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The RFL have purchased Wembley of the north, Odsal stadium.
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What is going on. Yesterday i read that SL made Stobart their new sponsors for free, today the RFL buy Odsal. Not sure which is the most ridiculous.
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And Behold, a pale horse. And on his back his name was death.
The weekend starts on a Monday.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_46669.jpg |
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justthebasicfacts wrote this in early Jan
"Just a little teaser for the day, how would people feel if the RFL started stepping in to buy the Stadiums for the chosen ones?
Say for instance Odsal?
We've seen that its tough times for all clubs, would the RFL be forgiven for protecting its cash cows in this way?
Too big to fail springs to mind."
Was he ahead of his time?
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And Behold, a pale horse. And on his back his name was death.
The weekend starts on a Monday.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_46669.jpg |
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Perhaps he's bought it for his own personal use?
Fill it with water, all his hot air,
Jacuzzi for Nige?
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apparantly RFL already "own" Cougar Park and have an interest in Rochdales ground! Just bought Odsal to save Bradford it seems. . load of B-----ks saying theyve done it to keep an iconic stadium And what have they paid? Its worth a fortune just as a hole in the ground
So who pays for all these "investments" bailing out Clubs. . Must be the rest of the Clubs who are trying to run profitably whilst developing their grounds without RFL subsidies
Will it be Castleford and Wakefield next?
It seems to me that Clubs like Halifax, Leigh and even Featherstone are wasting time and money trying to develop grounds forfor Super League. . Nigel wood and his lot
will buy out any Super League Club that needs help in preference to getting one of us in Super League
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So Bradford dont now need to worry about any Stadium improvements while RFL will pay for it. Meanwhile Fax and Fev amongst others have to fight tooth and nail to find the cash and support to get things done. Nigel shows his colours again with him being a Bradford lad and all.
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| Quote: adam "apparantly RFL already "own" Cougar Park and have an interest in Rochdales ground! Just bought Odsal to save Bradford it seems. . load of B-----ks saying theyve done it to keep an iconic stadium And what have they paid? Its worth a fortune just as a hole in the ground
So who pays for all these "investments" bailing out Clubs. . Must be the rest of the Clubs who are trying to run profitably whilst developing their grounds without RFL subsidies
Will it be Castleford and Wakefield next?
It seems to me that Clubs like Halifax, Leigh and even Featherstone are wasting time and money trying to develop grounds forfor Super League. . Nigel wood and his lot
will buy out any Super League Club that needs help in preference to getting one of us in Super League'"
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jeez, the next big hairbrained disaster for the rfl to write off in 5 years time...
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The RFL have bought it off Bradford Council, not the Bulls.
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| Did the RFL write that chapter of their Franchise application for them? 
So, the RFL issue a criteria for clubs to compete on in getting a license but actually own one of the grounds which forms part of that said criteria.
"Hey Castleford, Wakefield - sort your grounds out or else" "Bradord - don't you worry yourself over such trivial matters" "Now all of you - submit a license application and we'll judge it on a level playing field"
What a corrupt elitist bunch of shysters you'd ever likely meet. It's nowhere near being Super. Nowhere near! |
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Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
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| Quote: littlerich "Did the RFL write that chapter of their Franchise application for them? ![]()
The thing is rich, they didnt even have the brains to judge the reaction ( not that it bothers their thick skins ) and cover their tracks by saying it is part of a long term plan to build a genuine asset for the sport
I expect we'll see a table top model and a virtual ' walk through ' video inside a couple of months of the re developed future of Odsall, the Wembley of the North 
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I don't blame Bradford selling their ground if they were looking for a buyer anyway. What stinks is the fact that surely they (Bradford) have an unfair advantage when it comes to licensing criteria ie - standards of stadia when the people that hand them out are responsible for the upkeep. Everybody might as well flog their grounds to the RFL and surely that's one box automatically ticked?
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justthebasicfacts wrote this in early Jan
"Just a little teaser for the day, how would people feel if the RFL started stepping in to buy the Stadiums for the chosen ones?
Say for instance Odsal?
We've seen that its tough times for all clubs, would the RFL be forgiven for protecting its cash cows in this way?
Too big to fail springs to mind."
Was he ahead of his time?
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I did have word yes, but i cant reveal my sources, so was playing it cool until it became public. I was at Odsal on Saturday morning and had a good wander the ground and behind the scenes, it must be a complete nightmare to maintain and unbelievably expensive, theres just so many outbuildings and its a huge peice of land, I can only assume that Bradford council have had to cut their losses and the RFL have got it on the cheap, its only buying the Bulls time though. Its very hard to get private investment in Bradford as the shopping centre shows, being local rivals its easy to slag off the Bulls but we have a lot of shared history between the clubs and towns, whether its the Dukes, many memories of clashes in days gone by and we were part of the Cup Final replay there in front of 105,000 (150,000 if you talk to people that were there) so i dont take any pleasure in saying Odsal poses some big problems for Rugby League and the Bulls.
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kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: littlerich "Did the RFL write that chapter of their Franchise application for them? ![]()
Eye up, its all gone wierd again 
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She carries on through it all......
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| Quote: littlerich "Did the RFL write that chapter of their Franchise application for them? ![]()
Almost verbatim, you've have posted exactly what I said to a mate about an hour or so ago!
Transparency and the RFL??? My botty!
They are as bent as they come!
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