Bradford sports village : Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:28 am  

I see the Bradford Dulls are harping on about a new stadium again, find out on tuesday apparently, if the council decide they have lots of dosh for this, maybe the Cougars should ask " can we have some please "

Re: Bradford sports village : Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:55 am  

They would seem to have some sort of Svengali hold on the council.

Anyhow, we'll get nowt.

Reasons?

1) We are in Keighley, and only fit for paying rates.
2) Succesive boards at Keighley have seen fit to roll over and have their tummies tickled by the £20k a year sponsorship that was formerly passport to leisure, and I dont reckon this board will be any different.

In fact, I was stunned by how badly informed they are on the matter.

I wouldn't take any decisions on BSV as set in stone though, the funding will take some raising in the current climate.♠

Re: Bradford sports village : Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:35 pm  

One thing that strikes me as ironic is the leader of the council who ultimately decides everything and responsible for holding Keighley back as a town plus the cougars receiving a pittance is none other than Chris Hopkins. He is the conservatives candidate for Keighley for the general election. Not exactly an appealing option in light of his role and way cougars are treated by the council.

Re: Bradford sports village : Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:57 pm  

aj cougar wrote:

They would seem to have some sort of Svengali hold on the council.

Anyhow, we'll get nowt.

Reasons?

1) We are in Keighley, and only fit for paying rates.
2) Succesive boards at Keighley have seen fit to roll over and have their tummies tickled by the £20k a year sponsorship that was formerly passport to leisure, and I dont reckon this board will be any different.

In fact, I was stunned by how badly informed they are on the matter.

I wouldn't take any decisions on BSV as set in stone though, the funding will take some raising in the current climate.♠

Just out of interest , what exactly would you want Bradford council to do for you or provide you with ?

Re: Bradford sports village : Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:07 pm  

girl power wrote:

One thing that strikes me as ironic is the leader of the council who ultimately decides everything and responsible for holding Keighley back as a town plus the cougars receiving a pittance is none other than Chris Hopkins. He is the conservatives candidate for Keighley for the general election. Not exactly an appealing option in light of his role and way cougars are treated by the council.

If every Cougar fan agreed to vote in a bloc for the candidate who promised us help with Cougar Park would it help (as long as they're not BNP)?

Keighley's considered by many political pundits as one of the key marginal seats in a general election because it has high turnouts (69.1% last time) and when another party gets in here they usually win power.

Re: Bradford sports village : Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:17 pm  

Starbug wrote:

Just out of interest , what exactly would you want Bradford council to do for you or provide you with ?

To be treat somewhere equally with Br*dford would help.

This is the second time in the last 10 years they've pumped money in to that dump.

Our council tax is funding the aspirations of a club that we absolutely detest to the tune of £19m.

To be honest we're not expecting a nice shiny new ground like Leigh have but a million or two towards a new main stand would be nice.

Re: Bradford sports village : Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:42 pm  

Starbug wrote:

Just out of interest , what exactly would you want Bradford council to do for you or provide you with ?

In an ideal world, nothing. I dont think the councils should be supporting "professional" sporting organisations.

In the world where Bradford Bulls/Northern have had around £8,000,000 over the years, I would like to see some form of pro rata treatment.

That goes for City also.

Re: Bradford sports village : Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:19 am  

Our council tax goes to Bradford, same as all the bulls fans; we're in the Bradford area, same as Bulls - so how come we don't get help, like the bulls do for Odsal? Seems only fair...

Re: Bradford sports village : Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:43 pm  

Bradford council to p off out of Keighley edited, be careful

Re: Bradford sports village : Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:30 pm  

Mick W. we have no chance of getting money for the ground from Bradford Council.
I know what your getting at.
Come to think of it, there's two holes in Bradford now. 1)Odsal 2) The shopping centre that as none gone
ahead.
Bradford is just one big hole.