Squash.
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Awesome. Yacht parking. Sign me up.
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The 2 long wharves are where the cruise ships park. A little tweak on the water sides of the stadium and the cruise companies could sell weekend trips to watch the footy from your own cabin 
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The only way to do the fixture is to have a shorter season.
It will actually end up making the AFL money in the long run as the games will be worth more to the broadcasters as a limited product.
Once you introduce Tassie - that’s 19 teams. Play 18 rounds. No doubt in time there will be a 20th team from somewhere (probably WA) and that will mean 20 teams and 19 rounds.
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Stadium right next to the ‘Drunken Admiral’ restaraunt. Sign me up please
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Depends on how many lines they’ve been doing.
scarcity as an economic concept means nothing to broadcasters. they’d have an afl game on prime time 365 days per year if they could.
content is bought in measures of hours and weeks, not number of games.
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Listening to the Tasmanian premier this morning and I’m sold. This is a terrible idea.
Some of his reasons for needing a team. “Think of all the Tasmanian legends we’ve had in the game, Jack Riewoldt, Matthew richardson”.
it seems pretty evident the afl has been putting on all these ridiculous requirements around the stadium etc because they don’t want to be the bad guys and simply say no
and the tas government keeps pledging to meet them because they don’t want to be the bad guys and simply say no
i’m for a tasmanian team as a concept, but the way things are getting handled at present pretty much guarantee it will be a mess
-edit- life in the post-accountability era is proving to be very silly
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Hit the nail on the head, I reckon.
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Article of 10 April behind paywall in the Tasmanian Examiner
Tasmanian Government paid Alistair Clarkson $100k for AFL team advice
(despite not fulfilling a key part of the 6 month consultancy contract)
Was this at the time he was still on Hawthorn’s books?
Nah it was in his 12 months off footy.
$100k reasonable IMO, he did a bit of work on it, others just have their noses out of joint as they participated as well and weren’t paid a cent. Read the article yesterday, bit of a nothing article, didn’t bother posting. nothing about Clako’s kkk issues
Clakkko was still being paid through 2022 (Hawks had a sook about him starting at Norf too early). Was he part of the Hawk’s soft cap? Is the $100K sufficiently “external” to also avoid being included in that?
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That’s would all be fine and wouldn’t have anything to do with the Hawks soft cap
Nothing to see here - There is nothing to stop Clarkson or any current coach having outside interests to earn a dollar.
Federal funding for Hobart stadium to be announced on weekend, paving way for AFL licence
ByJames Massola and Peter Ryan
April 25, 2023 — 7.00pm
A stand-alone team in Tasmania is expected to become a reality with the new stadium the AFL requires to grant the state a 19th licence to receive federal support.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to visit Hobart this weekend and confirm that the next federal budget, which will be handed down on May 9, will contain a $240 million funding commitment for the stadium.
Two federal government sources, who asked not to be named as they were not authorised to discuss the announcement, confirmed the funding promise would be publicly unveiled this weekend.
The AFL will then be able to seek the approval of club presidents and the AFL Commission to grant the new team a licence with the vote expected to be a formality after multiple club CEOs confirmed they were told at a meeting during Gather Round to either raise concerns within a week or back the plan.
A spokesperson for Albanese declined to comment while an AFL spokesperson told The Age on Monday evening “the AFL continues to work with state and federal governments to try and secure funding for a stadium”.
The granting of a licence would be a triumph for the Tasmanians who made a final push for a new team. They presented a business case to the AFL just before COVID-19 struck and then re-ignited the argument in 2021, with the AFL commissioning Colin Carter to review it.
It would also provide AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan with a lasting legacy as he prepares to finish his nine-year tenure in charge of the competition.
Albanese visited Tasmania and discussed the funding with Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff, who is a strong supporter of the project, on April 17.
The prime minister has said on multiple occasions that his office is working closely with the Tasmanian premier’s office, which has put in a budget submission seeking funding for the urban redevelopment.
“That is a prime site for not just a sporting stadium, if that goes ahead, but for residential and recreational and commercial activity as well,” Albanese said in February. “I’m working closely with Jeremy Rockliff and his government on these issues.”
The state government has previously pledged $375 million towards the Macquarie Point project with the AFL promising $15 million towards the $715 million stadium.
The remaining $85 million is expected to come from residential, recreational and commercial activity that will be part of the redevelopment. The state government has also committed to providing $12 million a year for the first 12 seasons and $60 million to a high-performance facility.
There has been local opposition to the stadium with the Greens withdrawing their support on the weekend for an AFL team in Tasmania due to the AFL’s insistence that a licence would not be granted unless a stadium was built.
The state ALP has also argued that a stadium was not essential for the AFL to admit a Tasmanian team, but they have maintained support for a team in the state.
The entry date of a Tasmanian team remains uncertain, but the stadium is expected to be ready by 2029 with the AFL conceding they would be prepared for the team to play at existing stadiums for up to two seasons if they entered the competition before the stadium was operational.
Hawthorn have an agreement to play home games in Launceston until 2025 while North Melbourne have a deal for games at Hobart’s Blundstone Arena with a three-year sponsorship in place with the Spirit of Tasmania.
Tasmania is one step closer to beating us to a flag
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I can not wait until we scrape into 8th, play them away in their first ever final and get belted
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Have to get me one of those “half and half” scarfs that are doing the rounds in the English premier league.
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Who would be on the other half of your EPL scarf?