Toast Tasmania Officially Entering the Competition :tasmania:

[Supercoach Bargain]

Do you think the average Tasmanian was asked if they wanted to spend $1.5B on a stadium for this purpose before the bid was submitted?

And given how it's dividing the Tasmanian community, couldn't the AFL go "hey, sure, you said that, but really, you can't afford it, your team can play at Bellerive, where we've played AFL games for the last 20 years"?

Oddly enough, there was an election held this year.

There were plenty of "No" candidates. So they could have been supported. Not enough were, and it cost some of them their job.

So all Tasmanians were asked to build or not build it.

 

[Kram]

Know nothing about the states finances but it's about time they finally got a team.

 

[Percel]

Subiaco, where if it rains the people of Perth wonder "what is this liquid coming from the sky"?

Mining revenue pissing down their back....

and telling them its raining

 

[Dinsdale]

Dinsdale zackah new fred coming your way soon gents

And a motherflippin' bye every week FFS grrrrt

 

[Bipolar Bear]

Who cares about the stadium that debate is over now, let's celebrate.

 

[Atomboy]

Well done Tassie, it’s going to be an epic Gather Round once you get a chance to host !!.

 

[jwikked]

Do you think the average Tasmanian was asked if they wanted to spend $1.5B on a stadium for this purpose before the bid was submitted?

And given how it's dividing the Tasmanian community, couldn't the AFL go "hey, sure, you said that, but really, you can't afford it, your team can play at Bellerive, where we've played AFL games for the last 20 years"?

If you put a bid in at an auction, you don't then get to start trying to adjust your bid once you've been declared the winner.

It's as simple as that.

If Tasmania didn't want to build that stadium, their bid shouldn't have included it.

 

[Dirty Bird]

Can someone tell me anything about Tasmania, you know, where it is, what is their culture like, do they speak English?

I just worry that a nation so different from ours just won't fit in the AFL.

The Island was settled by the Dutch so I believe they make good beer. Might be worth the trip for that alone.

 

[WOFTAMWarrior]

Honestly I can’t believe the advantage this new team will get in the AFL. Brisbane and the Gold Coast have an advantage playing in warmth and dew. Perth doesn’t get freezing either in winter so another advantage. Sydney plays on a small ground so yet another advantage given to these nasty expansion teams.

Now this new team gets a whole State to themselves with an enclosed roof protecting them from a nasty Tasmanian winter.

Won’t someone think of the poor Victorians? Please I beg you. They get no home ground advantage at their enclosed stadium since it’s 50/50 and no advantage at the other ground because nobody turns up when their team is rubbish or they have to play a home game against Collingwood who outnumber them all.

I can’t believe the AFL did this to the Victorians.

 

[Orfullrules]

Honestly I can’t believe the advantage this new team will get in the AFL. Brisbane and the Gold Coast have an advantage playing in warmth and dew. Perth doesn’t get freezing either in winter so another advantage. Sydney plays on a small ground so yet another advantage given to these nasty expansion teams.

Now this new team gets a whole State to themselves with an enclosed roof protecting them from a nasty Tasmanian winter.

Won’t someone think of the poor Victorians? Please I beg you. They get no home ground advantage at their enclosed stadium since it’s 50/50 and no advantage at the other ground because nobody turns up when their team is rubbish or they have to play a home game against Collingwood who outnumber them all.

I can’t believe the AFL did this to the Victorians.

Let it all out. Go tassie

 

[WOFTAMWarrior]

Let it all out. Go tassie

I agree. I just wish the AFL considered those Victorian posters who hate the weather advantages that teams have playing in other climates.
It’s just not fair. Poor souls.

 

[Orfullrules]

I agree. I just wish the AFL considered those Victorian posters who hate the weather advantages that teams have playing in other climates.
It’s just not fair. Poor souls.

Weather, cola, academies, sponsors, media. It’s ok. Glad your team is still around, kinda.

 

[TheEscapeClub]

Do you think the average Tasmanian was asked if they wanted to spend $1.5B on a stadium for this purpose before the bid was submitted?

And given how it's dividing the Tasmanian community, couldn't the AFL go "hey, sure, you said that, but really, you can't afford it, your team can play at Bellerive, where we've played AFL games for the last 20 years"?

Not every state can be built on a sand dune full of iron ore.

 

[Mr Q]

If you put a bid in at an auction, you don't then get to start trying to adjust your bid once you've been declared the winner.

It's as simple as that.

If Tasmania didn't want to build that stadium, their bid shouldn't have included it.

There's a massive difference here. It's not like someone else was bidding for a licence that was up for sale.

The AFL are insisting Tasmania spend huge amounts of money to get a team that they don't have. But if Tassie doesn't, it's not like the licence is being given to the next bidder.

And even if it was, the AFL are insisting on a divisive massive project that will wreck the state's finances when they don't have to. They could lift that requirement today if they wanted to.

 

[SC_Power]

David Puddy likes this

 

[Whiskers]

All this talk about needing a new stadium yet people forget they are still going to play 4 home games in Launceston every year.

 

[Hawthorn1971]

Excellent news!!!

Great to see common sense and vision won through. Wise heads prevail....

 

[jwikked]

it's not like the licence is being given to the next bidder.

Of course it would. A third WA team, for example.

 

[SC_Power]

All this talk about needing a new stadium yet people forget they are still going to play 4 home games in Launceston every year.

That’s the same as the Bulldogs having home stadium at Docklands, but still play 2-3 games at places like Ballarat against the lesser supported teams.

(Or in reverse, Geelong getting a free stadium yet still playing home games at the MCG?)

No one is forgetting. It’s called economics.

 

[lionbear]

Do you think the average Tasmanian was asked if they wanted to spend $1.5B on a stadium for this purpose before the bid was submitted?

And given how it's dividing the Tasmanian community, couldn't the AFL go "hey, sure, you said that, but really, you can't afford it, your team can play at Bellerive, where we've played AFL games for the last 20 years"?

Isn't this just a cut and paste of the same things said prior to the Adelaide oval upgrade the the building of Perth Stadium?

 

[Gough]

Whatever happens Eric Abetz is going to have a great time punching down to find the money for this. He'll ask himself what great Uncle Otto would have done.

 

[The Terrible Thinker]

I don't even mind tbh, get your bag.

Just kidding, looking forward to visiting for a game.

 

[The Terrible Thinker]

Honestly I can’t believe the advantage this new team will get in the AFL. Brisbane and the Gold Coast have an advantage playing in warmth and dew. Perth doesn’t get freezing either in winter so another advantage. Sydney plays on a small ground so yet another advantage given to these nasty expansion teams.

Now this new team gets a whole State to themselves with an enclosed roof protecting them from a nasty Tasmanian winter.

Won’t someone think of the poor Victorians? Please I beg you. They get no home ground advantage at their enclosed stadium since it’s 50/50 and no advantage at the other ground because nobody turns up when their team is rubbish or they have to play a home game against Collingwood who outnumber them all.

I can’t believe the AFL did this to the Victorians.

The AFL map of Australia.

 

[SleepingGiant]

Will be a raging success.

 

[Atomboy]

The AFL map of Australia.

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About time we had an inland sea