Wasps downward spiral... (34 Viewers)

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Brighton Sky Blue

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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
 
chiefdave

chiefdave

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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

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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...
 
jordan210

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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

jordan210

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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

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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!
 
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CCFC54321

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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

chiefdave

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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.
 
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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

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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.
 
jordan210

jordan210

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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
 
Gynnsthetonic

Gynnsthetonic

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Is there no ombudsmen that this can be reported to, surely the other company whose recent application was rejected will appeal.
 
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fernandopartridge

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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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djbooth

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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

chiefdave

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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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