vp is ok as a footy ground, i attended every home game when last there,but for me i would like to stay at odsal.not only because it's near but the problems we had getting to & from the stadium,the friday night games were horrendous plus walking back to your car only to find it had been either vandalised or broken in to, and on two occations myself & family verbally abused.A community ground would be a viable option if suitable agreement on all sides could be reached, i'm sure funding could be found from sales of grounds and private investment.

The JCT 600 Stadium?

have you got a crystal ball

As an away fan, I would say Valley Parade is one of the poorest grounds to visit. Difficult to get to, difficult to park, poor view and effectively herded into an area regardless of where you wanted to go or not.

Odsal, is the complete opposite of this and as you say the home support wouldn't alter greatly, the away support would really suffer.

I dont know how sutcliffe managed to scrape in at the last local elections as quite alot around here voted bnp, bnp got into queensbury etc and thought that would be tory if owt.
Landlord of where we have our club dos and meetings is chairman of bradford bnp, next time im in im gonna ask him his views on the osv and see if he can tell me owt that we dont get to here about.

I disagree with this point. A lot of home fans put up with VP because it was a temporary measure and we still dropped a lot of fans that even now we are struggling to get back. I think a proposed move to VP could well see our franchise going to South Wales.

It was never just the stewards. It was the location more than anything else. One of the other things which came up again and again was that people did not like the cramped seating and the fact that the Bulls were never allowed to brand the stadium so we were only ever visitors.

interviewed over a hundred Bulls fans when we were there as part of the BISA survey and less than 4% of people I asked said they were happy to stay at VP. A worryingly large percent said they'd stop going to matches if the move became permanent.
The club simply could not survive a move to Valley Parade.
If the council will not develop Odsal then we have no real alternative but to abandon the dream and do as other clubs have done and look for a flat site to develop with the help of sponsorship.

Bradford council are to local government what Basil Faulty was to the leisure industry.

If so many people had really voted bnp then surely they would have been voted in! The figures are widely published!

Very few bnp coucillors ever attend council meetings and from what I've read about them would be lucky to find their own with both hands and an atlas.

bnp are very up and down around here, they managed to get voted in wibsey, but then got voted straight out etc. a few years back.

Today's Sadler Express makes for interesting reading. Seems that the BCFC Supporters Trust have shoved their oar in to the debate.

What a great way to ensure closer links and friendship between the two clubs

If VP is ever to house both the Bulls and City the BCFC supporters trust would do well to keep their traps shut IMO. Their interference in the OSV decision making is only likely to give Bulls fans a stick to beat BCFC with and sour relations between both sets of fans.

My grandfather supported City for 50+ years and died at VP on his 70th birthday and probably the happiest day in his lifetime of supporting the club he loved. For me it will always be his resting place and spiritual home. That may make no sense to you but it does to me and a fair few fellow fans who went through what happened in 1985.

It may seem illogical but it is how it is.

Similarly a great many people have had their ashes scattered at Odsal and see that as their final resting place too.

Emotions will run high for fans of the Bulls and City if either club had to move from their current home.