Re: VP it is then! : Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:29 pm  

isaac1 wrote:

At Odsal the engineering of it all is key. filling the bowl would be a huge expense, as is finding a practical way to put a roof on the terracing.

That's the key issue, the site is prohibitive, and I think it's the reason for these ridiculous costs.

Put it this way, you would get more change out of £15 million building on a flat site like Cougar Park than you would at Odsal.

Re: Odsal Sporting Village : Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:57 pm  

I don't really understand what Bulls fans have against Valley Parade.

And even more confusing is the countless number of suggestions on the T&A site that the Bulls should move out of Bradford

Re: Odsal Sporting Village : Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:00 pm  

In simple terms....

tezza_93 wrote:

I don't really understand what Bulls fans have against Valley Parade.

The area it's in is the main one. It's known as a rough area and people don't like taking their families and parking their cars there.

tezza_93 wrote:

And even more confusing is the countless number of suggestions on the T&A site that the Bulls should move out of Bradford

People are sick and tired of the council.


In all honesty, I'm not really interested by the whole thing anymore. I've not expected to get anything since we moved back to Odsal in 2003 and nothing has happened since to change my mind. I'll only become interested again when I actually see work being done or a move is confirmed.

Re: Odsal Sporting Village : Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:30 pm  

Hmm.

Makes you wonder if sources close to Valley Parade, who may have a vested interested in the OSV not going ahead, are at work here somewhere?

[Bullseye]

Re: Odsal Sporting Village : Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:27 pm  

Wigan Bull wrote:

http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/4643/STATEMENT%20REGARDING%20ODSAL%20SPORTING%20VILLAGE

Still hope?

We seem to be going around in circles. A couple of years ago we had an affordable and achievable plan, I saw some of the blueprints as did a few others on here. Those plans came after a lot of pi55ing about with schemes that were too ambitious and unaffordable. Unfortunately that plan was then shelved for a more ambitious one again. Now that's been dropped and we're looking at more achievable plans again, and the council is about to spend over a million on another feasibility study. That's just taking into account the period 2006-2010.

It's a shambles and I fear while we're relying on the council we'll either end up with something that's the bare minimum cost and ambition (not including a stadium or any re-development) or nothing at all and continued indecision and waste. I would dearly love to be proved wrong but I'll believe it can happen when I'm sat in it!

Adeybull wrote:

Hmm.

Makes you wonder if sources close to Valley Parade, who may have a vested interested in the OSV not going ahead, are at work here somewhere?

One has to wonder. I think there are also others with a vested interest in building something large in order to service their egos rather than provide something achievable. Once you have both these parties at work the end result is nothing at all.

Re: VP it is then! : Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:42 pm  

aj cougar wrote:

That's the key issue, the site is prohibitive, and I think it's the reason for these ridiculous costs.

Put it this way, you would get more change out of £15 million building on a flat site like Cougar Park than you would at Odsal.

Flat? Cougar Park?

They done away with the slope there then now have they?

[Bullseye]

Re: VP it is then! : Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:46 pm  

aj cougar wrote:

Put it this way, you would get more change out of £15 million building on a flat site like Cougar Park than you would at Odsal.

Ground sharing with the Cougars at a suitable non flooding site up the Aire Valley just off the bypass would suit me fine.

[Bullseye]

Re: Peter Hoods Statement about OSV : Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:47 pm  

Had a go at mergeing theads but made a bugger of it. Can't work out all the new buttons. Please can someone else have a go?

Re: VP it is then! : Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:48 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Ground sharing with the Cougars at a suitable non flooding site up the Aire Valley just off the bypass would suit me fine.

And me!

Re: Peter Hoods Statement about OSV : Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:04 pm  

So succinctly put!! Only a Yorkshire man could put it so well!
Not living 'up North' any more, I really miss the turn of phrase