Dont worry everyone, in 3 years when i come to power ill build us a nice 50k stadium, ill also say odsal is a home so ill claim expences on it, i will also buy the club and give all my fellow Bradfordians free season tickets, just you wait.

Gledhill was much younger then though.

Not Gledhill this time, well unless he use to be a young girl? Which seems unlikely? Maybe I'd be less of a grumpty git 2nd time around.. but that's possibly even more unlikely!

IRRC Mark Lawn suggested that the council buy Valley Parade and make the necessary modifications to the pitch/stadium. I guess one option could be to remove rows from the front of the Kop, or even demolish the Bradford End.

I have a couple of thoughts on this.

First of all what is 'fit for purpose'? Can you or can you not watch a Rugby League game at Odsal in it's present format? Yes, you can... so despite the fact that could do with some work to make it more comfortable for fans on a wet day I don't see any reason for a stupidly expensive development just so we can compete with other clubs in saying that our stadium is shinier that yours. Stadiums and the new Pianist extentions.

What is a concern is that at the fans forum IIRC Peter Hood hinted that whilst the ground looked good (and there isn't a stadium I'd rather be at on a sunny sunday afternoon) there were problems developing behind the scenes that needed to be rectified sooner rather than later and that fixing those issues would be expensive.

Personally I would hate to go to Valley Parade unless it really was a case of that or nothing.

With regards to simply putting a roof on the popular side... I can't believe that in this day and age and with some of the stadiums that are being developed and built around the world that we're limited to having to use poles! If it's going to be developed it needs to be done right rather than just done cheap (like the adage says: buy once, buy twice) In a perfect world that would include decent corporate facilities to bring in income and a couple of bars for me! Maybe build back onto the lower level path that runs behind the current stand and develop the grass banking to allow access to the terraces all along that side on the ground. If there is one thing that Odsal has in abundance it's space... it's just a case of having the money, technology and imagination to use it!

You want to see it now...It's worse!!