Bob & Bill were the ones who agreed to this stadium deal in the first place. If you want to ridicule somebody, then ridicule them. Then again, it's most likely that they had the deal foisted upon them with very little in the way of options. There's not a lot you can do when the people who own the ground are the same people who own your license and appoint your board. Conflict of interest, anyone?
As for "banging on about something".. The AFC have never been one to air their dirty laundry in public. That's not to say that they weren't expressing their displeasure behind closed doors (I assume they were - I hope they were). Port Adelaide banged on about it and absolutely nothing changed, until Vlad got together with the SA government and started the ball rolling with the AO redevelopment. Only an idiot would actually believe that Port had anything to do with the process whatsoever. All they achieved was making noise for the sake of making noise.
Your board and you are a moderator and all but seriously?? A Public campaign by the Crows which highlighted how they were being reamed that garnered media support and then public support would have no doubt changed a lot of things and a lot quicker. Why do you think Politicians leak things? It appears that even if Trigg and Co were agitating for change behind closed doors, they weren't actually getting anywhere. Mark Haysman fell on his sword because after the SANFL appointed him he turned on them quickly because he publicly aired the "dirty laundry". If you don't think Port's issues and constant whinging were an impetus for change.... well, yeah, whatever.