Comment 48731

By realfreeenterpriser (registered) | Posted October 04, 2010 at 11:11:52

CrawfordFan said "if Fred and boys hadn't wasted 2 years stuck in the WH and had really negotiated when time was on the city's side, we wouldn't be in the sorry mess we are in."

Shouldn't that read "if Bob Wade, Larry DiIanni and Fred and boys", because that's how far back it was that the West Harbour was considered and then identified as the site for a new stadium.

OR perhaps more appropriately, it should read

If Bob Young and the Tiger-Cats had been honest and straightforward and identified their (now apparently non-existent) "concerns" publicly years and years ago BEFORE the West Harbour was chosen instead of attempting a last minute, plundering of the public purse AFTER both an unsuccessful bid for the Commonwealth games and a successful bid for the Pan-American games, we wouldn't be in the sorry mess we are in.

The only thing Hamilton Council can be blamed for is caving in to a now clearly empty threat to move a losing team to a non-existent location from a greedy, self-promoting "caretaker" intent on using public money to build himself a private shopping "precinct".

To date, no one has come up with a site that better balances the needs of BOTH the Tiger-Cats (they're getting a brand new, free stadium, for gawd's sake) AND the City than the West Harbour does.

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