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Look, we understand you aren't the greatest fan of football but it is embarrassingly obvious to all that your indifference towards hosting the World Cup stems more from your dislike of the sport then any real nation of trying to save your nation. I think it is pretty pathetic that you are disguising your dislike of football as "saving the nation from this folly". By the way, if you could point me in the direction of your anti Olympics rants it would be much appreciated. Not surprisingly, since it wasn't a football only tournament, you were not so vehemently against it.
The discusion about high speed rail in the other thread is a classic example of what I mean. We aren't a densely populated European or Asian country with a high speed rail transport system. The FIFA report lists the distance and lack of alternatives to air travel as a negative in our bid. Instead of just accepting that this is a fact of life and our bid has a few imperfections, we get a stampede of people saying let's build high speed rail for World Cup.
It is precisely this mentality that our bid has to outdo everyone else regardless of the cost that I object to, since I will be one of those paying for it. No I'm not a keen follower of the code, you must accept that there are many that aren't, but we are all taxpayers, and we have a legitmate voice in calling for a limit on spending.
I have only been posting here since May last year, the Com Games were 2006, and Sydney Olympics were in 2000, so its a bit hard to backdate my posts. Besides, those were VIC and NSW events so I didn't get involved in it as a West Aussie. Further, what is wrong is learning the lesson from the Sydney Olympics that these events always cost more than expected and return far less than expected, so we need to make sure we don't make the same mistakes for the World Cup. We need to keep a tight check on what we are spending to make it work for us, not just open the checkbook and break the bank trying to outdo every other bid.

