The RFL have purchased Wembley of the north, Odsal stadium.

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.

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?

Perhaps he's bought it for his own personal use?
Fill it with water, all his hot air,
Jacuzzi for Nige?

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

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.

Staggering!

jeez, the next big hairbrained disaster for the rfl to write off in 5 years time...

The RFL have bought it off Bradford Council, not the Bulls.

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!

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?