TAS Will a team go to Tassie

[Sir Skid]

Heard the Tas Premier pushed the AFL hard for a team.

Question is, whats the likelihood and if yes, who goes

 

[parano1a]

Won't happen until at least 2025.

 

[HTT]

Zero chance, the AFL will lose a large proportion of supporters of whatever club ‘moves’ (gets folded) and only gain a similar amount back from Tasmania (if that). All that at the cost of setting up a team over there.
Only reason a club will ever be lost is if the AFL can’t save them.

 

[Papa G]

The Tamanians don't want North Melbourne. They want their own team. North should have gone to Gold Coast a decade ago. Biggest mis step the league ever made.

 

[Slysh]

Would be interesting to know how many Tasmanian's already committed to supporting a team for years would be willing to ditch that team for a new Tassie one. I know i wouldn't and all my friends and family feel the same, yes footy is super popular down here but finding enough support may not be as easy as some people seem to think.

 

[Yojimbo]

Will a team go to New South Wales ?
Will a team go to Queensland ?
Will a team go to South Australia ?
Will a team go to Western Australia ?

I remember a time not so long ago when these were all valid questions, now something
has to change for me as there are too many teams. This year has taught us just how
fickle the sporting market is, people say that will never happen. Never has there ever
been a more salient moment to reassess everything we know not just about sport.

 

[St Plugger]

The AFL will lose a large proportion of supporters of whatever club ‘moves’ (gets folded) and only gain a similar amount back from Tasmania (if that).

This might be the case.
However, it's likely the team that ends up there has a latent level of support, due to their currently lack of success, ie like Richmond until recently, The move itself and any success through the concessions from the AFL/Tas Gov will revive that interest and rapidly increase their support.

 

[Rickee]

I can't see a team shifting, and they wouldn't be welcome even if they did.

Tasmanians want their own team, and I think the AFL should give them the chance to build one, same as they did for Western Sydney and the Gold Coast. If there are doubts that they will be sustainable or competitive, they can start off in the NAB League, then move to the VFL for a season or two before their debut.

 

[The Warlord]

Heard the Tas Premier pushed the AFL hard for a team.

Question is, whats the likelihood and if yes, who goes

No, but if one does, it will be St Kilda.

 

[The Warlord]

The Tamanians don't want North Melbourne. They want their own team. North should have gone to Gold Coast a decade ago. Biggest mis step the league ever made.

That you're still sooking about this over ten years later brings me great joy in an otherwise gloomy period.

 

[The Warlord]

Zero chance, the AFL will lose a large proportion of supporters of whatever club ‘moves’ (gets folded) and only gain a similar amount back from Tasmania (if that). All that at the cost of setting up a team over there.
Only reason a club will ever be lost is if the AFL can’t save them.

Of if the other clubs say, nah, no more propping them up.

Think what happened with Sydney in 92, how close run a thing that was to the clubs going stuff it, bin them, never gunna pay off.

I can very much see a scenario where a club that already gets a major extra distro funding and is already carrying massive debt - that just had to increase that debt massively again this year - comes to the AFL at the end of the year and says "We need even more money" and the AFL goes yeah nah hand us the keys.

That's how a team gets down to Tassie in the current climate.

 

[The Warlord]

I can't see a team shifting, and they wouldn't be welcome even if they did.

Tasmanians want their own team, and I think the AFL should give them the chance to build one, same as they did for Western Sydney and the Gold Coast. If there are doubts that they will be sustainable or competitive, they can start off in the NAB League, then move to the VFL for a season or two before their debut.

AFL won't be able to afford to expand for a decade minimum in terms of a club built from scratch.

 

[The Nostradamus]

The stkilda devils

But no they want their own team in the future, which as mentioned above wouldn’t be anytime soon

 

[Gavin Excell]

The Tamanians don't want North Melbourne. They want their own team. North should have gone to Gold Coast a decade ago. Biggest mis step the league ever made.

I've heard Caro parrot this but can never really understand the logic

 

[BF Tiger]

It’d be great to see St Kilda move to Tassie and be successful while North stay and continue with the mediocrity that defines that club this century.

 

[The Warlord]

It’d be great to see St Kilda move to Tassie and be successful while North stay and continue with the mediocrity that defines that club this century.

herculez09

The bizarre Richmond insecurity about North rears its ugly head in yet another thread.

 

[FootyJunkie]

Not for another 15 years now

 

[The Warlord]

Not for another 15 years now

Exactly, AFL can't afford to expand and can't afford to rationalise either.

It can't afford the bad PR of trying to force a club down there.

So its only hope (if it really wants a team down there of which I'm hmmmmmmm) is to hope/allow a club that's not a golden child to become insolvent and send them down there in a "it is this or death" deal.

 

[Ambrosia]

I would have thought Tasmania’s Best chance in the near future would be to offer a pile of dough for the Gold Coast Suns licence. Surely given the current climate the AFL would be tempted to turn a money pit into a profit.

 

[Chaisa]

Not going to happen. Any Tassie team will be financially unviable and without the growth factors that GWS/Gold Coast have. At best it'll be another St Kilda/North Melbourne, so any future Tassie team (which I do support) should be a 19th team.

 

[Dazzler9]

So its only hope (if it really wants a team down there of which I'm hmmmmmmm) is to hope/allow a club that's not a golden child to become insolvent and send them down there in a "it is this or death" deal.

(You can stop watching at 5:00)

 

[Ambrosia]

Not going to happen. Any Tassie team will be financially unviable and without the growth factors that GWS/Gold Coast have. At best it'll be another St Kilda/North Melbourne, so any future Tassie team (which I do support) should be a 19th team.

Don’t really see how they’d be financially unviable when the Tasmanian government is already propping up North Melbourne and Hawthorn. You throw that money in plus an extra 20% they’d do fine.

 

[The Warlord]

Not going to happen. Any Tassie team will be financially unviable and without the growth factors that GWS/Gold Coast have. At best it'll be another St Kilda/North Melbourne, so any future Tassie team (which I do support) should be a 19th team.

The "growth" factor of the Gold Coast is the single greatest furphy in footy after "Essendon would have beaten North in the 99 Grand Final".

 

[The Warlord]

(You can stop watching at 5:00)

Hahahahaha I really didn't know where you were going with that, but superbly played.

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

herculez09

The bizarre Richmond insecurity about North rears its ugly head in yet another thread.

Maybe they can relocated to Cairns or wherever they used to play for money