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Tasmania has finally been given the green light to field a team in the AFL - but there's a catch. The locals have to build a new stadium, and not everyone thinks the 1.13 billion dollar taxpayer spend is the greatest idea.
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00:01My guest is Great Southern Football Club CEO Hugh Shen.
00:04Look, I'm just sick of all this negativity from the greens about the stadium.
00:09Build the bloody thing and bury all those useless greenies in the foundations while you're at it.
00:20We're a brand new team with a brand new approach.
00:23I've got to build a club and a $715 million stadium.
00:27If I pull it off, I can make a very good case to be the AFL's next CEO.
00:32The Premier has put me here to be accountable for every dollar spent.
00:36Football Tasmania is soccer. You're football.
00:38Soccer is football and football is football, but football Tasmania is soccer.
00:42I'm not sure Hugh has any regard for the principles of good governance or socially web business practices.
00:50Was she the best candidate for president?
00:52Oh, by several million dollars. Also chair of the Tasmanian Chamber of Nepotism.
00:56Mum, how do you reload these things?
00:59Oh.
01:02There's a lot of people not happy about the stadium.
01:05This is unacceptable.
01:08We're going to knock back business heavyweights because they're wankers.
01:10We'll have no corporate sponsorships.
01:14The f...
01:16We need to welcome wankers. Be more inclusive.
01:20Any other disasters I should know about?
01:22The sponsorships just disappeared up the coach's nostrils.
01:24Could we draft in a gay player?
01:27The mascot?
01:28Adam the apple from the apple aisle.
01:30This simply isn't good enough.
01:31Hugh, I am issuing you a formal warning.
01:35No, you can't do that, Alistair.
01:36It's okay, Destiny. Thanks.
01:37No, it has to be in writing.
01:41Hey, Hugh.
01:42Hugh.
01:43Hugh.
01:43Hugh.
01:44You set up to fail, aren't I?
01:50Oh.
01:51For a minute I thought we had another drama on our hands.
01:54You need to not say anything to anyone for some time.
01:57I'll see yourующie. ?
01:57feel free on your couch. Now,
01:57most people who aren't if you don't know. I'll
01:57do it first. ! You
01:57to keep up.æź‹
01:58맞ence if you want someone's mom.