Re: Andrew chalmers : Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:06 pm  

Horsfall would be perfect for this coming with the low.crowds that are likely to turn up to watch a losing side. Only problem would be the visits of Halifax and Hull KR. It would also help to cut costs.

Re: Andrew chalmers : Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:20 pm  

Horsfall is not perfect for anything other than the local sports facility it is. I also don't think the rfl have any intention of letting new Bradford play anywhere but the rfl leased odsal, so it's irrelevant anyway.

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Re: Andrew chalmers : Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:23 pm  

KCNBABT wrote:

Horsfall would be perfect for this coming with the low.crowds that are likely to turn up to watch a losing side. Only problem would be the visits of Halifax and Hull KR. It would also help to cut costs.

Far from sure we can just take next season in isolation though.

Assuming that we come through next season still in the championship, or even if it's a season later, after a year in champ1, where do we play then, when crowds are [hopefully] on the rise and a promotion push [or even just a decent season] is on the horizon? Do we just stroll back into Odsal, with the council and RFL having held everything on ice? Will it still exist as a stadium? Maybe there will be a giant garbage compactor on the site?

Thing is we just don't know, and given the pressures on the council, I'm not sure we can just assume.

Re: Andrew chalmers : Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:43 pm  

Why has Horsetail never been developed. Could build a beauty stadium on that patch of land.

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Re: Andrew chalmers : Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:50 pm  

Bulls4Champs wrote:

Why has Horsetail never been developed. Could build a beauty stadium on that patch of land.

Would need a bit of 'brass' spending on it by all accounts.

Very much a mud bath and nothing in the way of corporate, or even general, spectator facilities, and that would cost us dearly.

Re: Andrew chalmers : Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:55 pm  

KCNBABT wrote:

Horsfall would be perfect for this coming with the low.crowds that are likely to turn up to watch a losing side. Only problem would be the visits of Halifax and Hull KR. It would also help to cut costs.

Yes, that's what we need. The answer is, field a shoite perennially losing side, so you can play in a shamateur mudbath, as you are resigned to one man and his dog viewing, so that's OK.

That way, you'd probably only lose £1/2m a year or so assuming expenses were pared to a minimum. Tie-dye shirts maybe. I can see how after a year or two of that we would have rebuilt into a mighty force indeed.

Re: Andrew chalmers : Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:58 pm  

It will be interesting to see what's in store for us..

Re: Andrew chalmers : Sun Jan 15, 2017 5:02 pm  

Bulls4Champs wrote:

Why has Horsetail never been developed. Could build a beauty stadium on that patch of land.

I don't see how unless you move it back into the ground behind it and accept there'll never be any parking.

Re: Andrew chalmers : Sun Jan 15, 2017 5:06 pm  

We need a new, purpose built stadium. There's going to be a huge, empty plot of land on the other side of the road once Richard Dunns is gone. The money saved from getting rid of the sports centre, plus the money raised from selling the Odsal site must surely be enough to build our version of the LSV.

If the council really care that much about pro RL in Bradford then they need to do something about it, otherwise we will just be stuck in this perpetual loop of bullsh*t.

Re: Andrew chalmers : Sun Jan 15, 2017 5:19 pm  

KCNBABT wrote:

Chalmers representatives has had meetings with high earning players today. Player A previously on £70,000 under Green now being offered £30,000. Sounds like Chalmers has his realistic head on. No player should be on anyway near £70,000.

I've got it - you're Leon Pryce's dad. It all makes sense now.