GaryJones
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Coventry City FC by a couple of thousand I reckon - You can find Wasps tickets pinned up in telephone boxes just about anywhere. :shamefullyembarrased:
Coventry City FC by a couple of thousand I reckon - You can find Wasps tickets pinned up in telephone boxes just about anywhere. :shamefullyembarrased:Crucially, who has the more paying attendees?
Thanks for acknowledging that there is a need for me!Sorry, I was reminding you we are winning a game 4-1 which you don't seem bothered by. Another one.
Edit: 4-2 now.
My point is people like you who crawl out of the woodwork every so often when there is a need and then vanish again.
Hardly beloved are they? How's that article having a go at anybody apart from climbing up wasps arse?
It's hardly fighting to point out its nothing more than a part of a pr game. Just the same as the trust are.
I’m sorry but I fail to see why some are criticising this article.
Let’s compare and contrast the Wasps approach with SISU.
Wasps saw that there was a deal to be done, sat down with the council, agreed a price and honoured their part of the bargain. Yes, their attendances may not be stellar but I suspect that it is overall better than their previous “home”.
SISU have been continually sniping at other parties, pulled out of agreements that other parties thought resolved and suing just about everyone. Their statements about building a new stadium have been vacuous with no evidence that anything has been done apart from an artist’s impression reworked from a different project.
Love or hate them, Wasps objective seems to be to build a business with rugby at its centre.
It seems to me that all SISU are interested in is recouping as much of their money as they can and committing no more in the meantime. If they do manage that they won’t be looking in the rear view mirror at what little they have left behind.
Personally I don’t like rugby or some aspects of Wasps decampment from London.
However, if SISU had taken the same business approach as Wasps we would be cheering them on.
Hello.So if sisu moved the club halfway round the country you’d be salivating over their business approach?
Wow
Hello.
No I wouldn’t. Just because you understand why such things happen doesn’t mean you agree with it.
If SISU had a decent business ethic from the start and taken the opportunities that were available, Wasps wouldn’t have had the opening that they took: they would still be a London based club looking for a viable site to develop.
The city of Coventry needs a successful football club. It has the population to support, it raises the profile of the city and generates revenue. Football is the only sport that can do this in the UK. I do not believe the the city of Coventry will get this from CCFC while they are owned by SISU.
So many words yet so little pointHello.
No I wouldn’t. Just because you understand why such things happen doesn’t mean you agree with it.
If SISU had a decent business ethic from the start and taken the opportunities that were available, Wasps wouldn’t have had the opening that they took: they would still be a London based club looking for a viable site to develop.
The city of Coventry needs a successful football club. It has the population to support, it raises the profile of the city and generates revenue. Football is the only sport that can do this in the UK. I do not believe the the city of Coventry will get this from CCFC while they are owned by SISU.
Offer? Do you think that a business should wait to see if they are are offered something? They go out and seek what they want and act in a matter that shows that they know what they want and are prepared to deal for it.What deal did the council ever offer the club?
As London Wasps are not in a good way financially how is the wasps business plan "decent"?Hello.
No I wouldn’t. Just because you understand why such things happen doesn’t mean you agree with it.
If SISU had a decent business ethic from the start and taken the opportunities that were available, Wasps wouldn’t have had the opening that they took: they would still be a London based club looking for a viable site to develop.
The city of Coventry needs a successful football club. It has the population to support, it raises the profile of the city and generates revenue. Football is the only sport that can do this in the UK. I do not believe the the city of Coventry will get this from CCFC while they are owned by SISU.
You have posted more in this thread defending wasps than you did about the success we got last year.Hello.
No I wouldn’t. Just because you understand why such things happen doesn’t mean you agree with it.
If SISU had a decent business ethic from the start and taken the opportunities that were available, Wasps wouldn’t have had the opening that they took: they would still be a London based club looking for a viable site to develop.
The city of Coventry needs a successful football club. It has the population to support, it raises the profile of the city and generates revenue. Football is the only sport that can do this in the UK. I do not believe the the city of Coventry will get this from CCFC while they are owned by SISU.
lapsed? made up more likeYou have posted more in this thread defending wasps than you did about the success we got last year.
Far too blatant.
Compared to SISU's it isn't looking that bad. I don't think that SISU should rely on it failing to the extent that it all comes crashing down.As London Wasps are not in a good way financially how is the wasps business plan "decent"?
Forgive but city make a profit and wasps are on a financial knife edgeCompared to SISU's it isn't looking that bad. I don't think that SISU should rely on it failing to the extent that it all comes crashing down.
Again,the talk is about Wasps as if they are the entire reason for CCFC not owning their own ground.
Compared to SISU's it isn't looking that bad. I don't think that SISU should rely on it failing to the extent that it all comes crashing down.
Again,the talk is about Wasps as if they are the entire reason for CCFC not owning their own ground.
No surprise the Trust and people like cj constantly drool about him. "One of us" type bullshit, same as supporters direct.
So you don't have the rights to comment on football matches as you presumably don't watch, listen or attend but you have kept bang up to date with every Wasps and SISU business decision over the lapsed years and have finally decided to grace us with that insight. On a night we've just won 4 games in a row for the 4th time in 20+ years. Awesome.I thought that the identity I use would give you a bit of a clue. Born in Coventry, I was a season ticket holder for quite a few years but I stopped live in Coventry in 1979 and I’m not coming back. I rarely comment on football matches, I don’t have the right. Unfortunately, I don’t believe that you can change club allegiances no matter how tenuous your connection might be.
Hi Nick. Hope you’re well.
Just talking facts. Glad to see you climbed out of him for a minute
What on earth are you banging on about?
Only if it applies to every club.Well that is the German model, is that so wrong?
Basically there’s an article questioning our owners so predictably Nick feels the need to point a finger in a different direction and sees the trust as an easy target because the people behind it aren’t anonymous like himself. He has his screen and keyboard to protect him.
Was trying to take the article seriously until I got to that bit. They only filled it when all the Leicester fans turned up and they've not bothered since.I thought the article was a good read until I got to this bit - "Wasps have regularly filled the Ricoh and invested the place with an atmosphere of warmth and cheer"
wtf fuck are you talking aboutBasically there’s an article questioning our owners so predictably Nick feels the need to point a finger in a different direction and sees the trust as an easy target because the people behind it aren’t anonymous like himself. He has his screen and keyboard to protect him.
article is mostly bollocksFwiw I think it’s good article. I don’t agree with everything that’s in it but it gets the point across well about our issues to a national audience. What I don’t get is the “climbing out of him for a minute” comment. I’ve been at the game. It wasn’t cold enough to get that close to anyone else there (which he wasn’t).
Basically the usual wankers show up on this thread rather than the match one. Get to fuck
lapsed for a start mate, he even admits it himselfLike who? Name and shame.
Fwiw I think it’s good article. I don’t agree with everything that’s in it but it gets the point across well about our issues to a national audience. What I don’t get is the “climbing out of him for a minute” comment. I’ve been at the game. It wasn’t cold enough to get that close to anyone else there (which he wasn’t).
“It was dire, particularly when compared with the Wasps match which really was a fantastic sporting occasion,” said Jan Mokrzycki, of the Coventry City supporters’ Sky Blue Trust.
Basically there’s an article questioning our owners so predictably Nick feels the need to point a finger in a different direction and sees the trust as an easy target because the people behind it aren’t anonymous like himself. He has his screen and keyboard to protect him.
The city of Coventry needs a successful football club. It has the population to support, it raises the profile of the city and generates revenue. Football is the only sport that can do this in the UK. I do not believe the the city of Coventry will get this from CCFC while they are owned by SISU.
Absolutely, couldn't agree more, which is why the decision taken by the council (won't give them a capital letter) is even more strange. SISU will NOT be here forever, but Wasps will, 250 years at least in theory. They should have thought long term and supported the incumbent football club. When they spited SISU, they spited the fans, the club and the city of Coventry and future generations. Shame on them.
It isn't pointing in a different direction is it? How is it questioning anything or challenging anything at all?
It's merely part of a PR game being cranked up, I mentioned the Trust because they are usually around somewhere when he writes things. (See link in previous post for another great example of it where it's the Wasps are great approach being taken). I didn't just bring the Trust into it randomly, them and David Conn seem to go hand in hand.
They get mentioned because like The Jimmy Hill Way and the other moral heros who are strangely silent most of the time. Even more irrelevant now you have the fan's groups setup by Juggy and the one in Bedworth which just shows they are mostly made up of people who want to get worked up and angry and mostly don't give a shit about the football. Whatever did happen to the boycotts and away days only that they were pushing and getting all excited about?
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