On 22/09/2025 at 10:39, beelzebub said:

Hard to compare apples and oranges.

The amount of engineering to span an Oz oval type stadium with that kind of suspended design as compared a much smaller soccer pitch is quite a bit different.

You might possibly have a look at a hybrid design but then the cantilevering of the surrounding overhead might present its own basket of nasties.

I keep coming back to the need of a roof.

A nicety perhaps ....a necessity ??

Obviously these European stadia are primarily for soccer with a smaller roofing footprint. Just trying to make the point as to why potentially cheaper options are not being looked at 🤔 It is almost like the AFL wants this to be tripped up at the stadium stage 🤨

I don't think they need a roof, they just need a comfortable, modern stadium with about 30K capacity. It does not need a roof over the oval, just good coverage for the stands.

On 22/09/2025 at 15:27, Diamond_Jim said:

It's an NFL thing.

State and City governments now pay for stadiums.

Tasmania unlike NSW is a price taker and this is the price.

The AFL didn't tell them where to build the stadium. Most new NFL stadiums are built out of town on cheap land which becomes valuable as an entertainment/exhibition centre with surrounding outlets

Tassie has always been a state divided. North = free settlers, South = Convicts. Its why they always had two leagues.

Ross in the centre was where the troops were stationed to respond to calls from either population.

Spend the money on a cheaper covered ground in Ross and spend the savings on an improved North South Highway joining Hobart and Launceston with an outlet to Ross.

We desperately need to sign Langford up for 5 years during next year.

This new mob are going to be throwing cash at the hottest young talent such as Langford.

39 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

We desperately need to sign Langford up for 5 years during next year.

This new mob are going to be throwing cash at the hottest young talent such as Langford.

I think I said similar on the Guerra thread.

Clearing some cap space is surely to lock in the likes of Langford and Lindsay going forward.

On 18/09/2025 at 09:06, Waltham33 said:

I would not mind seeing the AFL strategy pertaining to overall league expansion that clearly indicates a vision and how talent pools will support this.

As would I. But we won’t, the natural talent pool is already too low for the amount of teams and players we have.

2 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

This new mob are going to be throwing cash at the hottest young talent such as Langford.

Or will they? They’ll have their own young talent. But they will need experience, like top class players aged 26 plus.

On 20/09/2025 at 08:07, Bombay Airconditioning said:

North, Saints a close second but North. Nobody wants to lose their team but the game will be worse off after expansion. North are struggling now, how will they fair after Tassie comes in and probably takes McKercher (possibly wrong spelling) in the process?

I think many North fans would argue that they are on much stronger ground than us. We don't even have a home base.