Not sure what bearing a 2020 competition has on the terms of RFL re-entry forced on us in 2016.

Yes, it may well be announced we are in it - but if our obligations are over after this season (as I suspect), then we could probably withdraw if it came to the crunch. Nothing to stop us carrying on with the reserves either.

I've merged the two topics and have one simple question.

Will the Dewsbury chairman make public assurances that he believes Chris Joynt undertook a voluntary tackle on the 19th October 2002? Otherwise I'll have no faith in the bloke.

Spot on.
You won't get many people in support of this post.
No other owner has stood up to RFL they have both backed down.

I don't think we had an obligation to run a reserves as part of our application back into the league. We did for our academy though.

Reserves are mandatory for us next year as we run a cat 1 academy. As a previous poster said I'm think Kears comments mean we currently have a first team and a reserve team whereas next year we'll trim in and more of our reserves will be made of younger players (which makes sense with the academy going down to U18s)

Ah fair play - thanks and due respect to Nothus

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The point is valid, just not the example given.

I agree there should be no issue with the RFL approving the move and to do otherwise might seem like a political move of self-interest.

Pretty sure the ground had to have some improvements for the Wakefield move, but that was due to SL seating/capacity requirements. I think the idea was to move the hospitality blocks from BV...not an issue for Championship regs.

Morning all.
I guess we all felt the same last night on hearing the news. We all know something had to happen and soon, couldn’t go on with paying out 400-500k a year at Odsal.
Like most are saying, I fear about this 2-4 year plan for a new stadium, really think this is the issue.
On the moving out of Bradford, I hope Chalmers exhausted every avenue(no pun intended) this is a massive gamble that people will still go in similar numbers to now.

Like everyone Odsal has so many special memories. I started going when I was 2, I started taking Elliot when he was 2 and in 2 week I’ll be watching him play in the last match there.
Can’t see there been a dry eye in the house that day

Quote Pumpetypump="Pumpetypump"Halifax Fans offering their usual fair-minded and non-parochial take on events: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=625519&view=unread#unread'" They really are a strange bunch. They're more bothered about what we're doing than themselves. They would rather we lose a game than they win one. Maybe they should concentrate on their own club. Not had a great season have they have not exactly great off field either from what I understand.

Quote Pumpetypump="Pumpetypump"Halifax Fans offering their usual fair-minded and non-parochial take on events: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=625519&view=unread#unread'" They really are a strange bunch. They're more bothered about what we're doing than themselves. They would rather we lose a game than they win one. Maybe they should concentrate on their own club. Not had a great season have they have not exactly great off field either from what I understand.

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Well, taking a step back and looking at everything objectively, this move is the best thing that the Bulls owners could do in order to keep the club actually in existence.

Current estimates for the year on year running of Odsal are being touted as between £300k and £500k. That's a lot of money for a mid-table Championship RL club. Hell, it's a lot even for most SL clubs. But even if we're paying a rent of £100k to Dewsbury (which I doubt we will be paying in that region given the extra footfall that Dewsbury will see by having the Bulls stay for 2 years as I imagine that the concessions for food and drink will all be going into Dewsbury's coffers) we still have freed up a large amount of cash that would have otherwise gone to stadium up keep, although I admit that if concessions are going to Dewsbury then we'll not have as big an income. But I'd think the balance would be more in Bradford's favour.

I personally believe that the 2 year thing that has been mentioned is not the timescale by which we can expect to be walking into a new Bradford stadium by 2022, but more likely the timescale by which the deals will be in place and groundbreaking will take place on the development of a new stadium.

Odsal is a millstone around the club's neck. It's a money vampire that keeps sucking the cash out of the clubs accounts and leading us back down the path of administration.
I think Chalmers and his team have done enough by this point to have earned a little trust from the Bulls fans as they have yet to seemingly do anything that has been detrimental to the club and it's long term future.