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Also if the ∀FL want North to consider relocating, they might deny them PPs to "encourage" them.
Tasmania do not want a relocated team. We do not want to relocate. I think the AFL really liked James Brayshaw's plan to play 8 games in Tasmania, guaranteed games in Melbourne and have a Collingwood-like number of games interstate. It would have been able to take the economic base that exists and enhance it with whatever Tasmania has to offer. From a pure numbers perspective it looks like a great idea but footy isn't just about balance sheets.
AFL has been proactively helping to establish supporter base growth, they acquired Docklands prematurely, if they wanted to push us in the direction of soft-forcing of relocation they wouldn't have done the things they do with us behind the scenes.
At the end of the day, the AFL should just allocate all the broadcasting revenue to the clubs (approximately 50% of the AFL's revenue), they can fund the rest from the other sources of revenue. If clubs can't survive off that then they can pack it up or make other alternatives themselves. An 18th split of the existing broadcasting rights would be more than $23m a year per club, it would be significantly more than what clubs get from the AFL. They retain too much of the money.