torchomatic
Well-Known Member
If disappearing and being amalgamated with Wasps is a "ground share" then yep, you're right.
If WASPS do get it.. I imagine not long after Cov Rugby Club will ground share.
Anyway, who made you the Queen and how do I earn my stripes?
i wonder how many people would still support the council if they did this?
Why not in the Coventry Area? CCC will have defeated there main objection if they allow Wasps into the Ricoh, So we would have two Rugby Grounds in the City so why cannot we have two football grounds????Good point. It wasn't that long ago AL was saying publicly that "they would consider any serious offer" in response to SISU's repeated "the Ricoh is not for sale" line. Looks like someone from the Wasps heard her and sees an opportunity.
SISU either better stop fooking around and get in front of the council with some serious intentions of buying ACL or get in front of the council with some serious intentions of them buying some land in Coventry, not the Coventry "area" and get on with building our own ground or get the fook out of our club.
Deliberately loosing the JR (as you put it) has only backed them further into a corner. It's time to get serious or get gone.
Not sure it would be a doddle Michael. If the price is right and ACL/CCC sell, then what can CCFC fans do about it? Will fans of other Rugby clubs care if Wasps move? I doubt it, as it is not unprecedented. Rugby competes with football for cash from TV, fans etc.. There is the Rugby WOrld Cup next year in this country - huge opportunity to expand the game, so the RFU would be all over this to showcase the game and seize on a chance to expand into the West Midlands, with Saints and Leicester covering the East.
Plenty of people said nothing could be done about the ntfc move and fans had to choose between doing nothing or campaigning against it, which in the end succeeded. Exactly the same choice here - we can do nothing (or even worse, just bicker among ourselves) or we can send a clear message to acl-ccc that we oppose this idea and if they pursue it we will fight, just as we fought for the Ricoh return. I believe 100% in keeping things peaceful and lawful - dignity and pride proved to be far stronger weapons than other ideas that were suggested - but campaigning in Coventry, especially with ccc being a democratic organisation, is much easier to organise than the sixfields campaign.
crossed my mind as well not that SISU are paying them but more like they had some sort of financial tie with themSisu are probably paying Wasps to buy it, so that they can buy it from them.....
i wonder how many people would still support the council if they did this?
Not really. It's two teams playing well away from what they'd usually consider home.They're not moving from Middlesex now. They were playing at Loftus Road until they moved to Wycombe's ground. Back in 2006, Wasps were looking at spending circa. £5m to build a new stand to increase capacity there to 15K; then about three years ago, were looking at a brand new build; again in the Wycombe area. That's why the 'investment' in the Ricoh at the values we can all conclude makes sense.
The haven't been with stable home for ages - started in Shepards Bush and renting places in and around London until the '20s when they settled in Sudbury, then to Loftus Road with the mid-minutes Christopher Wright (Chrysalis) involvement. I bring your attention to their fan's current 'trek'....
http://www.rome2rio.com/s/Sudbury-London/London-Wasps
This is a wholly different situation to the CCFC move to Northampton. To compare the two is to compare apples to Bombay Mix...
The fact is if our owners keep up with the argument that the current deal is temporary and they will build their own stadium why wouldn't the ACL look at other options regarding the arena.
It would be a real shame if wasps bought it, however, far better for the council and the local area/community having the stadium used with 10k-20k supporters going regular than to be sat empty/derelict.
I would not say I support them but lets be realistic here, SISU made numerous ridiculous offers and threats and they got rejected but in come's the Wasps and have probably made a realistic offer in a more business like manner in which CCC/ACL feel they can probably do a deal with which will benefit the city tax payers.
Can you seriously blame them for this???
To be honest, majority of the people who would not support this is the sky blue fans. Can't see the non footballing adult population of Coventry being to concerned as long as the tax payers benefit and they don't lose the stadium on the cheap which would to them be unacceptable.
What pisses me off is all the "good business sense" crap that is banded about. We were told that the Ricoh was NOT FOR SALE but it seems that it IS for sale as long as it's NOT to the local football team. It's apparently OK to flog it to a franchise team 100 miles distant.
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/council-chief-need-time-rebuild-7651892the acting leader of Coventry City Council has not ruled out the Sky Blues owning the Ricoh Arena in the future.
So wouldn't it be desirable for CCFC to rebuild that trust and move ahead on a purchase?
Why couldn't CCFC and Wasps jointly own the stadium ?
Only be happy with that if it was Coventry Wasps and then only if Cov rugby club was integrated into the club and only if Cov rugby and their fans are totally onboard with it.
WHy not? We expected the "football community" to share our outrage but the appalling figure for the petition showed that basically people don't care as long as it doesn't affect their club. As for me, couldn't really give a flying F for Wasps or rugby in general because it's crap, however this may affect something I do care about which is Coventry City. I don't really care about the past and ACL, CCC and SISU and all the bad blood. The stadium should be offered to the Football club not a nomadic rugby team with no ties to our area.
As Moff said, it's the hypocrisy of not only ACL and the Council but people on here too.
but sisu taking the club to northampton is heinous
council kicking club out of city is just good business
LMAO
Not happy with it at all and never will be.
Even if it means CCFC staying at the Ricoh to our benefit and Cov rugby are totally onboard with it?
Seriously?
I guess it's like Villa and CCFC merging. How many would be "onboard" with that, do you reckon? But, that's not the point. It's the hysteria of franchising that suddenly seems to OK with ACL, CCC and people on here.
I guess it's like Villa and CCFC merging. How many would be "onboard" with that, do you reckon? But, that's not the point. It's the hysteria of franchising that suddenly seems to OK with ACL, CCC and people on here.
just a number of people understanding ACL's decision from a busines perspective. Just cos people understand that it doesn't mean they agree to it or support it.
Just cos people understand that it doesn't mean they agree to it or support it.
Not really. It's two teams playing well away from what they'd usually consider home.
And offering the Ricoh to a rugby team from London are solid foundations for that trust "rebuilding", are they?
OSB58.
Hypothetically.
If CCFC and Wasp merged (after Wasps buy the Ricoh. Could this benefit the Football club in regards to the FFP rules on income as we would share income with Wasps. It would not make to much difference to Wasps as rugby has a wage cap.
OK. CCFC move to Northampton. Chaos ensues, "no to franchise football", marches, petitions, "fix football", etc etc
(Potentially), London Wasps move to Coventry and maybe swallowing up the city's own rugby team, but ah well, that's business.
Maybe if the litigation was dropped then the Wasps idea would buzz off
OK. CCFC move to Northampton. Chaos ensues, "no to franchise football", marches, petitions, "fix football", etc etc
(Potentially), London Wasps move to Coventry and maybe swallowing up the city's own rugby team, but ah well, that's business.
Nope, still don't get it. From Northampton's perspective it made good sense to have us there and I don't believe I have ever slated Northampton for taking us in.
Therefore , from Northampton's perspective it made perfect sense to take CCFC in. From ACL's perspective, if CCFC are determined to leave, then it makes perfect sense for them to seek another big name player to come to the Arena.
All this from their perspective. As fans I think we are all opposed to such a move unless it benefits CCFC and Cov rugby don't lose out either
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