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Message: [QUOTE="Foordy, post: 3677207, member: 1769"] Bears bid is reportedly in Jeopardy now. Vlandys has had a dig at all bid except the PNG bid. probably because that is the only bid to receive government money ... but if he hasn't learned anything from the NSW Stadium deal falling through then he is dumber than I gave him credit for. That money is definitely no certainty, all it takes is a change of government for them to re-evaluate their spending, and wouldn't you know it there is a federal election in 6 months. [B]The dickhead in charge (AKA Peter Vlandys) said:[/B] “Look, we have run into a bit of a hiccup at the moment in relation to the bids weren’t as good as we hoped they would be, except for the Papua New Guinea bid,” V’landys said. “That was exactly like we expected but the others weren’t. That has probably slowed us up a bit but we will certainly be looking nevertheless in trying to expand in the next few years because we need to have our content right when we go to the broadcasters to get our maximum broadcast deal.” Asked specifically where the bids had fallen short, V’landys said: “I think it’s the financial aspects of the bid haven’t been sufficient. “They need to invest more and they haven’t invested enough. I think they have taken it for granted that they will get a licence. “I have said from day one that it has to be a strong business case in order for us to expand. We’re not going to go to (our) clubs unless there is a solid business case to show that expansion is going to return substantial new money to the game and more importantly substantial new fans. “Unfortunately the bids have not done that.” [/QUOTE]

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