got to admit thats my worry too. city fans have only talked about possibility of a ground share since the OSV started to look likely to go through. Before the money from the airport sale was earmarked for OSV they were pretty opposed to us moving to VP. ITs only because they see a possibility of using the money for their own benfit that they are suddenly so keen to ground share. What they never mention is that while it may only take 6 million to buy VP back from gibb, they are also committed to pay rent their for next 20 years or so and would have to come to a settlement figure with the pension fund to get out of that arrangement, hence the true cost of buying VP back would be substantially more.
They also fail to mention any of the wider aspects of the OSV and constantly refer to it as purely a new stadium for the bulls and ignore all the other facilities which are part of the scheme. Whilst the club has to keep itsellf at a distance from the scheme to an extent, the damage is being done by the city supporters trust constantly getting their views presented to the public whilst we say nothing.

If there was a group of non Bulls supporters that spoke for the different people who'd benefit from the OSV then that would be ideal but their isn't. I think Bulls fans should be wary of being drawn into the argument and appearing to be just out for themselves. The reason to build the OSV is to provide better sports facilities long term for people in the south of the city and beyond. If that means a new Stadium for us and City in a perfect out of town location with good transport links then all the better.

Latest update (from AGM) rlhere.rl

Hood still very positive.

Not the most flattering pics of our Chairman though...suspect from his expression he'd just been reading some of the garbage posted on the T&A forum (or on here...) when it was taken? Or maybe just had to shake hands with someone from Leeds...

There is that...

thing is, im not too concerned about the bradford city thing. they don't want to share a ground at odsal, but as far as i knew they were never part of the original OSV plan anyway and a lot of the talk of them moving to odsal was to try and light a fire under whoever they're paying rent to for vp and trying to get a better deal out of them

For clubs who draw most of their support from out of town I could see how that would be preferable, but the Bulls are pretty unique in that respect

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I still find it hard to believe that people still think that this will ever happen.

Surely the amount of money that has been spent on project committees, steering groups, etc we could of had the thing half built by now if they'd actually just get on with it!

I know funding needs to be in place, but we're not going to get this in the current economic climate. We missed the boat and should have got the thing moving properly at the height of Bull-mania when sponsors were almost falling over themselves to get involved and we had a lot larger fan base to assist in making noises.

I fear we are stuck with our hole in the ground for a lot, lot longer, especially after reading the T&A article earlier.

Very true, imo. The club who were involved in the original plan are, of course, building a new stadium at Thornbury, and if plans are on course it should be about ready now.

Oh hang on, it`s looking a bit like the superdome project; still a figment of the imagination. I wouldn`t be shocked to see Avenue (with a different chairman, perhaps?) come back into the fold.

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Plus ça change...