Not if the council make them an offer they cannot refuse for them to surrender the lease, so they can flog it off to a Steve Parkin or other developer at a decent profit.

But lets see what the bid involves first? I fear for the motives, but we could yet be pleasantly surprised. There is always hope.

I don't have a problem with where we play - Odsal or Valley Parade. I love it at odsal, but also liked the few seasons we had at VP. I live within walking distance of Odsal and VP is 4 miles from home. I am grateful for the potential offer from the Bradford City men as all should be. It makes sense for us to co-exist both on ground share and also as a fan base. If they did join together more and an offer was done for dual season tickets I may consider being a City fan as well in the future. ( Can't really believe that i said that as I am an original Park Avenue Fan (giving my age away now)). Survival is what it is all about and it seems to work for Wigan, Hull, Huddersfield.

wasnt our average attendance higher in 2002 than in 2012 as well though? plus sales wil include gate/season ticket income which was set at a higher level in 2002 than 2012. Surely you need to factor that in before you can make a like for like comparison?.

thanks Bulliac. clearly theres a cost but not a deal breaker compared to some of the other outlays a bidder would need to make to get the club and stadium for redevelopment.

thanks mat, interesting question. the focus is the gross profit, and it was £300k less in 2010 than 2002 due to an increase in sales (probably more sky and hospitality etc) of £400K but an even bigger increase in cost of sales, some of which will be players but as Caisley commented in 2002 and 2003, a big chunk of cost for odsal. If sales go down, cost of sales has follow, and that has been the difficult task. It should be possible to reduce the player costs, one of Caisleys accusations last year was poor player recruitment, and if you have a good recruiter you can task them to get the best team for a given budget and know you are getting full value even if spending less than the cap. but before you do that, the first cut surely has to stadium costs. If somebody came in with the money to buy the club and accumen to redevelop the stadium of course no question, Odsal. Big if though.