Whipping Boy, the Hobart Stadium Song

5 Comments

1. 

   Deborah Ce

   May 29, 2024 at 18:11

   This is a great song that tells the truth about living in Hobart, Tasmania.
2. 

   Roderick

   May 29, 2024 at 23:55

   Deborah, many times in this life I have wondered what sport has contributed to society.

   I worked next to a sports-mad and coach who often complained about arts companies seeking government grants and he called them “mozzies”. I did not understand what he meant as had not heard that word before. He meant mosquitoes, trying to suck money from government coffers. Later I had to deal with sports organisations instead of civilised arts organisations and promoters, and my observations were that the sports organisations were the real “mozzies”.

   One day I had to telephone the Australian Bureau of Statistics and I asked “do the arts or sports receive the largest amount of government funding?” The reply was sport by a large amount. I then asked which secured, on a nationwide basis, the most revenue. It was the arts by a very large margin.

   I also like the song, but there is another song by the Bonzo Dog band from late 60s, early 70s, namely “sport, sport, masculine sport, makes a man fit for society, sport, sport, jolly good sport, it’s an odd boy who doesn’t like sport”. Wasn’t it a Devo song and the line “whip it good”?

   So many millionaire and billion dollar sports organisations are sucking the money from our impoverished state’s increasingly fragile funds reserves while essential public services suffer under an avalanche of stress and misery.
3. 

   Janine D

   May 30, 2024 at 15:04

   I completely agree, no stadium! It would be a totally obscene waste of money, that is much needed elsewhere in our State. I’m sure that people forced by circumstances to live on the ground in cold doorways, in tents, getting sick from the freezing temperatures would care less about an eyesore of a stadium on prime land in Hobart! Neither would patient in pain, while waiting in a queue of ambulances at RHH! Nor the overworked staff at that hospital! I will never understand the hysteria around a bunch of grown men (or women) running around a field chasing a bit of inflated leather!
4. 

   Chief Editor TT

   May 30, 2024 at 15:48

   From Gary Atkinson: Tassie’s AFL team, will it play in an ‘A Division’ for the top 10 teams, or in a new ‘B Division’ similar to the current VFL standard? A billion dollars for what?

   We’re unlikely to see Collingwood or Carlton etc in Hobart when the AFL can get 80,000 plus at the MCG. The AFL is a big business, not a charity, and it considers Tasmania to be a good financial investment.

   So the answer to the above question is .. No.
5. 

   Elijah Slater

   May 31, 2024 at 00:24

   Oh my word! You know what? …

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