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It'll happen if the AFL wants it. Every 12-15 years you could add another team and then follow up with a new team 3-5 years later. By the 2050s-60s, you'd have 24 teams. I think it's doable but we'll see.
Yes, once it closer to 14 or 15 club presidents in the yes camp, it will happen.
It’s been obvious for decades there’s to many Melbourne based clubs. Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon & Richmond should be massive clubs that dwarf West Coast but they’re not. West Coast are but shouldn’t be the biggest club in the comp.
4 Vic, 2 WA, 2 SA, 1 NSW/ACT, 1 QLD, 1 TAS, 1 NT/NQLD. 12 teams, 22 rounds. Would've been perfect. Tassie and NT/NQLD would obviously enter later given the smaller populations, but right now it could've been a 10-team super competition.
The ship has sailed. It’s to late. The worst thing for expansion was allowing a state league to become the premier national league. Their allegiance was and will be to that state. If it was the SANFL we’d have the same problem.
People are always happy to come up with solutions to 'problems', so long as they don't affect their own club.
I said, "would've been." Past tense. Too late now. Should've happened back in 86 when the VFL was on its knees.
This does not deal with reality that Victoria produces well over 50% of the players for league on it's own and where most of the football loving population live.
I just do not buy the ACT part in particular. The population just does not justify it. Places like Bendigo have a much better case. NT has too much problems of the seasons are so different and population and crowd capacity far from ideal. No, at present adding Tassie and settle on 19 for next decade and a bit is the best way forward and work out the ideal 20th licence after that. It tough enough to make Suns viable without trying to add teams from little population area of ACT and NT.
Wouldn’t call ACT a little population area and certainly not the large number of people that live within an hour of Canberra. Better option than Newcastle that’s for sure. But yeah, no rush for team 20, the fixture will work fine with 19 teams. NT if they had the population in the distant future could be viable if they find somewhere else to play their early season games during wet season. Closed roof stadium with cold rooms will take care of the rest.
NT can't work with only 246,500 people in the whole state and only 132,045 in Darwin. Even with 550,000, Tassie only becomes a safe choice with a large percentage of 'fanatical' footy fans and a bit of government assistance. The ACT population is also under 500,000 and not all of them follow footy.
Yeah, it might be harsh to say it a little population. Not been there since mid 90's but my impression is in terms of sport going for AFL it not a big enough crowd puller or far away from Sydney to justify another team there any time soon. They get a few games of AFL to service the few footy lovers there at moment. If in 20 years time, we bedded down well with 19 teams and football grows there, maybe, but even then it has to outstrip other places for football that may have better cases by then. Hence , let us move to Tassie with 19 and settle down Suns and second team we already have in NSW until mid 2030's at minimum, before looking at any cases for a 20th licence.
There was only 500k or so people living in the Gold Coast when they came in. ACT might hit 500k by 2030, with more footy followers per capita than GC. I think it’s possible then. Darwin won’t need 500k, Geelong doesn’t and they’re just as footy mad as them. It’s worth looking at come the 2040s.
Sounds fine to me. Tassie in 2025-8 and then give the competition a decade to breathe before we add team 20 in 2035-8. See how the Suns, Giants, Tassie, and small Vic clubs are going. It’s pointless to look too far ahead.
I think Canberra is definitely next in line when the time comes.
The problem is North won't want to move, ever, and it's up to them. And if they did become a NT/Vic hybrid club, I'd love to see them change colours to the red, black, and gold. Keep the kangaroo logo and only slightly change the club song. It can't be too similar to North Melbourne or it just wouldn't feel right.
The next thing that crosses my mind with 19 teams in league soon, is if we should adopt a final 10 series , which has a lot of plusses in terms of teams in bottom half of ladder have a bit more to play for than they do with final 8 but how logistically do we find another week in the football season?
"One club boss suspected the AFL had positioned the process so that if the bid did not succeed, the clubs 'would have blood on their hands'"The Age’s anonymous survey of clubs has six supporting Tas as team 19, five wanting more info, four wanting a relocation and one NO. Two clubs did not reply.
Tassie, gambling, concussion and the boss: Survey reveals club views
An anonymous survey of club bosses on the key issues facing the game shows how the battle for a Tassie team could play out, where the next AFL boss should come from and the verdict on the controversial crackdown on dissent towards umpires.www.watoday.com.au
No I'm not suggesting they move. Neither was Fat Ed.
Hmm, yeah nah, I'd prefer NT have their own team eventually. There's no reason why we can't have 21 teams in 30-40 years time.
