Unfortunately, as a former diehard supporter, you may well be right. The Bakries appear to have no interest and Suncorp is like a concrete tomb.
We are playing half our games at Kayo again.
Suncorp is a millstone for us. Stadiums Queensland is not going to have the stadium go to waste so they will not look at anything that might take custom away - like a boutique stadium would.
I don't blame the Bakries for not building or upgrading 'our own' stadium. They are not Australian citizens so they would be spending money on something they may not own - or that can be taken from them.
The stadium issue is one of those things that sits outside our areas of control so I don't include it in our woes.
Kayo is a better size, but it alienates and excludes a lot of southsiders. I'd rather have numbers turn up to an echoing Suncorp once we finally start playing good football (however long that might be) than lose half our supporters by playing in a more economical stadium that people just will not or cannot get to for whatever reasons.
I don't think the Bakries have no interest - I think they have little interest in the day to day running but would love for us to do well with what little they have allowed us. But again, I look at Nam and think he is a signing that is founded on the potential and desire to succeed.
I guess our football department tracked him and spoke to him but the Bakries had to approve payment for him. Are we stuck with not being able to identify and recruit bargain quality?
Surely the Bakries would approve reasonable signings based on Stajic and Nam. Maybe we have signed too many unsuccessful imports over the last seasons for the Bakries to allow just any 'name' signing that might not work out and be a waste of both an Aussie place and money.
A lot of that is well above my paygrade. I am not entirely convinced that the Bakries are the ultimate bane for us though - not knowing what other players we might have suggested that they knocked back or what players we have not even found to run by them. Herrington's sale is the only one I know of that they disagreed with and felt the need to explain to us.