VFL:Tasmania vs Bendigo at Launceston

[TigerFan]

St Virgils is not part of the Brisbane alignment, they are the Saints. Hobart tried to align themselves with St Kilda (and St Virgils) last year to become the Hobart Saints, but the Hobart supporters wouldn't have a bar of it.

how did the Lions one get through then?

 

[Kingpin]

how did the Lions one get through then?

AFL Tasmania sent in a fellow by the name of Russell Young, who was working for AFL Tasmania, and who was a former president of the Hobart Football Club when the club got into deep financial trouble, to try and sweet talk the Hobart board (at the encourgement of Scott Wade from AFL Tasmania, Noel Morrison and co. from the SFL) to align the club with Brisbane Lions.
This was to get the SFL and Kingborough Football Club out of a massive bunfight with angry Hobart supporters over the continuous denial of Hobart's identity, and to give the SFL a club wearing the high-profile Brisbane Lions AFL jumper in it's "highest standard" league.
This would also give AFL Tasmania an easier time, rather than having to deal with the situation which they were unwilling to be involved in.

The "sting" was that the Hobart Football Club started by either denying, or continously forgetting to issue memberships to supporters who were known to be against the club changing its colours and going with an AFL-alignment.
Hobart's membership fell from 232 in 2003 to between 65 and 75 in 2004.
Two nights before the 1st December meeting which was officially written as a non-voting meeting the board of the club hurriedly signed up a great number of players (against the club constitution) and other associated people who had never been sighted at Hobart games before, to be for the Lions proposal.
The board were telling the members that the club would be receiving playing jumpers from Brisbane, other vital essentials, that the club conveniantly couldn't afford, thus trying to con everybody into voting for the Lions.
(The d*ckheads still haven't got enough jumpers...LMFAO)
Beacause it was all a sham.
Amid a fiery meeting at the TCA Ground on December 1st, the board pulled a surprise by holding a show-of-hands vote to change to the Lions.
Any person in the room who against the proposal was shouted down by the President (Phillip Baker), and the sting was completed.

The AGM was extremely abusive with several angry exchanges being waged across the room, the President was found to have "been telling porkies" in regard to matters relating to the constitution, which was key in getting the Lions proposal across the line.
After the 1st December meeting, several old Tigers, were convinced that a few illegalities had taken place, and investigated as such.
After two former presidents had made a bid for positions on the Board at the AGM, the club had taken the extraordinary steps of holding a vote for board positions - which hadn't happened at the club in over 20 years - in the usual case, a nominee made thier position known and it would be seconded from the audience.
The club also issued "how-to-vote-cards" leaving the two former presidents as "blank" on the cards - unprecedented.
To think that one of these men (Noel Gray Jnr), almost gave his life to save the club only 8 years earlier, and was treated like that., and then was stripped of his number one ticket holder status, beacause he was anti-AFL alignment.
Technically, the Hobart Lions as a club are illegal. The 1st December meeting - also illegal.

A sham organisation, lacking respect for the very people who kept the club alive over the previous sixty years.
That is why I will always view the Lions as the bastard child of AFL Tasmania, the SFL and number of private school ring-ins.
Absolute SCUM.