Hopefully it gets announced mid january. I think Cook will spin the hbf park upgrade and RLHQ as much as, maybe even more. than getting an nrl club if announced pre election.
People here won’t be happy about the gov paying for a prof sports club, but announcing $400mill for jnr sport and hbf park will be an easier political sell. Be interesting to see if the opposition use it in the election against him.
The license fee will be a political killer if they have actually paid it. Sports Infrastructure and jnr sport is a fair spend for state gov, giving a rich prof sport $20mill for a club license much less so. IF, and I don’t think they have, they have paid the license fee out of tax payers money that could bite them hard.