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This is a good read into the local insights with the new stadium. Whilst everyone is right behind the Tassie AFL team, apparently not so with the location of the new stadium. Also hiighlghts the divisions that exists between the North and South of Tassie. As such, i wasn't aware only 7 home games will be scheduled at the new stadium, with 4 home games to be scheduled at the UTAS stadium in Launceston, which will be under going a $130m upgrade, to appease this North v South division.
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Celebration as new Tassie jumper, logo and colours revealed
Tasmania Devils, using the same Tasmania jumper they've been using for years. No real surprises.
A somewhat conservative choice IMO, but such a choice is reasonable here. It makes it easier for the club to build a supporter base."Unbelievable!" -- Nick Davis leaves his mark on the 2005 semi finalComment
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Amazing uptake of foundation memberships...120,000 in two days. Especially as they were targeting 40,000 over 6 months.
I bought one. I grew up in Tassie and want to see footy succeed there.Comment
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The "foundation memberships" cost $10, so it's a nice PR exercise basically and 120,000 + people will get an awful lot of emails and texts
about the new club over the next four years.Comment
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I believe the Swans pulled the same lever, successfully selling AFLW foundation memberships the season before the team entered the competition.
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Mongrel Punt has looked at the potential for a 20th franchise https://themongrelpunt.com/afl-seaso...20th-afl-team/
The author recomends Newcastle - I had to check the date, in case it was an April Fools prank.Comment
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I like to think they copied the Swans idea of foundation membership for our AFLW team.
Foundation memberships gave us the largest AFLW club membership before we even played a game.
Not all of the foundation members renewed but a vast majority did and then more came onboard when the team started playing.
If it works for Tassie, they could have a fair lot of paid up members by the time they start playing.Comment
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I think one of the "cons" that he mentioned is quite a large one, "No one in Newcastle has expressed an interest."
There doesn't really seem to be an easy choice for 20th team, and I sort of doubt if they'll go the other way to resolve the bye, and cut the number of teams back to 18. Although perhaps my preferred option would be to say to North, "Well, you could have moved to the Gold Coast, you could have moved to Tasmania, and you're still a basket case. So, now you'll be moving to the VFL".Comment
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With regard to keeping team numbers to 18, perhaps the lowest ranked Victorian club could be relegated to the VFL and from there an annual promotion/relegation battle with just the Victorian clubs.
I jest, but the anguish and teeth-gnashing would be amusing.Comment
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With changes to the draw being almost an annual event (ie, Round 0, Gather Round, the bye before the finals, the mid season bye being
split over 3 weeks etc) it's hard to imagine we'll even notice yet another change to the draw when there are 19 teams. I guess the season
is getting longer though. Personally I think there should just be 17 rounds, or 18 when there are 19 teams (everyone plays each other
once and they alternate home grounds the next year), but I'm sure there will be way too many deals (broadcasting, sponsorship,
stadium etc) in place already for that to happenComment
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If they have each team play the other 18 once, that would be very similar to our current regular season (9 matches each week) apart from the byes.
Instead of dedicated bye rounds (eg rnd 8-11) and say a week off before the finals, every week will see a different team get a bye.
This would create a lot of concern/angst about equity, around who gets a bye and when. Eg more time to prepare/recover for the finals for a team who gets a bye in round 18 vs the team that got a bye in round 1.
Also people analysing benefits/disadvantages of teams with a 6-8 day break vs a team that has a 13-15 day break.
For the above reason, I don’t think they can do just straight 18 game regular season. The finals bound teams (and those close to qualifying) have to have similar breaks before the top 8 (or whatever they might do) are locked in, or they will be so much outcry, if e.g., a top four team gets a rest before the finals, or if a bruised team one game out from qualifying has a 6 day break plays a team that has had a 15 day break.Comment
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I was thinking about this recently. Look at a time map of Sydney and put every NRL team on it.... There is nothing north of the Parramatta river, except manly and that's very providential.
Building a new team needs and empty demographic. (Tick), a central hub with good infrastructure (tick -chatswood, stay with me here) and a stadium (no tick).
Build a boutique stadium at Chatswood oval, and you have the best location for a 20th team. Money, private schools.
The giants had no negative impact on the swans revenue, sponsorship or crowds.
It's the perfect location.
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