Moving Onwards

I’d feel a bit uncomfortable about moving grounds permanently to be honest. I think a big part of who we are is shaped by what happened in 1985 and the thought we might walk away from that at the end of the lease, so the land is sold and possibly turned into run down housing, a mosque, Halal supermarket or bazaar etc, saddens me.

There will be pressure to move though. Odsal is so dilapidated and the Bulls are on the up under John Kear. They will be back in Super League in a few years and may press for ground development. Wouldn’t surprise if a ground share of some sort did materialise eventually.

 

Brighton have a great stadium cost 140 million ish, it cost a shed load to run and can only be funded in the premiere league. It's out of town which is the biggest b/ache of all. I would love to go back to the old stadium personally, our new premier fans wouldn't be that keen though. Buying back VP is that an option?

 

Buying VP will always be an option, but one not taken unless Sheikh yawallet, or A N Other steps in with the dosh.

 

Any news on the new ground, ultra mega training facility, Bradford City Airport, hotel, casino and resort?

 

Any muppet that buys the ground should be committed - it’s a dump of space right in the middle of a shithole.

 

I'm intrigued!

So glad we're finally showing ambition!

 

At least the drainage will be good

 

Change is always opposed by football fans until see the new facilities and they soon come round

 

Buying VP would be a lot cheaper option than starting from scratch

 

Easier too.

What, realistically, would you set the capacity of a stadium to?

Might as well be 15,000 for the next few millennia. Only times we'd need bigger is big cup ties.

 

Oh FFS! I ignored post for a while but it's a top level crackers post from a bloke who'd clap at the end of a hard fought defeat at Horsfall.

VP is an odd configuration, it's not owned by BCFC, we can't expand....anywhere, it's in a b.a.d area. It's the only club in the FL where it's support base want live as far away from their football club's ground as possible.

Corporate income?

 

The 15k VP rocked, a 20k+ in another area would too..

 

Why do we need to expand a 25000 seater stadium?. As for fanbase wanting to live as far away as possible, thats a bit ironic coming from someone who lives just 3 miles away from VP

 

When was the last time we filled VP? We got 15k gate roughly last season and even less towards the end. Why would you want to expand and put further financial pressure on ourselves with overheads when we haven't even outgrown where we're at now? The rent deal at VP is inverse to what division we're in, so whilst its a millstone now it actually works out better the higher we go.

The money it would take to build a new stadium would most likely be more than the cost to buy VP. I'm not being funny mate but I live about five mins up the road from bramall lane at the moment and its not exactly a picnic round here either, yet that's had precisely no effect on them whatsoever and doesnt with us. Could you honestly say the location or amenities around VP have affected numbers in any way whatsoever ever?

Lets move from a 26k stadium to a 20k in the name of ambition ey.

 

Not everyone

 

...depends if you get a free ground

 

I do like what Luton are doing. Inner city stadium. Shops etc. Brings life to the city on match days. We could have worked with the council but missed chance

 

Its still there, VP is still close to the top of town and North Parade gets pretty busy on matchdays. Definitely an opportunity but I don't have faith the Council could deliver anything rather than the club;