All good to spend all the money in the world on two areas of Australia that have little to no interest in AFL. However, the good old AFL will find every excuse not to send a team to Tasmania where the $$$ they have spent on GC would not have gone to waste. Yes, there may only be about 250,000 people in Tasmania that have an interest in AFL but that is a hell of a lot more than the 7 people that follow Gold Coast.
How many failed franchises do they need to know that Gold Coasts population can't support any sports team outside NRL because the population is too dynamic.