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    I think the Americas cup is a bigger deal for NZ than it is for most other countries. I don't think anyone else cares about the nationality of the teams/team members overseas - or lets be honest who wins. It definately wouldn't be headline news and it certainly isn't the end of the marine industry in NZ. Where did they get the "lets bring it back home" slogan from? Surely that should be an American teams slogan?

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    Cool your right

    Quote Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat View Post
    Like people are saying, this is a return on the investment. Even if yachting was an elitist sport -- which it most certainly is not -- it's not about that. It's good business sense, ........ The contracts that are possibly gained by this are worth seriously large amounts of money.
    I'm not saying yachting is an elitist sport, but the America's cup is.

    Good business sense!!! - then why can't they secure sponsorship from all these companies who will benefit - instead of stealing taxpayers wedge.
    And excuse me for being cynical when I hear politicians being vague with actual facts and start chucking cliché’s around, even mallard when challenged on this said that there was no hard facts or evidence of what the returns have been to New Zealanders, or are projected to be – he said they are “largely unquantifiable”.!!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat View Post
    Don't start up an inferiority thing about Auckland, Smoky, it disguises the more valid points you're trying to make.
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    This issue has produced fairly evenly divided opinions and it is unlikely that any faction is going to convince the other that their opinion is wrong.

    It is difficult to know where the consensus of opinion lies here - so here is a - Poll:

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