It seems that soccer in Wollongong is doomed by an evil omen. There were promises of better times when the game was turfed out of Brandon park to make way for the University's Innovation campass, but somehow the money got squandered and it ended up at Lysaght's oval with an unplayable surface and a half built mega grandstand.
Hope of recovery came when then Premier Kristina Keneally promised a further grant of $ 2.5 million to complete Lysaght oval, but unfortunately the civil servants tasked with transferring the money to Wollongong council in trust took too many coffee breaks - and the work was not done before Keneally pulled the plug and sent the government into caretaker mode.
So - the money is still in the government's bank account - and now a decision on whether Wollongong gets these funds rests in new Premier Barry O'Farrells hands - and that will be the first test of how the voting pattern of the last election is viewed by the Coalition government.
Wollongong is certainly not a hundred percent, rusted on Labor town any more. Two of the four seats in this neck of the woods swung the new governments way - and that deserves a big change of thinking.
Allowing the soccer money to flow would be a good indication that the state government no longer views the Illawarra as " enemy territory ! "
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