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13 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

It's laughable for Wasps to victim blame Coventry City.

Most of the victim blaming has been the other way round, don’t forget sisu had a toxic relationship with the council and stadium operator which is why their homeless and then with wasps. There’s a common denominator there 

They need to either build their own stadium or learn to work with the one they currently play in 

8 minutes ago, Red Shadow said:

Seems they were advised by Wasps:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/62486278

It’s interesting that Coventry fans believe everything their owners tell them blaming wasps while ignoring Sisu’s track record 

I’d have thought they’d avoid a points deduction and any penalty they get will likely be suspended but it’s in their interest to work with wasps as they’re going to have a fixture pile up before long 

Finally received my season card this morning minus the presentation box and free gift. 

Granted it was only a key ring but it doesn’t say much for Huboo’s ‘award winning order fulfilment’ 

 

1 hour ago, 22A said:

All joking aside, the train may NOT be an option.

Coming back there's a 22.14 High Wycombe- Marylebone arriving 10.45, then Paddington 11.32 arriving Bristol  TM 01.15.

After that; HW 23.33 - Maryb 00.19, then Paddington 05.23 - Temple Meads 06.57

 

There’s a 2250 from High Wycombe that arrives at Marylebone at 2317 and it takes 5 minutes on the bakerloo line to Paddington 

3 hours ago, 22A said:

From the Coventry forum; What happens if you are the 401st car in the car park queue?

CAR PARKING:
There will be FREE car parking available at the Pirelli Stadium on the night - this is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The capacity is 400.

Access to the site is from the Derby Road Island, first exit – it is sign posted on match days.

Postcode for Sat-Navs: DE13 0AR

In fairness the lack of Avanti services only really affects those coming from London.

If you’re coming by train from Bristol, there’s services to Blackpool from Manchester Piccadilly roughly every 45 minutes 

And for those London based, you can take a LNER or Grand Central service to York and there’s an hourly service from there. Granted it’s not ideal but you will get to enjoy the Yorkshire countryside 

There’s no strike action scheduled currently and the unions are required to give 14 days notice, so if it hasn’t been called by this weekend you’ll be alright 

55 minutes ago, Olé said:

Where did you see this @East Londoner . I don't fancy waiting for the 3.57am from Derby into St. Pancras at 6am 

I’m using real times trains because i work in the industry. It won’t be shown on journey planners as the connection time at Birmingham officially is 15 minutes but at 2300 shouldn’t be an issue. Alternatively if you take that 2141 and stay on till Birmingham you’ll have a more leisurely connection onto the 2310

I see Coventry are refunding all home tickets sold and making it pay on the day. What could possibly go wrong 

3 minutes ago, Olé said:

I had a limited window around work to make it to Coventry and back in the same night. A move to Birmingham would have been okay. Burton is more or less out of the question now.

I realise they are unconnected but it must be a first that a club's fans has significant complications to their travel on not 1, not 2 but 3 consecutive away fixtures to start the season.

Given Rotherham (the Ricoh's other victims) was just postponed, and they were at home last week and next, we can lay claim to being the most inconvenienced fans in the country. 

There is an option of getting the train back to London from Burton changing either at Tamworth or Birmingham but not getting back to Euston until around 0100

Don’t the big Spanish clubs usually sell their training grounds to local councils for ridiculous figures as their usual means of staving off bankruptcy 

1 hour ago, JBFC II said:

Tickets have been taken off sale. As far as I’m aware it’s going to be played at a neutral venue with only people who have pre purchased tickets allowed entry, not totally sure where though

Surely the problems with police approval and staffing would still exist 

2 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

I hope they do...........and then kick their arses out of it.

Coventry seem to be doing a good job of playing the victim but it was the actions of their owners who caused them to lose their share of the stadium 

Wasps then bought the stadium from the local council 

1 minute ago, Northern Red said:

The other option they might look at is postponing the midweek league games the following week (Luton at home for us, Wigan at home for them), though obviously they then have to be fitted in somewhere.

Is unlikely as Coventry already have todays game to reschedule 

The only way we could realistically host would be behind closed doors at the training ground given it has to be played this midweek as we’ve both got games next midweek and the week after it’s the second round and they’d need police approval and staff at short notice 

Coventry may well decide it’s not worth the hassle and forfeit 

He was mainly consistent however their number 4 already on a yellow card committed a second foul similar to ones others had been booked for and kept his card in his pocket 

On last again and even behind a goalless bore draw 

The speakers were fine until the ground filled up and then it was effectively useless. So it probably tests fine whenever people complain as that’s not when there’s an issue and then it’s not easy to test when the ground is full 

53 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Not happy with Wasps are they?

Thing is they’re either ignoring or forgetting why wasps are there in the first place and it’s because of their owners.

Also it appears that the commonwealth games actually have exclusive access until the 14th and they agreed to end it early to accommodate Coventry, now I’m sure Coventry weren’t told a week ago ‘oh btw there’s going to be some rugby but it shouldn’t be a problem’ 

11 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Think they have 2 realistic options, play it on another ground (they’ve used both Northampton & Birmingham in the past) or give us a bye.

With midweek games next week there is no space to postpone & re-arrange.

Could we offer to host but at the training ground and stream it? 

Their game tomorrow has been called off, be interesting to see what happens regarding the cup game 

Coincidentally i just chased mine up for a second time and was told they were sending out e-tickets later on today 

5 minutes ago, chinapig said:

Perhaps he could act as a consultant? He might be able to advise what we have to do to get a penalty from his mates.

Isn’t he now the coach for championship referees

So now just the 3 against in his in the last four games he’s referred us with none for us 

2 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

I'm not so convinced it was a penalty for Atkinson- however it certainly wasn't one for them!

Looked like a foul that’s given anywhere on the pitch except the penalty area 

Thought it was Dean Whitestone

What did he do?