Stealth Comic wrote:
It's one thing to talk about a new ground, another thing all together to get the bricks and mortar on the ground.
The only decent sport I could think of would be the now demolished Airedale Spinners site behind the fire station.
I reckon redeveloping Cougar Park is far more likely. The east terrace was designed for a 2nd tier to be added later so put a new tier in with corporate boxes, new bars and 2,000 seats. Then demolish the Wooden Stand and the Hall of fame and build a new terrace with changing rooms and facilities sited underneath.
Apparently there's a steering committee set up to progress the new ground but it's not said who's on it.
In actual fact, i've been looking at that area behind the fire station and off dalton lane mentioned by stealth comic. That could really be a goer. Not an enormous space so the new stands/terracing would have to be as close to the pitch and as steep as possible. Most of the money would have to go into one side as a main stand with all the facilities and bars needed. The other three sides would need to be just pure terracing used for matchdays. There would need to be a park and ride say at Marley for matchdays but there would be a good chance to have activities - stalls, kids rides, entertainment at Victoria Park so long as a foot bridge over bradford road to the new ground was provided.
As regards funding i reckon nothing could happen without bradford council. If bradford council could offer the Co-op vacant possession of the cougar park site i.e. if cougars agreed to move, and with planning consent for out of town retail development it should be worth them paying quite a few million £. If Bradford council could organise matching funding it would pay for the new stadium to be built. The council could then lease the ground to cougars for a reasonable sum a bit like its deal with bfd bls at odsal.
