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Get your £2.50 on the Euro raffle - it's £62m tonight.
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| Quote bullsonfire="bullsonfire"Get your £2.50 on the Euro raffle - it's £62m tonight.'"
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| Quote Scarey71="Scarey71"You have missed the point more than Addy's MPG kick
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The act of "favouritism" means Bradford as a club will always be hamstrung whilst the club pay rent and are saddled with all the bills whilst the RFL pay a pittance to CBMDC.
Legal and Planning considerations mean nothing if the lease is held by anyone without the money to develop the land and the message from Thorne is you can't be viable without a modern stadium.
With the RFL choosing not to sell they are ultimately interfering with the ownership process buy turning away people with real money because they are offering nothing in return.
This, in my opinion, means we'll only ever be a target for the Lambs and Greens
of the world. Which is fine if we accept that Green couldn't even keep us alive in the Championship and our future lies part time (though how a much smaller, part time club can survive in Odsal is beyond my crumb of a brain
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Such a scenario, for me, does not fulfill the remit the RFL put forward of a 'successful, professional club the City of Bradford deserves'.
No one is going to be stupid enough to build such a stadium on the land whilst the RFL insist on retaining the lease. You've have to be a fool to do that.'"
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| Quote Bullseye="Bullseye" I remember Duffy telling me of £70k that was needed to sort out drains in one part of the stadium that had collapsed. Possibly spending some of it on Lesley Vainikolo and Co wasn’t arguably the best thing to do in hindsight but I would suggest that as soon as the Council came out of that agreement the writing was on the wall anyway. .'"
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Not sure about Henry Paul being a proven and experienced coach. Personally I'd have stuck with Rohan.
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| Quote rugbyreddog="rugbyreddog"Couldn't really see 24000 turn up to watch the drains being rodded'"
Very tempting but I the interest of good taste I will decline to lower myself to make the comment that resides in my head. |
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This really seems like a stop on the way to Admin4. But it all depends on the agreement with the RFL re: rent. If the rent is the same then I think it won't be long before Chalmers is homeless. I am hoping that if the supposed salary issue is the reason for Rohan leaving then the owners already have a replacement lined up.
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| I know this comment was a while ago but I'm just catching up on all the posts and I thought these 3 replies so good I just had to remind everyone - We're Bradford fans, we're at an all time low but we never lose our sense of humour.
Quote wire-quin="wire-quin"Year on year you manage to embarrass the game. Russia has something on Trump, you lot must have something on Fatty.'"
Reply #1 Quote wire-quin="hindle xiii"It's your mum.'" 
Reply #2 Quote wire-quin="debaser"What have I done?'"
Reply #3 Quote wire-quin="Sensei-Bull"It must have been when I was trying to carry 3 pints back to the stand and my pants fell down. I did apologies at the time. What more can I have done?'" |
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Article in today's YP about yesterday's press briefing from the RFL, with a couple of points I'd not heard/seen before. Apologies, couldn't find it on their website so can't post a link yet.
1. Rimmer stated 3 parties are keen to work alongside the new owners.
2. Chalmers and Lowe have not provided a financial bond as a guarantee.
From point 1, it would seem clear that the bigger plan around stadium development is the big prize for the new owners, there is no big prize from owning a championship team you have no emotional attachment to and from 2, wasn't it a pre-requisite to provide a bond in the application process? I suppose that Chalmers and Lowe haven't provided a personal guarantee, so maybe someone else has??
If this has been said before, apologies, can't keep track of all the threads and speed of developments.
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I'm in the know and can confirm at least one of the parties. Little Wayne is hoping to have his birthday party there.
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| Quote Mirfieldbull="Mirfieldbull"Article in today's YP about yesterday's press briefing from the RFL, with a couple of points I'd not heard/seen before. Apologies, couldn't find it on their website so can't post a link yet.
1. Rimmer stated 3 parties are keen to work alongside the new owners.
2. Chalmers and Lowe have not provided a financial bond as a guarantee.
From point 1, it would seem clear that the bigger plan around stadium development is the big prize for the new owners, there is no big prize from owning a championship team you have no emotional attachment to and from 2, wasn't it a pre-requisite to provide a bond in the application process? I suppose that Chalmers and Lowe haven't provided a personal guarantee, so maybe someone else has??
If this has been said before, apologies, can't keep track of all the threads and speed of developments.'"
By the sound of it the RFL has made a deal based around the stadium, they will want to get it sorted and probably make a few bucks in the process as much as anyone else.
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With talk about deals for the stadium, let's not forget that as much as a month ago, there was talk about Avenue man Gareth Roberts having a meeting with the RFL and Bradford Council set up in January.
Perhaps he's the one with designs on the ground?
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