I know a lot of you will have already heard this but for those that didn't listen on the radio or missed it. Bradford Bulls Chairman Nigel Wood joined me on the radio yesterday answering questions covering several important topics including the challenges ahead, Odsal Stadium and the lease and his three-year plan for the club. Listen to the full interview: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/jvJ6ZvpmriFYWV4P9

I know a lot of you will have already heard this but for those that didn't listen on the radio or missed it. Bradford Bulls Chairman Nigel Wood joined me on the radio yesterday answering questions covering several important topics including the challenges ahead, Odsal Stadium and the lease and his three-year plan for the club. Listen to the full interview: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/jvJ6ZvpmriFYWV4P9

Thought he spoke well on the interview to be honest, ultimately he will be judged on what he achieves at the club. The one big tick in the box is he is very much a RL man, I have seen him up early on a Sunday watching junior rugby, whether that was to watch family or just for the RL fix I’m not sure. But I would hope whatever decisions he makes will be in the best interests of RL in Bradford at the very least.

I guess we can keep harping back to the past decisions and I know some still ‘want answers’ but to me it achieves very little for our current situation. There certainly isn’t a queue of rich influential businessmen keen to take the club on, we’ve put that to the test enough times recently!

Personally, I think it’s a healthier mindset to just focus on the RL on the pitch rather than what is happening off it, well for me at least anyway.

Well too much water has gone under the bridge for me not to be a bit cynical. I've heard a lot of this before so Wood has a job on to make me trust him. I can see why others want to look the future but I just can't get enthusiastic about the club when the man at the helm had such a key role in so many bad decisions in the recent past. Accepting him just because there's nobody else seems a bit odd, it's like a battered spouse putting up with an abusive partner. I accept I may be in the minority in holding this view.

As for Odsal I fail to see how we can afford to be there. The club has never been able to makes ends meet while it's played there, motorsport or no motorsport. The only time it's worked was when the council paid for all the upkeep. 1986-2000. Nobody's doing that now that I can see.

I’m sure there are quite a few who hold reservations. I’m just past caring too deeply about who is in charge and what they may or may not have done.

I just want to watch some competitive RL when I have the free time.

Each to their own. I may go to the odd RL game but I've lost a lot of interest in the game over here. I watch more NRL. With the right ownership at the Bulls I could get back on board but with the current setup I can't help thinking we're just marking time until the next meltdown.

Thanks Mick, appreciated. Very good interview IMHO.

We have, and there was but they were blocked.... if only I could remember who by



In that respect, and the fact he utterly blew Halifax apart, I have no trust and agree with others as I can't see how Odsal is viable. Unless he's in it to do what he refused to let others do and own the lease. Imagine the money to be made from inert landfill likeroad scalpings etc?

Some of us are past caring. Some of us are ambivalent. Some are just content to put their heads in the sand and back any owner no matter what.

If after everything we've been through, the deliberately blocked affluent ownership bids etc, you don't have a high level of cynicism toward Nigel, then I despair. I'll happily sit back and see if his actions ease that sense of mistrust but I can't possibly feel neutral about him as a starting point.

If the present owners read social media they'll largely come away with the conclusion that we the fans want us back at Odsal, and that it has "Spiritual home" status. In that respect I think we are giving completely the wrong message. What we should be saying is "Yes Odsal will do in the short term, but what's the plan?". Misty-eyed memories of our days at the hole only serves to hold us back imo.

Agree with most of what’s been said on here.

It’s clear from looking on here how many people have dropped out who used to care deeply about the club. Like many others, I’m in the just about hanging in there category.

I don’t trust Wood.

I’ll continue to follow and support the team. Will probably pick and choose games whilst at Dewsbury. Would find it hard not to buy a season ticket at Odsal or elsewhere in Bradford.

Replying to various people on this thread - What is our preferred outcome? If we were to buy the lease back from RFL, it would get them out of the loop, leave us negotiating with the Council directly and possibly with the stockcars paying rent to us - would that be enough? We would be back at Odsal, she's had a bit of a facelift although the bigger structural issues are still present.

Don't buy the lease, just negotiate with RFL the terms of coming back. We would be joint subtenants with the stockcars. This isn't a good option as it's the worst of all worlds for everyone. The RFL want to disentangle themselves from Odsal nearly as much as we want them to.

Stay at Dewsbury long term - unacceptable to the fans I know.

Go somewhere else in Bradford? - No known plans, would take long time to set up. Different structural issues with Horsfall.

It's a real mess isn't it? Would love to know who suggested the RFL get the lease in the first place back in 2012 - Hood or Wood? Either way it was a monumentally bad decision.

Anyway, we are where we are.

If we buy back the lease (where does the money come from for that?) it's up to the club and the motorsport people to share the upkeep of the ground. We all know that's not sustainable - it never has been in the past when we were in SL playing in front of crowds much larger than now. I'm not sure what negotiating with the council would achieve as there is no way the council will pay anything toward stadium upkeep or development. Their budget has been cut by almost 50% in the last ten years. They couldn't afford it 21 years ago so it would seem even less likely now.

If we don't take back the lease there's still the ground upkeep question. Who pays and how much? That would require a three way split between RFL, Bulls and Motorsport. Can't see them being able to afford it.

I guess without any more information I can't say what the preferred option is. They all seem like a bad idea.

I don't expect Mick to go full Roger Cook or Paxman but at the point Wood referred to the fans holding him responsible for disastrous decisions made at the RFL, Mick could have channelled his inner Mrs Merton;
"What first attracted you to the penniless Andrew Chalmers?"

TBF to Mick don't think your going to see him asking any difficult questions that jeopardize work he gets from Bulls. Think he learnt his lesson with his drunken rant against RFL when we got relegated to league one.