: Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:14 pm  

Why not just take the roofs off Valley parade, move them to Odslum and spend the spare cash on a contract for me? I'm the right age for you and live local

ps when we play you dont forget to put extra staff on your Heath Robinson 'scoreboard' - poor buggers are usually worn out

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:07 pm  

Leaf wrote:

I can't think of any new RL stadium that doesn't have another sports team playing there, although Leigh Sports Village does only have a non-league team with low crowds sharing it with the Centurions.

Sorry to be a Smartárse but Leigh Genesis (formerly RMI) only play the odd fixture at the LSV due to cost, And probably wont be there much longer...

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:55 pm  

Asim wrote:

:lol:

city own a stadium, don't make me laugh.

going into administration, while bleating about being hard done to, is what you meant to write there.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:45 pm  

One thing's for certain for either club, commonsense will not prevail!

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:02 pm  

Mick Gledhill wrote:

Can I just say that I hate Bradford City with a passion.

It's the way I have been brought up from watching Bradford Northern in the late 80's.

They are the enemy as my dad says.

I hope they rot in league two for ever.

My opinion of you just grows by the day.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:06 pm  

I used to support both City and Northern till I got married and had to choose one or the other, I chose Northern as soccer had become boring with more back passes pervading the game each season till the total negativity of passing to keepers or full backs from inside the opposition half forced me to turn my back on the "beautiful game" I made the right choice with RL. Soccer is now so boring I can't even watch a full match. I either fall asleep or my brain starts to wander. However I always look for City's score when I see the results and will always have a fondness for them. I have always thought Odsal the better venue for team sports and hoped that BC would move to Odsal after that awful day, v Lincoln City. but passions ran high and a new stadium was built not by what was best for the two professional teams but by sentiment. Should BC stay at VP then a possible sharing scheme with BPA could then be a idea as they share a common early history.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:47 pm  

CBA reading all posts. I've said for years that both Odsal and VP have great sentimentality for each respective clubs and fans.

So build a new stadium slap bang in the centre of Bradford where the supposed Westfield site is going to be!! Get St. Ives to produce a pitch that caters for both football and RL.


Takes tongue out of cheek

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:43 pm  

mat wrote:

:wink:

Most City fans know full well that going into administration was entirely the fault of the powers that be at the club at the time, of course it is laughable to think of City owning their own stadium, after all they did up until a few years ago

In terms of being bailed out then yes, City do have a right to feel hard done by compared to the support given to the RL club by the council however they have a long way to go to get anywhere near to the level of whining that comes from the Bulls faithful, who seem to think the council should exist only to chuck money at them.

My long held view is that local authorities should have no big financial commitments to professional sports clubs but, if they are to, then they should be at least treated on an equal basis.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:59 pm  

I dont think the two sports are mutually exclusive to supporters and that some comments about "hating" each other are truly unrepresentative, There are many supporters who visit both grounds and a lot more who have an interest in the results and wellbeing of the other.
They should not think they are fighting each other for bums on seats as this is not true. Rather both clubs might look at promoting a form of joint supporter membership, community involvement and financial symbiosis.
The economic challenges to sport in Bradford will get a hell of a lot worse in the coming years for both clubs.
Clearly there are no Angels to fund either club and not likely to be now.
I suspect that little progress wiill be made until both clubs are in dire straights, by which time it could be too late.

[Bulliac]

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:09 pm  

Asim wrote:

Well, it's make your mind up time.




At the end of the day the council, and the city, gains nothing by having a successful RL team, our three times world champions would probably get plenty of blank expressions if the name was put to someone as close as Sheffield. It's time Bradford Council sacked off any sort of link to the Bulls (most of the fans aren't from Bradford anyway), forgot about any silly sporting village where they would be main beneficiaries, and start giving some financial support to the team playing football, success in which could put Bradford on the sporting map.

Sorry Asim but that just ain`t so. Soccer is the biggest sport in England but all the publicity is generated by, and is about the premier division. Even more it`s really only the top six or eight of that division that counts for anything so far as national newspapers or network TV (apart from the dedicated sports channels of course) are concerned.

I`m writing as a Bulls` fan who hopes the other clubs in the city do well and always looks out for city`s result if I haven`t followed the game on local radio, but I`m wasting my time trying to find any report of lower league games in my usual papers `cos there aren`t any. It`s hard enough wading through all the premier league rubbish to find city`s result some times. Even mighty(lol) Leeds might as well not exist so far as they are concerned.

Top RL games however do get headlines and match reports weekly. Nowhere near as much a their soccer counterparts obviously, but probably in a similar fashion to the Premier league, that is to say the top half dozen clubs are put firmly on the `sporting map` on a weekly basis.

If City are to achieve the same then they need not only to get back to the top flight but to get into the top end of it. I, for one, wish them all the best in that regard but the costs of getting there would probably be enough to finance the whole of the rugby league for a few seasons, so it certainly isn`t going to be easy.

Btw, I thought you were a Bull`s fan Asim? You know, moderator on RLFans and all that?