#AFL Round 12 Weekly Discussion Thread

[stevoswan]

I think you are exaggerating the foundation of AFL in Tassie.

If they lose more players they will be less competitive and get even lower support wherever they are.

They play footy in Tassie, they have supported AFL matches very well in Tassie (if the crowds are down lately, it's probably because the locals are getting sick of watching teams they don't actually barrack for and are ready for their 'own' team) and they have actual Australian Rules footballers in Tassie.......pretty good foundation.

I think you are exaggerating your knowledge of everything......GC should be dissolved. A Tassie team would never be so embarrassing......

Time to be a 'glass half full' kinda guy for a change Barry.

[stevoswan]

Who was the oxygen thief who brought in the silly exclusion rule which is paid on the whim of an umpire .
A player is exiting the zone to the best of his intentions and a 50m penalty is paid often gifting the recipient a goal.
What if this occurred in the last 5 seconds of a Grand Final.
This is complete over officiating the game.

It's the worst rule in footy.

[Bloods05]

I think you are exaggerating your knowledge of everything.

Cruel, but fair.

[stevoswan]

Wow, Freo started on fire in the first quarter but I see Adelaide have kicked 6 goals to nil in the second to restore normality.....

[stevoswan]

Normality out the window.....Freo by 3 pts in a thriller. Who'd have thought it. Crows in a little trouble now......

[goswannies]

Normality out the window.....Freo by 3 pts in a thriller. Who'd have thought it. Crows in a little trouble now......

Ah, work should be fun tomorrow

[Meg]

Ah, work should be fun tomorrow

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[dejavoodoo44]

Ah, work should be fun tomorrow

No doubt a similar sort of fun, as being amongst Queenslanders, the day after they suffer a rare State of Origin loss. I call it, 'inhaling the scent of roasting martyr'.

[barry]

The roots of Australian Rules (as distinct from 'AFL') in Tassie are every bit as deep as they are in any of the southern states. If the AFL was prepared to invest the squillions they have in western Sydney and the Gold Coast, I have absolutely no doubt it could be successful. The problem is that they are obsessed with imperial expansion, the clearest example of this being the preposterous China thing.

China is stupid, and it's even more stupid that an expansion club like the sun's have to leave their expansion area to go to another expansion place. Madness.

Tassie probably could have supported a team 25 years ago when the VFL branched out. But today, you need too much money to run an AFL club. The Tassie gov should not be propping them up.

[Matty10]

Tassie probably could have supported a team 25 years ago when the VFL branched out. But today, you need too much money to run an AFL club. The Tassie gov should not be propping them up.

I am ambivalent about the idea of a Tasmanian team, but the idea of the state government providing financial support is surely a good investment. They obviously did it with the Hawks, and bringing people to the state has to be high on their priorities (which football would continue to do in an expanded fixture).

[Bloods05]

The Tassie gov should not be propping them up.

So maybe the AFL could prop them up, like they're doing for GWS and the Gold Coast.

[Hotpotato]

It?s a huge middle finger from the AFL to Tasmania . Two teams in Qld, NSW, games in the Alice, Darwin, China and NZ .
Tassie has had a Sheffield shield team for over 40 yrs and still no AFL team .
What the ..... ?

[barry]

It?s a huge middle finger from the AFL to Tasmania . Two teams in Qld, NSW, games in the Alice, Darwin, China and NZ .
Tassie has had a Sheffield shield team for over 40 yrs and still no AFL team .
What the ..... ?

9 teams in Melbourne is your unbalance. If you think about Tassie team would work, move a Melbourne team. Like the BBL hurricanes, most of the players could live in Melbourne.

How many current sun's players so you think would move to Tassie?

[bloodspirit]

Ah, work should be fun tomorrow

Hopefully you meant on Tuesday. Or isn't the Queens Birthday celebrated today in the City of Churches?

[Ludwig]

The 2 Tassie clubs, North Melbourne and Hawthorn should merge and move to Tassie.

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They can call themselves the Kanga Poos

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