WASPS press conference from the Ricoh at 10am (5 Viewers)

Otis · Oct 8, 2014

Damn these edit buttons!!!!

Otis · Oct 8, 2014

CCFC said:
Discussions between Higgs and wasps will begin imminently

Fisher blocks the road with his car, claiming oil slick, delaying Wasps executives and Seppala sneaks into the back office of the Higgs charity and does a deal at gunpoint.

chiefdave · Oct 8, 2014

crowsnest said:
new website:

http://www.waspsnewhome.co.uk/

panoramic view of inside the stadium with "CCFC" seats removed and replaced with "WASPS"

I can live with that to be honest, Wasps at one end and Sky Blues at the other. Preferable to yellow and black seats.

hill83 · Oct 8, 2014

If we had half decent owners all of this could have been ours. What a total fuck up. Every penny spent in there will be going to those egg chasing fuckers.

Monners · Oct 8, 2014

Otis said:
Fisher blocks the road with his car, claiming oil slick, delaying Wasps executives and Seppala sneaks into the back office of the Higgs charity and does a deal at gunpoint.

Make them an offer they can't refuse you mean - "Either your brains or your signature will be on that piece of paper"

hill83 · Oct 8, 2014

I'm still going to games but I'm boycotting the casino.

chiefdave · Oct 8, 2014

hill83 said:
If we had half decent owners all of this could have been ours. What a total fuck up. Every penny spent in there will be going to those egg chasing fuckers.

That's the saddest part of this. Just thinking that this could have been us.

stupot07 · Oct 8, 2014

hill83 said:
If we had half decent owners all of this could have been ours. What a total fuck up. Every penny spent in there will be going to those egg chasing fuckers.

I won't be buying another pie or pint there

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Otis · Oct 8, 2014

hill83 said:
I'm still going to games but I'm boycotting the casino.

We should also boycott khaki shorts and brown sandals.

Total cut off from any rugby association. We can also ban the names Tarquin and Rupert and anything double barrelled.

olderskyblue · Oct 8, 2014

stupot07 said:
I won't be buying another pie or pint there

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I thought Tim said CCFC get a share of the F&B? you miserable sod, denying your beloved CCFC some of your hard earned...

chiefdave · Oct 8, 2014

This stuff about a name change for the stadium is odd. Of course it's going to change, why wouldn't it. They aren't going to keep calling it Ricoh Arena after the naming rights expire!

hill83 · Oct 8, 2014

Otis said:
We should also boycott khaki shorts and brown sandals.

Total cut off from any rugby association. We can also ban the names Tarquin and Rupert and anything double barrelled.

Shit, my surname is double barrelled.

covcity4life · Oct 8, 2014

maybe they will have shit crowds and sell 25-50% to cov in coming years?

just looking for some sort of positivity.

sisu are fuckers dfor not bidding but at same time since day 1 its obvious council didnt want football club to own ground.

Otis · Oct 8, 2014

hill83 said:
Shit, my surname in double barrelled.

So's my daughters.

What's yours, Hill-Ebilly?

Otis · Oct 8, 2014

Makes perfect sense for @WaspsRugby to just be called Wasps,not Coventry wasps.Can appeal to a wider Midlands fan base that way.

Makes perfect sense for us too, because we don't want our name anywhere near that club.

SkyBlue_Bear83 · Oct 8, 2014

covcity4life said:
maybe they will have shit crowds and sell 25-50% to cov in coming years?

just looking for some sort of positivity.

sisu are fuckers dfor not bidding but at same time since day 1 its obvious council didnt want football club to own ground.

The only way it could work would be a 50:50 partnership otherwise its a new stadium.

italiahorse · Oct 8, 2014

Free Coach travel from various West London and High Wycombe areas and free parking for the rest of season for their fans ?????

olderskyblue · Oct 8, 2014

Otis said:
We should also boycott khaki shorts and brown sandals.

Total cut off from any rugby association. We can also ban the names Tarquin and Rupert and anything double barrelled.

So thats why we got rid of Jonson Clarke-Harris....

Del Boy 82 · Oct 8, 2014

Why don't the owner of wasps say to sisu here's a few quid for ccfc, I'd like to run them also. We have total revenue streams then an a world class home hopefully with cash injection to playing side. Just a thought.

olderskyblue · Oct 8, 2014

italiahorse said:
Free Coach travel from various West London and High Wycombe areas and free parking for the rest of season for there fans ?????

TBF, thats exactly what SISU did when they moved us to Northampton.. isn't it?

Otis · Oct 8, 2014

CCFC said:
The only way it could work would be a 50:50 partnership otherwise its a new stadium.

Could we not at least have all income on match days? Car park, F&B etc.

Monners · Oct 8, 2014

Do you think all the pre game picnics in the car parks will impact on the F&B? Do they even sell Champers on the Foleshill Rd? imp:

ccfcmustang · Oct 8, 2014

A Coventry charity started by a Coventry man should prefer to sell to CCFC surely?

You know what hurts the most, the sale of Callum Wilson could of bought a 50% stake in the Ricoh- oh and we still would of had 250k left over

ecky · Oct 8, 2014

Otis said:
Takeover was 2 years of meticulous planning.

Seems ACL weren't fibbing then when they said they were in talks with other parties a while back.

Ann Lucas said on CWR this morning that she was only contacted in July this year by wasps?

torchomatic · Oct 8, 2014

£2.77M for Higgs' share?

Otis · Oct 8, 2014

olderskyblue said:
So thats why we got rid of Jonson Clarke-Harris....

No. I think you will find that is 3 people.

We couldn't afford all those wages so had to get rid of Johnson and Clarke and Harris.

SkyBlue_Bear83 · Oct 8, 2014

If Wasps are serous about keeping us at the Ricoh long term they should offer us 50% today.

I think wasps are under the impression that we will be happy to remain as tenants indefinitely.

skybluesam66 · Oct 8, 2014

sitting next to a wasps fan at work - his view

current crowds around 5k
Expects only around 1k to travel to Coventry (this is similar to % of ccfc fans who went to northampton - so probably about right)

They are relying on attracting local support

With local rugby fans following Cov and Leicester - really cannot see that happening any time soon

It is an interesting one - but unless wasps rebrand/merge with Cov - can see them being swatted away

Ian1779 · Oct 8, 2014

ecky said:
Ann Lucas said on CWR this morning that she was only contacted in July this year by wasps?

She's talking bollocks. No one plans for 2 years and not check out if it's a goer.

Hobo · Oct 8, 2014

hill83 said:
Shit, my surname is double barrelled.

Beretta or Holland & Holland? (Shotgun makers for those who don't know)

duffer · Oct 8, 2014

Eastwood (Wasps): 'I look forward to the day that Sky Blues fans look at us and say "our home is your home"'

Personally speaking, for me that day is never going to happen. This is a franchise team from London, taking over our home.

The way I'm feeling now, they can have the f*cking place and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. Much as I like rugby, I'll never set foot in there to watch Wasps. As long as they own it, I don't really want to go there to watch football either. I wish the franchise nothing except abject failure I'm afraid.

I know SISU f*cked up in an epic way, and I know that's led to all of this. But that still didn't give the Council and Higgs Trust the right to sell us down the river, and worse, to a franchise!

I detest SISU, and the new stadium idea has clearly been bullshit from the off. But now the club has had its hand forced, let's get the hell away from the current and future clowns running ACL, and start really thinking about somewhere (ideally in the city) that does belongs to the club. It would be good if SISU f*cked off too at some point.

Otis · Oct 8, 2014

'Andy Goode, Dai Young and James Haskell are on the pitch now. Goode and Haskell are at ease, joking and softly thumping each other.'

Can someone go over there and thump them a little but harder!

Sub · Oct 8, 2014

the most important question was asked !

Do you think now we're a Rugby/Football team we'll be able to drink in the stands? #silverlining #pusb

torchomatic · Oct 8, 2014

She also said a team shouldn't be ripped from its community.

ecky said:
Ann Lucas said on CWR this morning that she was only contacted in July this year by wasps?

Ashdown · Oct 8, 2014

The casino is surely a private business, completely detached from ACL and the rest of the Arena ?

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