If this is a white elephant then I’m a monkey’s uncle
In his latest diatribe for the Herald Sun, Eddie McGuire whilst taking aim at every football team in Melbourne that don’t play AFL makes the comment in reference to the Melbourne Storm that:
Its one remaining premiership trophy can be put into a cabinet at its purpose-built stadium, referred to alternately as the “Rectangular stadium”, “the Bubble” or “AAMI stadium”, but more than likely “the White Elephant. This new stadium will exist for either no Melbourne Storm or one that is a shadow of its former self, one barely established soccer team and a rugby union and soccer team that haven’t played a game yet. Most would be flat-out filling a phone box far, much less this magnificent stadium.
I would like to point out to Mr McGuire that unlike the AFL’s showcase Docklands Stadium it won’t be sitting empty for half the season and more than likely will have a surface that will be the envy of every stadium in Australia. So who’s sitting on a white elephant now?
Oh and by the way, it’s called AAMI Park and enjoy the view from the shithole that is the Lexus Centre.
Tags: aami park, eddie mcguire
April 28th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Great read Neil - spot on.
So firstly Eddie has a dig at the storm for having a trophy cabinet with 1 trophy for the past 13 years. whilst on the other hand, over the last 13 years, collingwood have just been raking in the trophies, haven’t they? when was their last one, 1990?
and how many do the victory have for the last 13 years, given we’ve been around for only 5 of those years? 2 premierships, 2 championships, 1 pre-season cup is it? that’s a hit rate of one trophy per season, whilst collingwood languish at one trophy per twenty, and the storm sit in the middle at 1 (or 3 depending on how you look at it) per thirteen. as the old saying goes, ‘people in glass houses…’
Secondly, ‘barely established’. Seriously Eddie, get your head out of your arse. You cannot compare club ‘establishment’ levels between a league that has been around for 113 years versus one that has been around for 5 years, especially when the AFL was formed at a time when competing codes didn’t exist, or existed on a very small scale compared to today. given a similar armchair ride, it’d be expected that any code should prosper.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Eddie MaGuires a friggin toss