Re: Leaving Odsal and future in general : Sun Dec 15, 2019 11:47 am  

Didn't the RFL announce that it would have to pay out around £250k for upkeep at Odsal for 2020?

If they're expecting the Bulls to come back and foot that bill and the club agrees then I'm done. I'm not bothering watching the club go over the cliff again which is what would happen in that scenario

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Re: Leaving Odsal and future in general : Sun Dec 15, 2019 4:01 pm  

All that's up in the air, to be fair, so best wait and see I guess. For me, I'm at a loss to understand how the sort of figures we've been given can be even considered by the new management.

For sure, being back in Bradford is paramount, but Odsal is not, and unless it can be done sustainably then the idea should be binned. I certainly don't think that giving out false hopes about Odsal is the best way to bring out support in the longer term. Unless there is a complete rethink on the lease pricing, by all involved, then best forget the idea.

Re: Leaving Odsal and future in general : Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:44 am  

If Wood owns the club then he certainly won't be footing the bill.

Re: Leaving Odsal and future in general : Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:36 am  

Well there's stuff floating round on social media regarding the return of stock cars/speedway to Odsal. How much truth there is, I do not know but I'm not suspecting more than a grain as I feel that the people touting it haven't actually seen the current state of Odsal or are completely aware of how much it would cost to bring that ruin of a stadium up to code for their sport.

Re: Leaving Odsal and future in general : Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:34 am  

roofaldo2 wrote:

Well there's stuff floating round on social media regarding the return of stock cars/speedway to Odsal. How much truth there is, I do not know but I'm not suspecting more than a grain as I feel that the people touting it haven't actually seen the current state of Odsal or are completely aware of how much it would cost to bring that ruin of a stadium up to code for their sport.

There's bit more to it than that. The talk about Stock Cars returning was from Steve Rees, who who was the promoter when Stock Cars were last at Odsal, and (so far as I know) still holds the promoters license.

I'm not saying it will ever happen, but I'm pretty sure he will be all too well aware of the costs and complexities of bringing the stadium up to standard for stock cars - the state of the track and the fact that Mark Moore flogged off the fence being two obvious ones.

I keep a bit of an eye on this as I was big Stock Car supporter back in the day, and I know that Steve (who must be knocking on a bit nowadays) has often been asked about the possible return to Odsal on Stock Car forums, and his replies show that conversations and feasibility studies (at least rough calculations) have happened periodically over the years, and so, again, I don't think he'd have posted this on his promotion companies FB page if there was literally nothing in it.

IF Odsal is ever going to be viable again it's going to need to be used for more than 13 Sunday afternoons per year, and maybe this is one potential avenue that the Council would look at? Let's see what happens... probably nothing, but you just never know.

Re: Leaving Odsal and future in general : Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:55 am  

I'm pretty sure I read a story about the potential return of stock cars and speedway to Odsal at least once every 12 months.

Re: Leaving Odsal and future in general : Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:57 am  

There's some pretty gnarly steel work at one end that would probably put paid to any H&S review....

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Re: Leaving Odsal and future in general : Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:55 am  

Much would depend on what kid of crowds were expected when talking about facilities and safety. I doubt the old sort of figures from days gone by would be achievable now, though I confess I've not seen any Stock cars for years. I've seen the (very) occasional grassing races but even that seems to be much less of an attraction that it used to be with tracks folding and the clubs amalgamating. The biggest obstacle imo, physically and metaphorically, the elephant on the track as it were, would be the Coral Stand.

Re: Leaving Odsal and future in general : Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:06 am  

"If you build it they will come"

Re: Leaving Odsal and future in general : Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:21 am  

DILLIGAF wrote:

I'm pretty sure I read a story about the potential return of stock cars and speedway to Odsal at least once every 12 months.

Agreed. Speedway in an even worse state than RL so I doubt they'll be people queuing up willing to spend millions to buy the lease off the RFL and then pump the substantial sum to redevelop it for speedway/stock cars.

It just seems like Mick Gledhill type of journalism of what "could" happen with zero concrete evidence that anything is in the pipeline.