Jeff selling off another Victorian assest
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In all seriousness, the Hawks have now turned themselves in a nomad club and if history is anything to go on then that doesn't lead to happiness and security as the Roos, Dogs, Saints and Dees have found out. Somehow there's a promise that they will get 11 games at the 'G (7 home, 4 away) to compensate their Melbourne members but as old Fitzroy fans have learnt those guarantees of Melbourne games aren't worth the paper they are written on.
The other thing that ticks me off is they use our game as an example of the success of AFL and Hawthorn in Tassie. It was a success but that was thanks to Tiger supporters turning out in droves. Everyone who went to that game has said it was like a Richmond home game as far as crowd support went. I'm glad we play a away game in Tassie as we have a lot of support down there but why should we subsidise Hawthorn so they can get $15m off the Tassie government why we get sweet FA
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