But also over the weekend I had a lot of discussion and read a lot about the stadium that's been proposed for Hobart and it's going to cost a billion dollars and the Tasmanian government can't afford it, but they have to afford it because the dealer has been done and there won't be a Tasmanian football team in the AFL without a roofed stadium. Now, the thing about roof stadiums is this. We have one of thedministrator for footy and that's of course Marvel and in fact, as it is it's a roof that goes on and off, we just leave it on the whole time now because there's too many weird shadows and things when we open up the roof, so we might as well not have bothered to have built the roof so it slides on and off. But think about this. In Queensland at the start of the season we had a cyclone, all right, and no one's demanding a roof stadium there. You know, we play games at Ballerraute each year. It often snows in Ballarat, it snows in Canberra. We don't have roof stadiums there. I was at the football last night. It was freezing. It was about eight degrees, felt like four degrees at the MCG. It was wet, it was cold, it was everything you had imagined in the middle of winter. Well guess what seventy five thousand people still turned up to see Carlton beat, isn't it. The Carlton fans were happy in the Essenon fans less so. But my point is this Hobart is not noticeably colder the Melbourne. It's maybe a bit colder. And if football fans seventy five thousand of them last night, there'll be a larger crowd today. Similarly, cold conditions are happy to go and sit outside in the open at the MCG to watch a game. Why do we need a domed stadium in Hobart. So my simple suggestion to the AFL and to the Tasmanian State government is still build a new stadium by all means, just build one without a roof, like pretty much every other AFL stadium in this country, with the exception of Marvel. Build a stadium without a roof. Now, if that doesn't knock at least two or three hundred million off the construction price, I'll go heat. Build a stadium without a roof. Football has always been an all weather game, both for players and four spectators, and we accept in WA and South Australia, and in Queensland and in New South Wales where we get incredibly hot weather, incredibly humid weather, incredibly cold weather, we get snow, we get rain, we get hail, we get everything. All those other stadiums, we don't need a roof. Why do we have to have one? An expensive roof in Hobart one double three six nine three

But also over the weekend I had a lot of discussion and read a lot about the stadium that's been proposed for Hobart and it's going to cost a billion dollars and the Tasmanian government can't afford it, but they have to afford it because the dealer has been done and there won't be a Tasmanian football team in the AFL without a roofed stadium. Now, the thing about roof stadiums is this. We have one of thedministrator for footy and that's of course Marvel and in fact, as it is it's a roof that goes on and off, we just leave it on the whole time now because there's too many weird shadows and things when we open up the roof, so we might as well not have bothered to have built the roof so it slides on and off. But think about this. In Queensland at the start of the season we had a cyclone, all right, and no one's demanding a roof stadium there. You know, we play games at Ballerraute each year. It often snows in Ballarat, it snows in Canberra. We don't have roof stadiums there. I was at the football last night. It was freezing. It was about eight degrees, felt like four degrees at the MCG. It was wet, it was cold, it was everything you had imagined in the middle of winter. Well guess what seventy five thousand people still turned up to see Carlton beat, isn't it. The Carlton fans were happy in the Essenon fans less so. But my point is this Hobart is not noticeably colder the Melbourne. It's maybe a bit colder. And if football fans seventy five thousand of them last night, there'll be a larger crowd today. Similarly, cold conditions are happy to go and sit outside in the open at the MCG to watch a game. Why do we need a domed stadium in Hobart. So my simple suggestion to the AFL and to the Tasmanian State government is still build a new stadium by all means, just build one without a roof, like pretty much every other AFL stadium in this country, with the exception of Marvel. Build a stadium without a roof. Now, if that doesn't knock at least two or three hundred million off the construction price, I'll go heat. Build a stadium without a roof. Football has always been an all weather game, both for players and four spectators, and we accept in WA and South Australia, and in Queensland and in New South Wales where we get incredibly hot weather, incredibly humid weather, incredibly cold weather, we get snow, we get rain, we get hail, we get everything. All those other stadiums, we don't need a roof. Why do we have to have one? An expensive roof in Hobart one double three six nine three