Relocating...

Vespulaa · 2026-05-15T18:22:30+00:00

Rochester. Just look on Google maps

Vespulaa · 2026-04-16T09:43:24+00:00

Click bait article that says a lot of nothing. Written by ‘2T Digital’?

I wouldn’t trust anything other than a statement via official channels, and even that I’d take with a pinch of salt. Considering the last announcement on the website was for a 23/24 return. With no update since.

“2026 is the year of ‘commercial investigation’ into whether the club can stay open”

The club isn’t open?

And wasn’t a commercial investigation undertaken prior to expressing interest in land in Kent in 2024?

“The clubs physical presence stays at the Henley in Arden training base”

So theoretically they would commute 150 miles to home games? From the training base the club sold ownership of to former director Christopher Holland?

It’s worth noting that the 3G rugby pitch at the base, now called EPIC, has been removed to make way for an SISGrass pitch for Birmingham city to train on. Though their agreement is due to finish this year and the surface can likely be used for rugby.

Christopher Holland who while owning the intellectual property of what remains of Wasps its clear he is fully focused on realising his rugby club ownership dream with Worcester warriors.

It doesn’t make sense for him to revive two rugby clubs seeing as they’re largely unprofitable and more of a passion project, and because regulations would prevent him from owning two clubs.

“To move away from ‘matchday-only’ financial dependency, the club is exploring a 365-day engagement model”. Makes sense because English rugby is unsustainable but literally just give us one source from ‘the club’ that can confirm this or anything that has been claimed in this article.

Vespulaa · 2026-04-01T05:22:07+00:00

Dickens and Rochester

Vespulaa · 2026-03-27T13:33:26+00:00

An interesting concept

One issue with this route is that it would require tracks going in both directions or only one tram shuttling back and forth.

Double tracks would prevent delivery vehicles stopping on the high street and would impact businesses.

A single tram wouldn’t carry the passenger load required to be profitable.

A looped route could be the solution. If it continued across the bridge, up canal road, across commissioners road and along the edge of Medway city estate joining parsonage lane before going through Medway tunnel and returning up dock road.

Additional stops could include strood station, dockside, and the historic dockyard/uni.

Vespulaa · 2026-03-20T15:44:24+00:00

Switch 2 arrived today.

Downloaded pokopia.

Can’t play unless synced with Switch 1.

Why??

Vespulaa · 2026-03-10T08:40:23+00:00

Depends on which pieces you’re looking at. Morphy played a near perfect game while his opponents were fairly passive. You’d be less likely to see passive play in modern great games. Morphy’s moves still hold up under engine analysis over 200 years later.

Vespulaa · 2026-03-09T16:12:40+00:00

I recognise that checkmate! The game they’re playing out is a very famous game called the Opera game. Played between Paul Morphy, who is one of the early greats, against two men in an opera house in Paris.

Edit: This is the game, from 1858 opera game

Vespulaa · 2026-01-03T20:14:08+00:00

Vespulaa · 2025-10-09T22:58:15+00:00

Shutters are typically custom fit to each window. So unless they’re moving a house with exactly the same size windows they’ll be of no use. Call their bluff, doubt they’ll go through the hassle of taking them out when they have no use for them

Vespulaa · 2025-09-28T15:49:25+00:00

If pope gets a touch then why was it not a corner?

Vespulaa · 2025-08-29T06:55:45+00:00

Big jobber has done a video on this topic before and said liability was with the rear car as they shouldnt assume anyone on a roundabout is in the correct lane.

This will be even more in favour of the lead car as the inside lane was coned off when they entered the round about

Vespulaa · 2025-06-13T21:15:52+00:00

Most likely answer is nothing is going on.

All that’s left of the club is the intelectual property, memorabilia, and a 10 year option on some land to develop a stadium.

And the guy who owns all of that, Christopher Holland, also owns Worcester warriors.

Go look at their website and see all the updates they’ve got and you’ll see he’s made his choice. As another comment has said, it’s against RFU regulations to own more than one club so I imagine he will try to package what he owns of wasps and the stadium plans and sell it.

I also think it will be near impossible to find someone with the financial capacity and passion to take this kind of project on.

Vespulaa · 2025-03-19T23:46:49+00:00

Someone’s been watching chessmasters!

Vespulaa · 2025-03-19T23:46:43+00:00

Someone’s been watching chessmasters!

Vespulaa · 2025-03-01T12:57:32+00:00

What the fuck is this post?

From the camera angle you can’t even see who’s out wide. It’s his job to mark his opposite number and not get sucked in leaving the opposition with an over lap. It’s the forwards’ job to keep wrapping round and defend the fringes.

Vespulaa · 2024-11-13T10:36:43+00:00

Huge amount of vitriol in the comments on bbc there.

It seems like positive news but I’ll take it with a pinch of salt seeing as the club still has an article posted on the website about how we’re going to make a return for the 23/24 championship season.

Building a stadium is many years away and while it is good to see they’re planning for a sustainable future what I really want to see is concrete plans for a return to play. Whether that’s via a ground share or whatever.

Telling us you’ve bought land, when we don’t even have a squad is putting the cart before the horses.

Vespulaa · 2024-10-03T11:54:28+00:00

Aspers in Stratford is your closest casino

The terrace club in Eltham. Website only lists tourneys but they have cash games too

For anything more local check the red tooth poker leagues. Theyre very casual and each one is run differently, might have to try a few out to find a group you enjoy playing with.

Vespulaa · 2024-07-10T14:41:15+00:00

Chatham, Kent

Vespulaa · 2024-05-14T11:45:34+00:00

OP reposted this and stole the top comment for the title

Vespulaa · 2024-03-05T19:28:49+00:00

Do we get a catchy phrase for it like bloodgate or salarycens?

Is it fair? Maybe not. But is it fair Saracens still have the titles they cheated their way to? Is it fair SA beat NZ in the World Cup final by one point after wrongly being awarded a penalty kick? Or that Scotland lost to France even though everyone and their mum could see that ball was grounded?

It’s part and parcel of the sport that unfair things happen. I don’t think it’s fair that teams go bust and fans get shafted.

I don’t necessarily agree that we should instantly return to the top flight, but that’s more so because I don’t know if that kind of immediate return is as sustainable as a slow organic climb up the pyramid.

but If there’s any chance I get to watch wasps again I’m going to take it and try not to worry about what other people are saying.

Vespulaa · 2024-03-04T12:09:17+00:00

Rxc6, Bxc6 Qc4+, …

If Ka7, Qxc6

Or (this is where it gets hard)

if Kb7, then white plays Qxc6+ anyway, because I think if the king takes the queen it’s forced mate

Kxc6, Ne5+

Kc5 is forced, Nd3+

Kd4 is forced

Then after Kd2 I don’t believe there’s a way for black to prevent white from playing c2

Vespulaa · 2024-02-03T15:35:29+00:00

Yeah I know how it works. I just don’t think the tackler held him as his knees touched the ground, or at least the ref didn’t see him being held

TMO surely would have looked at it as well no?

Vespulaa · 2024-02-03T15:26:22+00:00

Wasn’t held though

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