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Well they got the Ground. Manuka is a good AFL standard ground, Just Add more seats.
It will be pretty much a 50/50 split of games between the two cities.
As much as I want a 3rd team in WA, I dont mind if Canberra gets a side. 400,000 people live in Canberra. You can also lure some people from NSW to support the club too.
and there lies the Problem. Theres 500,000 people that live in Tassie. Half live in Launceston the other half lives in Hobart.
you can take the train from the Melbourne CBD to Geelong....
Half lives in the northern half,i believe having a game once a month in each of those cities is the best way to get good crowds,half the states population wont want to travel twice a month to one of those cities.Hopefully by doing that we can get crowds of 15 to 20 thousand a game,which are the sort of numbers that should be the minimum required.
Being a gws fan you would want to hope Canberra is not next because there would go 50% of your support!
Yeah there no way the afl would take Canberra from gws they relying on there support
More like 20-25%. Still.... ACT was an AFL state until both rugby and union took over
Maths not a strong suit TS?
Yeah you’re right you probably get better support in Canberra then western Sydney more like 60-40 anyway the afl would not take Canberra from gws it would be a commercially terrible decision for the sustainability of your I don’t know why you would want it to happen
Mate The Gold Coast is a terrible example of how to set up a football club the reason they couldn’t retain players is they have been a basket case on and off field its nothing to do with the place itself if we’re competitive on field we will retain players as for our crowds were getting similar numbers to gws and the suns now just to watch fifo teams with no connection to Tasmania our crowds would double what there getting right from the start we would probably double there members as well!
The plan is to expand both grounds to 30,000 k capacity so I think we would comfortably double gws crowds do any clubs get sell out crowds when there travelling poor on field ? We would be no different to most clubs no doubt when you have down periods your crowds would drop of a bit but I think you underestimate how much people in Tassie just want to watch footy games on a regular basis unlike gws were it should be worrisome for the afl that a top 4 premiership contender can still only average home crowds of 12,000 what are the bad periods going to be like for them ?? a lot worse then they would be for a Tasmanian team
It wouldn’t be a massive cost to upgrade to 30 k there both 20 k stadiums at the moment and considering our government are about to spend 60 million upgrading our entertainment centre to get a nbl license I wouldn’t think it would be a problem for a local afl team the population of Launceston has nothing to do with it crowds will be attending games from around the whole state not just Launceston how big is Geelongs population and how much have they spent on that stadium!
I just explained I believe we could double there crowds from day one my opinion even in down times with out slagging gws or the suns Tasmania is a 100% afl state like i said we get crowds comparable to both of them now watching fifo teams a lot of people down here go to those games just for a chance to watch afl and why can’t I compare to gws they have a population of over two million people to draw from and there support so far even as a finals team has with out being disrespectful been disgracefully poor I ask you the question when they eventually fall down the ladder bottom how bad will there crowds be then ?
It’s part of the taskforce submission apparently as well as a training base !
