Comment 47524

By Shempatolla (registered) - website | Posted September 10, 2010 at 17:42:34

It never ceases to amaze my that people actually think that Mr Young has the option of playing in another city/region after 2011. I will spell this out again.

  1. He has absolutely no where to go.

  2. There is not another municipality in this country that will spend $60 million of it's own money to build a stadium for a CFL team and lobby the other two levels of government to pay the rest.

  3. The City of Hamilton is not about to finance a stadium in HALTON.

  4. Mr Young gambled that he could leverage the city into going to the East Mountain so he could realize the real estate development deal he entered into with Osmington Corp. He lost. Now he is scrambling to save face and salvage some kind of deal period.

  5. To this day the Tiger Cats have not disclosed ONE SINGLE PIECE OF DOCUMENTATION that supports their assertion that they cannot be viable at the West Harbour. (This single fact alone would motivate me to continue to support WH was I sitting at the council table at city hall).

  6. The Hamilton Tiger Cats are worth something. The Oshawa Motor Heads or the Moncton Clam Diggers etc are worth nothing right now even if they had somewhere to play. Mr Young knows this. City Council should know this and give itself a collective jabrony check and call his bluff.

  7. City Council has voted 7 Times in favour of the WH as a stadium location. Both our current mayor and previous mayor have signed bid books on behalf of the city with WH as the chosen location. THE HAMILTON TIGER CATS SIGNED ON TO WH as part of the Pan Am Bid. They knew this was the location, they had ample time to voice dissent or concern and they didn't until the eleventh hour. Again ANOTHER BIG RED NEGOTIATING FLAG INDICATING A POWER PLAY ATTEMPT BY A MINORITY PARTNER in this venture.

  8. For the previous mayor to attempt to distance himself from his previous support of WH and play politics with the issue is dishonest and show's his contempt for the voters and process in general.

  9. MIP is no magic bullet. To begin the city doesn't own the land and secondly it again takes employment lands off the table to build a stadium for privately owned business with public money. For me that disqualifies its viability right away. It's EM all over again.

  10. Council needs to stick to its guns, present Host Co with a viable WH plan that calls for an expandable stadium design and begin raising the funds in conjunction with the private sector to build the original concept at WH. They then need to work with Mr Young and come to an agreement that satisfies him to an acceptable level. Mr Young for his part needs to be forthcoming with actual facts that city staff can use, not simply sound bytes and media releases decrying the city's choice. A choice that he knew about and publicly stated he didn't care where it went as long as it was in Hamilton.

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