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Cry me a bloody river Ron- the viability of a slightly expanded MES isn't whats worrying you- it's the fact that not being able to abuse rectangular field sports as a cash cow by extorting extravagent rents to line the pockets of the WAFC.
RugbyWA DID provide a business case to support at new 35-40,000 seat stadium which did demonstrate it was financially viable- the taskforce dismissed it on the basis that the projected attendance was 'too optimistic' (and then assumed a higher attendance at the Multi-purpose Stadium than RWA had in their modelling). Given that MES already turns a slight profit as it is, I think there's an obvious case for the upgrade proposed without draining the community of millions of dollar a year (unless he means the government's gonna have to pay the WAFC that to make them stop whining about lost income).