I am amazed at some of the social media comments about Wasps from locals....
I read several comments yesterday including...
"i am loving be a new wasps fan, atmosphere was great"
"why didnt i get into rugby years ago"
"Wasps are my new team"
Its truely bizarre to me that people can jump on this so quickly, but each to their own i suppose.
One thing that was intersting is many comments along the lines of....
"I must add a word of thanks to the people of Coventry for their help and warm welcome"
Don't know about the 7,000 figure, it certainly won't drop that far, we're picking up lots of new supporters from the local area, including CCFC fans.I'm not sure how anyone can say that there was a great atmosphere for wasps first game. I watched on TV and the crowd were VERY quiet, so much so you could hear the players' voices. If its that quiet with 28,000 then just imagine what it will be like in a few weeks time when the crowds are down to 7,000.
Probably would be better if you supported Wasps the Rugby Team, not half as interesting as the politics though is it? Who needs the actual sport?
. (Always assuming you can actually get a pint, which is something Wasps need to address urgently at the Ricoh).
You must have missed the guy who was posting "fuckoffwasps" when they came in (because everybody else was) but now has black and gold blood
You have got to remember a large % of these will be just on about it because it is the "in thing", the same as posting the same thing over and over and over about SISU.
A lot of these people will have gone full circle from loving SISU, loving Hoffman and Elliott when they went, hating SISU, being outraged about us being moved, hating "franchising", loving wasps.
The new in thing is saying that it is ok because Rugby is "different".
It is interesting to look at their other views, I bet you a fiver most of them are passionately "SISU OUT", NOPM or have some sort of dodgy photoshopped sisu out image or tick list about SISU....
Makes you proud does it trying to steal another clubs fan base?Don't know about the 7,000 figure, it certainly won't drop that far, we're picking up lots of new supporters from the local area, including CCFC fans.
As far as crowd noise goes, there is a big difference in culture between football and rugby crowds. I've been to the odd Wycombe Wanderers game at Adams park, and there the away fans are herded into a segregated stand, with raucous chanting and thinly veiled hatred for the opposition present throughout the 90 minutes. At Wasps games there was none of that, and you could quite easily find yourself sitting next to an opposition supporter, and having a bit of banter and a chat. The only time it gets loud is when a player is sprinting for the tryline.
The fact that you can take a pint of beer to your seat at a rugby game, which you can't at football, underlines the difference. (Always assuming you can actually get a pint, which is something Wasps need to address urgently at the Ricoh).
I think it says it all when you have to deride the enthusiasm as being the "in thing". The problem is not that Wasps are the "in thing", but that CCFC are the "out thing". That is what needs to be addressed and some will have to admit their failings, whilst others will have to recognise that they are blinkered and cannot see the obvious - instead of just decrying others for being positive about Wasps.
Yes, we've got black-and-gold clad stormtroopers going round the streets of Coventry, threatening to take people's children away if they don't turn up for Wasps games.Makes you proud does it trying to steal another clubs fan base? ...
I think it says it all when our fans are only bothered when there is a bandwagon and it is the in thing...
I think it says more when our fans are more bothered and motivated to be angry at sisu while not being bothered about the football.
Makes you proud does it trying to steal another clubs fan base?
Will be less than 10k soon it seem, I expected 20k yesterday with all the free tickets going around so doesn't look promising, I've heard yesterday that around 10k free tickets were given away
I think it says it all when our fans are only bothered when there is a bandwagon and it is the in thing...
I think it says more when our fans are more bothered and motivated to be angry at sisu while not being bothered about the football.
Don't know about the 7,000 figure, it certainly won't drop that far, we're picking up lots of new supporters from the local area, including CCFC fans.
As far as crowd noise goes, there is a big difference in culture between football and rugby crowds. I've been to the odd Wycombe Wanderers game at Adams park, and there the away fans are herded into a segregated stand, with raucous chanting and thinly veiled hatred for the opposition present throughout the 90 minutes. At Wasps games there was none of that, and you could quite easily find yourself sitting next to an opposition supporter, and having a bit of banter and a chat. The only time it gets loud is when a player is sprinting for the tryline.
The fact that you can take a pint of beer to your seat at a rugby game, which you can't at football, underlines the difference. (Always assuming you can actually get a pint, which is something Wasps need to address urgently at the Ricoh).
TBF, I agree that some of the attitudes are bizarre, however they didn't have this attitude when SISU joined, everyone has a tipping point I suppose.
Life is too short, I am CCFC through and through, but I can slightly understand that as entertainment, perhaps some people are looking for something else than a 24% win record in the 3rd tier of our league pyramid.
I wouldn't go and see waps, yet I support the Blaze. I didn't even know they came from Sollihull when I started watching them and I only really know them as a Coventry team, just like the youngsters will know wasps as a Coventry team from now on.
I think it says it all when our fans are only bothered when there is a bandwagon and it is the in thing...
I think it says more when our fans are more bothered and motivated to be angry at sisu while not being bothered about the football.
In their last 13 games Cov Rugby have a 100% win record. Now I know that 'they're shit' so people must watch Wasps instead, but surely they deserve more backing from people in their own city?
I expected 20k yesterday with all the free tickets going around so doesn't look promising, I've heard yesterday that around 10k free tickets were given away
In their last 13 games Cov Rugby have a 100% win record. Now I know that 'they're shit' so people must watch Wasps instead, but surely they deserve more backing from people in their own city?
I've been a few times this season I'm now going to the remaining fixtures this season might even go to a few of their away games.
They are playing some good Rugby, with the help of a few loan players from the top clubs. We are going Saturday, hopefully to see yet another win.
I've been a few times this season I'm now going to the remaining fixtures this season might even go to a few of their away games.
No Thatcherite stereotyping of football fans at all there then. Segregated fans creates more of an atmosphere, always a lot of fun travelling away and being in a mini cauldron of noise.
I guess you were the only one then, 16k was an optimistic target for a fixture against Sale, which has never historically drawn big crowds. And you may want to get your hearing checked.
Thanks
Richard
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CCFC fans can do both.
If they don't go to watch CCFC then they have chose not to do so.
Why would you expect 20,000 when even Wasps expected 15,000?
10,000 free tickets
Again you only hear what you want to hear.
Every day people start to realise that there are advantages for both teams.
People were saying coventry is a poor city and they can't afford to buy tickets for city the other week....
Why the need for segregation?
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