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By Shempatolla (registered) - website | Posted January 06, 2011 at 22:20:03

The plan was never for a soccer pitch of any kind inside of a velo drome. They are two distinct and seperate facilities. Where do people come up with this stuff?

@ray fullerton

I was refering to Mssrs Mitchell and Young. HOSTCO has been on a tight time table since the decision to hand the Pan Am Games to southern Ontario. This nearly year long odyssey by the TiCats which has seen them hijack a public process to satisfy their own needs has led to needless delays and it seems will result in them not getting anything at all unless they eat crow and sign on the West Harbour.

Why is it that suddenly a 22000 seat stadium is enough for them? They average a little better than that at IWS but say they cannot make money.

Its because they have a developer in Burlington willing to pave a greenfield to give them the parking they want to charge you, me and the gate post for. By tying their hopes and dreams to parking spaces and holding people hostage in their own retail zone they Tiger Cats are exposing the failures of their business plan. After the first few games in a new "driveway to driveway" stadium .... the empty parking spaces won't be generating much revenue.

Its moot anyway as Mr Troop has just made it perfectly clear. He seems as tired with these games as the rest of us.

Cheers

Greg Galante

Hamilton

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