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I see Matthew Richardson saying it'll be 2025. Also commented on Jack Riewoldt saying he'd think strongly about returning to be part of a Tassie team.
I think he'd be a great addition to start a team off. He's certainly grown up since his initial childish & petulant behaviour in the AFL.
He's grown into a real leader, thankfully for himself.
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Did I just miss this move by the AFL to USE Tas again:
.... after 2021 when deals to play games in Tasmania by North Melbourne (Hobart) and Hawthorn (Launceston) expire, finally and emphatically resolve its own business strategy in the Apple Isle is both a worrying and exciting backdrop for the Roos as they attempt to work their way out of their latest period of uncertainty.
There is clearly a deal to be made for North in Tasmania, a potentially lucrative one which could see the club maintain an 11 "home" game arrangement in Melbourne as well as servicing eight or nine matches in Hobart and Launceston.
BARRETT: Can these new leaders stop a shaky North from heading south?
The arrival of three new faces in key posts coincides with the Kangaroos being in a vulnerable place - again. Damian Barrett delves deep into the club's latest turmoil
I'm all forI see Matthew Richardson saying it'll be 2025. Also commented on Jack Riewoldt saying he'd think strongly about returning to be part of a Tassie team.
I think he'd be a great addition to start a team off. He's certainly grown up since his initial childish & petulant behaviour in the AFL.
He's grown into a real leader, thankfully for himself.
Tasmania are showing they will no longer support these fifo teams,you only need to look at the declining crowds,it will get worse if they continue with a deal like this.The only way this will change is with our own team,what is the use continuing down this path when people are not going to attend the games in good numbers,just watch the low crowds for the low drawing games we have next season.Did I just miss this move by the AFL to USE Tas again:
.... after 2021 when deals to play games in Tasmania by North Melbourne (Hobart) and Hawthorn (Launceston) expire, finally and emphatically resolve its own business strategy in the Apple Isle is both a worrying and exciting backdrop for the Roos as they attempt to work their way out of their latest period of uncertainty.
There is clearly a deal to be made for North in Tasmania, a potentially lucrative one which could see the club maintain an 11 "home" game arrangement in Melbourne as well as servicing eight or nine matches in Hobart and Launceston.
BARRETT: Can these new leaders stop a shaky North from heading south?
The arrival of three new faces in key posts coincides with the Kangaroos being in a vulnerable place - again. Damian Barrett delves deep into the club's latest turmoil
This can only happen if the Tasmanian Gov't (or a government agency like Toursim Tasmania) and/or local government agrees to fund/sponsor such an arrangement. Absent that support and it simply becomes unviable (a simple fact not mentioned at all in that article).Did I just miss this move by the AFL to USE Tas again:
.... after 2021 when deals to play games in Tasmania by North Melbourne (Hobart) and Hawthorn (Launceston) expire, finally and emphatically resolve its own business strategy in the Apple Isle is both a worrying and exciting backdrop for the Roos as they attempt to work their way out of their latest period of uncertainty.
There is clearly a deal to be made for North in Tasmania, a potentially lucrative one which could see the club maintain an 11 "home" game arrangement in Melbourne as well as servicing eight or nine matches in Hobart and Launceston.
BARRETT: Can these new leaders stop a shaky North from heading south?
The arrival of three new faces in key posts coincides with the Kangaroos being in a vulnerable place - again. Damian Barrett delves deep into the club's latest turmoil
www.bigfooty.com
Have just re-read that article (by big North fan Damien Barrett) and I'm a bit dubious, regardless of who came up with the idea. It proposes - "... a potentially lucrative one which could see the club maintain an 11 "home" game arrangement in Melbourne as well as servicing eight or nine matches in Hobart and Launceston." ...
It's completely unclear how many actual home games North will actually play in Melbourne (hence the inverted commas for "home"). Will all Tasmanian games be official home games?
Anyway, regardless of where this idea comes from, the Tasmanian Gov't and local councils just simply need to say no and it can't happen. I note that on the relevant Tassie thread on the North board, they fear (probably not without reason) an actual full relocation to Tasmania -
News - NMFC & Tassie (the mass debate re our future there, the academy, attending advice)
End result - 11 game Melbourne package, which is what I said. Absolutely marketing spin - total bullshit. But that is how they would have sold it. You all know my level of trust of the AFL is zero so I am sure every time the deal was renewed we would lose more. The lies they told Fitzroy folk...
But WA got the win over Collingwood two years ago in the gf at the MCG so Victoria loves us now
Not all of Victoria!
The Mercury 8.11
Quotes "sporting experts" who explain why it is essential that Tasmania has its own AFL team.
(Behind a paywall- can anyone open, & post here)
