that'll just about cover team dugouts. Wont help supporters though

I had a reply from the council today. (not quite 2 days but never mind) Here you go: Thank you for contacting Bradford Council. Please accept my apologies for the delay in my reply. I have forwarded your query to Planning and asked them to reply directly to you. If you need further help regarding this enquiry, please contact planning.enquiries@bradford.gov.uk direct. Kind regards, Lisa Holliday (e-contact) Customer Advisor bdirect Call Centre So if anyone else wants to contect them, email direct to: planning.enquiries@bradford.gov.uk

I had a reply from the council today. (not quite 2 days but never mind) Here you go: Thank you for contacting Bradford Council. Please accept my apologies for the delay in my reply. I have forwarded your query to Planning and asked them to reply directly to you. If you need further help regarding this enquiry, please contact planning.enquiries@bradford.gov.uk direct. Kind regards, Lisa Holliday (e-contact) Customer Advisor bdirect Call Centre So if anyone else wants to contect them, email direct to: planning.enquiries@bradford.gov.uk

Not sure if anyone saw the printed edition of the T&A tonight (the article doesn't appear to be on-line), but there was a two-page spread about a campaign to get speedway included in the OSV. Though I have no interest in the sport itself, I can appreciate that there's a considerable lobby for speedway in and around Bradford, and it might make economic sense to have it on board.

The dispiriting part was councillor Mallinson's contention that it would have to be carefully looked into and costed. Not bad things in themselves, but I can easily see that they would constitute a ready excuse to go back to the drawing board and defer the whole thing for another couple of years [size=34(if something that isn't going to happen can be said to have been deferred!)[/size

I think this article was done by someone who`s not been to the stadium for a while, I mean the speedway bikes would race where exactly, under the Coral stand perhaps? I doubt there`s enough of the old corner left to race properly.

Actually it it might look good, they could put floodlights under the stand and it would look a bit like the Monaco grand prix where they race through tunnels. Another first for Odsal!!

Wan't this considerable lobby turning up in groups of less than a thousand to see the Dukes in their championship winning year?

I didn't know that. Perhaps I've mistaken 'a considerable noise made by a small lobby' for a 'considerable lobby'.

A considerable noise made by a small number of bikes possibly?

In the confined space of a lobby, that could be extremely noisy.

Consider coat got.

Maybe it was a considerably gobby small lobby?

I'll join you with that coat...

I think I'll hold them for you....

I didnt think any of the old speedway track had been taken away for the construction of the coral stand apart from the pits?

Not much from the back maybe, but the pitch has been lengthened which has the effect of making the corners narrower. The pitch still needs a bit more length to be the (now) standard 100 metres between the sticks so I can`t imagine the Bulls allowing all the extra grass (over and above what was taken up before when the pitch was shorter) at the ends being dug up to provide bends with sufficient width to allow much chance of the riders overtaking.

Under the current position at Odsal it would mean banking the corners from around the five metre mark rather than just the in goal areas. Admittedly banking isn`t compulsory for speedway but the fact that the old track was banked helped to provide much of the excitement and flat bends just wouldn`t be the same.

Odsal will be the death of the cub eventually, unless a wealthy backer can be found.

Yes I'm inclined to agree.

Me to, its a dump thats leaking cash. What was it, 30 grand to fix a bog?

Could have paid David Halley for a year with that.

It varies between 30 and 75 grand, depending on what forum you visit

Just glad the council didn't have to pay it.

Yaaaaaawn..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Very good, hope you feel better for doing that

Well it is a very tired and pointless line of discussion you are trying to engage us in.

Cougars hard done to by disgraceful Odsal payout. No I'm afraid not.

Where did i mention anything to do with the Cougars?
I am a tax payer and i want to see money invested in Keighley. The town is crying out for it.
I don't want to see the council put any money into a private company.

shame council dont agree with you.It's a community facility, bulls only get a new stand out of it, community gets a new sports and other facilities. better look at todays t&a. odsal sporting village still going ahead and council have employed a manager to oversee development. Not quite as dead and buried as some people make out is it?

Fret not! [url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/newsindex/display.var.2173929.0.college_expert_to_boost_sports_village_bid.phpBradford College are on the case[/url.

2012, here we come!

[size=42Give or take a decade or 2![/size

Well, to be honest, I don`t really come on here with the intention of feeling better: I regard it as largely entertainment with an element of rugby attached. However if your record has a `B` side, why not give that a whirl? It may keep us awake...............................