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Totally agree, but as your last statement secures - it wasn't just the council who have let down and forgotten CRFC.
Watching Cov Rugby Club rise back to the top would be a far more rewarding experience. Shame our Council have so little faith in their own City teams. (I can't stand Rugby by the way)
i sincerely hope they don't. anyone who boycotted sixfields and attends a wasps game is a hyprocrite in my eyes. As northern says, perhaps sisu ought to move us to belfast, its ok, not everyone over there supports Gaelic Football or cares if it is labelled 'franchise' so i'm sure they'll get behind sky blues fc
Unlikely, not now they have obtained a world class stadium for little outlay. The team on the pitch will only be one of there income streams.
Could have been us but those tossers SISU gambled and lost.
Or until their entrepreneurial chairman decides to make some capital on that nice little real estate in CV6 and fuck off his franchise elsewhere ?!Not right now they don't. You forget not everyone in Coventry supports football, or cares if it is labelled 'franchise'. Like me, people are excited to see Premiership Rugby. The club, thankfully, have chosen to nest here in Coventry, where in time we will make it ours
I don't think you realise how many people are excited for the move.
Wasps took advantage of a shit situation but I don't totally blame them. Rugby isn't my thing but this is something we all have to come to terms with as they are not going away. We need the other half of the ground and I think a partnership approach could be really effective. The council have really let us down which is the bit that sticks in my throat and hopefully this will negatively affect them when it comes to the polls.
Coventry City Council selling their Ricoh shares is the best thing they have done since resurfacing Evenlode Crescent. Finally they have not only washed their hands of a ridiculous soap opera with a football clubs owners, but they have ensure the survival of a great rugby club in Wasps and brought a great sustainable flow of sporting events to Coventry.
CCC should never have invested taxpayer money into the ricoh bail out. That's not what i pay them for. They certainly should not have entertained and danced this whole musical of shit-flinging that has panned out the last 2 years.
Now Wasps own the largest premiership rugby stadium, you can expect a better draw for international rugby matches, not to mention the european cup ties, and of course the premiership itself.
The cicus is leaving, and the real shows are about to begin.
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When you say a great sustainable flow of sporting events to Coventry, are you just referring to Wasps games? as I cant see what else is coming.
Re international rugby matches, I do believe all the home nations have their own grounds so why would they come to the Ricoh?
As for a better draw for Euro games, they are drawn in a group and play opponents in it home and away. Playing at the Ricoh makes no difference to that, the stadium in that sense means nothing, nor will it when they are getting lower attendances than they currently do in Wycombe.
I think their income streams will be significantly less than what they are predicting, and revenue streams may be a lot tighter than they think. Their projections for attendances are akin to those of one Mr Fisher when we moved to Northampton.
Lets not forget that these are the same people that it is alleged who may not have been able to secure funding for the stadium until recently.
Who were the allegations coming from?
When you say a great sustainable flow of sporting events to Coventry, are you just referring to Wasps games? as I cant see what else is coming.
Re international rugby matches, I do believe all the home nations have their own grounds so why would they come to the Ricoh?
As for a better draw for Euro games, they are drawn in a group and play opponents in it home and away. Playing at the Ricoh makes no difference to that, the stadium in that sense means nothing, nor will it when they are getting lower attendances than they currently do in Wycombe.
Or until their entrepreneurial chairman decides to make some capital on that nice little real estate in CV6 and fuck off his franchise elsewhere ?!
I seem to recall it was in the press, but cant be fekked at moment to find it. Believe it or dont.
I think it was sources close to SISU, draw your own conclusions.
Or not. It was in the Telegraph...I am sure Simin Gilbert is quite independent of SISU
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/wasps-ricoh-arena-bid-could-7862848
I do not think the attendances will be smaller than Adams Park. In fact, i'll put £20 on it right now that the first Ricoh league game will be Wasps highest league attendance this season.
It may be. I would also bet that by the end of the season it will be a lot lot lower than that.
He's reporting rumours, are you suggesting he made the rumours up?
No you are.
I cant see where I said that at all, feel free to make up stuff that suits your agenda if it makes you feel better.
It was a question, but feel free to make up stuff about me making up stuff etc etc.
How many options would CCC have for a major tenant for the Ricoh? My guess is that this was the first decent offer so they grabbed it.
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