Oddly enough, using Google maps and a BIC pen top on the screen for measuring, (which means I have to allow margin for error of say 10%) - the hole in the ground, and the whole of Odsal stadium from fence to fence, are pretty much exactly the same size, shape and orientation.

This being so, why can't we just get a helicopter, lift and drop the ground a couple of miles down the road, and job done?

Cos first you'd have to drop a car park. And then drop the stadium on top of that.

Though I suppose you could knock the job centre down with all the bounteous employment that will flow from having a park in the city centre and put the car park there.

Maybe a park and ride could be put in on some of the land at somewhere like Odsal maybe...

Undercroft car park under the whole stadium - also tie in the stadium development with linking up the two rail stations and have one station within the stadium complex. May as well build a few shops in it whilst we're at it too.

Now where's me infinite pit of money?

Isn't the 'administration period' necessary due to the current owners of City being tied in to VP for another ten or fifteen years? This would be a convenient way out of that particular deal. Not that I'd suggest that deliberately reneging on debts was anything to be proud about (in fact the dead opposite) but would it not also have a downside, like a points deduction for the following season?

Incidentally, it's a similar reason why the Bulls couldn't easily move to VP. When the Bulls signed for the latest lease they took over responsibility for maintenance and received a considerable sum (we're talking £millions) as a donation from the council towards these costs. However there is a clause which commits the club to returning this money if they play fewer than the vast majority of games at Odsal, and as the previous regime actually spent the money some time ago (during their money is going out of fashion period) it isn't still laying in the coffers ready to pay back.

I think, that as the ground, without its tenant, is worth only scrap value to the pension fund administrators, some deal will be struck. Unless both sides really are in kamikaze mode, that is. Let's hope not.

If City do come to Odsal then it reduces cost of rent for us and reduces it significantly for City enabling City to spend more on a good team then when they have 5 mill spare they can buy back VP, only would take about 2-3 year Im guessing.

I predict City will stay at VP paying less rent. It's not in Gibb's interest to see them leave.

See Adey, you way over complicate things.

I don't overcomplicate things, it is a solution. Reduced Cost = More Money, More Money = Better Players/Buy Back VP, Better Players = Better Team.

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Well, with comments like that it's no wonder there's so much animosity between bulls and city fans. What an utterly disgraceful and childish thing to say.

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Especially when VP is so called 'brown-belt' land (I think the term is), whereas housing or supermarkets can't be built on it. Gibb will have to succumb in this situation or he faces an empty ground.

You sure? I'm struggling to follow.