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Because it was in poor condition, nobody has sought to deny that. That's different from it being dangerous. I recall when Wasps first played at the Ricoh, there were images of the playing surface literally peeling off at scrums. They played on it. Clearly the pitch was unplayable for...

I'm not saying they are lying. I said in the original post that if the EFL call the game off then fair enough; that 1. acknowledges that it's the EFL's decision to make and 2. That if they call it they will have good reason I'm sure. What is worthy of comment though, is how ground staff appear...

I think this is true sadly. That said, the A444 is the busiest entry point into the city, the area surrounds a facility that attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year. For many, their entire experience of Coventry will involve The Arena and it's immediate vacinity, so at least make this...

No, never said anything of the sort. I explicitly said that I do accept it. And the reports I've heard come from staff at the arena not randoms on twitter, and the noise is that Wasps refute the EFL findings, and that includes ground staff. Does that mean I believe Wasps? No, of course not, but...

Indeed, I concede this point entirely. But, from what we know, the pitch hasn't been inspected by a referee for 10 days. We deserve to see the report from last week, why hasn't that been shared? What is it that is making the pitch unsafe? Divots? It's beyond the wit of man to fix some uneven...

100% this. You can't tell me that pitch isn't playable by Saturday. I seriously hope we're not playing political games at this point.

Aye, of course, but it is a worry. We'll be further adrift at the weekend. Not nice playing catch up, not great for confidence and fixture congestion will hurt us further. Nowt we can do - we are not relegation material, we all know that, so just got to get our head down and hope we don't get...

Much of that was infrastructure and site decontamination. They also had things like an underground casino that added significantly to the cost, but which were externally funded anyway. It was built on the cheap - the materials pallete was bargain basement - the cheapest of cheap cladding and...

No social media output of any kind from the club, on any subject, in 24 hours now. That never happens. Clearly a deliberate black-out, so something is afoot.

I think with the right owners and with investment there is a lot that can be done with it. Let's be honest, it was built on the cheap and has been poorly maintained over the years. Not a single development has gone up around it in 17 years (which given its gateway location and proximity to J3...

If today's announcement is that they are about to start working on the pitch, but Saturday's game is off, that cannot possibly be spun as 'positive news', that's a fucking joke. In my head they've been working on it for nearly two weeks. They are only starting now? Wtf.

Gate receipts are what, around 50% of turnover? There will be income of course, but no idea on the schedule for tv and solidarity payments and the lack of ticket money must be causing chronic cash flow issues already.

Of course. I was merely answering the point about monies received to this point in the context of refunds that are being requested now, but those refunds are for match tickets anyway for games that will hopefully be played and for which the money would have have been received. Gonna be so...

Doesn't season ticket money get drawn down when games are played? Somebody on here explained how that works iirc. They would have received the match tickets sales money surely, and that's what they are refunding.

This is deeply worrying. I don't believe there is a club out there willing to ground share for any length of time, aside from Burton perhaps and the financial hit of that, and the prospect of ST ballots and all the toxicity if will generate, is frightening. As it stands we've got nowhere to...

Hoping the silence today is a positive. We simply must play on the current pitch - there is no other option. You can't order a new playing surface on Deliveroo the last time I checked. It is a process that will take weeks/months to plan and implement. The current pitch is what we have, so...

I'm aware of the Hamer suspension. Gyok may not be sellable from a football perspective, but I still think he is sold. The postponement of fixtures is going to cost us a small fortune. I'll be very surprised if he is not sold as the finances cannot look good. I do think we'll stay up though...

Nope.

We're in trouble. We'll be bottom by next Saturday. Games in hand or not, O'Hare is out, Hamer suspended, Gyok likely to be sold. Could be a long, hard season. Just got to rally behind them. Issue is we're dogshit defensively. If you offered me survial this season I'd take it. Nothing alarmist...

Why would we have? We'd have looked at 2014 and probably concluded it would be fine. The we learn at the last minute the CG would be played on last season's pitch. What could we have done, because people are all making the same point without suggesting what we could have changed at such short...