Should Tasmania have a team in the AFL?
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Should Tasmania have a team in the AFL?
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Dont they already?? The Hawks have "TASMANIA" plastered over their guernsey dont they? 
No. Not only would the team bleed money more than Western Sydney, with no prospect of impr0oving, but when it went bust it could take the whole state - the future of being able to maintain state status has already ben seriously questioned in some quarters - with it.
The worst thing that could happen for footy, and medium term the economy and investment reputation, is for Tassie to get a team and it to go bust almost immediately. Unlike WS and GC the AFL wouldn't be willing to put in $20m+ a year, for no growth of the game and no prospect of ever decreasing the loss to a more manageable - Fitzroy like - size.
The worst thing that could happen for footy, and medium term the economy and investment reputation, is for Tassie to get a team and it to go bust almost immediately. Unlike WS and GC the AFL wouldn't be willing to put in $20m+ a year, for no growth of the game and no prospect of ever decreasing the loss to a more manageable - Fitzroy like - size.
If they did, the Tassie government would have to withdraw their lifeline financial support for the Hawks, making them financially unviable yet again. So the creation of a new Tassie team, could also result in the formation of the Melbourne-Hawks.
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One other reason why it might not work would be the 'North-South' divide. Launceston & Hobart are like Sydney & Melbourne-jealous of each other. Instead of Tasmania's home games being played exclusively at Hobart, the Tasmanians & the AFL might have to schedule some home games for Launceston as well, to please the 'northerners', which would make its 'southern' counterparts not too happy. Which is why some of those intrastate games between North & South Tasmania in the old days were like State of Origin games in the 1980's. And the hatred between the North & the South-Launceston & Hobart-is still there.
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what a rediculous mis informed statement. There is nothing to sugest that a 2nd team from sydney is going to be profitable. For that fact there is no evidence to suggest that any new team will survive look at the trouble that occured when fitzroy went north to become brisbane a tasmanian team should be given a chance to make it in the AFL before a second team from sydney or brisbane. Look at the support hawthorn get, they arent even a tasmanian side yet fill the stadium each time they play. a true tasmanian team would get much more support in tasie from locals as that is what most truely desire a tasmanian team that they can call there own.
No they wouldn't. In 26 years in Launceston, I never met one person who would drop their team for a Tasmanian one - of course, that was on the understanding that it was based in Hobart.
And its not support at the ground that really counts, its TV interest. Tasmania is not a market advertisers bother too much with, because there's no money to be had.
A second team from Sydney has every chance to become profitable, although it will need support for decades. Tasmania does not, and decades sown the track all the projections are for the population and economy not to have improved much (and possibly to have gone backwards).
WS is about where a club can be in 30 years time, but even next year it would have a better funding base (if not supporter base) than Tas.
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If they did, the Tassie government would have to withdraw their lifeline financial support for the Hawks, making them financially unviable yet again. So the creation of a new Tassie team, could also result in the formation of the Melbourne-Hawks.
what financial life/line support are you insane hawthorn is finacially viable has been for sometime and will remain so with/without backing for tasmania. Hawthorn is doing what no other afl club will do and that is take live afl to tasmania. Whilst it is finacially rewarding it is not the sole reason we are there. The extra income will help the club be the most viable for the foreseeable future melbourne hawks died a long time ago and will never surface again you idiot
It is the sole reason you originally went, and why you chose Launceston - which already had massive Hawk support before you played a single game there. It makes sense for you to stay, you get an additional small market while still being able to take all the advantages of being based in a city sponsors and advertisers want a piece of.
Whether you stay after a change of government, and the funds dry up, will be another matter. I think you should, as much as anything as insurance in case the lean times hit again. Which is why St Kilda leaving was so short-sighted; for a club that raised less revenue last year than we did to turn their backs on a second market was probably more stupid as us pulling out of Canberra (except St Kilda weren't bribed to do so, nor did they have a board so willing to take it up the jaksi from the AFL commission as we did).
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choose lanceston thats where the oppurtunity was, we took the oppurtunity your talking that a sydney northern brisbane team could take 30 years to be viable. Give a team in tasmania 30years they too would be embraced by the population. Yes addmittedly not many people would be willing to give up thier long supported team but the new generations will embrace them as anywhere else in the country would your argument is witout substance and based on your opinion ofcourse tasmania want an afl team look at the years theve raised champions only to see them go and play elsewhere in the country
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