The long-awaited issue of an AFL licence to Tasmania will create a 19 team competition later on this decade unless a club falls by the wayside or another licence is granted.
The odd number of teams will create other issues as well. The Gather Round won’t work with an odd number of teams and the fixture will have to be coordinated in a way that all clubs have two byes. And we already have the debate about the unfairness of the fixture when teams play some teams twice in a season and others once.
So this raises two questions ~
• Should there be an odd number of teams? and
• If not, from where should Team 20 come?
This thread is about the first question. I will open a separate thread for the question about Team 20.