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- Sep 1, 2009
- 7,496
- 8,950
- AFL Club
- Brisbane Lions
- Other Teams
- Everton, Brisbane Bullets, Thai Port FC
Gold Coast actually got a larger home crowd attendance than GWS did last year, despite GWS being premiership favourites and a top four team and Gold Coast finishing second last. The crowds GC got early 2014 when they actually looked competitive showed the AFL made the right call to put a team there.If Gold Coast weren't so poor on-field I actually think they would be doing better with attendances than GWS.
I was fine with expansion but only wanted 1 team in new territory north and the 2nd in Tasmania.
Would have made more sense to expand with GC and Tassie before GWS but can see the AFL rationale behind putting GWS before Tassie. Tasmania when they get admitted will have a decent fanbase immediately. GC and especially GWS will take decades.
Obviously you've never tried to navigate GC traffic and haven't been there in a long time. It's definitely a city nowadays, hence the money spent on the tram network and the horrendous traffic. Also GC has a larger population than the entire state of TassieMerge and send to Tassie. Allow them to select 38 players that fit under the normal salary cap and the rest go into an expansion draft.
Gold Coast isn't a city and no one cares about AFL in Western Sydney.