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I've just got home from a meeting with the Minister for Sports, Recreation and Gaming, Terry Waldron.
Myself, Swee_82 and Elf1 spent about 45 minutes discussing the issue of a rectangular stadium with the minister and one of his senior staffers. We basically said that in a perfect world, we would be attending the ground breaking ceremony for a brand new 35,000 seat rectangular stadium tomorrow, but as realists, we recognise that will not happen and we were most impressed with the Town of Vincent plan to upgrade Member's Equity Stadium as a short term solution.
For those of you decrying this as an action, please note we were very careful to REPEATEDLY state that any MES upgrade is a short term solution and thought would need to be given to the longer term.
25,000 seats is an acceptable number given average crowds currently and we believe that memberships would spike to virtually sell this stadium out as good seats will become increasingly difficult to find.
We walked away from the Minister's office with no guarantees, no committments, nothing more than a handshake and a thankyou, but we've plead the case for the fans of WA sport. This decision is imminent people and it will be presented to cabinet soon. now is the time for you to ring your local member (particularly if you live in Wanneroo, Ocean Reef, Riverton, Joondalup or any other marginal, coalition held seat) and tell him you voted for him so he could look after the WA public with this decision, the future of your favourite team may well depend on it with an increasing Super 14 Season, the likelihood of a WA NRL team in the future, with the likelihood that the Glory owners will get sick of being the A-League easybeats, at some point in the near future this will be crucial to WA sport and we need every politician to know this is an issue close to our hearts.
I'll put my soapbox away now!