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  1. Canberra Pear

    Bendigo/Ballarat AFL teams

    200k isn't enough to start a team now. It'll be even further from enough as the rest of Australia continues to grow to 2061. So no time this century.
  2. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    “Taken over” disregards the nuance of Canberra. We’re a multi-code city with a very large portion following multiple codes. I’ve mentioned it several times, but about 75% of primarily NRL fans I know here also follow an AFL team. There was a Gemba Report in 2019 that was attached to the AFL...
  3. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    There’s also a lot to like about Manuka that a rebuild would ruin. The heritage-listed Caretaker's Cottage and scoreboard add a lot of character. My understanding is that any redevelopment would look to shift the grassed area closer to those. A lot of character that a knockdown/rebuild couldn’t...
  4. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    Using Canberra's Giants crowds and saying we'll average lower over 11 games misses one vital point - they're not a Canberra team. And before I get the spiel about 21 years in Canberra, the Giants have absolutely carved a niche in AFL circles, but they are incredibly far from capturing the...
  5. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    So 2.4m divided by three (which they wouldn't even get anywhere near), would also be too small?
  6. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    Thanks. I was trying to do the maths based on inflation from phase 3 of the old plans, but that only brought it to $33m, which I knew was way off.
  7. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    What's small to you? Canberra is a richer, bigger and faster-growing market than Tasmania
  8. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    Hard disagree. There's been no indication that they're interested in Brisbane 2. Pretty much the whole argument has been built on bigfooty (and Cochrane stirring shit). The difference between GWS and Brisbane 2 is that Sydney were pretty much near capacity (Brisbane won't be), and they...
  9. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    That's a bloody good question. I think the crossover is huge so it would actually be pretty hard to quantify. It's also hard to quantify with only a part-time team over a full-time team, so things like news reports and Google searches are slanted there. In my workplace, across 70-80 people...
  10. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    So for comparison's sake, there are 40 AFL players from ACT/SNSW, and they're mostly from Canberra or west of. There's about a dozen NRL players from ACT/SNSW, and a large portion of those are from east of Canberra (Goulburn, South Coast), so would have a greater pull to Sydney. People already...
  11. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    Now I know you're trolling. Or had a bad Year 7 experience. Canberra is consistently the most liveable city in Australia. It only misses out on the international lists due to population. It has the second highest subnational HDI in the world (behind Zurich). There are 40 players from the...
  12. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    Weather will no doubt play a factor. If they're smart, they'll play the midday games in Canberra in the winter. A Canberra winter's day is incredibly still and sunny. Perfect footy weather. That will also give the surrounding regions more ability to come in and out for a day trip.
  13. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    Sport isn't a priority for one of the only areas that significantly financially contributes to all of its national level teams?
  14. Canberra Pear

    GWS in Canberra

    I think a lot of those empty seats are members, or set aside for members. When you're a member and get all three games, you may not go to all three, but they're still set aside for you. One year I wasn't going to bother with a membership, but then couldn't get tickets to a sold out game. I...
  15. Canberra Pear

    20th AFL Team

    Woah, a team got a higher crowd in the city that their fanbase is in. Better get another team in Melbourne after that Anzac Day crowd!
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