What worries me is that if Bradford are relegated to the Chp, they'd probably, upon finding some nice new shiny investors find themselves taking the Chp spot back to SL in a couple of year's time which would be wrong.

RL needs a strong Bradford side tbh

I can recall being slaughtered for my anti SCL stance in 2003, the cva lost the club the 99 year lease and hence it had little to negotiate with from the move to LSV and nothing from the sale of HP.

Subtleties that some of us have come to understand since then. I supported the consortium bid at the time, but in retrospect I think Mr Nolan would have had run the club well and he couldn't have ripped us off (my main worry) because we didn't have any assets to rip off. However, we would have retained the secure tenancy which would have given us a bargaining chip to get some money from the sale of HP.



Of course, that sale hasn't materialised yet, due to planning permission problems, so it hasn't yet had a negative impact. But one day it will, when we don't get the slice of cash we should have got.

Once again, W1g4n council made it quite clear to the directors of Sporting Club Leigh that if they refused to sign the agreement to play at the LSV, Hilton Park would have its H and S capacity reduced to 1,000 .



Now maybe Mike Nolan would have been willing to play ' Hardball ' with the council, maybe that is why he ran the club into the ground financially in 2002 to attempt to gain majority ownership , but he wasn't from the town and essentially it would not have affected him .



Maybe the place to look at the reasons the club had to give up its lease and therefore any potential ' windfall ' is with the people who were at the forefront of getting the LSV built, they are the ones who put the club in an untenable position, the Centurions are not the only ones who were promised things would be ' workable ' and ' viable ' only to find they are not

Even so, it has to be admitted that it was a mistake to allow the long term secure tenancy to be lost. Potentially cost the club millions.



But that's all in the past, and there's nothing that can be done about it now.

Glad to see something can bring you out of your self imposed exile Steve.