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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2022, 09:54:15 PM »
Can you imagine thre flack from supporters of a certain football club if there was a G-WASP helicopter?

Oh there is (and it's nothing to do with us):

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2022, 10:08:04 PM »
Oh!  That is so wonderful!  Can I have one for Christmas please??  And a pilot too?  Wouldn't  it create chaos if that landed in the middle of the pitch just before a game ...............  a footie game of course ..................   oh joy and jubilation!!

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #17 on: September 04, 2022, 10:16:21 PM »
As long as Wasps pay for any damage to the pitch.

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #18 on: September 04, 2022, 10:27:51 PM »
Nice one Sam!

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #19 on: September 04, 2022, 10:29:51 PM »
I must admit when I first saw the title of this thread I thought there might be plans to put a windfarm on carpark C now there is unlikely to be a hotel there

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #20 on: September 04, 2022, 11:01:22 PM »
That could sort out our debts quite quickly.     :D

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #21 on: September 05, 2022, 04:32:54 PM »
Let me tell you something cucumber

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #22 on: September 05, 2022, 04:56:30 PM »
Weird that the only bondholder to comment didn’t want to be named. 

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #23 on: September 05, 2022, 05:10:37 PM »
No-one's contacted me!

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #24 on: September 05, 2022, 05:17:27 PM »
He is not even trying to hide his bias anymore.

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #25 on: September 05, 2022, 05:21:02 PM »
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By Simon Gilbert
BBC CWR political reporter
Perhaps he should stick to reporting council meetings and the like and leave finance, business and sport to those who understand it?

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #26 on: September 05, 2022, 05:56:05 PM »
No-one's contacted me!
Nor me.  But there is a Facebook group that seems to be attempting to collect the details of as many bondholders as possible in order to force the trustee into some form of action, though what that is it's hard to say.
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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #27 on: September 05, 2022, 06:01:13 PM »
He is not even trying to hide his bias anymore.

What bias. Everything he has said is true.

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #28 on: September 05, 2022, 06:12:38 PM »
He is not even trying to hide his bias anymore.

What bias. Everything he has said is true.

Yes from your biased point of view!
Let me tell you something cucumber

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Re: How sustainable are we??
« Reply #29 on: September 05, 2022, 06:15:52 PM »
He is not even trying to hide his bias anymore.

What bias. Everything he has said is true.
It's not what he says, but how he frames it that makes it clear he has a personal bias.  Take this section for example:

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It has also been revealed Wasps failed to pay Coventry City Council an agreed fee to take over the lease of car park land next to the arena, which was due to be developed into a hotel.

That meant a £12.2m loan agreed between the West Midlands Combined Authority and Wasps owner Derek Richardson to fund the development was not able to be drawn down.

"It has been revealed" - a clear implication that something was attempting to be hidden.

"failed to pay" as if there was a debt and Wasps had defaulted on it, there was no debt.  What there was, was a plan, pre-covid, to build a new hotel. A location had been identified, a lease agreed, and funding secured.  That the situation had changed, and they decided not to go ahead with the original plan should be being spoken about as a very sensible decision by Wasps.  A sign of their financial nouse and responsibility.  They chose not to incur large amounts of debt for a new project at this time.

And yet Gilbert goes out of his way to frame it as a deceibtful failure to pay on the part of Wasps.

So yes, clear bias.
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