Tasmania Football Club?

[capitaltige]

Heres a link to a good article by Red's favourite Tim lane in yesterday's age

http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2007/03/05/1172943356296.html

Look, Tasmanian's are undoubtably as "footy mad" as Victorians or any other part of Aus & deserve to see top quality football. On the weekend over 15,000 attended the NAB match in Launnie with a majority being Carlton supporters.

However, the two major obstacles that are ingrained in Tasmanian's that will make this almost certainly doomed to failure are -

- They are very parochial to their team of allegience. Everyone that follows the sport has a victorian team that they follow with absolutely as much passion as victorians (or anyone) themselves. There is no way 99% of supporters are going to even consider changing allegence to a relocated team i.e Nth or Hawthorn.

Even if a Tasmanian team was started from scratch the majority if tasmanians would follow it as a team they "may" have a "soft" spot for. But they certainly wouldnt overtake most people's club they have supported all their lives.

- The Nth/Sth rivalry is far more deep-seated than any other geographical rivalry in australia. If a team from Tas is formed take it from Leysy that if it is based in the north i.e Launceston the two-headed Cascade drinking tosser's from the South wont get behind the venture & conversely if the team is based in the South i.e Hobart the Northerner's quite rightly wouldn't get behind a team based where the majority of the state would have to travel furthest to get to.

& if the cheating southerner's did look like winning we did this to them......

http://www.footballlegends.org/legendary_games.htm#The%20Missing%20Goalpost%20Match

& click on Missing Goal Post Match :hihi

BTW
Q - Whats the only good thing to come out of the South of Tasmania...................





A - The Road North. :rofl :rofl

Sounds very similar to what the South Australians used to say before the Crows. Once a local side comes in (if ever) and has some success, they will get behind them like crazy and north and south will likely join together in opposing everyone else against 'their' team.

 

[TigerMasochist]

Doubt it will ever happen, most of the major companies in Tas are only sub branches of mainland corporates so the dollars are just not there to cover roughly 35 mill per year to run an AFL team.
Best scenario for Taswegieland is similar to what they have now with the Dawks, maybe expanded to six games a year maximum, backed by the AFL and the state govt.
Probably be a similar scenario for the Kangas on the Gold Coast in future years.
Play half a dozen games at their home away from home, three or four away games interstate and the rest as a combo of home and away Melb. based games with a memership that admits the Victorian based fans to all their games in Melb plus some of their games in their new home if they wish to travel.

 

[Chiang Mai Tiger]

Send Hawthorn over there holos-bolus.

The Tasmanian Hawks. Play 11 home games in Tassie and 4 away games in Melbourne each year.

While we are at it, send the Kangas to the Gold Coast on the same deal and lets get this competition right for the next 20 years.

Send the doggies to Darwin and wrap St Kilda up into a Melbourne hybrid jumper and now you're talking