End of.
99% of the Coventry public agree with every word you just posted.No, it isn't end of. Wasps took advantage of a vulnerable situation, where a whole fan base of a football club were being held to ransom by their owners, and the council that also should have been trying to fight for them sold them up the river too.
Instead what happened was that they sold off the stadium to another hedge fund who are as morally corrupt as the CCFC owners. In fact, you could argue that they are worse. Imagine if SISU had taken CCFC to another city and done what Wasps have done? Taking over the biggest sports club in the city, making them tenants, and then deliberately tried to recruit disillusioned supporters. The free ticket bonanza that Wasps are driving is targeting the very people that once used to go and watch CCFC.
The whole thing is quite sickening, and I'm equally as mad at the CCFC supporters that will now happily go and watch Wasps more than they do CCFC. It's Stockholm Syndrome if ever I've heard it. In fact, I would argue about 90% of the people who are watching Wasps are morally in the wrong somewhere.
The CCFC owners might be a joke, but Wasps are not clean and it is pathetic that people try to defend them. They are deceitful, untrustworthy snakes and I can honestly say I hope they fail here. If they don't, CCFC will struggle to bounce back. We aren't just a sleeping giant anymore, we have lost supporters due to our owners, but even if they go, Wasps have mopped up the rest who I fear will never return whilst the city is flying gold and black flags...
Zack just hates his fellow Cov fans because most of us can see the regality of what actually happened. That we don’t just jump up and down and want to destroy everything Wasps related because they took advantage of what SISU had created.
It’s shit for Cov fans but I am not going to waste my time hating Wasps for what they did.
I wish the council never had to sell to them but only the most staunch people who only ever see anything through sky blue tinted glasses can not understand the logic of why they had to.
A top flight rugby team coming into the area.
It’s seems CRFC are thriving since they arrived (
Higgs Charity and the council get some money back from their original investment as oppose to the way it was heading.
The loan paid off.
CCFC back in the city as they didn’t really have any other choice financially.
The council would have bern accused of a dereliction if duty if they didn’t take this chance. Then ACL folded.
The simplicity of the matter is that some people who don't decry or belittle Wasps being here, are the same people who were up in arms about CCFC playing temporarily in Northampton.
Yes, it was largely SISUs fault the whole situation happened, yes CCC should've realised that CCFC and CRC would be here longer than SISU and therefore not jeopardise both their futures by selling to Wasps and yes Wasps did take advantage of the whole shit-storm to their advantage, likely not bothered about the consequences of the football club (but maybe the Rugby club a little).
Regardless of who is at fault for the situation, anyone who had a go (rightly) at SISU for instigating the move to Northampton, should be annoyed at Wasps being here. I find it incredulous that some posters on here are happy to 'get over' the whole Wasps situation as it was SISUs fault but moaned like anything when we went to Northampton.
Double standards much??
Its all about football surely?
Are Wasps responsible for us going through the motions in Division 2 ?
I think you've missed the whole point of my post....
Surely the whole purpose of a professional sports team is to play, entertain and be a part of the community that fostered it? If, as you say, Wasps were floundering in Wycombe then they should surely have cut their cloth accordingly ( something that CCFC have had to do over the past few years), and stayed in the south east.Having supported Wasps originally in Sudbury, then Loftus Road, then at Adams Park which was great as I live in Wycombe, the move to Coventry was not welcomed unilaterally in my household. It's a great stadium, but the price for seeing my team play there is that it takes nearly all of Sunday including travelling, compared with 3 hours previously. But I'd rather give up that time and see them thrive, rather that live from hand to mouth as tenants of a football club.
But the sad reality for CCFC fans, despite the frustration, anger, bile (and some bad grammar) on this thread is that the people of Coventry are voting with their feet - around 17,000 average home attendances for Wasps, compared with 7,500 for CCFC (both numbers include freebies).
It was the CCFC owners who caused this situation. Wasps simply took advantage of a good business opportunity. End of.
..... and the point I am making is it's all about football and how supporting Wasps changes things.
You can keep bringing up your opinion on what has happened but you fail to mention where we would be if Wasps were not here.
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At the moment 98% of the Coventry public couldn't give a shit.99% of the Coventry public agree with every word you just posted.
The other 1% need a cricket bat between there legs as the walk out the Ricoh after watching that wasps shite.
You and others are right but surely it's about where we are now rather than how we got here?Surely the whole purpose of a professional sports team is to play, entertain and be a part of the community that fostered it? If, as you say, Wasps were floundering in Wycombe then they should surely have cut their cloth accordingly ( something that CCFC have had to do over the past few years), and stayed in the south east.
You might still be coming to the Ricoh but I wonder how many of the 5K who regularly went to Adams Park still make the trek? A diminishing number I would think, likely to diminish further if Wasps start to fail. Both City and Cov have roots in the City going back nearly 150 years. They were institutions started by Coventry people for Coventry people. Wasps roots I would imagine are firmly in London and the south east. That is their community, or should be. Wasps move here has been hughly detrimental to the football club’s future, something the council claimed would not happen. Your clubs move here has threatened the very future of our football club. It isn’t surprising that City fans are angry and frustrated.Your move was a franchise move every bit as bad as Wimbledon’s move to MK. In many ways it is worse as there are too victims; fans of Wasps who can’t or won’t do what you do and CCFC and it’s fans who have had any hope for the future taken away. Wasps were moved on the whim of a businessman for financial reasons. I hope they fail here, not out of spite as it will give the football club a chance to have the stadium built for it given back to it and also allow Wasps to return to their genuine fans and roots in the south east. Only when this happens will this wrong be righted.
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