Thank you Damian Irvine for your response of 15 October to our post as placed on Twitter, and copied on to this RL forum. Your words are repeated below:
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Damian IrvineVerified account
@damianirvineUtter garbage. Bradford Park Avenue are making plans on spending on improvements at Horsfall which will see them there for years. BULLS HOME IS ODSAL & WILL BE ALWAYS. No public stadium even possible at Wyke (fall out zone of NuFarm) but Council building a community training centre. Facts
12:57 pm - 15 Oct 2018"
Apologies for the slight delay in responding.
It is wonderful to hear from the horse's mouth that Rugby League WILL be played seemingly forever at Odsal stadium. Thank you for your gracious, prompt and truthful admission.
Odsal is not a blight; it is a Bradford asset that will continue to house the wonderful sport of Rugby League.
As you and Bradford Council's head honcho, Kersten England, know there is a problematic clause in the Odsal Head Lease which states that Rugby League need not be played at Odsal after May 2019.
We agree with you that Susan Hinchcliffe, Kersten England and Ralph Rimmer will now continue to do the right thing. We know you Damian want to abide by the fans express wishes (as the 1300 Twitter Poll votes to date confirm) that RL will definitely be played at Odsal forever and a day.
To make sure this will happen after post Spring 2019 we ask that the following be done, and we know that Kersten and Susan will agree. Namely, that Odsal management, the RFL and Bradford Council delete the clause in the Odsal Head Lease that says that Rugby League could end at Odsal in Spring 2019, and as per your promise as above add a new clause to the lease guaranteeing that Rugby League will be played at Odsal for at least the next 50 years. This clause will then protect any owner of the club from land speculators who may see Odsal as one of the prime development sites in the region that could reap profit for some who may possibly have their noses in our trough albeit to the exclusion of Rugby League.
We are now speaking with a common desire, and for many thousands of Bulls supporters, when you and we say that the future of Rugby League at Odsal can be assured.
Please be so kind as to set this in motion now before the present clause expires and publish irrefutable written evidence for all Bulls fans to see that the future of Rugby League at Odsal is guaranteed for at least the next 50 years and we trust the related document signed by the Bulls owner (Mr Chalmers), you, the Head Lessee, and the Council will be published for all to see and registered at the Land Registry.
We trust that Kersten England and Nigel Wood will in particular share in this virtuous Common Purpose.
Once again Damian thanks for your kind and supportive response. You are a star.
P.S. We do have one query re what you said in your above tweet which is at odds with what one of our Council sources tells us. We are told that your new mate, Daniel J from Manchester, has already been given permission by Bradford Council's Kersten England, Julian Jackson and Susan Hinchcliffe to build houses at Horsfall. Belcki would like to put a deposit down on the first plot.