No, it isn't. The more immediate plan is to try and save the sinking ship that is the Dogs.
It is. You'll be playing 6-7 home games in Tassie, I reckon within 5 years, and a full relocation will happen within 20 years.
The AFL have already shown their hand on this. They always get what they want, eventually.
Agree the Dogs are a shemozzle, they always have been. All this talk of "winning" areas and zones is meaningless unless you're actually playing games there. That's why the Dogs will never "own" the western suburbs, theyre just another Melbourne club that plays in the CBD.
The best option at the moment is Tassie because you can actually play games there and that gives you the ability to build a following.
If that happens in Ballarat down the track then maybe (personally I don't see it in the foreseeable future), but Norths foothold by then will be Tassie. Hence this move.