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.

Richard Flanagan off the long run; such a great writer

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/a-footy-club-meant-to-unite-tasmanians-is-bitterly-dividing-them-20251024-p5n50t.html

15 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

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

As I posted earlier in this thread. There has been roughly a 25% population increase or 5 million people since GWS came in. About the population of the Republic of Ireland. That’s enough for another small comp never mind another team.

The talent pool is there. The AFL and the clubs need to be asking themselves if they are doing enough to develop that talent.

42 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

Richard Flanagan off the long run; such a great writer

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/a-footy-club-meant-to-unite-tasmanians-is-bitterly-dividing-them-20251024-p5n50t.html

Andrew Dillon is so far out of his depth its breathtaking.

2 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

Richard Flanagan off the long run; such a great writer

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/a-footy-club-meant-to-unite-tasmanians-is-bitterly-dividing-them-20251024-p5n50t.html

Even with the proposed stadium, the Devils are doomed for failure. 18-year old kids flee Tassie for the mainland in droves every year. Imagine being a gune AFL player and it is cold and you get 20k to each game and there are no nightclubs. Then Collingwood comes knocking and says you can come home to Melbourne, play in front of 80k and earn almost as much and go to nightclubs. It is a dumb idea for romantics.

2 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

Even with the proposed stadium, the Devils are doomed for failure. 18-year old kids flee Tassie for the mainland in droves every year. Imagine being a gune AFL player and it is cold and you get 20k to each game and there are no nightclubs. Then Collingwood comes knocking and says you can come home to Melbourne, play in front of 80k and earn almost as much and go to nightclubs. It is a dumb idea for romantics.

unfair advantage with their extra fingers

3 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

unfair advantage with their extra fingers

Sure but they will struggle to get through the banners.

6 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

Sure but they will struggle to get through the banners.

Their theme song will involve a banjo

22 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

Even with the proposed stadium, the Devils are doomed for failure. 18-year old kids flee Tassie for the mainland in droves every year. Imagine being a gune AFL player and it is cold and you get 20k to each game and there are no nightclubs. Then Collingwood comes knocking and says you can come home to Melbourne, play in front of 80k and earn almost as much and go to nightclubs. It is a dumb idea for romantics.

What like Petracca going to the GC?

6 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

What like Petracca going to the GC?

No chipping the ice off your car on the GC

9 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

What like Petracca going to the GC?

tassie wont be doomed at all. just like Roost said

This is another bread and circuses fiasco. Meanwhile, crackheads and kitchen weaponry starting up a breakaway competition.

1 hour ago, Roost it far said:

What like Petracca going to the GC?

Yeah, no nightclubs on the Gold Coast........

This came up on one of those un-asked-for news feeds (MSN). I have no idea about its status. But it's impressive!

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/proposal-for-macquarie-point-2-0-stadium-in-hobart-tasmania/vi-AA1Pf1Jx?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6901906e3b8741939232f4506704202b&ei=51

4 hours ago, Roost it far said:

What like Petracca going to the GC?

Gold Coast has beaches and warm weather. Hardly the same as being sent to Tassie.

6 hours ago, Colm said:

As I posted earlier in this thread. There has been roughly a 25% population increase or 5 million people since GWS came in. About the population of the Republic of Ireland. That’s enough for another small comp never mind another team.

The talent pool is there. The AFL and the clubs need to be asking themselves if they are doing enough to develop that talent.

Of that 5 million 4.9 million are from India who are not into football games of any sort. You have a point if we discussing Cricket

But we are discussing AFL which doesn't interest large groups of Soccer, NRL and Union. That combination would out number Aussie rules. All that adding Tassie will achieve is to increase the number of teams at the bottom with no chance every year from 4 to 5.