New stadium scrapped

[normie]

Mark Duffield is a useless sack of shit. What else do you expect from the Chief AFL Propaganda Minister in this state

Jargs - you sure have a way with words?!!! I can't think of a better way of describing that USOS !!!!

[pieter blackie]

In todays West:

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ntentID=123019


As football and rugby raced to reposition themselves in the stadium debate after Premier Colin Barnett’s declaration there would be no 60,000-seat multi-purpose stadium project started for at least two years, Mr Barnaba warned that AFL clubs could not afford to wait for another stadium study to come up with another solution.

I just hope that RugbyWA does not change their minds now that an upgrade of MES is of the table It will be disastrous if they opt to stay at Subi

[normie]

I just hope that RugbyWA does not change their minds now that an upgrade of MES is of the table It will be disastrous if they opt to stay at Subi

Absolutely! On a plethora of levels! Imagine those smug WAFC buggers laughing all the way to the bank after they hike up the rent by a few hundred percent!

[MI5_Dog]

I just hope that RugbyWA does not change their minds now that an upgrade of MES is of the table It will be disastrous if they opt to stay at Subi

Who or where does it say that the upgrade is off the table?

[jargan83]

Who or where does it say that the upgrade is off the table?

No where

But officially there is not one on the table either at this stage
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[normie]

I think the crucial comment that really says it all is the one from the article on the 2nd Feb; (Geoff Stooke)

“We have decided we will move to Members Equity and if that means going to some temporary facilities, which the Town of Vincent believes can be put in place, we will until a more permanent upgrade can be done.”

When you think about those structures they put up for corporate entertaining at the Lilac Hill cricket matches it doesn't seem that impossible or implausible.

It's MES (aka Wrecktangle/Forcefield/Mitchell Plateau/Wellborn Park etc etc) or bust!

[BaldCunus]

No where

But officially there is not one on the table either at this stage
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I understood that Town of Vincent put a proposal for 75million upgrade on the table?

[jargan83]

I understood that Town of Vincent put a proposal for 75million upgrade on the table?

A proposal yes, but that is all it is at this stage. They could presented it though, but untill we hear anything announced it is nothing more then a proposal

[blueandblack]

whinge whinge whine whine

http://blogs.watoday.com.au/lineandl...t_leave_u.html

"

Premier Colin Barnett showed WA's football fans exactly what he thought of them not just by shelving plans for a new stadium in WA last week, but the way he did it.

Rather than any fulsome apology for the decision to mothball the Kitchener Park project in favour of other projects deemed more urgent, Barnett was blunt in his assessment of the main piece of sporting infrastructure in the state.

"People will go and watch football. There's a stadium there," Barnett said.

And with that one statement, fans of the Eagles, Dockers and the rest of the AFL, as well as rugby and soccer fans know where they stand with the current government.

Don't like Subiaco - then tough, because that's all you're getting from us."

etc etc .


Love the comments though.

"Well here we go again I just cant understand why the Media is so keen to give a 2 billion gift to the AFL.
The AFL will screw the other codes to keep them down and a small thing please tell me how much Govt Money has been given forgiven or otherwise handed to the AFL, VFL, WAFL and WAFC over the past 40 yrs as loans ect and how much has been paid back"

[jargan83]

something I noticed in yesterdays paper was that the State Government Forgave the WAFC millions of dollars in loans after the last Subiaco Oval redevleopment.

$15 Million is hardly spare change is it

[Fullback]

I just heard on the radio that the Multi-Purpose Stadium and Swan River re-development have been officially scrapped by the State Government
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I'm still dancing with joy

Now let's hope ToV gets the funding for MES upgrades.

[jargan83]

Actually i should change my words, not "officially scrapped", the project was "put on the shelf" for 2 years minimum, if not longer

[Fullback]

Actually i should change my words, not "officially scrapped", the project was "put on the shelf" for 2 years minimum, if not longer

Bah 2 years..by that time we'll be nested into MES anyway