Re: VP it is then! : Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:30 pm  

To raise funds why not sell the naming rights to the club, like get the word Bradford out of the title, it works in Asia for football teams, and Harlequins were known as the NEC Harlequins for a while, maybe we could sell the naming rights to the club and ground in exchange for the sponsor funding the stadium development

Re: VP it is then! : Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:49 pm  

andycapp wrote:

No way will I go to Valley Parade. I'd rather we play in the lower leagues than go to that dump. I suspect many more feel the same!
What about getting a fund going to build our own ground including Bradford Park Avenue?
I also suggest we drop the Bradford from our name. The "BULLS" is just fine by me!

No doubt the Stans and Leeds United fans feel exactly the same way, as for most, I think they'll be able to stomach watching the team move a couple of miles away for the sake of Superleague Rugby.

Re: VP it is then! : Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:53 pm  

Possible tiny ray of sunshine - stay at Odsal, more seats and a roof and keep some standing. Maybe down the line we'll be able to market the standing experience, something increasingly few sports teams can offer.

That would of course involve something occuring at Odsal with council support, and their record just got that bit worse today.

Re: VP it is then! : Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:57 pm  

Adeybull wrote:

Maybe one reason is cos Bradford is a non-labour council in the times of a labour government?

And, scarily, you can envisage the scenario of labour regaining this council at the same time as they lose the country, so we STILL end up with a government not friendly to the city.

Didn't Bradford miss out on getting a Development Corporation in the 1980s because they didn't have a Labour council, but Labour strongholds at the time like Sheffield, Leeds and Teesside all benefited from the Tories. (If you can call Meadowhall and Teesside Park benefitting!).

I think Bradford has just had damn bad luck, the Council can't be to blame for everything.

Re: VP it is then! : Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:29 pm  

mat wrote:

point I think your missing is that our franchise isnt at risk this round of franchising. we havent had a warning re: the stadium as 5 other clubs have had, and more importantly we achieved a b grad last time round and can only drop one franchise grade each round of franchising. only c grade clubs can be considered to drop out. so we could drop to a c grade this round and be in danger in 2015. we can afford to wait another year while we go through the options but we will need to make a final decision in about a year.

Fair enough - I hadn't realised that was the case. (Seems a painfully convoluted system to me though.)

Regardless, I'm not sure that was the thrust of the post that I was responding to. That seemed to be VP over my dead body and the only point that I was making was that that seems a bit daft to me.

Re: VP it is then! : Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:35 pm  

chpntpsr wrote:

To raise funds why not sell the naming rights to the club, like get the word Bradford out of the title, it works in Asia for football teams, and Harlequins were known as the NEC Harlequins for a while, maybe we could sell the naming rights to the club and ground in exchange for the sponsor funding the stadium development

Sadly, I fear you are dreaming if you think any sponsor would pay anything remotely resembling that sort of money for a (now) mid-ranking SL team. Where would they get the payback?

Re: VP it is then! : Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:37 pm  

Although like many others will have, I anticipated something like this after the meeting was delayed (rescheduled, canceled, whichever one you like), the news is still devastating. We need to act fast really, 2011 isn't all that long away and we need something solid in place by then.


Watching the Bulls at VP isn't the same, but if it secures our future in the top-flight then so be it.

Re: VP it is then! : Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:40 pm  

mat wrote:

point I think your missing is that our franchise isnt at risk this round of franchising. we havent had a warning re: the stadium as 5 other clubs have had, and more importantly we achieved a b grad last time round and can only drop one franchise grade each round of franchising. only c grade clubs can be considered to drop out. so we could drop to a c grade this round and be in danger in 2015. we can afford to wait another year while we go through the options but we will need to make a final decision in about a year.

Mat, if we WERE to drop to a C grade this time round (on last time's criteria we should be 1 point safe in B grade still, I calculate, but goalposts have been known to move in the RFL - per PH they already have regarding the solvency criterion, to our relative detriment as a solvent club) and if other C-grade clubs scored more than we did, how would we be safe?

Re: VP it is then! : Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:47 pm  

Another decade . . . . . another failed scheme. Meh.

Re: Odsal Sporting Village : Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:50 pm  

mat wrote:

It'll probably mean best case we get a roof and extra seating built within the existing structure .

Don't think anyone would complain with that.


I can just see VP looming in the distance though, and it's right in the middle of the tunnel, it's certainly not the light at the end!