Oppo Camp Non-Essendon Thread X

[boncer34]

But they'll be in the south? In all seriousness, what new teams will there be?

Mate I seriously doubt the fact the team is called North Melbourne would hold them back. Essendon aren't based in Essendon anymore, St Kilda in St Kilda etc etc.

I have no idea how they would go but the AFL want one team down there and they made it pretty obvious who they want it to be.

North, if they keep going down their current path, will end up playing 7/8 home games down there. What's the next step?

 

[Beerfish]

What's the next step?

Name change to the Hobceston Kangaroos?

 

[Resistor]

I'd love to see Tassie get a team, it's ridiculous that in a so called national competition, you don't have one.

We all know what it's really about; Tassie isn't growing rapidly population wise. Everything else is a smoke screen.

But even that is a smoke screen, surely its about good stadium deals and tv audiences and we would have both. A sustainable team which will guarantee 25,000 attendance weekly but most importantly there will be either more games for tv or more byes for the player association. Surely, whether the population is growing or not has no bearing whether there will be more people watching at the stadium, potentially on the tv, but blockbusters the four free-to-air tv slots are few and far between anyway

 

[eth-dog]

But even that is a smoke screen, surely its about good stadium deals and tv audiences and we would have both. A sustainable team which will guarantee 25,000 attendance weekly but most importantly there will be either more games for tv or more byes for the player association.

Neither of your stadiums hold 25k though?

 

[Doss]

But even that is a smoke screen, surely its about good stadium deals and tv audiences and we would have both. A sustainable team which will guarantee 25,000 attendance weekly but most importantly there will be either more games for tv or more byes for the player association.

It should be about that, but the word 'growth' is golden to the AFL above else because their view is they need to think longer term.

It's not right or fair, but I suspect that's what their thinking is about.

 

[Resistor]

Neither of your stadiums hold 25k though?

Sorry we were talking growth, they could both be expanded quite easily to 25k, anything more is not realistic

 

[boncer34]

Neither of your stadiums hold 25k though?

And of course there is no way they can expand Blunny by 5k or Aurora by 4k.

 

[Liberator]

Heh. If I were competing in taekwondo I'd rather face a man than a woman. There are sports where men are superior to women, naturally. But there are also sports that women are superior to men as well.

Absolutely. I've fought some astoundingly good female fighters (well, sparred with); their naturally better stretch means that they can roundhouse kick you as easy as blinking ... And a kick in the bollocks is far worse than a kick in the vijay singh (apparently)

 

[Resistor]

It should be about that, but the word 'growth' is golden to the AFL above else because their view is they need to think longer term.

It's not right or fair, but I suspect that's what their thinking is about.

Well that can be their view all they like, but when another code (A-League) grows into our market, and sees the attendances then we will see what the AFL will do then

 

[Doss]

Well that can be their view all they like, but when another code (A-League) grows into our market, and sees the attendances then we will see what the AFL will do then

If there is a whiff of A-League making a serious play for a Tassie team, they will be far more likely to rush a team through.

I think the question remains, in that case, more over whether it will be an organic Tasmanian team or a relocated one, say North, though.

I hope it's the former.

 

[Resistor]

Again, I would not support 'North Melbourne' but would swap to Tassie in a heartbeat. I know I said we are dumb but not that dumb. Also what an AFL team would do for the economy would be the best thing that has happened here since MONA

 

[Doss]

Again, I would not support 'North Melbourne' but would swap to Tassie in a heartbeat. I know I said we are dumb but not that dumb. Also what an AFL team would do for the economy would be the best thing that has happened here since MONA

I'm in full agreement, don't worry.

I'm just very cynical about the AFL, basically.

 

[Beerfish]

the best thing that has happened here since MONA

The Craig McLachlan single?

 

[Resistor]

The Craig McLachlan single?

I would really like to understand this joke, but I don't sorry

 

[Beerfish]

I would really like to understand this joke, but I don't sorry

I was going to link the song but you don't deserve that. What is MONA?

 

[eth-dog]

I was going to link the song but you don't deserve that. What is MONA?

It's a museum.

 

[Mercuri Rising]

I was going to link the song but you don't deserve that. What is MONA?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art

It's pretty rad.

 

[Beerfish]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art

It's pretty rad.

MOFO festival sounds like my kind of shindig too..

 

[Mercuri Rising]

MOFO festival sounds like my kind of shindig too..

I've been to DARK MOFO (and am considering a cheeky one-day trip down to catch the end of this one this weekend), it's fantastic. Great atmosphere.

 

[Foreverdon]

DARK MOFO is dark twisted and a bit scary in saying that I liked it but last year was better
Can't wait for this weekends winter feast and the The burning OGOH-OGOH

 

[BrunoV]

I was going to link the song but you don't deserve that. What is MONA?

Somewhat ironically, it's dialect slang for "campaigner".

 

[Doss]

Somewhat ironically, it's dialect slang for "campaigner".

I knew that courtesy of a Greek friend of mine.

And I know about that wall. Seen it with my own eyes.

Anyway...

 

[Resistor]

I was going to link the song but you don't deserve that. What is MONA?

I meant I didnt understand it Museum as stated, one hell of a place

 

[GUMBLETRON]

We all know what it's really about; Tassie isn't growing rapidly population wise. Everything else is a smoke screen.

More to the point, they already watch football.

 

[Resistor]

Don't bother expanding the women's league then because they already have a team in each city