Thursday 14th July at 7pm. This is going to be interesting...

I doubt it.

They won’t answer the questions, they’ll tell the fans to be patient and give MD time.

They’ll talk about building sustainably and long term strategy.

They won’t admit if crowds continue to fall that we’re done.

They won’t admit they took the cheap option in MD, they’ll claim they had multiple applicants but MD was the best.

They won’t acknowledge that this is their mess.

I stopped going to these after the first question asked was "when will we get vegetarian burgers in the food outlets?"

I agree with this 100% it will be rigged in Nigels favour.. There is no way he would line himself up to be ambushed by a hostile crowd.
unless the exciting news is bringing in a multi million pound backer with a firm plan to develop odsal.
This is unlikely though as if this was the case they would have been taking on an SL quality coach last week when they had the chance.

Interesting that the forum falls in with a training session so the players will likely be in attendance. I wonder if that will put off some questions about performances from the crowd.

How many will call out our fatties with said fatties sat across from them.

George Flanagan has already offered to meet one vocal Twitter personality to discuss his concerns. Could be a dark day.

The fact that GF offered a fan out online for questioning a very bad performance and it went unchecked by the club speaks volumes about the level of Professionalism at the Bulls tbh, imagine this happening under Brian Smith, Matty Elliot or Noble? ... the back tracking by GF afterwards doesn't hide the fact that is exactly what he did do..

There is no doubt that is why Nige has combined it with an open training session, with pre vetted questions **nothing to see here we are in great shape***
Vegetarian catering options are on the way so don't worry.lol

Hmm. It'll take actual deeds rather than fine words to persuade me that all is well, I've heard plenty of complete rubbish at forums in the past and will be giving this one a miss. The physical condition of some of the players is worse than I've seen it since the 1980s.

Never forget Paul Medley telling us the club were on the brink of great things owing to its focus on youth. He really played the crowd and got a huge roar. Then he took a job at the RFL and only months later PH said if we didn't give them half a million quid the club would close. They got the half a million quid to get the directors off the hook and then went into admin anyway. It spoiled my impression of Medley who I'd always admired and I never attended another forum.

That night he and McB talked utter *****. They both swanned off to the RFL and we were left with a crock.

For all of the mess they started, Hood, Duckett and co were far more competent than the current lot.

If we knew what was to follow it was probably worth the club folding after admin 1!

Anyone on here going to the forum tonight?

I’d rather watch the coverage of the Conservative leadership contest.

If I’m going to listen to a load of inept, shady character talking about their ‘long term plans’ I’d prefer to do it from the sofa

I'll be going. I'll try and make some notes and post on here afterwards.

Thanks pal. I expect some people will attend and try and ask some difficult questions. Nigel is quite the politician so I'm not expecting anything revelatory.

My predictions:

It will be late starting.
It will be wrapped up promptly and there will be very little time for ‘questions from the floor’.
There will be plenty of things said to play to the crowd but very little substance.. ‘stadium progress is on-going but we can’t divulge anything further at this time’ blah blah.

Thank you for offering the summary.

Further predictions. There won't be enough staff on at the bar and the beer you want will need the barrel changing just as you order. There won't be enough chairs out so you'll have to drag one in from the next room. The mircrophones won't work properly or the users won't know how to use them. There will be very little substance to any of the answers. It will come to an end as soon as anyone starts to ask anything that hasn't been vetted beforehand.

So cynical.

The voice of experience.

Speaking of which I bet Ralph Rimmer has warned Nigel about the dangerous waters he's sailing into. Ralph seemed to be shocked at the reception he got from us (shocking naivety) at a previous forum.

And Ralph is only half as disliked as Wood (that’s probably being generous too)

Illbe there. Though im expecting absolutely nothing

Could anybody who is at the Forum kindly ask the following str8fwd question.

" In the very near future the latest annual accounts for the club's holding company - BBBBB Ltd - are due, dated up to end Oct' 2021. Such accounts must now be completed. Could Mr Wood please give us an indication as to the likely profit or loss status of the club as reflected in the latest accounts. In addition given that such accounts are now almost 2 years out of date, and we are now in effect beyond Covid, can the Chairman kindly give us an update on the current state of the club's trading accounts. Are we making a profit, or are we still continuing to make a (sustainable) loss ?

At the forum, you should be in the Front Row, Mr Grizzly!

Not far off to be honest!!
No time for questions from the audience. This caused quite a stir to say the least as one of Nigels critics had come prepared with 2 pages of issues / questions that hed handed out coppies to everyone before the event started.

Stadium news was a the main take away. Plans have been drawn up for a new stadium in partnership with RFL and local council to create an RFL head quaters/village. From the sole image that was shared it looked a stadium fit to host international games and semi finals. Possibly finals but unsure of the exact size from the picture.

All dependant on levelling up govt. funding, city of culture funding along with investment from RFL. But plans are being discussed and the apllication for funding will begin.

And yes i was thinking what your thinking. We have heard it a million time before!! To be fair to Nige he did seem very positive that we could get something new built. Whether it be on the grand scale of the 1 pic that was shared or not remains to be seen.. ill believe it when i see it!!!

My general consensus:
Mark Dunning spoke well and is clearly passionate about the club. I really hope he can turn things around in the future with Brian Noble’s support and guidance. He feels that the squad is ‘comparable’ with the other part time teams and that the gulf between us and the full time teams is on show for all to see. MD did address the fitness issues of the squad, said it will improve.

The CEO and Nigel Wood didn’t really answer any questions fully. They skirted around the issues and blew hot air. NW displayed an image of an ‘Odsal Sport City’ development which he said has a 10/1 chance of coming to fruition. This I am led to believe is a Bradford Council project. He did become quite emotional when he spoke about his involvement with the club and the personal vendettas that he feels some fans have aimed towards him. Some people I was sat with supported him, a large majority didn’t. The CEO confirmed that the Young Bulls scheme has only 50 paying members. According to my quick maths that’s a £90,000 deficit in funding for the academy which is alarming.

What really left a nasty taste was how hostile it ended. At the start of the event we were told that questions would be taken from the audience. At the end of the event the host then said that no questions would be taken because they had run out of time. A small minority of fans voiced their disapproval which ended the event on a rather sour note.

I hung around a little bit at the end and spoke to a few people connected to the club. Some fans had approached NW for questions which he was fielding. Again, it did become rather heated between some fans in the aftermath.

A rather strange evening.

Really annoys me does this. Why have a fans forum if there’s ‘no time for fans questions’. Joke of a club. Not surprised fans were annoyed.

I’ll hold my breath but if the plans are true then maybe there’s a future at Odsal. But they do realise we need results on field to stay in the Champ when it become 10 and 10. Also we still need blooding funding, otherwise we will end up being in the same situation but in a new stadium? How does that help.

Remember the good old days when we had the “OSV” thread and the match day thread was preserved for whether Platt and Sykes were good enough?

I’d give far better odds than 10/1 on any form of new stadium in Bradford in the next 10 years. We’ve seen / heard it all before, at least in 2008, we had recent successes in mind which we could draw some inspiration from. If we couldn’t get OSV off the ground when we were recently World Champions, we won’t be getting anywhere near now.