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Not sure if it has been mentioned in here, but the government (I think) here in Tassie has fronted the money to figure out how to get an AFL team here. They have appointed a pretty big wig group of business people to do it.
The way it's been reported has been that this is a serious push to get it done and the expectation is it will happen. I feel like previously it has been a bit of a "we deserve our own team" but no one actually expected to get one.
I think the deadline on the groups findings/strategy is due at the end of this year.
It goes in hand with (again how I have interpreted the reporting) the push for a Tassie VFL licence which sounds like it is set to happen.
There are reports on it all, but it's all behind the paywall and I'm too lazy to find a way around it.
EDIT: The timing when this all started to suddenly happen seemed to be just after Gil came to Tassie for a visit.
The way it's been reported has been that this is a serious push to get it done and the expectation is it will happen. I feel like previously it has been a bit of a "we deserve our own team" but no one actually expected to get one.
I think the deadline on the groups findings/strategy is due at the end of this year.
It goes in hand with (again how I have interpreted the reporting) the push for a Tassie VFL licence which sounds like it is set to happen.
There are reports on it all, but it's all behind the paywall and I'm too lazy to find a way around it.
EDIT: The timing when this all started to suddenly happen seemed to be just after Gil came to Tassie for a visit.