Team Tasmania a.k.a The Tassie Maps

[taztiger4]

19 teams requires 19 rounds.

OK, 19 teams 19 rounds, play 18 games

 

[DavidSSS]

Lots of talk above about crowds. Now, I was a very small kid when I was living in Perth (early 70s) and I remember WANFL crowds being fairly healthy. There was a reason Subiaco oval had that big 3 storey grandstand built in about 1969, They were getting crowds.

I reckon the state leagues were far healthier before the AFL although I would have to look it up. I wonder too about crowds to country footy.

The AFL should not be running the game on its own, there needs to be some representation from the state leagues. This game will not survive without the grass roots.

I reckon Tassie should have their own team but I don't like relocation. Maybe it is time to merge a couple of Melbourne teams to make space.

DS

 

[Panthera Tigris]

Yes, agree it is marginal. Much more than flippant interstaters and doofuses like Andy Maher and co understand and who simply roll with “Ah Tassie is a true footy state give em a team mate ! If GC can get one we gotta give Tassie one.” Yeah. Ok.

Again, I’m not averse to them having a team. Just get annoyed at how mandatory people think it is. It has as much risk as the GC and GWS ventures. Anyway if Carter thinks it might work, let’s hear it.

One thing, Tassie’s gonna do a bit of an audition soon with their new NBL team. Let’s see how that goes. Sure it’ll start off ok but 5 years in will be a decent assessment. I’m sure the AFL will be watching very very closely.

Or alternatively is the establishment of national league teams in other sports (such as the NBL) actually the death knell for any hope of an AFL team in the state? Rather than a test case.

As in, AFL is too late to the party, the ship has already sailed. There possibly isn’t a large enough market for several national league sports, particularly with the game not being as culturally ingrained as it once was. So like we were chatting about earlier, such an outcome feeds into one line of thinking that the TAS govt cuts it’s losses and pursues other things with those resources.

And this is very much the line the Premier is taking. He’s open to a future with the AFL on certain terms. But if those terms aren’t met….meh….go our separate ways and put those resources into other sporting pursuits. That’s what I am reading between the lines from his stance.

 

[Redford]

Or alternatively is the establishment of national league teams in other sports (such as the NBL) actually the death knell for any hope of an AFL team in the state? Rather than a test case.

As in, AFL is too late to the party, the ship has already sailed. There possibly isn’t a large enough market for several national league sports, particularly with the game not being as culturally ingrained as it once was. So like we were chatting about earlier, such an outcome feeds into one line of thinking that the TAS govt cuts it’s losses and pursues other things with those resources.

And this is very much the line the Premier is taking. He’s open to a future with the AFL on certain terms. But if those terms aren’t met….meh….go our separate ways and put those resources into other sporting pursuits. That’s what I am reading between the lines from his stance.

Nah. It won’t be too late. Tasmania is an inherent football state. Where basketball is concerned, it’s failed there before and really, we’ve all been hearing for 25 plus years now how soccer and basketball is “coming” and a huge threat to Australian Rules blah blah blah, but it’s never happened. Doubt the AFL is too concerned and won’t blink at Gutwein in that respect. More likely to blink where the funding of existing AFL teams is concerned and what that might mean to North if Gutwein pulls it.

If the AFL do establish a team in Tasmania in the next 3 or 5 years or whatever, it’ll garner infinitely more interest than any NBL team preceding it. And the AFL has massive resources to promote and grow a team. The NBL does not. They’d overtake any NBL team in a heartbeat.

 

[Panthera Tigris]

Nah. It won’t be too late. Tasmania is an inherent football state. Where basketball is concerned, it’s failed there before and really, we’ve all been hearing for 25 plus years now how soccer and basketball is “coming” and a huge threat to Australian Rules blah blah blah, but it’s never happened. Doubt the AFL is too concerned and won’t blink at Gutwein in that respect. More likely to blink where the funding of existing AFL teams is concerned and what that might mean to North if Gutwein pulls it.

If the AFL do establish a team in Tasmania in the next 3 or 5 years or whatever, it’ll garner infinitely more interest than any NBL team preceding it. And the AFL has massive resources to promote and grow a team. The NBL does not. They’d overtake any NBL team in a heartbeat.

And likewise I think the Premier’s stance is saying to the AFL, “if you don’t want us in these particular terms, no hard feelings, we’ll just go and do something else.”

And I think you are right. If the sport continues its decline in the state and simply becomes a niche sporting activity in TAS. I don’t think the AFL cares too much. Perhaps slight regret, nothing they really fear too much though.

 

[Leysy Days]

Good on Gutwein for not letting McLachlan pass over Tassie footy and treat it with contempt like he has during his entire reign. Finally someone calling his bluff.

$8M every year is a big hole to fill in the AFL's currrent predicament.

Whatever anyone's personal view, the effort that has gone into not only Carters review but also Taskforce's recommendation headed up by Brett Godfrey that a team is viable can't be argued against.

It's the only thing that will now save Tasmanian football ILHO.

If footy in my homestate continues to die it will leave a big stain on Mclachlan's legacy.

But that will require Gill to make a decision. And as we all know, he's not so good at that.