Where's frank Whitcombe gone?
Was expecting a prediction for tomorrow.

Noticed his name down the bottom earlier....

Possibly one of the new aliases that has popped up in the last couple of days

As I said originally , in theory , with secondary earnings of food and drink Odsal should be a money maker ( again only providing you get the numbers ) but the sheer size of the place and it's very nature , ie ( old ) means the costs must be spiralling upwards , as has been pointed out by others more clued up than me

I just don't see how anybody can feasibly intend to purchase the Bulls and continue to play there

Well whatever the running costs, if we'd kept the ground at a peppercorn rent, then it's pretty obvious to me that has got to be do-able, hasn't it?

It certainly has

70k rent doesn't on the face of it sound like a lot. It's only £1 per person per match.

I get that Odsal is old but how much does it deteriorate each year that means we have to psy out an excess amount of money on maintenance? Does anyone have any examples of such outlays that we've had to make?

Genuine questions. I'm not here for a windup. My opionion is that long term we need a new stadium.

Agree with you, a modern stand and the corporate stand can't cost that much to maintain, the rest of it is concrete

Clare definitely gone, Welham definitely gone and others on the way. Even if the team survive they will be missing players who contributed over a 3rd of their total tries from last season. Let's hope Rohan has worked on the defence because it's not looking like they will score as many points themselves.

Gutted we're losing both but totally understandble. We are quite well equipped in the backs. Ethan Ryan is class and with Welham gone i suppose it gives an opportunity for Ross Oakes.

I'd be more gutted if we lose some of our academy players.

Anyway at the moment i'm still praying we've got a club this time. tomorrow. The worry of the quality of players left over can wait.

Yep, I'm not losing any sleep on player departures right now. We need a club first and foremost. We have some decent young lads that could cover departures in the short term if required.

I don't know about the Bulls but it costs Wakefield around 125K a year in maintenance on top of the annual rent to the bank of Ireland, which at one point was 10K a month. This is now less than half that but the ground repairs bill remains. I imagine with Odsal being a bigger ground the costing won't be any less than that.

According to gledhill both were training with bradford today Which probably confirms nothing

the council got rid of Odsal to the Bulls because of the high maintenance costs, they give us the 150 year lease and £5million which was to cover the upkeep of the stadium until 2020, unfortunately someone decided to build the Coral Stand with that money, then sell the lease for peanuts to the RFL and landed them with an annual bill for 70k, plus upkeep of ground which the council had been splashing over 300k per year on even 15 years ago. Some great business done by the Bulls custodians.

Clare to Leigh
Welham to Salford
Sidlow to Featherstone
Olbison has offers from Halifax and Batley
O'Brien wants out.

Players told chance of Liquidation tomorrow.