No tassie team
No compromised drafts
Good hopefully this is the end
“If you want a team you have to have a stadium with a roof or say goodbye to AFL footy”
“What if we don’t build one?”
"You can keep pumping money into the Hawks and roos and watch AFL footy in an open stadium "
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More people will go if it’s our own team.
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5k plus each day I’d think.
Could be more of they ever got a decent nation play down there which probably won’t happen though
Summer is a little more attractive, plenty of Vics go to the Adelaide Test
They had an Ashes test in Hobart last series.
Ohh, decent opponent. Yeah, fair enough.
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Hobart only got the test because State Daddy wouldn’t let anyone into WA at the time.
The chances of them getting a future Ashes test is very slim. Perhaps if the Gabba gets overhauled but I’d expect Hobart to mainly get the “tier 2” teams
Norf should move to Canberra
Or fold
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Thought that’s what I said…
That’s absolutely the case. And the Tas gov of the day wouldn’t have entertained it if it wasn’t for the lobbying of a handful of well connected and funded business owners in Hobart. It’ll be really interesting to see if those guys pull their investments out of Tas altogether to punish the state gov.
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Greens amendment fails it seems
i wonder if there will be stallion types who will hate the roofed stadium and insist the team moves back (?) to bellerive
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It’s complex and nuanced of course but damn politicians killing the vision and boldness of what was it seems a visionary venture if it falls over. Adelaide has come alive thanks to the AO and with great vision and planning Hobart could’ve realised a similar legacy in 20 years time.
The stadium is very expensive but I Susie t politics and political games has had an all too significant impact o riding a dream and a bold vision for the state and its capital.
The pain on that lady Mc Kann face was hard to watch, lots of jobs and effort have been expended.
Tassie has had its chance, I hope somehow this can be realised still.
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the afls requirements for the stadium is trash when you see goomba stadium and the gabba
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To be fair the SA government capped the spend on AO to $535m whereas Tasmania with a quarter of the population is going to end up spending probably $1.3bn conservatively for a ground that holds a piddly 26k.
That’s a shedload of money for a state that’s broke and on target to be $10bn in debt this decade. Maybe if the AFL and Feds kicked in half it would be ok
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To add to Ace’s comments, the AO is used by two teams (plus cricket) and plays host to a game every week during footy season (and additional games over Gather Round). Hobart’s new ground will only play 6-7 games a year (before any Tasmanian ‘Gather Round’ events).
The stadium simply doesn’t need a roof. No other ground in Australia has that stipulation and it’s especially not needed in the 2nd driest capital in the country.
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Before Tassie is playing?
Otherwise, seems harsh 
I think it’s more about the wind than the rain, tbh.
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Also Adelaide and Hobart have lots more going for them than just footy. Horses for courses ffs. Stadium gets built, next thing high rise hotels all over the harbour and a sweet small city starts looking and smelling like farking docklands. Leave the nice things alone. You will miss them.