Tasmania keen to become a one-club state (afl site)

[one-eyed]

Tasmania keen to become a one-club state
By Nick Bowen and Matt Thompson
afl.com.au
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

TASMANIA is pushing to become a one-team AFL state and might overlook existing incumbents Hawthorn and North Melbourne for another club prepared to embrace the Apple Isle as its primary development market.

AFL Tasmania chief executive Scott Wade told AFL.com.au on Wednesday the ideal AFL model for Tasmania would involve one existing club playing eight matches a year, splitting those games evenly between Launceston's Aurora Stadium and Hobart's Blundstone Arena.

Wade said the current two-team model had not seen Tasmanians embrace either Hawthorn or North as their own team.

"(We want) an AFL club in Tasmania that we can develop a long-term relationship with, whereby the club is one Tasmanians call their own."

AFL Tasmania director James Henderson told News Limited the Western Bulldogs, Melbourne and St Kilda were teams that could be attracted to play in Tasmania.

Wade did not expect the proposed one-team model would come in before the expiration of Hawthorn's current contract at the end of 2016.

Tasmanian sports minister Michelle O'Byrne told AFL.com.au the state government welcomed AFL Tasmania's one-team proposal as a step towards Tasmania eventually having its own AFL team.
 
"Our ultimate goal is for Tasmania to have its own team and we know that the AFL in the past has recognised the strength of our case," Ms O'Byrne said.

"While there are arrangements in place for both Hawthorn and North Melbourne to deliver the elite AFL product at both ends of Tasmania, we will welcome any opportunity to take the next step and for Tasmania to have its own entity join the AFL."

Read more at: http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-06-26/tassie-wants-one-team-only-

[tigs2011]

Just move Norf there. They're half way there already. They want to be there and just can't admit it yet. Sure Boomer will have a sook and probably retire but that will be good for the game anyway. No one likes a dibber dobber and it will save Crowley having to snot him next time.

The upside is there is no fans to pee off in Melbourne. You could make Tassie extra happy by giving them 11 games. I can't see any negatives to be totally honest.

[gerkin greg]

Send the Demons down there

Their fans are enjoy sleeping with their siblings

So much synergy

[tigs2011]

Send the Demons down there

Their fans are enjoy sleeping with their siblings

So much synergy

Good fish for their sushi too. 

[Hellenic Tiger]

Just move Norf there. They're half way there already. They want to be there and just can't admit it yet. Sure Boomer will have a sook and probably retire but that will be good for the game anyway. No one likes a dibber dobber and it will save Crowley having to snot him next time.

The upside is there is no fans to pee off in Melbourne. You could make Tassie extra happy by giving them 11 games. I can't see any negatives to be totally honest.

Nought will still pi$$ us off even if they were on Mars.
Combine Melbourne and Nought call them the Tassie Devils they can play home games in one guernsey away games in the other and they can combine to endeavour to be relevant.

[Phil Mrakov]

Hawthorn will play 9 games a year there

[Damo]

Sending nought to tassie is an insult to tassie.

They have deserved better treatment than the AFL has given them.

Gold Coast LOL.
GWS LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.

If tassie wants the team that the deserve, the equation is simple. GET AN A-LEAGUE TEAM. The AFL will poo and support an AFL stronghold quick smart. The only reason they dont have a team is there is no challenge to AFL supremacy in the Apple Isle. All the AFL is interested in is trying to steal supporters of other codes.

Tassie should have been treated a shitload better than they have been.