From Ace Baldwin jnr to Ricky Stuart, the latest craze in sports talk is one worth following.
You’ll recall a few years back, the vogue phrase for coaches after everything from a gutting loss to an off-field atrocity to criticism from supporters was, “It is disappointing”. Not “I am disappointed”, for it was bigger than that.
“We played a patch of 12 or 14 minutes of half-decent football,” Ricky said. “Outside of that, we were embarrassing. It was awful ... That’s not us.”“It was a damning number we looked at earlier in the week. Last year we were No.1 in pressure or close to it. we’re 13th. It almost stung us all, we looked at the number and said, ‘Cmon, that’s not us’.”If you need us, we will be in our trailer. But it probably won’t be us.
But can I gently suggest that the entire reason why big Games events the world over are struggling for governments to write big cheques is that it is bleeding obvious that the money you put out simply never comes back, leaving taxpayers with the bill. So why would private enterprise saddle themselves with the same burden?Rod also dipped in a little to #StadiumSplurge saying “The visitor economy in Sydney last year was worth $47 billion. So when somebody baulks at a stadium costing $2bn to $3bn .
But how many people in St Kilda and the like would it take to say, “Look, I didn’t want to go up to Sydney this weekend for the match, but now I see their shiny new stadium, let’s go!” Seriously, our visitor economy is already robust and the idea that the taxpayer will get their money back for money put in has long ago been discredited, even by the Berejiklian Government’s own number-crunchers!Young Tasmanian JackJumpers fan Lachlan...
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