My letter to the NRL CEO, Part 8: Sydney ground rationalisation

and further to my comments,here is another source about exactly what i was getting at:- http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs-labor-leaves-nsw-in-4bn-hole/story-fn59niix-1226029691977 So spending beyond one's means,was par for the course with the previous Govts.

Perhaps my good friend AR,you refer to a Mr Barry o'Farrell,when he stated upon being elected Premier of NSW after the Keneally Govt was thrown out,he stated the coffers are empty.The treasurer Baird made a similar statement. previous labor Govts spent willy nilly. Conversely hypothetically if there were was no such comment,the previous Govts had money,and therefore requests by t the Sea Eagles should not have been dismissed. You can't justify and never have white elephant exenditure at Blacktown,no an underutilised one at Showground.And the story in the D.T backed me up.It;s there in black and white. I will continue to bang on " incessantly" whilst ever present AFL spin doctors who spend a great deal of time on rl threads,can't handle the fact NSW taxpayers ,have the audacity to question expenditure, which is nothing more than Govt waste.It sounds so much like the authority of the AFL,they are sacrosanct. I stated in one post ,and in typical fashion you deflected or ignored if the ARLC is required to put in money so be it.But the lame excuse a Govt has no funds ,has been shown to be a ploy as past experience has shown. You like to make a generalisation about all stadiums,then are shot down when I stated the Sharks main stand was self funded.I made a statement in past threads about money for roads and hospitals and was shot down by AFL wavers,yet you bring it up to back your argument about Govt needing to spend money on same.You dodge and weave to suit.

Can you please show me a quote or an article or a link where the NSW Govt claimed to have no money for stadia? You obviously haven't gotten over it and seem to bang on about it incessantly.

"What’s important though is that the NRL flexes its muscle to ensure that they have a strong say in the future stadium strategy." Flexing your muscles is what's important??? No code13, actually contributing capital, investing longterm...that's what's important. Do that, and the NRL *will* have a strong say in the future stadium strategy.

Suggest you look at pages 60 -61 in today's Sunday Telegraph which isxactly my argument.But ,but it's the D.T.will be the response. BTW your comment about the Govt paid for all NRL stadiums is rubbish.The Sharks Peter Burns stand was part of the League's club,and part of the initial development cost. You still don't get it Skoda is rarely used,Brookvale has been around a lot longer by decades.And you continue ,repeat continue to ignore the simple basic fact,the State Govt has paid the overwhelming portion of the AFL improvements in sydney.Again refer to the D.T. Nowhere have you been able to justify Govt expenditure for Skoda an irregular used stadium and indeed the white elephant that is now Blacktown,where players are now all living at Breakfast Creek and Blacktown almost a memory. All of these NRL clubs have been established for decades not a couple of years. If a Govt is broke then they have no money for AFL/NRL whatever,yet you spin ,as AFL has put a small amount by comparison,having no Govt money is not an issue. They either have it or they dont.and i'll bet the Sea Eagles are sweating on Abbot to get in.

Cc Who do you think has paid for every single stadium used by NRL clubs? Local, state and federal governments. That's a fact. ALL stadiums in NSW have been propped up by the government over the decades. So Whinging that some money went to AFL/cricket stadiums recently is just not rooted in any sort of reality. The govt has said 'enough'.

AR I will spell it out one more time.At the time when the monies were contributed towards Blacktown and Skoda(without even including the SCG),when the state govt was stone motherless broke,I and quite a few others pointed out the absurdity of the expenditure,when schools ,hospitals and roads were in more need.Blacktown proving my point. We were pilloried from head to toe by the AFL wavers including yourself,and now in your argument you quite happily use the same point,so its all in order.I repeat HYPOCRISY.You can't have it both ways. You can throw up figures ,the Govt ie taxpayers in the end foot the majority of the bill,whcih we all concede.Contribution by your code has been of a very minor nature,so don't melt your chocolates. The Keneally govt was broke,and iemma made committments regardless of his cessation in 2008. I know the AFL method is to give a little and receive a lot,other codes will have to use the same methodology. The precedent has been set,small contributions are needed to get a new stadium.That is fine the ARLC will have money to do such.And on that basis O'Farrell should be able to finance the rest ,the Keneally way. ANZ stadium has been bastardised by being also reconfigured for oval sports,especially as we have the SCG.It is used regularly by 3 codes of football,and the fans have to put up with being some distance away. Seriously AR ,have you not heard of Nth Sydney Oval(I believe the Swans played a game there once) for starters that is also an oval.Henson Park. There are 9 NRL teams,1 S15 ,2 A League ,plus many sub division teams,and GWS actually spends much of its time in windswept Canberra.It''s the Oliver syndrome Ï want more". The overwhleming majority of funding was provided by state and Federal govts,that is absolute FACT.Money was found ,that's my point.

A little off topic, but interestingly Mushi(interesting because you are a banker), the wizard of oz was a metaphorical story about the inherently fraudulent nature of the fractional reserve and central banking systems. Author Frank Baum was well aware of the perils associated with giving the power to issue a nations currency to private interests, under the false pretense of being a government agency. This documentary is quite an eye opener for someone who doesn't understand how the central banking and money creation systems work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qIhDdST27g