2021...interesting
2021 is when current Tasmania deals with Hawthorn and North Melbourne expire... coincidence?
Looking at current deals very broadly..**
Hawthorn 2017 Operating Profit is $2.17M. Tasmania Deal is $19mill over 5 years which is $3.8M per year
North 2017 Operating Profit $633k (Pre Depreciation). Tasmania Deal was $600k per season.
** i sourced numbers from net. if incorrect i stand corrected.
Why create a team in Tasmania when Tasmania effectively covers over the financial cracks of having too many Victorian clubs. They already have 2 burning AFL holes (amongst many other holes raging with fire) .
Of course the counter is Hawthorn and North say they reinvest in Tasmania football activities that counter this however the value to branding is immeasurable on this.
Above this is the local injection of interstate traveller funds into the economy, however as calibre of teams playing there diminish, so will crowds and genuine interest from interstate teams. One could argue bi weekly games would produce bigger travelling contingent as they would attract bigger teams like Collingwood and Richmond etc.
A team in Tasmania doesn't solve the Gold Coast or GWS problem it creates at least 2 more funding AFL problems.
Until Tassie pull the rug on AFL subsidy, things will never change...
Of course AFL will hold them ransom in funding for TAS football funding and support at local level and so the circle begins again.
Hawthorn had the largest revenue base in the AFL in 2017, that figure was the consolidated and the Tasmanian arrangement incorporates the principal and naming rights corporate sponsorship.
Its lucrative but the Hawthorn Football Club would survive without Tasmania quite comfortably. Its a money spinner yes but the club is far from being at the soup kitchen