Darwin to Host Demons

[Mousey 47]

Darwin to Host Dees

I think its a great and idea and hope the relationship grows in the future.

[biggestred 5,108]

road trip

[biggestred 5,108]

lets make that "weekend away" im not driving

[H_T 3,049]

The foot is in the door.

[BAMF 4,357]

This is great news for the club. Hope we can end up playing a couple of games up there a year.

The money the club gets from this is massive. Hope we can get a Tassie/Hawks type deal.

Would be a great excuse to head up there for a holiday.

Seems we will be competing with the Bulldogs on this one.

Seems the new board is focusing on something that can actually make us some cash rather than the old board wasting time in China.

Good work Schwabby.

Edited July 13, 2009 by Davis333

[Rogue 585]

A shame we've only got the one. Hopefully we can turn one into two.

[Timmuns 16]

Sik. I'm up here at the moment on holiday, weather's soooooooo good (its 26 degrees atm @ 11:35pm) all the more reason to come back next year now that I've heard this news. I actually played a round of golf at Darwin golf club today which is right next to TIO Stadium, looks like a good ground to watch footy at, plus I won't have to worry about freezing my ass off too. Darwin is such a good place to come to during our winters I hope we canget as many games up here as possible.

[Sir Why You Little 37,051]

Great idea that must grow if Jimma's idea that Melbourne can become the premier sporting club going around. Let's get Members in Darwin.

I do hope one day we can get 40-50,000 supporters at the G for an interstate game, but right now that is a long ay off.

Edited July 13, 2009 by why you little

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,857]

2 home games interstate max please. If we can reap $400,000 each match, then that will be great.

But I'd hate to do a Hawthorn and end up playing 8 or 9 interstate games a year.

[titan_uranus 25,020]

Agree BBP. No more than 2 interstate, and it would be preferable if they were both in Darwin. For the selfish reason that I want to see us play at the MCG as many times as possible.

[redlegger 4]

Don't know that it's THAT great news, is it??

2 less chances to go to the footy.

Pretty brutal climate - - may not be easy to bounce back the following week.

One upside is that our indiginous lads will love it.

It's cos we're broke - - so it's to be accepted not celebarated.

It's better than when we used to hand Brisbane 4 points and 6% every year, I guess.

Meanwhile our mortal enemies get something like 18 games on the G every year. It's out own fault: 15,800 at the weekend's match was terrible.

At the very least, you'd want it capped at 2: Hawthorn's deal (4 out of 11 home games sold off) makes them virtually a TV club or only a Claytons Victorian club at best.

2 in Darwin makes more sense than 1 in Darwin and 1 in Canberra.... which is effectively handing another home fixture to the Swans.

A necessary evil not the cause for a party.