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Now imagine if Premier Rann had the same attitude with the new city hospital.
Yes, let's compare the need to replace a 150-year-old hospital that has been added to and tacked-on to ad infinitum and is still expected to be the premier hospital in the state, to the need to replace a 35-year-old stadium that is owned by another entity. Thank God Premier Rann had a different attitude to the hospital!
Agreed. While I'd love a new stadium, or redeveloped AO, a hospital is more of a priority.
And to whoever said the Advertiser wouldn't be running a story every two months if the public wasn't interested, I beg to differ. The Advertiser/SundayMail are interested in one thing, selling their papers. Stirring up a storm over an issue is a good way to sell more papers. Most of this saga is created by them anyway.
The Premier has said that when the relevant codes come to an agreement and put it before him, he will listen.
But what I wish he had done, is give them a deadline to get their shit together, or strip them of their powers or whatever other nasty action the government could take against the incompetent, selfish buffoons at SACA and the SANFL.
Anyway here is the latest proposal(I think..)
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 28,00.html
Looks similar to the previous one, but notice the stand and roof on the western side of "the hill"? New addition?
The light towers seem to be different...kinda crappy.
ADELAIDE Oval's state-of-the-art redevelopment plan - a 55,000 all-seater stadium - is in the box seat to win the right to host FIFA World Cup matches.
Football Federation Australia chief executive Ben Buckley yesterday gave assurances Adelaide Oval was a safe bet to host potential 2018 or 2022 World Cup matches.
The FFA's vote of confidence would make Adelaide a potential World Cup semi-final venue for the 64-match World Cup tournament.
At least one code has got it's shit together and is backing the redevelopment. What about the clowns at SACA and SANFL?
I tell you, if the decision making process was left to the AFL, CA, and FFA, construction would be underway.
There's an idea, strip SACA/SANFL of their powers over the local leagues and venues, and hand everything over to the national bodies. Sure way to fix this dilemma of their stubbornness and incompetences'.