Grendel
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Good luck
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Good luck
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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If you were a Coventry fan you’d understand the vitriol.
we can be sporting city - ideally with the city’s actual rugby side at the heart of it. Not the London one.
incidentally will you still be following wasps if they went back to London?
NorthernWisdom
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I expect the answer is somewhere along the lines of divesting themselves of a hassle, and a risk of having to defend countless litigation forever and a day.
Liquid Gold
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You're fucking scum
Grendel
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Still doesn’t explain why it wasn’t a 250 year lease from the start
AOM
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You just have to hear the adverts for the other shows between the football coverage to hear how painful it is. All the fake laughing and banter drives me mental and I can't imagine it attracts many younger audiences.
It's pretty much Mid Morning Matters
NorthernWisdom
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I'd assume the explanation there is something about basically Wasps indeed not having the money, but the lease extension afterwards allows them to buy in and then raise capital afterwards. Same principle, divests CCC of the risk, but the way it's done enables them to divest themselves of the risk with minimal hassle and less opportunity for SISU to get wind of it, and attempt stalling actions.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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But if we take Fisher at his word - SISU would have been interested at 250 years. This in theory means they’d likely have offered more and provided a better return for the Coventry tax payer.
evidently their hatred of SISU has cost the taxpayer and now we’re potentially left with a white elephant. Great due diligence there CCC
NorthernWisdom
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But they're the litigious threat who've ensured that trust has broken down, and there's no way they'd have progressed anywhere in buying the arena, and any attempts would have been to gain access to information to launch more squeezing attacks, in CCC's view by that time. Opening it uo to SISU was probably seen as potentially costing more money - the safe option was to exclude them and get rid ASAP.
I'm sure Fisher would have been interested - he did actually agree a deal, after all. Fisher is ultimately as powerless as Boddy however. The trust and personality issues have always been higher up really, and Fisher was just the conduit.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Talking of trust - it’s a two way street, remember they brought us back from Northampton with a future discussion about ownership… it was basically a ruse to get us in as a tenant for wasps
Liquid Gold
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I bet you like to watch your wife get fingered by the bins too you fucking tramp.
NorthernWisdom
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I'm pretty sure SISU hurried us back once they got wind of a deal for the Arena, in the hope that occupation would somehow render the option to buy into the Arena still valid, and mean they had a chance of stopping the Wasps deal.
Trust may be a two way street, but the question was why CCC would accept the deal they did, I've offered a possible reason. It's worth noting all councillors, of all parties, thought it was a good idea to accept. That reason must have been quite persuasive, whatever it was.
play_in_skyblue_stripes
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I think it was right that the stadium was NOT given away to SISU because of they extreme actions they took for to get a knockdown price.
Understandable to bring someone else in when SISU said they were leaving for good as the stadium would be a 'white elephant'.
Having WASPS here was always going to be unsustainable in medium term. I absolutely agree that it was crazy for a 'London' team playing in a stadium built for Coventry City and Coventry City playing elsewhere.
Hopefully the WASPS unsustainable position in Coventry will end soon and a much better and natural position results in some form.
Don't forget what SISU are like . Some recent success doesn't hide their ruthlessness and partial interest in the success of Coventry City and regard of its supporters.
Lots of fault in many of the parties involved for sure.
Let's just hope some good news happen where the stadium is a 'sky blue elephant' stadium. Also hope our team does better and is strengthened. Fans can help by getting behind team and Mark Robbins.
Understandable to bring someone else in when SISU said they were leaving for good as the stadium would be a 'white elephant'.
Having WASPS here was always going to be unsustainable in medium term. I absolutely agree that it was crazy for a 'London' team playing in a stadium built for Coventry City and Coventry City playing elsewhere.
Hopefully the WASPS unsustainable position in Coventry will end soon and a much better and natural position results in some form.
Don't forget what SISU are like . Some recent success doesn't hide their ruthlessness and partial interest in the success of Coventry City and regard of its supporters.
Lots of fault in many of the parties involved for sure.
Let's just hope some good news happen where the stadium is a 'sky blue elephant' stadium. Also hope our team does better and is strengthened. Fans can help by getting behind team and Mark Robbins.
NorthernWisdom
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Off to support Gloucester in a bit, then.
Liquid Gold
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Wear your wasps shirt to the next ccfc home game and you'll get an idea of how well you're thought of.
NorthernWisdom
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But of course if Wasps are relegated, you'll no longer be a fan. Always another team, at least.
Grendel
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It’s a nonsense - a sub 50 year lease is worthless
NorthernWisdom
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So therefore Wasps can come in and not fall foul of state aid rules.
Liquid Gold
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Too scared to wear your travelling twat show gear then? Fucking wimp
NorthernWisdom
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Pity you couldn't support the rugby team from the city then.
duffer
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I've got absolutely no issue with Wasps fans, I've got a few mates who go occasionally, but as politely as I can put it, they never belonged in this City and I'd be massively against the football club being in any way involved with them.
Without being in any way sarcastic, if you've found a love for the game, then if the worse happens Coventry RFC would welcome your support. There's not as much razamatazz but the rugby's not bad and the stadium is easier to get to than the CBS. It's a friendly place, I go there regularly and they're busy writing their own history.
Be a part of that club and that history instead; with apologies again, experience suggests that Wasps aren't that bothered about their fans when it comes right down to it.
Liquid Gold
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Would be outing yourself as the fucking turncoat you are so you know full well why you won't do it as the reaction you'd get wouldn't be pleasant.
You'd be banned from CCFC and CRFC if I had my way, you're a fucking scum bag.
Liquid Gold
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Do you stare out the window and support the passing pigeons, anything that moves before your dead eyes.
Fucking weird guy.
Liquid Gold
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Who is we?
City?
Cov?
Wasps?
Tramp wrestling?
Watching the rugger lads pass around the missus?
Fuck off
Nick
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Clearly not a City and Wasps fan then.
Liquid Gold
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Piss poor baiting mate. Why don't you go and drink some more wasps piss?
Tommo1993
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Only advice would be to stop being a WUM. You’ve made an account and have posted what you have posted - it was never going to be met with respect. This reconciliation act I’m suddenly seeing from Wasps fans is a joke and will certainly not be reciprocated. I would say it’s coming from a lot of their fans, but they don’t have a lot really do they?
duffer
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I don't quite know how you fit it all in then given the fixtures of the three clubs clash so often. You'll be aware there's no great love for Wasps at CRFC too no doubt.
Given you're obviously fairly flexible in your support, would it really bother you that much if Wasps went?
There'll still be plenty to do on Saturday afternoon, and that's before you'd even need to go to Leicester for the Tigers.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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duffer
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Aye, and I've seen Zinzanh Brooke and more recently Sam T (hacksaw) at Cov too. And it was even more exciting because they were playing for an actual Coventry side.
I think you've got your answer mate, is there anything else you need to know?
duffer
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Now that is bollocks. MK Dons needed to move? If you knew anything about football you'd know that's rubbish.
You need to move on yourself now perhaps. I think you've outstayed your welcome and exhausted your excuses.
Nick
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Is it 2015 again?
Liquid Gold
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Those points should be given to people who haven't funded the people that stole our stadium and kicked us out of it and you should be banned.
Nick
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Obviously they don't judging by Wasps empty ground.
duffer
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Maybe if you supported them rather than the franchise. Wasps aren't a Cov side mate, they just washed up somewhere convenient for a while. Cov have been here since 1874, that's the Cov side pal. On your way now...
