There is no massaging of egos going on - Wasps are here and going to stay. Do I like the fact that Coventry City don't own the Ricoh - of course not but that is not Wasps fault that is the fault of SISU who decided on a particular strategy of distressing ACL to try and get the Ricoh for next to nothing. They didn't give a toss about the damage they would do to the club or the fans, they just ploughed on with this plan. The plan has not worked and we are now continue to be tenants in a stadium that should have belonged to the club. We are where we are and continually raking over who's to blame and who said what etc etc is not only fucking boring its totally unproductive. I openly asked the club to bid for the Higgs 50% but they couldnt even manage that without caveats and strings attached so Higgs didn't even have to think about who to sell to.
Wasps are our new landlords and I (along with 73% of those who responded to the survey) do not believe that the new stadium will be built therefore the club needs to act like a proper business and sit down with Wasps and negotaite the best possible long term deal they can - involving revenues etc. I have no access to the ACL plans but would expect that having a successful CCFC as being important to that plan and therefore SISU will ahve to swallow some pride and try concepts that seems totally alien to the - compromise and negotiation in good faith.
As for what I said to David Conn - "Fleetwood game was dire?" - well sorry if you thought that was a pulsating and exciting afternoon I suggest you get out more. I went to the Wasps match on the Sunday with my partner and we both thoroughly enjoyed it - they are no sports fan but at the end were asking when we could go again. Obviously at the kick off I was looking around the Ricoh thinking this should be a sea of SKy Blue but that has been taken away from us. The future is questionable? of course it is and you would have to be a myopic chimp not to be worried about the clubs future. Fans are struggling for hope - just look at the dropping attendances for evidence of that - in my book that is the greatest crime that SISU have committed - they have destroyed the sense of hope for the future of the club that has been a massive part of my life for over 40 years - I will never forgive them for that. Few members believe SISU intend to build new stadium I have already covered.
Hardly breathtaking stuff but he asked my thoughts and I gave them - sorry of you don't like them but if its any consolation to you I won't lose any sleep over it.
In fairness Jan, most people know whatever the club bidded for the Higgs share it wasn't going to happen anyway. intheknow has also confirmed it was always going to be 100% going to wasps.
Would a comparison be Gillingham? In which case "Yeah I went to the wasps game, it was full and busy but it was nothing to compared to when we played Gillingham". In terms of fleetwood, it was boring as shit but it was watching
my team play. I would much rather that than go and watch villa play a premier league game, I don't support villa and wouldn't care how loud or busy it was. It is how I have grown up, if I would have wanted to support a "top class" team I would have supported the big teams like the other kids at school, I am not going to suddenly decide to support one because it has been shipped in and then start comparing them to the team I love.
At school I knew City weren't as good as Man Utd or Liverpool, but being one of a couple in city shirts at the time I would have fought to the death about how city were the best team in the world at everything. If Man Utd had a nice hot dog, city would have a nicer hot dog.
