1 hour ago, old dee said:

I have been complaining about this for years, just another team to draw players from the pool which gets lower by the day. So instead of having 5 teams that have no chance of playing finals mid year we will have 6 or 7. Add the player contracts which will see even more players trying to get out of the bottom half dozen teams. Essendrug is a view to the future for more teams.

I’m happy for Tassie to have a team as it rounds out the competition nicely but it MUST come at the expense of a Victorian based team. Yes we can argue that the Giants and Suns came in too quickly but there here now and here to stay. How anyone thinks this competition can sustain any more teams is beyond me. The AFLW was doomed as soon as the went to 18 teams after only a couple of years. There’s a lot wrong with our game at the moment and the clubs and those in the media seemingly sit there and just smile and wave as if everything is ok.

Why cant they just play in Hobart/Launceston for the first few years until they/AFL can build up the capital to build a new stadium?

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Jibroni

On 19/09/2025 at 08:47, Mouseymoo said:

For a 23k seat stadium that's over $78,000 per seat. They'd want to be heated recliners for that!

That is one way to measure construction costs. A few years back I cam across a site that looked at stadiums around the world using that measure. The most expensive per seat by a long way was Optus stadium in Perth. Building it at the same time as the mining infrastructure lead to the sweetest deal for all concerned. While hobart is different I would imagine that given run away construction costs post covid we'd be seeing a high cost build to say the least

3 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

I’m happy for Tassie to have a team as it rounds out the competition nicely but it MUST come at the expense of a Victorian based team. Yes we can argue that the Giants and Suns came in too quickly but there here now and here to stay. How anyone thinks this competition can sustain any more teams is beyond me. The AFLW was doomed as soon as the went to 18 teams after only a couple of years. There’s a lot wrong with our game at the moment and the clubs and those in the media seemingly sit there and just smile and wave as if everything is ok.

Which Victorian based team?

Be careful what you wish for.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Dr. Gonzo

12 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Which Victorian based team?

Be careful what you wish for.

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?

1 hour ago, 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?

Why are Melbourne exempt?