My 2 🪙 worth:
This stadium talk at Western Springs is just that, talk. Being used to put pressure on something else much like the alternative Nix stadium in Porirua back in the day.
Sadly NZ Inc can't organise a piss up in a brewery right now, our government and councils are a mess and the nation has bigger fish to fry (sunken ships, dilapidated railways, massive DoH deficits etc) then worrying about a stadium that should have been built prior to RWC 2011 when times were good.
This stadium talk at Western Springs is just that, talk. Being used to put pressure on something else much like the alternative Nix stadium in Porirua back in the day.
Sadly NZ Inc can't organise a piss up in a brewery right now, our government and councils are a mess and the nation has bigger fish to fry (sunken ships, dilapidated railways, massive DoH deficits etc) then worrying about a stadium that should have been built prior to RWC 2011 when times were good.
No Mr Foley is a very wealthy. Estimated net worth actually $USD2 Billion goggle tells me.
He won't like the current arrangement, his NZ club stuck out at Albany with likely tired facilities (I mean all the stories are NHS has been purposedly rundown by Council facilities division), and is miles away from where the club will play in Penrose.
Look what Bill is building at Bournemouth re their state of the art training facilities. He won't fudge around in Auckland. He's a doer. He wants to be in control of where his team train & play, not beholden to some other outfit owning the stadium, and his club the 2nd class tenant. Though he may find the whole consent process frustrating, can see things being built at Western Springs quickly if the Texan has his way.