Tasmania - stole GWS media guy and $1B

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4077

On where a 20th team will be, 95% chance it’s a third WA team.

Reason is the AFL can sell a new TV timeslot - Sunday nights. Plus travel wise, they can have a Vic team play the Sunday night game against one WA side, then stay in WA for the week, play a Saturday Twilight game against another WA team, then fly home.

The 5% chance is a team from NZ - again, would open up a new TV timeslot (Sat/Sun Mornings). There was murmurs not that long ago about the AFL putting a 20th AFLW team in NZ to test the market and logistics.

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4078

I’d like to see R. Olarenshaw as the inaugural coach of the Bali team.

What would they be called? The “only works on receptionists”?

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4079

Bali is the only correct answer.

It will happen.

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4080

Logistics, cost and sustainability aside, it’s actually a farking good idea.

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4081

I like the idea of this an extra team in WA would be ace them move to two conferences playing each other twice would be totally ace

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4082

This is typical AFL bullshit, really.

I’m excited that this means the team will go ahead. Tasmania deserves it and I love travelling to the place, and will do so more now.

But they could be playing in any number of existing facilities with or without improvements, even if just initially.

Cost-benefit analysis is a reasonably good science these days, and it has been tossed out the window in favour of parochial arguments and “Vibes”.

The AFL is the most powerful administrative body on the country, and that is Farking disturbing.

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4083

They are playing in existing venues initially. If you don’t get the stadium before the licence it will never be built, especially in a place like Tassie and they’d be playing out of ■■■■ box Bellerive forever and become a drain on the competition.

The AFL are again chipping in, the only code in Australia that ever does for stadia, whilst all the others like the NRL, cricket, soccer freeload off the taxpayer and never put their hand in their own pocket.

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4084

95% it will called some focus-grouped vague regional term like “wheatbelt” instead of actually being located somewhere

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4085

The AFL are “Chipping in” like that mate that throws in $20 and expects four or five lines.

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4086

The AFL are that bloke that takes a 6 pick of light beer to a party and then proceeds to drink 20 of everyone else’s premium beers

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4087

The reality is though they don’t need to chip in as no other sport does. I’d prefer them to save that money and put it into grassroots.

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4088

It will help bring Hobart out of the Stone Age though. Pretty town but ■■■■ all to do.

Look at Adelaide post playing footy at the Adelaide oval. It’s moved it from 1983 to at least Aug 1991. Wait til they hear Nevermind & BSSM in a few weeks!!

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4089

It’s going in to the grassroots of the AFL executive.

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4090

Fun fact: Grunge was invented in Adelaide.

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4091

you’re thinking of grange. and the barossa valley technically isnt adelaide

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4092

The Barossa? You’re thinking of Gear.

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4093

woodside hydrocarbons

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4094

The Angels? Mark of Cain? Cosmic Psychos? (From Melbs though)

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4095

David Walsh has already done that with Mona. If AFL, already played at 2 stadiums, is the reason to end the stone age then we’re doomed.

Tickets to games for the first few years at least will be like hen’s teeth. Accommodation the same on game weekends. Waste of time you blokes from the big island coming over to save us :wink:

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4096

It’ll certainly buy the AFL executive a lot of grass and a lot of roots.

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