It's a nice thought but would be the final act in the history of the club. We couldn't survive yet another financial crisis. It's been clear for years you can only 'prosper' with a wealthy backer and we have never, ever had one and we certainly don't have one now.

Yeah like Amazon prime delivering the corners just before the players come out and then moved into place by drones.

Think of the sponsorship opportunities especially with us being back on sky sports.

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I share all of the concerns expressed above. But what are the viable alternatives?

Valley parade X
Dewsbury long term X
Odsal without SL X

Replace De Niro and Walken in the Vietnamese jungle, two bullets in the gun, with Wood and Sawyer sat at Odsal Top and you might get some sense of the options available.

What about the boutique stadium over the road? The chances of building that are not dissimilar to the chances of us making Odsal economically viable. Bloody slim.

"Boutique stadium" one of Chalmers phrases I recall....

How about the Tame Toupou Main entrance?

On first sight so promising but once you're past that it's just the same old rhubarb in yet more disappointing clothes.

The Karl Pryce function room. Absolutely huge and able to cater for any event, but curiously no balls.

Daft thing is, though I would never have believed it, I'm pretty happy watching Championship rugby.

Would I like to watch SL again? Well, yes but I can't see it happening until we get a seriously wealthy backer who's prepared to put up the moolahs and he's not around yet, so far as I can see. Speedway, stock cars, horse carriage racing, world marbles championships (that should look great from the back of the stand, btw..) and all the rest is just typical empty paper talk with little or no substance.

I could see stock cars at Odsal but I can't see us being involved, if only because currently we have nothing to bring to the party, not sure if we could even manage a bottle for the opening.

The Matt Orford "Ox lounge", Its great for a while, but then when you go home you will never go back to it. Ever, ever.

The deal is about 95% of the way there to bring regular Stock Car meetings and the F1 Stock Car World Championships meeting in September to Odsal next year.

It's all sounding very positive behind the scenes with Nigel Wood, Mark Sawyer, Steve Rees and the RFL (Ralph and Tony) agreeing on a deal last week at Odsal Stadium.

If you listen to my interview with Steve, he explains everything in great detail about what will and won't happen, but be rest assured the Bradford Bulls and Stock Car racing will be back at the stadium next April.

It's all positive.

The key date for this going through is as I've put on Twitter, the next RFL board meeting on Thursday, December 3.

Ralph Rimmer and Simon Johnson are confident the deal benefits both Nigel, Mark and Steve.

call me cynical but is stock car racing even that big a sport to make any real difference to the club earning money?

Can you call it a back door reprieve when Leeds, St Helens, Warrington, Castleford and Huddersfield, along with Sky Sports and Robert Elstone want Bradford back in Super League to increase crowds, eyeballs and Sky Sports subscriptions?

Before anyone mentions it, yes, I know those above have no actual say in the process all five clubs that have applied are following but the point stands that it's informative to know what people would like if they had the chance and that reflects in the criteria which were set.

I just hope that the people saying let's stabilise in the Championship realise that there will be no central funding after next year for the Championship and League One, so how can clubs stabilise?