Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Anything but. The predator theory refers to people who would be looking to negotiate a deal whereby the Bulls are ousted from Odsal, to VP or wherever they don't really care, the main plank of the deal for them is that Odsal becomes available land for them to make a killing on. Obviously that would involve the Council agreeing, but they are more skint than the Bulls and would probably do anything to save money, so the prospect of pulling in a huge sum of cash in exchange for the freehold of the Odsal site is self-evidently not codswallop.'"
So they would buy a club, breach the terms of a lease with the leaseholder who also happens to be the governing body who hands out the franchises. Their potential liabilities are already in the millions without any guarantees but nevertheless, let's carry on. Having got the Bulls out of Odsal, the council's asset management section who are bound by law to maximise the value of the council's assets would not take the site to the marketplace but would instead sell the site in an exclusive deal to the predator. Having acquired the site they would now have to apply for planning permission for whatever they wanted to use it for which considering most of it is an old tip would have some significant complexity to it.
It would be years and millions of pounds of legal wrangling and public protest all with the very real chance the council would either not sell the site at all or quite possibly sell it to someone else. I'm sorry, codswallop it is.
