Re: Redevelop starts 4th Jan? : Wed Jan 20, 2021 7:01 pm  

Well in fairness to them, they've done more work on the stadium than we've done for nearly two decades. I don't include the selling of the scrap metal as work either

I've given up on us ever being in a decent stadium sadly. In two decades, Bradford, one of the biggest cities in the country, has gone from having a Premier league football team, the best RL team in the world, to Bradford City fighting for their lives to stay in the football league, and us nearly going out of existance,moving out of the city and another big hole in the city. Maybe I'm looking at things too simply, butt he potential of selling Odsal to the developer and using the money to build on Richard dunns site. Give the city something to be proud of. Yet we just sit in decaying facilities while other small towns seem to get new facilities.

After the departure of Chalmers, and the $h!t$how of watching Elstone and SL chairman drive the sport into the ground, I gave up on caring on RL off field wise, trying to big it up to other people, hoping for a better future for us. I decided to just concentrate solely on the rugby itself. I really enjoyed it last season, seeing Scurr, Gallagher dish it up and not really care about the off field stuff.

If star trax enables me to at least watch them in Bradford, then im OK with that. As mentioned above, I've given up on us ever being in a state of the art stadium.

Re: Redevelop starts 4th Jan? : Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:59 am  

Agree.... On the whole Bradford thing. 6th largest city, 4th largest Metropolitan area and look at the rest of the top ten. Every one has an arena, a decent city centre, decent sports stadia, us? We get 'Oh they'll travel to Leeds ' compounded by eejits living in Bradford that claim they live in Leeds. (Musn't have seen Leeds in the 70's and early 80's). The Leeds City Region has killed the west half of the county.

Right I'll stop moaning, back to Rugby, I've made peace with where we are and prefer this to oblivion...SL can go whistle

Re: Redevelop starts 4th Jan? : Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:44 pm  

My only question would be how long did it take Fev to slowly upgrade their ground? We at least won't have to bring stands across the county, the infrastructure is there, it needs upgrading, one bit at a time.

Re: Redevelop starts 4th Jan? : Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:47 pm  

I've thought of another point. The stockcar people are aiming for an Easter opening. Is it purely coincidence that the league season (CC a couple of weeks earlier) now starts Easter as well?

Re: Redevelop starts 4th Jan? : Sat Jan 23, 2021 12:39 am  

Out of interest, what upgrades do we all think need to be made before we can get back to odsal with crowds from purely a rugby perspective?

Starter for 10

Im my eyes the terracing that was open seemed fairly sound but the barriers and yellow walkways certainly needed a coat of paint.

The touchdown bar has certainly seen its day. How that or the platform that the young kids stand on to do the score board has never collapsed ill never know.

Repair work needed to all the smashed up toilets at the rooley lane end.

Floodlights?

Im presuming the terracing behind the posts needs to be made safe? Is that a patching up job surely not replacing the whole terrace? Painting the barriers and walkways as well .

Some sort of cover across the 'legs' of the Coral stand.

Does the coral stand need a coat of paint?

Is it too much to ask for the electric score board to be fixed? (I cant see that happening)

Removal of the bleeding yellow poles with the speekes on top that go all the way round the bottom of the terracing. The old tannoy system hasnt worked for more than 25 years

The stand seems fine. Cant comment on the state of the toilets and bar as i dont get round that side of the ground very often but is it fair to assume there is some work needed there as well?

Im interested in everyones thoughts.

Re: Redevelop starts 4th Jan? : Sat Jan 23, 2021 7:49 pm  

Highlander wrote:

I've thought of another point. The stockcar people are aiming for an Easter opening. Is it purely coincidence that the league season (CC a couple of weeks earlier) now starts Easter as well?

TBH I think the stockcar people are delusional that they're going to have any spectators in at Easter, never mind a 'capacity crowd'.

Re: Redevelop starts 4th Jan? : Sat Jan 23, 2021 9:44 pm  

Mr Dog wrote:

TBH I think the stockcar people are delusional that they're going to have any spectators in at Easter, never mind a 'capacity crowd'.

They have limited sales to 2000 tickets due to Covid-19, the government are looking at Tiers again from March. So if Bradford is in Tier 2 they will be alright.

Re: Redevelop starts 4th Jan? : Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:10 am  

bulls2487 wrote: They have limited sales to 2000 tickets due to Covid-19, the government are looking at Tiers again from March. So if Bradford is in Tier 2 they will be alright. Except: England is unlikely to return to a localised tier system of restrictions as Covid infections and hospital admissions slow, as Boris Johnson admitted the infectiousness of the new variant had made the system less workable. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... ovid-tiers

bulls2487 wrote: They have limited sales to 2000 tickets due to Covid-19, the government are looking at Tiers again from March. So if Bradford is in Tier 2 they will be alright. Except: England is unlikely to return to a localised tier system of restrictions as Covid infections and hospital admissions slow, as Boris Johnson admitted the infectiousness of the new variant had made the system less workable. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... ovid-tiers

Re: Redevelop starts 4th Jan? : Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:13 pm  

Mr Dog wrote: Except: England is unlikely to return to a localised tier system of restrictions as Covid infections and hospital admissions slow, as Boris Johnson admitted the infectiousness of the new variant had made the system less workable. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... ovid-tiers I did post this over 2 weeks ago when the Media were advising the Tier system would return once lockdown ends, Tiers are returning but on a national scale, I don't think we will see fans in sporting events till May/June.

Mr Dog wrote: Except: England is unlikely to return to a localised tier system of restrictions as Covid infections and hospital admissions slow, as Boris Johnson admitted the infectiousness of the new variant had made the system less workable. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... ovid-tiers I did post this over 2 weeks ago when the Media were advising the Tier system would return once lockdown ends, Tiers are returning but on a national scale, I don't think we will see fans in sporting events till May/June.

Re: Redevelop starts 4th Jan? : Tue Feb 09, 2021 4:24 am  

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