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Re: RL Challenge Cup : Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:55 am  

Jack Burton wrote:

Unless they can get significant investment into Odsal, they should move to Valley Parade.

Valley Parade owners wanted £750k a season so that was a non-starter. We're stuck with the Odsal millstone unfortunately since finding someone with tens of millions needed has been impossible since the 1930s.

Valley Parade pitch is smaller than Odsal BTW. Odsal pitch has a dispensation to be the size it is. Length wise it's no different to many RL grounds.

Re: RL Challenge Cup : Mon Feb 10, 2025 9:13 am  

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Bullseye wrote:

Valley Parade owners wanted £750k a season so that was a non-starter. We're stuck with the Odsal millstone unfortunately since finding someone with tens of millions needed has been impossible since the 1930s.

Valley Parade pitch is smaller than Odsal BTW. Odsal pitch has a dispensation to be the size it is. Length wise it's no different to many RL grounds.

Not sure how you get that.
Valley parade is reported as 64 metres wide

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Re: RL Challenge Cup : Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:02 am  

STEVENM1000 wrote:

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Valley parade is reported as 64 metres wide

It's shorter than it was when we were last there apparently - and that needed a dispensation then.

Re: RL Challenge Cup : Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:44 am  

No idea what the answer is for Bradford , given the financial pressures facing the game, ground sharing needs looking at more widely in the sport.

Share a ground with Halifax? Share the new Ken Davy ground, Share Headingley, I know this will bring Bradfordians out in hives , would probably do same for me.

On our game, 1,310 in attendance is abysmal and emphasises the game’s income challenge, see above share costs suggestions

Re: RL Challenge Cup : Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:08 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

It's shorter than it was when we were last there apparently - and that needed a dispensation then.

Good lord ! Has the metric wheel not reached Bradford yet
City Of Culture and small playing surfaces.

Re: RL Challenge Cup : Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:33 pm  

Sir Gregory ParsloeP wrote:

On our game, 1,310 in attendance is abysmal and emphasises the game’s income challenge, see above share costs suggestions

Competition for leisure £'s combined with what was only ever going to be a no contest, procession of a game. The CC needs a serious overhaul. I'm not sure what that is, but I can't see this format being repeated next year.

Re: RL Challenge Cup : Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:47 pm  

Bradford and culture in the same sentence....

Re: RL Challenge Cup : Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:50 pm  

The attendance was terrible, but if we'd been away to say Batley, they would have had a nice crowd for them. Probably true of most Championship sides. I'd say the view of most people in the game as a whole about this round was largely positive, but it clearly needs a tweak to get the sort of draw that would help the game more.

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Re: RL Challenge Cup : Mon Feb 10, 2025 3:38 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

Bradford and culture in the same sentence....

Not really Tad. Bradford has plenty of culture - at least as much as anywhere else in Yorkshire.

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Re: RL Challenge Cup : Mon Feb 10, 2025 3:42 pm  

Sir Gregory ParsloeP wrote:

No idea what the answer is for Bradford , given the financial pressures facing the game, ground sharing needs looking at more widely in the sport.

Share a ground with Halifax? Share the new Ken Davy ground

Would think sharing a ground with Fax or Hudders wouldn't be too bad - somewhere on the border would be ideal. Not sure how having primacy of ownership would work for IMG purposes but it makes sense to have a stadium that gets plenty of use. Pitch would need to be made of stern stuff. The challenge is who pays for it?

The Bulls are stuck at Odsal until I win a Euromillions treble rollover.