level 2. Posted by. Collingwood. âTheyâre going to be the Suns on the Gold Coast, thatâs it, forget about it.â 10 months ago. I'd rather nothing than a half baked concoction of a failed club and a desperate state.
Posted by 4 months ago. Just renovate Manuka oval and you're sorted for a venue tooI think you're right, but I don't think we'll see it for a while yet.Hawthorn have been invested in Launceston for almost 20 years and North in Hobart for almost a decade and we're still talking about introducing a Tassie team another four years from now.In addition to that, I've seen a few fans here saying they're losing interest because they feel less and less like they understand the rules due to changing them every 10 seconds, so I think if they fix that aspect up that might help the case for expansion teams.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castAFL: The home of Australian football on Reddit, including the Australian Football League, and all other aspects of the game. share. A well-credentialed radio host and football identity says Tasmania is in line to enter the AFL in time for the 2023 season. New fans? Start a crowdfunding campaign that collects the value of a current AFL membership, approximately $200, from people. 3. sen.com.au/news/2... 461 comments. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Watch your terminology. Tasmania to be AFL’s 19th team in 2023, according to Dwayne Russell.
Makes 22 teams, each team plays each other once. The entire population of NT is 250k, Darwin has a population just above 100k. So, it will be 19 clubs in 2023. Who will be the 20th? Do you mean the AFL as a whole? Sort by. News. I’ve been saying for years that there’s simply not enough Victorian teamsA team in sealake would make it a truly national competition.Could not agree more.
People forget Ballarat is a founder of the sport and actually had at least two clubs participate in the predecessor to the League, the Association up to the 1890s.Everyone knows Melbourne is growing rapidly and heading due west straight towards Ballarat. I’m not sure how a Tassie team is going to make it, let alone a regional team.Canberra is the obvious 20th team. This is like a flea waving a stick at an elephant. Wij willen hier een beschrijving geven, maar de site die u nu bekijkt staat dit niet toe. By 2030, Melbourne and Ballarat may well be one large conurbation.Thinking even longer term I reckon a NT team plus another WA and SA team over the next 20 years. Many people have been calling for Tasmania to be awarded an AFL team - and it looks like it might happen sooner rather than later.Commentator Dwayne Russell is reporting that North Melbourne and Hawthorn are set to cut ties with Tasmania, making way for Tassie to become the 19th AFL team in 2023.“I’m hearing no Hawthorn and no North Melbourne in Tassie after 2021,” Russell said.“I’m hearing no games at all in Tassie in 2022 with the idea that Tassie would get its 19th team into the AFL in 2023.“It’s a pencilled plan, it’s a plan being investigated but it’s nothing new, we’ve been talking about a Tassie team for a while.“I’m told the AFL’s long-term plan is that the Suns survive.“They’re going to be the Suns on the Gold Coast, that’s it, forget about it.”The timing makes sense, as the current deals for Hawthorn and North Melbourne to play four games a year in Tasmania expire in 2021.Speaking earlier in the year, Suns chief Mark Evans defended his club against any suggestions of relocation to Tasmania.“This is a great question for me because I get to talk about Queensland footy which is the fastest growing state again and probably has been every year for the last 10,” Evans said on “I’m happy for Tassie to keep its push for its own team, they’re well within their rights to do want to do that and good luck to them, but a logical business person would say that wouldn’t be at the expense of a Queensland team.“It doesn’t make sense. There is a line about beggars and choosers that seems to apply here. It really is a win for everyoneThe Lavin ground is AFL standard already and has been for 20+ years.The support for a local team would be huge. Bob has been a supporter of getting a Tassie AFL team for many years. Do you mean State Government funding? But even so, the AFL run a draft system. Commentator Dwayne Russell is reporting that North Melbourne and Hawthorn are set to cut ties with Tasmania, making way for Tassie to become the 19th AFL team in 2023.
The other 150k is spread across remote communities over thousands of kilometres.I don’t think people whom have never traveled to the NT realise how sparsely populated it is. It had just started to catch on with TV broadcasts, and any VFL team support was generally alongside their 'local' league, which until right up until the 80s, they generally considered to be a similar standard. Except that we can choose not to have a team, and not accept the AFL's awful compromise.