TSL Finals Series

[Beasley]

Can anyone advise which day is Grand Final Day in the TSL. Nothing on their website about the finals series dates.

 

[Norchy_pies4life]

Grand Final is on the 18th of September this year.

 

[Barge]

Same day as the Old Scholars and the SFL Grand Finals too!

Good to see Football Tas giving these two leagues the best chance of drawing a bumper crowd!

Bad luck if footy fans want to see more than one of these Grand Finals!

 

[madmug]

Same day as the Old Scholars and the SFL Grand Finals too!

Good to see Football Tas giving these two leagues the best chance of drawing a bumper crowd!

Bad luck if footy fans want to see more than one of these Grand Finals!

Bloody stupid. Its just typical of the pathetic football management in this state. They dont care about the public who want to see those Grand Finals. I'm not going to blame AFLTas totally as I dont know what the SFL or OS management have or have not said to each other. I blame ALL of them for this pathetic situation.

 

[Kingpin]

You'd like to see them all work together and come up with a scenario whereby each of the grand finals were held one after the other (TSL, then SFL and finally Old Scholars) to a) give each league the best possible chance of attracting good crowds to their season's biggest day and b) give the footy public a chance to see plenty of finals footy live.
But this is Tasmania after all. Conservatism and small-town politics always overrides the greater good.

 

[southener]

TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU KING PIN YOUR RIGHT ON THE THE MARK

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I'd still love to see the TSL granny the week after the AFL one. The SANFL get a massive crowd every year. The old TFL tried it once, and wrote it off because the crowd was down on a wet day with Burnie (the longest travel for supporters) involved. And crowds never went up again afterwards, so as well as the weather and teams, it was part of the general trend.
There is no other footy to compete with, no AFL swamping the media. The cricket hasn't started. Yes, there are other things on but its the closest to a clear media spot the TSL is likely to get.
It does, however, make preliminary final scheduling a little difficult.

 

[madmug]

I'd still love to see the TSL granny the week after the AFL one. The SANFL get a massive crowd every year. The old TFL tried it once, and wrote it off because the crowd was down on a wet day with Burnie (the longest travel for supporters) involved. And crowds never went up again afterwards, so as well as the weather and teams, it was part of the general trend.
There is no other footy to compete with, no AFL swamping the media. The cricket hasn't started. Yes, there are other things on but its the closest to a clear media spot the TSL is likely to get.
It does, however, make preliminary final scheduling a little difficult.

We are now starting to get proper lighting on our grounds. Maybe some creative fixturing like prelim final on friday night? But they may have trouble getting BRO off the selfish TCA that late in the season. Gee fancy having to play a GF at YP or NHO That would be so unfare on poor struggling clarence (they had to slug the punters an extra $2 last mondat to pay for savages clearance cost, $10,000?) Maybe Wadey would schedule the GF at his drinking hole? (Lauderdale stadium) Now that would be creative

 

[Kingpin]

I'd still love to see the TSL granny the week after the AFL one. The SANFL get a massive crowd every year. The old TFL tried it once, and wrote it off because the crowd was down on a wet day with Burnie (the longest travel for supporters) involved. And crowds never went up again afterwards, so as well as the weather and teams, it was part of the general trend.

Yes that was in 1996. The Grand Final of that year was held on 5 October and was, I believe one of only two or possibly three post-War Grand Finals that was held that late (1974's was in October due to two rounds being cancelled in three weeks late in the season)
1996 had a 22-round roster with an average attendance of 1,166 and the finals attendances were generally poor as well (especially in Hobart until the Grand Final).

Elimination Final: 2,045 - New Norfolk v Devonport at North Hobart.
Qualifying Final: 3,006 - Burnie v Nth Launceston at West Park.
1st Semi Final: 5,322 - Burnie v Devonport at West Park.
2nd Semi Final: 2,100 - Clarence v Nth Launceston at North Hobart.
Preliminary Final: 2,061 - Nth Launceston v Burnie at York Park.
Grand Final: 12,352 - Clarence v Burnie at North Hobart.

The match was played in perfect sunny conditions and was also the last domestic Tasmanian club football match to draw a crowd of more than 10,000 people.
The wet one you're thinking of was in 1997 where 9,053 turned up to watch a classic - see Jarrod Read's first 7 minutes of the match - outstanding.
Bucketed down overnight and early in the morning and turned the ground into a gluepot, one of the best Grand Finals in TFL history that one too.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

My apologies, Kingpin. You would appear to be correct and I had the two Clarence-Burnie GFs reversed in my memory.