Quote: Bulliac "I'm far from convinced Mick.
Avenue have been hovering about, a division or so below the conference, seemingly forever without any great, or even obvious, improvement. This, in a ground with few facilities, or real prospect of being allowed to make significant improvements. If they are to get to a higher level they clearly need a ground capable of housing more than the (I understand) around 500 fans they currently get.
All this time with a super-mega rich owner. It surely can't cost £6m quid to keep a club there, can it? That's the sort of money the Bulls were spending to win Super League and we all have a solid idea how much the players were on back than and it wasn't the league below the conference level sort of wages. We were still in SL when the story of their chairman looking to build a stadium first surfaced and it's now sunk without trace.'"
Well judging how he said they earned 2 promotions since Roberts took over when in actual fact they were in conference North when Roberts took over 4 years a go, and they're still in Conference North with zero promotions, I wouldn't be inclined to believe the £6 million figure he's mentioned.
Roberts has always seemed to interested in making BPA the heart of the community rather than a Salford City type club. I do believe he's invested in facilties to be used by the community, youth teams etc. These include classrooms etc Think I saw an article a few Months back of them buying the lease for Horsfall from the council. I don't pretend to be in the know, but from the outside looking in I don't think Roberts is going to be building stadiums anytime soon. They may be scope for the two clubs working together for a development at Odsal and the facilities at Horsfall being community facilities. Anyway, isn't the land at Horsfall restricted from being developed as its on green belt?