Yeah, and then this happened:
www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/teams/p...b66d4001b8b7e53e3ce6
ADELAIDE Oval’s new stadium deal — that was to pump an extra $3.1 million to the Crows and Power this year — has achieved its first win on the AFL clubs’ balance sheets. For the first time since 2007, both the Adelaide and Port Adelaide football clubs will post profits.
Revenue sharing can be altered at the stroke of a pen. All parties would have learnt from Adelaide Oval. Building a $1B stadium (at least) is a generational decision, which has been butchered in this state. In part, it was allowed to be butchered because the WACA / WAFC were even more short-sighted and stubborn than their counterparts in Adelaide.
Besides, what was the alternative for South Australia? Would you have preferred an entirely new stadium? If you were the SANFL, what would you have done? Did you ever go out to Football Park? Do you think the people of Adelaide wish they could still watch AFL games in that outer, and only fit in 20,000 for BBL games?