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| Quote: IR80 "and where would the money for a community stadium come from?'"
Well there are several possible options to explore. By permanently vacating Odsal the council might be able to sell the asset make a profit and help with some of the financing of a community Stadium. There's also our sister club (of sorts) Bradford Park Avenue. They've improved their own ground lately but a bespoke community stadium shared with us would be attractive. The Council have lost a major swimming pool complex in the Richard Dunn and have various published aspirations for improving the fitness of Bradfordians etc. A modest community stadium on the same site with all weather pitches etc could go some way to addressing that.
I'm not looking for any handouts, but I think there's ways and means of getting a stadium for Bradford built, and for the RFL to recoup their investment in Odsal.
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| Quote: Pumpetypump "Well there are several possible options to explore. By permanently vacating Odsal the council might be able to sell the asset make a profit and help with some of the financing of a community Stadium. There's also our sister club (of sorts) Bradford Park Avenue. They've improved their own ground lately but a bespoke community stadium shared with us would be attractive. The Council have lost a major swimming pool complex in the Richard Dunn and have various published aspirations for improving the fitness of Bradfordians etc. A modest community stadium on the same site with all weather pitches etc could go some way to addressing that.
I'm not looking for any handouts, but I think there's ways and means of getting a stadium for Bradford built, and for the RFL to recoup their investment in Odsal.'"
I can't see why anyone would want to buy Odsal, hardly a prime development site in a very poor area of Bradford...?
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| Quote: IR80 "Yup, pretty much the nail on the head. The game and it's audience have changed, I miss the days of The Boulevard, but I think that is more wistful memories of going as a kid and young adult, rather than it having been better than the KC. The one place I do miss is Charleston club in Hull, but that was the people more than the place.'"
The Boulevard, Fartown, Knowsley Road, Central Park, Wilderspool, Hilton Park, I go back to Parkside, McLaren Field et all always had some atmosphere felt like double the crowd and when you walked past the changing room you could always smell linement ... oh the days...
Thrum Hall on boxing days happy memories....
Crown Flat with its bloody slope....
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| Quote: fartown since 1961 "The Boulevard, Fartown, Knowsley Road, Central Park, Wilderspool, Hilton Park, I go back to Parkside, McLaren Field et all always had some atmosphere felt like double the crowd and when you walked past the changing room you could always smell linement ... oh the days...
Thrum Hall on boxing days happy memories....
Crown Flat with its bloody slope....'"
There was always someone fighting at Wilderspool, and not on the pitch.
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| Quote: fartown since 1961 "The Boulevard, Fartown, Knowsley Road, Central Park, Wilderspool, Hilton Park, I go back to Parkside, McLaren Field et all always had some atmosphere felt like double the crowd and when you walked past the changing room you could always smell linement ... oh the days...
Thrum Hall on boxing days happy memories....
Crown Flat with its bloody slope....'"
You never went to the Barley Mow ground then, or Blackpool's Derby Rd or back of the gasworks opposite Turners coach park.
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| Quote: IR80 "Tolouse, TWP, Ottowa, New York, they are the future of the game, not a dated old ground with banked up in goals. Wakefield is bad enough with no cover and the block of flats at one end.'"
There's no cover at Cas or Leeds for away supporters either, Catalans have only limited under cover for away fans so why single Wakefield out, as for the block of flats which seem to bother every rugby fan bar Wakey's they provide a large part of the clubs income which I'm sure if you ever visited the corporate area for the match day meal which is fully booked every game you wouldn't take the view you do, incidentally what's your thoughts on the council swimming pool built at one end of the council stadium in Perpignan.
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| It has to be a full time team. Fev could not survive SL.
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| Quote: little wayne69 "You never went to the Barley Mow ground then, or Blackpool's Derby Rd or back of the gasworks opposite Turners coach park.'"
Borough Park you mean ?? I went to Bramley in 1964 as an 8 year old which could have been Barley Mow.
Clarence St when we played York, all the Cumbrian grounds, Alt Park Huyton, Station Road Swinton I could go on....
Runcorn, Mansfield etc etc
Oh Halifax Dukes at the Shay on a banked track but that’s Speedway
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| For a bit of subjectivity, I thought I would post McManus' other quotes that Donny conveniently left out.
“And it’s time for us to recognise that all twelve clubs, regardless of where they are based, should have equal central distribution. Not doing so is clearly divisive and unworkable.”
“A full and open review of the Toronto debacle should first be conducted, which should necessarily include consideration of whether SLE or our governing body could and should have acted or intervened earlier, when there had been so many clear warning signs in the months and weeks preceding.
“This would also give Toronto a chance to present an alternative business strategy. It is incumbent upon us to give them such an opportunity, regardless of our deep frustrations and doubts. Not to do so would leave us open to and unnecessary challenge. It is the right and proper thing to do within an acceptable time frame.
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| Quote: wire-quin "It has to be a full time team. Fev could not survive SL.'"
I don't get why they are still offering themselves.
Recalling when they had Mark Campbell organising the ground and the club structures superbly, then setting up Nahaboo to fund it all, they were on the brink of getting to SL. Then Nahaboo pulled out and they have been on a shoestring budget since????.
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| Quote: little wayne69 "There's no cover at Cas or Leeds for away supporters either, Catalans have only limited under cover for away fans so why single Wakefield out .'"
To troll the wakey fans........
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| Quote: little wayne69 "There's no cover at Cas or Leeds for away supporters either, Catalans have only limited under cover for away fans so why single Wakefield out, as for the block of flats which seem to bother every rugby fan bar Wakey's they provide a large part of the clubs income which I'm sure if you ever visited the corporate area for the match day meal which is fully booked every game you wouldn't take the view you do, incidentally what's your thoughts on the council swimming pool built at one end of the council stadium in Perpignan.'"
There is cover at Cas and Leeds, Wakey just don't let away fans in to the covered stands. And despite what Donnyman is stating, I am not trolling, i am having a conversation.
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| Quote: Pumpetypump "Where we disagree is that you think it was favouritism, in other words a random act of kindness by the RFL toward Bradford. Take a step back and ask yourself does that sound a bit odd to you. I'm genuinely as far from a conspiracy theorist as you'll get, but there has to be more to it than simply wanting to help Bradford out. The RFL may well have not wanted Odsal to be lost, but as to why I'm not sure. I sometimes think it would be nice for a few other clubs to be inflicted with a similar kindness (and other meddling) and see how you get on.
It wasn't worth it on financial grounds. It wasn't worth it by tying us to a ground that's unaffordable, and it wasn't worth it because it fostered ill-will towards the club and the governing body.'" right take away the interference of the rfl what would of happened to Bradford as a club with so much debt had they not come in, I can see why your angry with them but where do you think you would of been now
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| Quote: IR80 "There is cover at Cas and Leeds, Wakey just don't let away fans in to the covered stands. And despite what Donnyman is stating, I am not trolling, i am having a conversation.'"
Never implied you were trolling, because Wakey don't allow away fans in general in the covered area's is not the same as having none at all, re the Benidorm flats, I notice you declined to comment on the municipal pool at one end of the ground in Perpignan.
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