Nick
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Do you think the University needs leverage with CCC?
We are talking a whole new level of political power than SISU / CCFC would have.
Haven't scrolled through everything so if this is repetitive sorry
- If our source is right SISU have probably made several approaches to the University
- In retrospect they are an obvious partner - land / outside CCC area but in 'Coventry' / non-competing usage / scale
- Promotion may just have convinced the Univ that they can allow the talks to go public
- The commitment is so loose that either party can back out with no great loss of face
- You can bet they have identified a bit of land, but maybe not in detail. Or else it would not have got even this far.
- Univ might want leverage with CCC as well. Or might need revenue to replace Chinese students, who knows?
- I think we should call the ground Kenilworth Road ...... oh, maybe not.
Why would Warwick uni be in on a bluff?I just can’t see this as happening and it’s a bluff to force Wasps hand for a deal / stake at The Ricoh.
People moan that the Ricoh is shit to get too. Warwick Uni / Gibbert Hill on any given day of the week, let alone a Saturday at 3pm will be carnage. The A45 will be an absolute clusterfuck.
Spent years playing hockey at Westwood / Warwick Uni and travelling into there has always been shite. If this goes ahead we’ve done exactly the same as what happened with the Ricoh with regards to a shit location for all transport means.
Has it been deleted?
Somebody else seems bitter too.
Funny really, they all seem to be in the Hoffman / Wasps gang.
For now, Coventry's owners SISU remain in negotiations with Wasps over a potential third return to the Ricoh Arena next season. Failure to agree a deal is expected to see Mark Robins' team return to Birmingham City's St Andrew's stadium.
It's not though is it. From my house it's an hour on public transport assuming the stadium is located "near" Warwick Uni. That's on a good day. Add in 15K other fans trying to do the same journey using the same roads. It'll be gridlock.Well dont drive - use public transport and your legs! Problem solved
I expect they will say its the same way we sometimes get bogus signings announced on Wikipedia! So, in that case, I'm curious why it has not so far been leaked on Wikipedia? ;-)Why would Warwick uni be in on a bluff?
I expect they will say its the same way we sometimes get bogus signings announced on Wikipedia! So, in that case, I'm curious why it has not so far been leaked on Wikipedia? ;-)
I just can’t see this as happening and it’s a bluff to force Wasps hand for a deal / stake at The Ricoh.
People moan that the Ricoh is shit to get too. Warwick Uni / Gibbert Hill on any given day of the week, let alone a Saturday at 3pm will be carnage. The A45 will be an absolute clusterfuck.
Spent years playing hockey at Westwood / Warwick Uni and travelling into there has always been shite. If this goes ahead we’ve done exactly the same as what happened with the Ricoh with regards to a shit location for all transport means.
Dunno. What I do know is that they wouldn't be the first company to have "sold" land to a sporting team in Coventry and nothing come of it in recent years. IE Wasps & Severn Trent.Why would Warwick uni be in on a bluff?
Stadium construction design changed a lot since Ricoh was built.
Don't want to piss on everyone's parade but really can't help but feel this is a smokescreen. Dangling this in front of us because we can't negotiate a deal to play at the ricoh next season. They're looking at this taking 5 years and with so much to be negotiated, there are so many easy ways out. Basically what has happened today is 2 entities have sat down and agreed they are going to look into something which may or may not come to fruition. I can't tell you how many meetings I've sat in with large organisations and salespeople have claimed their deal is the next big thing and then nothing happens.
Would love to believe there is a clear route forward with this but I'm highly skeptical
Been walking the dog up there while there's no students about and the car parks are free. There's loads of building work going on at the uni but they have been doing some sort of surveying and testing on the fields by the new sports centre. May well be completely unrelated but that would be an obvious location. As well as the sports centre there's a load of what looks like 5-a-side pitches (not sure as everything is closed), artificial pitch and several full size pitches.There's a lot of land on the Cryfield side where a lot of sport pitches currently are, whether alongside or in place of them would be my initial guess for a spot
Traffic getting home can be an absolute arse most evenings but if it's followed three points in a stadium we own I'll live with it.
Why would Warwick uni be in on a bluff?
It's not though is it. From my house it's an hour on public transport assuming the stadium is located "near" Warwick Uni. That's on a good day. Add in 15K other fans trying to do the same journey using the same roads. It'll be gridlock.
What about the people who drive hundreds of miles to City games? Seems to me that if a stadium isn't within a nice walking distance for some fans then the plans are "not viable" or some other similar piece of rhetoric. Maybe they will consult you and lay on a helicopter or something.
I live in Banbury, I will get there.
Its only a problem if you make it one.
I live in Banbury, I will get there.
Its only a problem if you make it one.
Warwick Uni is about 5 times as far from me as the Ricoh.
Like you say, you try a few different options to find the best one that works. It was the same getting / to from St Andrews (Try M6, Try A45 etc)
Good news. Obviously remain highly sceptical but I can't really see why the Uni would get involved if it was just bluster from SISU. With the exception of the city centre / Butts, which would take a miracle, this is the best location we could hope for. Presume the plan, should we get that far, would be for the academy and training ground to move there as well, possibly sharing facilities with the Uni.
Road infrastructure is already being improved for access to the uni itself and there's been reports recently of a plan for a railway station for the Uni / Kings Hill as well as the prospect of the Light Rail system, although that seems a very long way off.
Any site is going to present issues but thousands of people manage to get in and out of the uni and business parks every day so I don't think there's anything insurmountable.
Been walking the dog up there while there's no students about and the car parks are free. There's loads of building work going on at the uni but they have been doing some sort of surveying and testing on the fields by the new sports centre. May well be completely unrelated but that would be an obvious location. As well as the sports centre there's a load of what looks like 5-a-side pitches (not sure as everything is closed), artificial pitch and several full size pitches.
I know it was a good call by him, but no need to do that surelyWas rumoured so foreplay to @WestEndAgro and anyone who dissed him should apologise.
Still not 100% sure they will do it. They basically wanna put more pressure on wasps. But good news . I rarely go to that part of the city so not sure how long it will take to get stadium but the club's issues are bigger than mine!
FUCKINGJOKE ... hardly any closer for me ffs
This is the bit I could see them looking at, building over the existing pitches and locating them elsewhere may also a possibility as the new sports hub was intended to be the main part but with other sport facilities dotted around rather than it all being central
That X is what the Ricoh pitch looks like by Christmas every year too, so we might not even need to do much work on the pitch.This is the bit I could see them looking at, building over the existing pitches and locating them elsewhere may also a possibility as the new sports hub was intended to be the main part but with other sport facilities dotted around rather than it all being central
Can you imagine tile hill & canley for the away fansMatch day pubs, the sovereign, phantom coach, burnt post, Westwood social club to became the new supporters club lol... Let the away fans drink in Canley
FUCKINGJOKE ... hardly any closer for me ffs
Can you imagine tile hill & canley for the away fans
Rapid Vienna's modular stadium cost just shy of £50mFrom the newer ones there’s not much to go on. Brentford’s cost £71m. Shrewsbury’s cost about £11m... but we’d be aiming for better than that. Luton’s is hard to find. But I think theirs is a whole complex with lots of other things going on there. Not sure how much the stadium was but there’s an article that says the whole thing cost around £200m.
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