It depends Ian. Did we agree to the 7s being played here ? Also, did we consider or even request playing the first couple away from home ?
I just can’t see how nobody saw the massive risk to have a home game so close to a rugby tournament being played on the pitch. Even if the game had gone ahead, it might’ve been considered safe but it would still have been mess especially as we’re a footballing team
If we didn’t have any say in the 7s being played here and were told we couldn’t move fixtures, I’m with you. If Wasps haven’t delivered on promises or breached terms under our lease, that’s also a different matter and obviously not our fault
I just think it’s weird that nobody at the club saw this potentially coming
Why would we have had a say on it, it's not our ground.
Whether we could see it coming out not, there's not a great deal at could do about it.
Wasps needed the money, our needs are entirely secondary to that.
That's why we need them gone, and soon.
What ? He really couldn’t get clearance ?Doubt he could with the security in place at the stadium
Sorry I’m not having that. We are not to blame here at all.
Doubt he could with the security in place at the stadium
Why would we have had a say on it, it's not our ground.
Whether we could see it coming out not, there's not a great deal at could do about it.
Wasps needed the money, our needs are entirely secondary to that.
That's why we need them gone, and soon.
I hope we do fuck up their cosy situation there.Here we go again. Sisu are going to be cuckoo in the nest.
Pitch obviously ain’t been looked after but with wasps current situation they are going to be the Tennant from hell.
You can see it now - pitch shit, not enough bar staff, turnstiles always open late. Compo, compo, compo.
Problem is whilst it may damaged wasps it also turns our season into a shit show.
How long do our best players and Robins put-up with it?
Why at the beginning of a season is it a cash flow issue? A high percentage of season tickets would have been paid for in full from day 1. The club will get that money shortly after it has been processed, they don’t get it a week at a time. It is then for the club to manage that fund. Cash flow rightly is important but shouldn’t impact on a club that has generated somewhere in the region of £3.5 million 6 weeks previously.Yes, people seem to forget the importance of cash flow, playing potentially 4 games away in one go at the beginning of the season would be a big strain. Its not as easy as say, "no problem we'll play away"
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This is why all this hinting and speculating by ITK isn’t helping at all.Why at the beginning of a season is it a cash flow issue? A high percentage of season tickets would have been paid for in full from day 1. The club will get that money shortly after it has been processed, they don’t get it a week at a time. It is then for the club to manage that fund. Cash flow rightly is important but shouldn’t impact on a club that has generated somewhere in the region of £3.5 million 6 weeks previously.
Why at the beginning of a season is it a cash flow issue? A high percentage of season tickets would have been paid for in full from day 1. The club will get that money shortly after it has been processed, they don’t get it a week at a time. It is then for the club to manage that fund. Cash flow rightly is important but shouldn’t impact on a club that has generated somewhere in the region of £3.5 million 6 weeks previously.
He could have got a fucken ticket to the games at the very least! We all knew the pitch was fucked and most of us have been nowhere near it.
Gone are the days when on a wet and windy midweek night at the Baseball ground with not a blade of grass in sight eh??
I played on park pitches a whole lot worse back in the day. Are footballers just protected too much these days becuase of their value?
Playing on a pitch that's the same for both sides is no longer acceptable it seems.
Can't understand why they did not cut out the middle section shown on the photo's and replace with fresh turf? It's amazing what they can do these days but clearly ground staff are in the dark ages here.
Why did we not expect this after Rugby 7's? Why did Body not ask for the game to be a reverse fixture? There is incompetence everywhere throughout society today. What happened to the committee that was jointly set up to monitor the pitch for this season?
We won't be fined by the EFL, they gave consent to call it off. At the end of the day the Commonwealth Games organisers are ultimately responsible. Will the cup game be played? I expect so. Well we get to train a few players up to speed like Palmer etc. And we will have one of those lovely games in hand!
More than just protecting players, there were TV viewers to think about. If the Premier League was to market itself as a slick global brand, it needed a product that looked good on television. Muddy, bobbly, patchy pitches would not do. Broadcasters began to demand “snooker table-like pitches,” said Calderwood. According to Geoff Webb, CEO of the Grounds Management Association, which represents British groundskeepers, some broadcasters even stipulated in contracts that the pitches must be in pristine condition.
Why? We don't own the stadium or the pitch, we didn't lease the facility to the commonwealth games committee, we are tenants, presumably renting a ground with a fit and proper pitch. I'd imagine Wasps have failed as landlords here.Wasps, Sisu, CCFC, Commonwealth games organisers and EFL all deserve blame for this nonsense
We should have played games away till a week tomorrow
Can see a fine and a points deduction
More credit card payments. Paid in 23rds after a game played.Didn’t someone say the finance option isn’t paid to the club up front?
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Commonwealth Games said they had signed an official tenancy agreement to use the stadium from 8 July until 14 August.
"After a contract was agreed for Coventry City Football Club to return to the Coventry Stadium, Birmingham 2022 was asked whether it could accommodate CCFC matches within our tenancy," they added.
"To assist the football club, we rearranged our derigging schedule to make the stadium available on 7,10 and 14 August.
"It has been a busy summer at the Coventry Stadium, and as has been planned for several years, we were pleased to stage rugby sevens matches at the venue on 29, 30 and 31 July."
Wasps, Sisu, CCFC, Commonwealth games organisers and EFL all deserve blame for this nonsense
We should have played games away till a week tomorrow
Can see a fine and a points deduction
Credit card payments don’t work like unless it is specified that there are several payments to make up the total. Finance would be paid monthly as the payments come in as it’s paid monthly. It would be reasonable to assume at least 5000 season tickets were sold on credit cards, that would equate to £1.5 million coming into the club in the last 6 weeks. Furthermore the club will receive its share from the EFL that may well be split over the course of the season. The club would also receive its share in merchandise sales. Even if this was an issue, which for one minute I can’t believe to be the case m, the club can apply for factoring if they were that short.More credit card payments. Paid in 23rds after a game played.
I'm just relaying what was previously said on here, might have been believer but have slept a few times since. Believe (pardon the pun) it is due to card protection.Credit card payments don’t work like unless it is specified that there are several payments to make up the total. Finance would be paid monthly as the payments come in as it’s paid monthly. It would be reasonable to assume at least 5000 season tickets were sold on credit cards, that would equate to £1.5 million coming into the club in the last 6 weeks.
Sounds like ACL were fortunate that the pitch did not cause a player to snap an achilles or far, far worse during the egg chasing.Think the Commonwealth lease thing is a bit of a red herring. Their statement relates to derigging which is nothing to do with the pitch, its all the other crap, for example the stuff occupying the car park.
Reads to me that all they've agreed to is suspending that process to allow matches to be played on certain dates. They would have no requirement for the pitch once the last game had been played.
That’s what the CWG people probably saidI assume we have a contract? Your landlord can’t let your house out to someone else as well because he’s skint.
We should have requested first two games away.
I assume we have a contract? Your landlord can’t let your house out to someone else as well because he’s skint.
£3.5m will pay the wages for 10 weeks or so between the end of last season and now (i estimate the wage bill annually is around £16m), what income is going to pay August's wage bill?Why at the beginning of a season is it a cash flow issue? A high percentage of season tickets would have been paid for in full from day 1. The club will get that money shortly after it has been processed, they don’t get it a week at a time. It is then for the club to manage that fund. Cash flow rightly is important but shouldn’t impact on a club that has generated somewhere in the region of £3.5 million 6 weeks previously.
So you’re saying we could have said no, stopped the CWG being played at the CBS and deprived Wasps of the money they have been given??We were given the option by all accounts and we agreed the CWG could be played there. We are complicit no matter how much we hate wasps
By what accounts? Didn’t the CWG agreement predate our return? I can’t believe Wasps would have given SISU the opportunity to deny them income.We were given the option by all accounts and we agreed the CWG could be played there. We are complicit no matter how much we hate wasps
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