Bradford Bulls have returned to play at Odsal but in their absence Stock Car Racing has been re-introduced resulting in the pitch now being 2 metres narrower than the minimum requirement. But they have been given dispensation by RL to play there! Anybody surprised by that decision ?

No I’m not surprised, some people are bending over backwards to accommodate the Bull, but I find it more surprising that the opposition clubs agree to playing on a undersized pitch, unless said clubs have given Hobson’s Choice.

It's 4 metres - 2 metres per touchline.

51 instead of the minimum 55 metres.

And, just to really rub it in - it was officially measured as 50.8 metres wide before today's match. That won't be made public though...oops!

I try to keep an eye on the council planning meetings, and today I noticed the June 17th meeting on the council site shows.

10:00 am CANCELLED - Planning and Highways Committee

I am aware that JM mentioned at the May Q&A, it would probably be the July planning meeting when both the Stadium and the Newmarket plot 8 applications would be heard. He also said they (the Newmarket lot) had been told by the council and Trinity, that the July deadline had to me met.
It mentions on the council site, “there are no meetings in August “ therefore, if the Enabling application (plot eight) isn’t heard at the July meeting, and as mentioned at the Q&A session the Stadium funding hasn’t been agreed between Trinity and Developers, the club would walk away.
We have not had any news on how or if those discussions on funding have been concluded or ongoing. I know the parties involved will have to keep meeting discussions, confidential until any agreements are signed sealed and delivered, but surely, we could be told, talks are taking place.
I, along with others on here, still have reservations about the developers, and considering that the club has still not asked fans, public, to support the plot 8 application, is a concern.
If the July meeting doesn’t work out for Trinity, then it’s highly unlikely that the September start date of Stadium redevelopment will happen.
Sorry to be a bit doom and gloomy just as the playing side of the club is looking brighter, but our long term future is still uncertain.

As someone involved in this since 2004, I'm not the least bit worried. It will happen when it happens and these delays overall are not huge.

It is worth noting that Covid has had a huge effect on the situation. You have to laugh, only Trinity could be so unlucky as to be on the brink of something big only for a pandemic to arrive. Nobody saw that one coming.

The electric power boxes, are they the grey cabinets at the back or side of the pylons and looked quite rusty if yes they are now green very shiny indeed. I would suggest they're new.

Well if the old bulbs were halogen, are they not going to be deemed illegal

What "old bulbs"?

The new lights are LED.

No the old bulbs that the LED lights replaced, if so we would have had to upgrade soon anyway, so good we sorted it now

Ah, well they wouldn't have been illegal - they would have just been very hard to source, as they wouldn't be being made anymore.

Metal halide discharge lamps are still being manufactured and sold to help maintain existing installations, nearly all new floodlighting is LED so as the control gear fails the fittings would be getting replaced by LED, plus there is now a generation of LED lamps that are retrofit in discharge lighting.