They will jut have to buy the AFL, NRL and Telstra Dome out.
We get some very light comments from Geelong last week suggesting they think funding will be given for their next Stadium upgrade in Feb. Then the Herald Sun said on Sunday that Geelong wants $75million for Stage 3. This will all be part of the "compensation" deal the AFL recieves. The Government will pay for Skilled Stadium and future upgrades to make it capable of holding a reasonable crowd (ie. 40-50k). I have no doubt that this will happen as part of the "compensation". I suspect there will be some form of funding too that will compensate teams a couple of hundred thousand a game to go to Geelong.
The Telstra Dome is a business and for it to be out of action for say 8-10 weeks and miss possibly 16-20 AFL matches is a serious amount of money. I said 10 weeks as it won't be usable the day the world cup ends with the wear, tear of the Soccer configuration. The Government will need to adequately compensate the Dome. Forcing them is stupid and will just end up in court. The Government would rather just "compensate" them.
The AFL will get angry to get more compensation but I suspect the FFA and the Government are playing dodgey with the not telling the AFL that the MCG will be out of action for a year. The AFL will win but I just think that it will be in the form or dollars or upgrades to facilities etc.
We get some very light comments from Geelong last week suggesting they think funding will be given for their next Stadium upgrade in Feb. Then the Herald Sun said on Sunday that Geelong wants $75million for Stage 3. This will all be part of the "compensation" deal the AFL recieves. The Government will pay for Skilled Stadium and future upgrades to make it capable of holding a reasonable crowd (ie. 40-50k). I have no doubt that this will happen as part of the "compensation". I suspect there will be some form of funding too that will compensate teams a couple of hundred thousand a game to go to Geelong.
The Telstra Dome is a business and for it to be out of action for say 8-10 weeks and miss possibly 16-20 AFL matches is a serious amount of money. I said 10 weeks as it won't be usable the day the world cup ends with the wear, tear of the Soccer configuration. The Government will need to adequately compensate the Dome. Forcing them is stupid and will just end up in court. The Government would rather just "compensate" them.
The AFL will get angry to get more compensation but I suspect the FFA and the Government are playing dodgey with the not telling the AFL that the MCG will be out of action for a year. The AFL will win but I just think that it will be in the form or dollars or upgrades to facilities etc.