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| Quote: Adeybull "If the club had to move to VP (looks like that will be the only other option now if the club is to stay in Bradford), anyone know where the 7-figure sum to be repaid to the council for leaving Odsal early will come from?
Totally effing disastrous news. Even if maybe not as big a surprise as it ought to be.'"
Surely we can have a whip around to raise £10,000.01
Looks like we all need to buy a euromillions lottery ticket then.........
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| The sooner we can get out of Odsal the better for the club. The problem is getting out without incurring a massive seven figure payment to the Council.
I always thought the £75m scheme was a pipedream and that anything that did get built would probably not include any stadium development. However while there was a possibility the club had to be seen to be on board, rather like it did in the Superdome fiasco.
While we remain locked into a contract to keep us at Odsal as it is until 2017 (?) I fear the club will have to keep tiptoeing around the incompetants at city hall and be unable to move. In the meantime the club has a real risk it will lose its license and go out of business.
Damn blast and buggeration.
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| There are a few things:
1. the pitch at vp being too short. if we are moving there on a permanent basis, then lengthen it at the kop end. there is scope here and it would only really lose 3/4 rows of seats.
2. paying the council for leaving lease at odsal early. surely the council would allow us to repay this over say 30 years??? or simply go into admin and take a points hit. there is no relegation so we would be able to do so without it effecting things on the pitch.
3.traditional south bradford support. If people would rather watch championship 1 rugby at a stadium from the 1950's than superleague in a comfortable modern stadium, let them. there are enough sane people to make the move viable.
4. I am on the committee of a small social club 100 yards from VP and BCFC fans have kept us afloat since we welcomed them as members 5 years ago. another 13 match days would benfit us and other small businesses. Manningham is not as bad as people make out, and on street parking is just as easy and secure as around Odsal. And it is closer to rail and bus links. This would counter the difficulty that away fans (and some home ones) would have by having to cross the city.
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| Arrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Your council are the biggest cretins I have EVER come across outside articles which have headlines such as "Council found guilty of stealing millions".
Utter buffoons of the highest level. Come on get yourself out of Bradford and build the ground halfway down the M606.
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| So Valley Parade here we come.
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| Quote: isaac1 "
on street parking is just as easy and secure as around Odsal.'"
What about the copious OFF street carparking at Odsal though (Richard Dunn etc)? Are you really saying VP has the same level of available parking?
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| Bradford Council are a disgrace. But it doesn't really appear to be their fault. Their lack of action for two years on the project is though.
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| Quote: isaac1 "
2. paying the council for leaving lease at odsal early. surely the council would allow us to repay this over say 30 years??? or simply go into admin and take a points hit. there is no relegation so we would be able to do so without it effecting things on the pitch.
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This is the big sticking point and the thing I hope the club are intending to discuss with the council.
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| Quote: debaser "So Valley Parade here we come.'"
Only if we can get out of paying the Council several million quid first.
Otherwise we're in the worst of all worlds.
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| Quote: Bullseye "This is the big sticking point and the thing I hope the club are intending to discuss with the council.'"
Are the council really going to try and hold them to this agreement? the same council who let a company knock down the centre of town and then not rebuild it? They are not so keen to hold them to that agreement.
Clowns.
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| Quote: Bullseye "Only if we can get out of paying the Council several million quid first.
Otherwise we're in the worst of all worlds.'"
As mentioned in the other thread -
are Bradford council really going to risk bankrupting one of its major assets? Mind you, they are doing their best to get rid of most of Bradford, so proably yes.
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| Don't forget the councillor scumbags are proposing a residents'-only parking zone for about 100 square miles around Odsal, to further wreck the remaining prospects for the club.
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| there are fewer recognised car parks, and nothing on the scale of Richard Dunnes, but the stadium and surrounding area coped well with two premiership years with average crowds over 22,000 over 19 home games per season. I go to every city home game and park a five minute walk from the ground. I have never been avictim of crime (touch wood, i can guarantee i will now tonight!) It takes a little longer to get away after, but from a 3pm kick off, and the game ending at 4.55, I am sat at home in Wibsey by 5.30. For both clubs to become more successful, CIty and Bull have to share a ground. the need is on both sides. it is just that the current facility at VAlley Parade is better for fans and financially. if we are permanent fixtures there then the stadium licence can be altered to allow a more flexible approach to the rules, rather than the heavy handed tactics of 10 years ago!
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| Quote: Adeybull "Don't forget the council scumbags are proposing a residents'-only parking zone for about 100 square miles around Odsal, to further wreck the remaining prospects for the club.'"
Councillor David Warburton is one of them!!!! what side is he on? wants a state of the art stadium and sports complex, but not anyone parking near his house. Typical of the tools running BMDC!!!
I think i have found the reason!!!!
all the councillors are only interested in their small patch of the city, and none of them have the bigger view in mind. time to get rid of the council and have an elected mayor who will take responsibility and hire and fire his officials!
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