Re: Big Nige : Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:22 pm  

The story is basically true though short of some detail. Bullseye is also right that there has to be money coming in from another source. That source is Sport England who if you remember awarded £10.75m to help grow and sustain participation in Rugby League for the four-year period 2017-2020 as part of the ‘Towards an Active Nation’ strategy. This includes conditions for expenditure on infrastructure. What better infrastructure than a 30,000 capacity stadium with bells and whistles at the iconic Odsal?

Re: Big Nige : Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:51 pm  

Only the RFL could drive one of their members out of existence so they could build a new HQ. They really are not aware of how precarious leagues foothold is in British professional sport.

Re: Big Nige : Mon Jul 31, 2017 5:03 pm  

Scarey71 wrote:

I'm probably mistaken but I am sure I've read somewhere trustyworthy that the Dunns site actually forms part of the Odsal lease and that's why we could charge to park on it.

Surely, all they need to do is carve it up into two parcels, RFL says 'Thanks for Dunns we relinquish the lease hold for a just enough of a share in the money from the disposal as a whole to crack on with our development'.

Nige includes a Spicy Cottage franchise in the development and lives happily ever after.

Yes, the actual freehold covers both the stadium grounds and Dunns grounds as well

[Bullseye]

Re: Big Nige : Mon Jul 31, 2017 5:12 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

The story is basically true though short of some detail. Bullseye is also right that there has to be money coming in from another source. That source is Sport England who if you remember awarded £10.75m to help grow and sustain participation in Rugby League for the four-year period 2017-2020 as part of the ‘Towards an Active Nation’ strategy. This includes conditions for expenditure on infrastructure. What better infrastructure than a 30,000 capacity stadium with bells and whistles at the iconic Odsal?

So new ground before Wakey then that'll go down well.

Re: Big Nige : Mon Jul 31, 2017 5:24 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

The story is basically true though short of some detail. Bullseye is also right that there has to be money coming in from another source. That source is Sport England who if you remember awarded £10.75m to help grow and sustain participation in Rugby League for the four-year period 2017-2020 as part of the ‘Towards an Active Nation’ strategy. This includes conditions for expenditure on infrastructure. What better infrastructure than a 30,000 capacity stadium with bells and whistles at the iconic Odsal?

This is what I got told a few weeks ago. The council are land rich but cash poor. They also recognise that sport underpins a lot of what they now have statutory responsibility for - public health, exercise. As long as they get a 21st century version of Dicky Dunnes and Bradford Bulls stays at Odsal, they will negotiate with all stakeholders.
The RFL are cash rich (Sport England funding for infrastructure/legacy), have a stake in Odsal (by luck or Machiavellian judgement??) and want offices, an RFL stadium and a tenant (Bulls).
Bulls just need a stadium.... and already have a chairman, chosen specifically by the RFL, who is trusted by the RFL.
I don't know where Nige fits in, but the plan seems to be coming together.
As has been said many times, it's all about the land development.

Re: Big Nige : Mon Jul 31, 2017 5:44 pm  

So none of this actually helps us in anyway does it? We are still relegated and looking less and less likely to have a sustainable team playing in our fancy new stadium in however many years time.

[Bullseye]

Re: Big Nige : Mon Jul 31, 2017 5:58 pm  

I suspect there was always a plan to keep the club going on life support. Whether ambitions go beyond that we'll have to wait and see - if there's anyone left that's bothered. I've already decided this season is over.

A new ground would be a massive step in the right direction though - thinking longer term.

Re: Big Nige : Mon Jul 31, 2017 6:12 pm  

In a nutshell this story - if true - means this season has been a total waste of time, and so will next season. Come back in 2019 for the start of the fightback...

Hmmm.... not sure how many of us will still be around by then?

Re: Big Nige : Mon Jul 31, 2017 6:13 pm  

Duckman wrote:

"the Odsal project is well advanced" what happened to the good old days of projects having proper pie in the sky names like the superdome?! Come back to me when it has a proper name.

There's not even an artist's impression yet. Don't they know how these things work?

Re: Big Nige : Mon Jul 31, 2017 7:40 pm  

I will have a guess that things are well on with drawings and details of what the RFL want. I will try see if I can find anything out with been in the construction industry.