what if the club did a petition and get say 20000 fans to sign would the council then give the go ahead.

If the choice was between the club going under and getting off their to ORGANISE a petition then the fans of Bradford would rather watch us go out of business.

The most feckless apathetic sods in Rugby League.

OK. I have created an account on an online petition site and am happy to set up/administer the petition.

In order to get this right first time I would like some input/help in to wording the petition.

The petition site that I have chosen requires population of two main fields:


Petition History/Description
I would expect that this would include information on the various failed schemes, the state and upkeep of the current stadium, and the shortage of quality community sporting facilities in the city.


Petition
This is the statement that we would be asking people to agree to and so would have to be well thought out.

What do people think should be included?
Would one of the more articulate members be willing to propose a first draft for consideration?

We the undersigned petition Bradford Metropolitan District Council to formally proceed with the Odsal Sports Village so that the people of the Bradford Metropolitan District can have access to modern sports facilities including a swimming pool.

The petition is now live [url=http://www.gopetition.com/online/20034.htmlHere[/url. I will update the histroy field once I have something I am happy with. In the mean time feel free to sign and forward to anyone you believe would be willing to sign.

Have you considered using facebook to raise awareness of the petition. I'm fairly certain there are more than a few bulls fans who may not frequent this board but may use facebook. plus you've a chance to reach a much broader number of people and increase the number of signatures recieved.

I signed it. It is amazing how signing a petition makes you feel that you are actually a Castleford supporter.

posted on a couple of groups on Facebook and added a link to my profile. Not overly experienced with facebook so not sure if there is a better place to publicise it.

simplest way is to start a group then invite everyone you know on facebook and ask them to invite everyone they know and so on and so on.

you'd be suprised how many people will sign up

if you're not quite sure how to do it pm me. i dont mind setting it up for you

Yorkshire Post - "hopes grow for sports village" www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnew ... 4245734.jp

Yorkshire Post - "hopes grow for sports village" www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnew ... 4245734.jp

Until the building has all been done I won't get my hopes up

interesting bit at end about developer deciding scheme wasnt commercially viable and dropping it and council deciding to carry on. When was there a developer associate with osv? think they're getting mixed up with previous plans from when we moved to valley parade.