Tasmania United

galactica

posted at 11:27AM on 18th Dec, 2009

I agree. Also did you see the report in the Mercury from London about the flow on recoups to cities hosting World Cup games? Proves a point about what most supporters are saying. Authorities should be investing in the sports infrastructure now for the time when we get the cup because even if at todays prices we spend over a 5-10year period say $40million and the returns do not increase above what is current today for 2018 or 2022; the return per city is around 4-5 times now and allowing for inflationionary pressures still equals 2-3 times the investment back to our economy as a minimum. These figures are guesstimates but you get the picture - the figures are so good it is not worth the mathematical exercise to extrapolate exact, well for me I think so anyway given that if we put up $40m we get back $90-100m. Seems a pretty fair return to me when you consider all the other govt. utilities that waffle on about such figures! Makes me want to say "hello out there elected leaders where the bloody hell are you?"

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Chuq

posted at 1:27PM on 18th Dec, 2009

I agree.. this week I emailed David Bartlett, Michelle O'Byrne (sports minister), Will Hodgman, Peter Gutwein (shadow sports minister) and Nick McKim about the World Cup venue again.  Apart from automated "we got your email" replies, nothing from any of them.  That was 5 days ago.   What should we expect really ...

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Foxhawk

posted at 1:57AM on 19th Dec, 2009

I hope their has been a rethink, but the last I heard even hosting nations for training purposes during the world cup would prevent the AFL playing at both Aurora and Bellerive.

Last I heard the plan was to use the AFL matches in Tasmania as a major selling point for having an AFL side here, if we don't yet have one by 2018/2022.

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