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#1 PhillH

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 05:33 PM

http://www.therfl.co...s-odsal-stadium

Raises some very obvious questions!!!!
Rugby League - great game, shame about the administration.

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 07:36 PM

http://www.therfl.co...s-odsal-stadium

Raises some very obvious questions!!!!



And memories.
My dad and his best friend took off to see the Challenge Cup replay in 1954. By the time they reached the stadium there was nowhere to park and the police shepherded everyone through Bradford and out the other side!
They never got close to the stadium!
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 12:35 AM

I wonder where the Rugby League was when another Iconic ground went....Station Rd.

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 10:20 AM

Come on Phill dont be shy...you know you want to... :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 11:21 AM

I wonder where the Rugby League was when another Iconic ground went....Station Rd.


Very good point Alan. I was thinking along the same lines too.

#6 PhillH

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Posted 28 January 2012 - 07:56 PM

Malcolm White made certain nobody knew about the sale of Station Road until after legally binding contracts with David McLean Homes had been signed, the RFL had no chance there.

A rent-back deal wouldn't have delivered what the scoundrels that were involved at the time wanted.

RFL investment into Agecroft would be useful though!


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Posted 28 January 2012 - 08:22 PM

And a sign that all their centrally funded leagues come under the beneficial shelter of the RFL`s financial largesse, Let Odsal be the first of others this year, Swinton and Oldham being two that desperately need to be prioritised, having wandered long in the wilderness of homeless nomadic Uncertainty!
Of course on the Proviso of timely, open accountability :laugh:




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