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Tasmania ready but told to wait

Authored by: Evan Read
on Friday, December 12 2008 @ 03:23 pm ACDT

I'd be interested to know if people thought Tasmania would be better served
by a brand new team or a relocated Melbourne team?

I am massively for relocating teams - I think GC17 should have been a moved
Melbourne team.

I think the Lions "experiment" is working. I actually like the historical ties
Brisbane have to Melbourne (I live in Brisbane) and I like having the Fitzroy
jumper as our heritage guernsey and the Fitzroy colors as our away uniform.
(But then, I am as pro-Melbourne (as a city and place) as a Brisbanite can
be).

Better, I think, than creating brand new history and less of a burden on the
league.

Tasmania ready but told to wait

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Saturday, December 13 2008 @ 01:25 pm ACDT

Back to eread's post, your thoughts on a relocation are admirable but I reckon most Tasmanians would really want their own team... BUT because they've been denied so long, they probably would be happy just to get any club. Since Tasmania has such a long history in footy anyway they'd probably emphasise Tassie's history ahead of a relocating club's. So basically, whatever they can get.

West Sydney would be different, without much of its own history. But then a relocating team would be seen in the media as an invading side, so starting from scratch is more important there I reckon, history or not.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Tasmania ready but told to wait

Authored by: Evan Read
on Sunday, December 14 2008 @ 05:46 pm ACDT

With the cost of running a team, though, is it a good idea to have the league
go to 18 (or more) teams?

It seems all very well for the A-League to expand ad infinitum, but I think the
costs of running an A-League squad are much lower.

I agree that new teams have their merits, and would always be preferable, but
I think the high cost of a team prohibits there being many more in the AFL.

I wonder if AFL will go the way of Formula 1 - making a team much cheaper
to run so that Western Sydney, Darwin, Canberra etc are much easier teams
to "get up".

Evan.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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