Coventry City FC giant crests may be moved at Ricoh as Wasps make mark on stadium (4 Viewers)

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Who would possibly put pen to paper on that and were they personally benefitting from the overall deal ???

The benefit wouldn't be corruption, it'd be 'strategic'.

Signing up to that deal allowed for a short term influx of cash, and allowed the club to trade without having to go into administration.

The 'wait and hope' strategy.
 

Ashdown

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I don't get what all the fuss is abut. Did we or did we not say we are not staying at the Ricoh? We have consistently and constantly let every man and his dog know that we have no intention of staying.

If the club are not prepared to stay and try and negotiate and somehow find some kind of partnership here, then Wasps have every reason to wipe all our identity from the prominent positions at the stadium. So they are fully justified in changing the bar name and in removing our plaques and also if they want to change all the colour of the seats too.

According to Tim we are not staying, so I just do not see what the fuss is all about.

Based on that Otis there shouldn't really be a problem or a fuss but we all know that Timmy has barely said anything that anyone believes in years !.................Oh and where's that silly bitch Sandra Garlick got to ?
 

torchomatic

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Yeah, we can blame Richardson for leaving HR and pocketing lots of cash for the Tesco sale but we have to look at McGinnity and Robinson for signing our slow death warrant.

He'd long gone by then. Can thank Robinson and McGinnity... and the board at that time as a whole.
 
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Yeah, we can blame Richardson for leaving HR and pocketing lots of cash for the Tesco sale but we have to look at McGinnity and Robinson for signing our slow death warrant.

It was also the McGinnity led board who took up the option they'd been left to buy back Highfield Road... only to sell it straight back to the developers for £1mil more... to pay the bills for a while.

Just think, we could have owned the freehold for our own ground...
 

Ashdown

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Ultimately though it was the glut of footballers that we overpaid for nearly two decades that pushed us into oblivion, that ridiculous expenditure was only compounded by unscrupulous and negligent owners, greedy landlords and a huge slice of bad luck when we dropped out of the Prem just when the money was ramped up for competitors and parachute cash rose. Others went the same way but found genuine investors with decent funds, we got a hedge fund who made a myriad of footballing errors and then reloaded the debt back on the club.
 
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It's the owners who chose to pay the footballers that much...

Just think where we'd have been if Gary Breen hadn't rejected his £20k pw offer.
 

letsallsingtogether

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Yeah, we can blame Richardson for leaving HR and pocketing lots of cash for the Tesco sale but we have to look at McGinnity and Robinson for signing our slow death warrant.
And Sisu for carrying on in the same vain shame they weren't as cleaver as they thought they were.

Our owner even admitted she never knew how much the rent was after two years, great business sense that.
 

SkyBlue_Bear83

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The problem is as I stated before they could do what the hell they like with the Ricoh because it's their's, they've purchased it, I would love to see the badge kept in the same place, but if that's the most prominent view point then they're going to stick a big insect there, not much we can do about it, as long as the artists impressions are accurate and whereby the Clubs badge is still on the Ricoh but in a different location and still prominent then it makes no odds.

This will be the beginning of it all, seats will change colour, bar names have already changed, the carpets and walls will change colour, there will be more Wasps' historical photos around the Ground, etc. We are going to have to get used it.



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Makes me laugh, they are going to plaster their history on a stadium in a city of which they have no historical ties to.

This whole situation makes me sick.
 

Sick Boy

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And Sisu for carrying on in the same vain shame they weren't as cleaver as they thought they were.

Our owner even admitted she never knew how much the rent was after two years, great business sense that.

What about Ranson who decided that purchasing the ground wasn't important?
 
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And he was employed by? The same people who didn't think it was important till way after they took over the club.

Well, he was in partnership with ;)

But yes, indeed. not like such things can be re-invented. likewise, Dulieu being a mentalist is ultimately the responsibility of the people who brought him in etc. etc.

Clean slate, nobody from the past anywhere near the club in the future, would be a handy start. Sure some have made honest mistakes, but they've all got to hold their hands up and accept they've failed the club on their watches.
 

Sky Blue Dal

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Which is kinda funny as we've paid more in rent since we've been there than Wasps have paid up front.

Oh Please!!!

They knew how much rent they were to pay before they took over the reigns and signed the papers just like many thousands of other businesses including my company and other football clubs all over this country know what building rent they suppose to pay.

Rent is rent, Lease is Lease and freehold is freehold... They chose to take on a rent paying club. Why do some not get this?

Just say it .. SISU balls it all up .

Ricoh is now gone.. no point keep bringing it up ... its time now for SISU to make a decision on either carry on paying the rent, build a new stadium for the future or cut there losses and look for new buyers for the club... Again this will be up to SISU on what choice they make and no one elses... FACT!!
 
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Sky Blue Dal

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Ultimately though it was the glut of footballers that we overpaid for nearly two decades that pushed us into oblivion, that ridiculous expenditure was only compounded by unscrupulous and negligent owners, greedy landlords and a huge slice of bad luck when we dropped out of the Prem just when the money was ramped up for competitors and parachute cash rose. Others went the same way but found genuine investors with decent funds, we got a hedge fund who made a myriad of footballing errors and then reloaded the debt back on the club.


Point very well made. Thankyou!!
 

albatross

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I think people forget the Collapse of ITV Digital. More than £300M for league football in 2002

Significant revenue for league clubs, however the Football League did not include a parent company guarantee so when it folded it blew a hole in the budget of Most clubs.

That was the first year we were in the Championship too!
 
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I think people forget the Collapse of ITV Digital.

Significant revenue for league clubs, however the Football League did not include a parent company guarantee so when it folded it blew a hole in the budget of Most clubs.

That was the first year we were in the Championship too!

Forgot about that .................. could be why the rental deal was signed with the intention of buying out (or into) ACL from the proceeds of the ITV deal.

Just a thought :thinking about:

Still think SISU ballsed everything up though :(
 

fernandopartridge

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Forgot about that .................. could be why the rental deal was signed with the intention of buying out (or into) ACL from the proceeds of the ITV deal.

Just a thought :thinking about:

Still think SISU ballsed everything up though :(

The ITV deal collapsed in 2002. It might explain why an ACL bail out was required in the first place to a certain extent.
 

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