Kate Ellis Pawns Graham Cornes

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http://www.fiveaa.com.au/Audio_Kate-Ell ... -Bid_95781

LOVE HER !!!!

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Please be sensible and let her know that you as a football supporter appreciate her efforts kate.ellis.mp@aph.gov.au

[Blotto]

done.... she's the hottest politician in Australia by a mile....

Love her work!

[johnydep]

Cornsey. that was embarrassing! Have you managed to remove the foot from your mouth?

Well done Kate!

[ontheblackburner]

one of the best unbiased pro-football interviews of all time! Well done to Kate for shuting up that idiot Cornes

[ozzie owl]

Well done Kate in putting Cornes in his place. Tweedle Dee had to doa number of back flips

Cornes is a when it comes to his knowledge of football.

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this is the letter I sent her:

Dear Kate,

I heard your interview with Graham Cornes yesterday. I am writing to you to congratulate you on putting someone with an obvious agenda firmly in his place. Graham isn’t interested in saving tax payers money. He is interesting protecting the near extinct species called AFL. His comments regarding the difficulties facing the local A League competition, (which you did so very well reminding him, was in its infancy), are hypocritical given that 10 out of the 16 AFL teams are not a going concern. You and the rest of your team are a credit. Let’s bring Australia to the world! The world cup is a magnificent way to achieve this. Well done.

Best regards

Football Fan in Adelaide

[Kosta Utd]

hahahahaha...

ive never heard that piece of shit, cornes, so quite.. sorta sounded like he was chocking

[Russia2O18]

she does a better job of selling the game than Buckley or Mersiades ever could

miserable character that Cornes

[conm]

The biggest Bogan malaka in Adelaide

malaka

[notisre]

my respect for her just shot up thru the roof.

when will these one-sided racist pirates get their head out of their ass, accept football is king and it means more to this country's future and development than afl ever will? fukn cornes toSSbag wat a dogger

[ozzie owl]

Its mazing how Cornsey craps on a-league for its finacial issues. Amazing when Collingood, Carlton,Melbourne,Richmond,North Melb,Western Bulldogs all have serious financial issues. Plus the AFL is going to bankroll the new teams for up ten years.

[Red-4-Life]

as the Sports minister she does have to say what is best for this country as a sporting nation and clearly having the world cup here is just that. AFL and NRL can be patient, they can also benefit from this but theyre too dumb too realise.

Kate Ellis..good on ya!

[Chade]

Everyone should listen to this interview.

[Dowie Hawkes]

Nothing is for everyone.

[Michael C]

The fundamental point is that the financial justification on going for venue developments in Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne are very, very much tied to the AFL. In Brisbane and Sydney - more so to the NRL. Without the financial justification - that soccer alone does NOT supply in Australia (and granted - you could make dreamy predictions of growth etc, but, the H A-L since V3 has trended very much downwards and the experience of the MLS and J-League suggest that HAL even without the competition of the AFL and NRL faces a very tough next 10-15 years) - anyway, without such justification - then it's hard to sell.

A key point in the interview was that SA would probably build the new Adelaide Oval anyway. This is a key thing - for the AFL they get stadiums anyway - because they justify it. THe dilemma here is that the uncertainty of the WC bid has actually been holding up major works in Adelaide and Perth now. The trap of the 'financial' justifications here is that if the WC bid comes through then it would be misleading to claim the Perth and Adelaide works as a financial activity boost as a result a WC bid. Simply because these works are going to happen anyway - one way or another. The uncertainty is the level of Fed Govt funding and the level of capacity to cope with being a 'soccer venue' for one small 4 week period sometime off in the future.

We DO see that in Victoria that the new Swan St stadium, 100% State Govt funded - is deemed too expensive to expand to a FIFA compliant dedicated rectangle configuration. If that's too expensive - then, what's the cut off point?? What's the size of the bucket of money?? Why did the FFA bring back up the 'E-Gate' idea?? It's all a bit intriguing.

The harsh reality is that a lot of the 'financial benefit' get's measured in what is often deemed 'unquantifiable intangibles' such as swelling of national pride etc - whilst the costs invariably blow out. The notion of a FIFA WC in Australia is lovely. The actuality of it is a whole different bucket of fish. And the FFA was NEVER going to be able to pull it off by themselves. It's surprising that the Fed Govt was funding them with that apparent expectation. The FFA is an immature organisation - only 5 years 'young' and underwritten by the Fed Govt and effectively created by the Fed Govt. The FFA is NOT in a position to go out to the AFL and NRL and say -move out of the way'. It was never going to work. Just what the Fed Govt can achieve now will be interesting.....perhaps more so that it looks presently like just another of K.Rudd's big ideas with stuff all behind it (I'm a labor voter).

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The fundamental point is that the financial justification on going for venue developments in Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne are very, very much tied to the AFL. In Brisbane and Sydney - more so to the NRL. Without the financial justification - that soccer alone does NOT supply in Australia (and granted - you could make dreamy predictions of growth etc, but, the H A-L since V3 has trended very much downwards and the experience of the MLS and J-League suggest that HAL even without the competition of the AFL and NRL faces a very tough next 10-15 years) - anyway, without such justification - then it's hard to sell.

A key point in the interview was that SA would probably build the new Adelaide Oval anyway. This is a key thing - for the AFL they get stadiums anyway - because they justify it. THe dilemma here is that the uncertainty of the WC bid has actually been holding up major works in Adelaide and Perth now. The trap of the 'financial' justifications here is that if the WC bid comes through then it would be misleading to claim the Perth and Adelaide works as a financial activity boost as a result a WC bid. Simply because these works are going to happen anyway - one way or another. The uncertainty is the level of Fed Govt funding and the level of capacity to cope with being a 'soccer venue' for one small 4 week period sometime off in the future.

We DO see that in Victoria that the new Swan St stadium, 100% State Govt funded - is deemed too expensive to expand to a FIFA compliant dedicated rectangle configuration. If that's too expensive - then, what's the cut off point?? What's the size of the bucket of money?? Why did the FFA bring back up the 'E-Gate' idea?? It's all a bit intriguing.

The harsh reality is that a lot of the 'financial benefit' get's measured in what is often deemed 'unquantifiable intangibles' such as swelling of national pride etc - whilst the costs invariably blow out. The notion of a FIFA WC in Australia is lovely. The actuality of it is a whole different bucket of fish. And the FFA was NEVER going to be able to pull it off by themselves. It's surprising that the Fed Govt was funding them with that apparent expectation. The FFA is an immature organisation - only 5 years 'young' and underwritten by the Fed Govt and effectively created by the Fed Govt. The FFA is NOT in a position to go out to the AFL and NRL and say -move out of the way'. It was never going to work. Just what the Fed Govt can achieve now will be interesting.....perhaps more so that it looks presently like just another of K.Rudd's big ideas with stuff all behind it (I'm a labor voter).

Are you the FFSA bloke? Or maybe the fella who just dumped Ms Bingle?