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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 4, 2020
  • #1,576
chiefdave said:
I wouldn't have a problem with that if he was only reporting on the playing side. Really anything past that should be dealt with by a news or business reporter depending on what the story is.

The other issue is that you've got him presenting everything to do with Wasps as a positive while anything to do with us has a negative slant put on it. So you end up with a Wasps story big enough to feature in the nationals with a director being linked to cocaine and prostitute not getting a mention but one of our players leases a new car and they have a go.
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The quid pro quo is more blatant than it was for Donald Trump but nobody's impeaching the Bridge
 

steveo1987

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  • May 4, 2020
  • #1,577
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I know?
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Only posted it to show the amount Richardsom has owed to him.It is an old article granted
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 4, 2020
  • #1,578
steveo1987 said:
Only posted it to show the amount Richardsom has owed to him.It is an old article granted
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I was well aware of the date I was just picking on the coverage
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • May 5, 2020
  • #1,579
What about the 6 great things wasps have done article?

One of them was force a pay cut.
 
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chiefdave

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  • May 5, 2020
  • #1,580
Interesting stuff in the DCMS select committee. Bill Sweeney (RFU chief exec) said they'd already lost £15m and even if the scheduled international games go ahead they expect to lose a further £32m in revenue.

However the talk was rugby will be 'the last cab off the rank' potentially not restarting until next summer. That would take out the 2021 Six Nations which he said would have "a catastrophic impact on rugby union in England. We would be looking at some very severe situations.”
 

MusicDating

Euro 2016 Prediction League Champion!!
  • May 5, 2020
  • #1,581
chiefdave said:
Interesting stuff in the DCMS select committee. Bill Sweeney (RFU chief exec) said they'd already lost £15m and even if the scheduled international games go ahead they expect to lose a further £32m in revenue.

However the talk was rugby will be 'the last cab off the rank' potentially not restarting until next summer. That would take out the 2021 Six Nations which he said would have "a catastrophic impact on rugby union in England. We would be looking at some very severe situations.”
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Maybe if they grabbed each others bollocks less, they'd be allowed to start sooner...
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 5, 2020
  • #1,582
MusicDating said:
Maybe if they grabbed each others bollocks less, they'd be allowed to start sooner...
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I guess licking beer out of cracks is out of the question too?
 
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ccfcchris

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,583
Wasps owners unveil plans for Ricoh hotel
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,584
Yeah there's a massive demand.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,585
Nick said:
Yeah there's a massive demand.
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There is in Allesley maybe a little transfer can be arranged.

I feel sorry for the locals that monstrosity towering over them.
 

Grendel

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,586
Nick said:
Yeah there's a massive demand.
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Even the articles attempt at justifying proves there aren’t
 
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jordan210

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,587
The Ricoh has always had a lack of parking (for big events). So building on a car park seams like a brilliant idea.


Also

"In the last 30 months, more than 130 bookings were lost or cancelled due to the lack of available bedrooms, submissions to Coventry City Council said."

Well maybe you should have let that other company build near the Ricoh, Wasn't the justification that it would take away from the city centre. cant have it both ways
 

jordan210

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,588
Also in an unrelated note Wasps holding limited is over due its Confirmation statement by nearly 2 months (no idea what it is but is flagged as red on companies house)
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,589
jordan210 said:
Also in an unrelated note Wasps holding limited is over due its Confirmation statement by nearly 2 months (no idea what it is but is flagged as red on companies house)
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Maybe they put out a pretty picture of a hotel and then they come out on the quiet while the Telegraph push WE LOVE WASPS HOTEL!
 

jimmyhillsfanclub

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,590
Grendel said:
Even the articles attempt at justifying proves there aren’t
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Ha ha...yeah.

130 lost bookings over 30 months = Peanuts. 130 lost per month & they may have a point.....but over two & a half years....What a joke!
 
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CCFC54321

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,591
Whoever on the council agrees this and does not challenge the financial situation and long term stability of Wasps needs naming and then challenged on why they have allowed a hotel to be built despite it not being available for the city of culture but when the instigators appear to be bankrupt and no long term future in the city?
 

chiefdave

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,592
What a joke. The council have turned down other applications but you watch this one sail through when Richardson is claiming the demand is there. Even that is moving the goalposts. Originally we were told we needed the hotel for City of Culture but now that has been missed they've changed their mind and come up with another excuse.

Who in their right mind is even considering building a hotel at the moment?
The application, if successful, would see a hotel built on land at Car Park C, off Jimmy Hill Way, by WPS Trading Ltd, a firm owned by Wasps owner Derek Richardson.
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Interesting. Imagine the uproar if SISU owned the Ricoh and Sepealla & Fisher created a company, owned by themselves, to build a hotel on the car park.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,593
chiefdave said:
What a joke. The council have turned down other applications but you watch this one sail through when Richardson is claiming the demand is there. Even that is moving the goalposts. Originally we were told we needed the hotel for City of Culture but now that has been missed they've changed their mind and come up with another excuse.

Who in their right mind is even considering building a hotel at the moment?

Interesting. Imagine the uproar if SISU owned the Ricoh and Sepealla & Fisher created a company, owned by themselves, to build a hotel on the car park.
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Exactly, they know they have the Telegraph and Council onside though. George will be getting some free days out.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,594
CCFC54321 said:
Whoever on the council agrees this and does not challenge the financial situation and long term stability of Wasps needs naming and then challenged on why they have allowed a hotel to be built despite it not being available for the city of culture but when the instigators appear to be bankrupt and no long term future in the city?
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Isn't it the same officer that has turned down recent applications for the same thing?

You would think they would be judged equally.
 

Liquid Gold

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,595
Anybody still denying that CCC work in Wasps' interests is seriously deluded.
 
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tisza

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,596
wonder what state aid CCC will be arranging to get this built?
 

shepardo01

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,597
tisza said:
wonder what state aid CCC will be arranging to get this built?
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Maybe the "repair grant" thing from council that was mentioned here a week or so back..???
 

jordan210

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,598
Has anyone actually found the planning application. I cant find it.

This makes me laugh.

A new hotel has long been mooted but took a step forward in July 2018 after Coventry City Council’s cabinet granted Wasps Holdings Limited (WHL) a new long lease over Car Park C in order to facilitate a 150-bed hotel.

The deal gave them a deadline of until November last year to submit a planning application, but had been extended until the end of February 2020.

The application from WPS Trading was submitted on March 24 with a delegated decision expected by council planners by May 28.
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So they got an extension on a deadline and still missed it
 
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CCFC54321

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,599
Nick said:
Exactly, they know they have the Telegraph and Council onside though. George will be getting some free days out.
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George Duggins I thought he was standing down? What will Wasps do if he stands down!!!!!
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,600
Is there no ombudsmen that this can be reported to, surely the other company whose recent application was rejected will appeal.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,601
CCFC54321 said:
Whoever on the council agrees this and does not challenge the financial situation and long term stability of Wasps needs naming and then challenged on why they have allowed a hotel to be built despite it not being available for the city of culture but when the instigators appear to be bankrupt and no long term future in the city?
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TBF it is nothing to do with the planning department whether Wasps can afford to build this and quite rightly.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,602
A friend of a friend emailed Duggins today, he didn’t provide answers although he did ask for the persons address
 
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djbooth

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,603
I read the article and I noticed that this is a different wasps company and not the one related to the rugby club or bond. These are questions I have does he think that company will go tits up. Could he then send the other company in administration and but it bank on the cheap and screw the bond holders over??
 

chiefdave

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,604
djbooth said:
I read the article and I noticed that this is a different wasps company and not the one related to the rugby club or bond. These are questions I have does he think that company will go tits up. Could he then send the other company in administration and but it bank on the cheap and screw the bond holders over??
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To be honest it makes sense to have different things in different companies. That way if one thing goes tits up the whole lot doesn't collapse. But the key then is does this company sit in Wasps Group or as its own thing that benefits Richardson.
 
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CCFC54321

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,605
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
A friend of a friend emailed Duggins today, he didn’t provide answers although he did ask for the persons address
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Apologies, who’s address was he after?
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,606
CCFC54321 said:
Apologies, who’s address was he after?
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The address of the person that emailed him
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,607
Why does he want the address? Were they testing questions?
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,608
Nick said:
Why does he want the address? Were they testing questions?
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Apparently he asked whether the council can ok this application and not the other given that it takes business away from the city centre and all the other crap the planning team came out with
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,609
Nick said:
Why does he want the address? Were they testing questions?
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Stalling and hoping the person enquiring can't provide a valid address so he doesn't have to answer questions.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • May 7, 2020
  • #1,610
I am sure if I sent it from nuneaton he would basically say what’s it got to do with you.
 
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