+x+xThat roof looks mighty expensive, are the benefits worth it? I don't think so. The AFL trying to scam more public money. That is all it is. The MCC are purely a mouthpiece for the AFL. Gough is ex Carlton CEO. Its not the AFL, or the MCC. Its Stephen Gough on his own as part of a brainstorming thing on the future of Melbourne. The MCG facebook and twitter flatly denied any roof was wanted or proposed at this time. +x+xWe could use that money to make a 50,000 seater for victory like the government could have done initially. That is the point. To steal Govt money away from updating AAMI to 40,000. The AFL And MCC are good at this, taking money from everyone else. Its not the point at all, this was one mans idea for the future of the stadium - and he's retiring. There is no current proposal to upgrade Aami to 40,000, and moneys available for stadium and facility upgrades arent necessarily going to be available to others if the AFL clubs didnt get them. Not to mention that the MCG is largely self funding - The Vic Governments contributions to the MCG are less than 120 million since 1989, and that includes $77 million spent in 2002 on the Northern Stand when the Feds bailed - and for the Commonwealth Games at that - and $30 million for Southern Stand upgrades in 2011. Most of the 400 million cost of the Northern Stand was funded by loans, like the Southern Stand before it. With a build cost of $268 million its very likely that more taxpayer money was spent on Aami Park being built than has been spent on the MCG in the last 40 years or so, let alone Docklands which had no taxpayer funds put into it.
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