mjk45 said:
The reasons pretty simple really , Tasmania is a captive market and offering nothing in regards to adding extra games to sell to pay TV since they don't want to go to an uneven number of teams so a relocation is the only way forward unless we became rugby converts overnight then something would happen. Also vestered intests play a large part , Just like the AFL and the VFL before it benefited from some of the greatest players of all time coming from Tasmania so do today's, Victorian based teams reap considerable benefits from the Tasmanian supporter base in terms of membership and merchandise sales , that's not taking into account Hawthorn who plays 4 games a season in Launceston they went from near bankrupt to where they stand today and that change of fortune both financially and on field coincides with the Tasmanian deal, they have well over 10,000 paid up Tasmanian members and according to the club to make the same income they get from a single Tasmanian game they would need a 70,000 home crowd at the MCG . Did you follow fellow canadian Mike Pikes career at the Swans and iirc there is AFL Canada check their website and the national side calledNorthwinds play in an international series. |
I just thought that the AFL would have wanted to keep Tasmania under their territory. They already made a mistake before with Canberra, when they could have capitalized. (It's even more surprising that Canberra doesn't have a team.)
I really only started flowing the AFL in 2015, so I mainly knew him as that Canadian guy. And then he retired.
I searched it up and Ontario has a league but it looks they play near a forest. My city even used to have a team.
