Recent content by Canberra Pear

I'm incredibly keen for this game. I think Canberra should be getting an Anzac Day match every year. It just makes sense with the war memorial and the heavy Defence presence. It's officially sold out. My guess for attendance is 13k.

Canberra only gets two games during the Easter Show, so no issue with scheduling with the later one. In a normal season, there's a five or six-game stretch over the Easter Show. I reckon the Giants only need to fill that with one Accor game in the middle to break up the stretch, then get more...

You say that, but the AFL has the most clubs of any professional league in Australia, and it got that way by going slowly. It's the only Australian pro league I can think of that hasn't rectracted or had to fully reform. Slowly and steady is boring, but it's got the AFL to its pre-eminent position.

I get there's difference historical context, but most of what you said is pretty much my exact point. Just because the Giants have 6k members and play three games a year here, it doesn't make them any more "Canberra's team" than North is Tasmania's team. As Badger said, there are at least half...

That's kind of my point though. The prevailing narrative that Canberra can't get a team because it's Giants territory is bull. In terms of supporters, it doesn't belong to any one team, so no one team should be stopping us getting a team.

That's fair. I've never met a Giants-first fan in Canberra, but I know multiple fans of most other clubs. I probably attract them, but I know so many Port supporters here. And loads of Richmond and Collingwood fans.

North are receiving the equal most after the Suns and the Giants, but North's $4m per year didn't stop the AFL putting the team in Hobart. It won't make up the entire shortfall, but Canberra takes up a prime spot on the guernsey. A sponsor would snap that up pretty quickly. Maintaining the...

Well, their AFLW team is officially called the North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos, so, yes?

Just like North is Tasmania's home team with 7000 members?

He's not entirely wrong though. AFL fans are happy to have the Giants because it's a way to support AFL, but outside of that, the Giants haven't permeated the public consciousness the way the Raiders or Brumbies have. I see way more Raiders gear than I do Giants gear. I probably even see more...

They did do an analysis if you count the AFL NT Scoping Report, which said they'd have the $15m funding gap every year. Tasmania and the NT are apples and oranges for demographics. Hobart is twice as big as Darwin. Tasmania's secondary market of Launeston and northern Tasmania is much...

The fact that it's getting to Woden by 2033 is as good as fully approved, but the final route hasn't been fully locked down yet. Obviously, I'd rather the option that goes closer, but 1km isn't that far in the scheme of stadiums. It's a 15-minute walk on Google. For comparison, Adelaide Oval...

Stage 2b is scheduled to reach Woden in 2033, which will pass the vicinity of Manuka. At worst, the stop will be 1km away, but possibly as close as 600-700 metres depending which route they go with.

The same writer published his piece on Canberra today. I think Darwin is his preferred for sentimental reasons (as it is for many), but he recognises the strengths of Canberra. He calls it the "compromise" option between Darwin and WA3, which I think is fair. The new market expansion of Darwin...

We don't need him in for eight more years, just long enough to get the ball rolling, like Jeremy Rockliff did. Just this upcoming term might do it. But if he wanted another eight years, he could probably get it. The LNP's platform is tram=bad, and it fails for them every election.