Let's assume the bidders are Chalmers and Lowe, do they have enough money ? Who knows but they know someone who has - Marwan. Is there a conflict of interest? of course there is, that's why the proposal is being put to other clubs. Time to be pragmatic - lose a club with potential to attract 10,000 fans if stable and with some hope of success supported by a very weathly individual, attributes which are very hard to find in rugby league. The alternative is probably a semi pro team with a few hundred fans bobbing along at a basic ground in the lower levels of the sport making little contribution.

How do you no it been put to the other clubs?

What do you mean not here when the lease expires.
I expect this post will still be running at 20,000+ pages at least when the lease expires.

A £20m new stadium with 10K gates 15 times a year would still lose money. The owners must redevelop the stadium for commercial forms of income for it to survive.

I want to see the back of this hole in the ground and let someone develop it once and for all. If the side outcome is the Bulls and possibly P.A get a new small stadium and survive then brilliant. Years of arguing about doing the place up just for rugby. It will only be achieved by a developer and a rugby club thrown in.

I will be sad when this thread comes to an end. It's better than owt on the telly.

It doesn't have to end. We can turn it into something else. A place where we can all fondly recall a time when there was a club called Bradford, or a place we can fondly recall a time when we were very worried there wouldn't be a club called Bradford.

The proposal isn't being put to other clubs. It's fsck all to do with other clubs. It's the RFL's job.

Plus, if any confidential cats were released to all the other clubs, most of them would be out of the bag within about a nanosecond.

Well i'm at work with nothing to do apart from read the internet!!!!

Let's just focus on getting to page 300 eh folks? Sounds like we have a bit of work to do if there us "definitely a verdict today".

I think we can do it. 30 odd pages in a day. With nothing to write about.

Easy.

So one thing we all seem to agree on is that Odsal needs redeveloping; something the majority of us has known for over 50 years.
The way I understand it - but I'm probably wrong - is that the RFL dont want to sign over their "responsibility/lease/holding" to a property developer who then rips the pitch up and builds houses, and tells the Bull club to go forth and multiply.
So from that aspect, maybe the RFL do have our interests at heart, and they are digging their heels in so that in 12 months time the Bulls still have a home ground at Odsal.
I agree that we shouldnt get preferential treatment by the RFL, at the expense of any other club - to the loyal fans we are all as important as each other.
but since the RFL have some control over our future, I can see why the talks are very much in the balance, because the RFL are damned whatever the outcome;
Scenario A - they give the bidders a good deal on Odsal; Bulls are saved, but all other clubs suggest we were given favouratism.
Scenario B - they refuse the bidder/s to have carte blanche on Odsal; bidder/s walk away, Bulls go into liquidation; numerous fans turn on RFL for being instrumental in Bulls disappearing from RL.

I hate to say it - but I actually feel that we need the RFL if we want the Bulls to survive.
If we do survive - the RFL then needs to severe its financial links with us so that it cant be put in this position again.

Right, I'm going to lunch. Can you all make sure nothing happens until I'm back? Ta