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1. nitv 23.3.21
Remote Tiwi Islands women's team(s) to play, for the first time, in the AFL NT comp. Huge social & educational etc. benefits for aboriginal communities (& others) in the NT (& not just those from the Tiwi Islands).
Enjoy.
(From wookie's sports.industry.com
IMO, Tasmania will probably join the AFL c. 2025- & after that, a combined Macarthur area-Canberra Club between 2030-2040 (6/5 home games split; plus playing at least 3 Away games also in Wollongong, sold by perennially impecunious Melb. clubs).
I doubt the NT could afford its own AFL team.
Perhaps a more likely scenario, after 2050, is a combined Northern Tropics FC- playing 5 games pa in Cairns, 4 in Townsville, 5 in Darwin, & 1 in Alice Springs.
Four of the NT games will be Away games for the NTFC, sold by impecunious Melb. Clubs- & paid for by mining companies, &/or NT or Federal govts. (due to the many social/educational/economic etc. benefits for aboriginal communities).
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2. abc.net S. Vivian 13.2.21
NT govt. still very keen to explore possibilty it will, eventually, have its own AFL team.
AFL NT says the biggest obstacle is convincing AFL HQ that a NT team would be "commercially viable"; & NT Thunder, in the NEAFL, went broke after "plummeting crowd" & sponsorship $.
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3. NEAFL exit by NT Thunder severely hurts NT AF.
"Indigenous women need support"
"In 2010, we had 27 players on the AFL list, today [2019] there are 13".
Whilst GR AF club nos. are booming in the NT, draft nos. have crashed by 50%- partial justification for disolving the NT Thunder, & VFLW, teams.
The AFL will concentrate on the elite jnr pathways instead, which will receive much more funding.
Remote Tiwi Islands women's team(s) to play, for the first time, in the AFL NT comp. Huge social & educational etc. benefits for aboriginal communities (& others) in the NT (& not just those from the Tiwi Islands).
Enjoy.
(From wookie's sports.industry.com
IMO, Tasmania will probably join the AFL c. 2025- & after that, a combined Macarthur area-Canberra Club between 2030-2040 (6/5 home games split; plus playing at least 3 Away games also in Wollongong, sold by perennially impecunious Melb. clubs).
I doubt the NT could afford its own AFL team.
Perhaps a more likely scenario, after 2050, is a combined Northern Tropics FC- playing 5 games pa in Cairns, 4 in Townsville, 5 in Darwin, & 1 in Alice Springs.
Four of the NT games will be Away games for the NTFC, sold by impecunious Melb. Clubs- & paid for by mining companies, &/or NT or Federal govts. (due to the many social/educational/economic etc. benefits for aboriginal communities).
EDIT:
2. abc.net S. Vivian 13.2.21
NT govt. still very keen to explore possibilty it will, eventually, have its own AFL team.
AFL NT says the biggest obstacle is convincing AFL HQ that a NT team would be "commercially viable"; & NT Thunder, in the NEAFL, went broke after "plummeting crowd" & sponsorship $.
It was completed in 2019 but never released — so where is the AFL's report into a future NT AFL team?
Billed as the first steps on the Northern Territory's journey to securing an AFL team, a taxpayer-funded study into how the Territory could one day be home to an AFL club is still yet to be released despite its completion nearly 18 months ago.
www.abc.net.au
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3. NEAFL exit by NT Thunder severely hurts NT AF.
"Indigenous women need support"
From premiership hero to without a footy home. How the AFL shocked a genuine star
A prodigiously talented, goal-scoring genius of the Long-Rioli family is just one of the dozens of men and women left confused and shocked by the AFL's decision to close the Northern Territory's only top-level side.
www.abc.net.au
"In 2010, we had 27 players on the AFL list, today [2019] there are 13".
'Something in our system is not right': NT loses its top-tier AFL team
Tanking crowd numbers, a lack of draft picks and a haemorrhaging of hundreds of thousands in sponsorship funds have assisted in the demise of the Northern Territory's top-tier AFL team.
www.abc.net.au
Whilst GR AF club nos. are booming in the NT, draft nos. have crashed by 50%- partial justification for disolving the NT Thunder, & VFLW, teams.
The AFL will concentrate on the elite jnr pathways instead, which will receive much more funding.
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