Colvin: I can't see how you can say that - certainly neither the DCC nor DVML has ever said that they were being forced to pick up those costs - we were told that the NZRFU was putting on the games at the stadium for free to raise money to help Dunedin out with the half million dollars of debt the ORFU had stuck us with - instead you're apparently saying that the DCC ended up spending all that money the DCC was supposed to make was spent on rugby players. Of course such information about how much money is spent at the stadium should be public knowledge, the ORFU hides its dealing behind "commercial sensitivity" because apparently somewhere in Dunedin there must be a competing rugby union, or apparently a competing stadium. I think we need to start preparing for our local DCC elections now, so that we will not vote in another council that is split/twiddling their thumbs on the stadium issue. Perhaps this will be the only way to change the terrible financial situation we are in. Nothing fancy - just the facts! See the fourth paragraph - four games (RWC mind you) = $400,000 loss. The figure originally cropped up sometime before 2011. Try as I might I couldn't find the original. Ever since then (in Mike's world at least) this has been the absolute one size fits all gospel truth, and that's that. That is that! 100k per game, every time it opened no matter