AFL reaches in-principle agreement with Tasmania for 19th team

[whythelongface]

The games tonight clearly indicated that there is not enough depth to consider a 19th team. Relocation is the only answer.

[jeemak]

Here's an update, apparently the club presidents endorsed the Tassie side today:

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/...02-p5d4yc.html

The new Tasmanian team, set to join the AFL most likely from 2028, will have the right to bid for the sons of any former Tasmanian AFL player, as well as a $1 million pool to fund sign-on bonuses to attract players.

The new Tasmanian team will become a reality after the 18 AFL clubs on Tuesday agreed to the entry of a new 19th team.

Under AFL plans for building the team, the new club will have the right to bid for the sons of any former Tasmanian.

[Grantysghost]

We can't have a bye can we?

Can we have 20 teams.

Southport look pretty good xD

[D Mitchell]

Did I read it correctly ? A headline in today's www.news,com, McGuire wants 2 Vic clubs to move to Tasmania ? E'don and C'wood ?

[bornadog]

We can't have a bye can we?

Can we have 20 teams.

Southport look pretty good xD

Southport should be merged with Gold Coast

[GVGjr]

We can't have a bye can we?

Can we have 20 teams.

Southport look pretty good xD

A 3rd team in WA was being speculated on last week.
A lot of people think Southport could be an option.

[macca]

Or North merge with suns. Call them the sunny kangaroos
This 19th team is going to dilute the draft pool, Again !
Now they want to pickup ex-tasmanian father and sons

[Sedat]

I hope Jesse Wells has a budding son emerging.

[MrMahatma]

I?m an optimist. It?ll work out. They need to be competitive from day 1 though. Don?t waste a decade like Bears, Suns, Swans, Dockers?

[jeemak]

What I'd really like to see is a commitment for development of football and talent pathways outside of the private school systems. Not sure we'd have a talent pool issue if kids who didn't go to private schools were given more opportunities to develop their talents in the middle to late teenage years and experienced exposure to recruiting personnel after some intensive coaching/ skills development.

[GVGjr]

Huge day for the code and the State. There is plenty of work ahead of everyone concerned.
Has to be the Devils doesn't it?

[EasternWest]

Huge day for the code and the State. There is plenty of work ahead of everyone concerned.
Has to be the Devils doesn't it?

Must be.

[Sedat]

Huge day for the code and the State. There is plenty of work ahead of everyone concerned.
Has to be the Devils doesn't it?

Good luck prising that registered Trade Mark from out of Warner Bros hands. I hope they have a contingency plan in place for the name.

If Gil is the master negotiator everybody seems to say he is, I'd love to see him rock up to Warner Bros HQ in Burbank California and start these discussions with a 100 year old global multi-faceted entertainment company and their plethora of intellectual property attorneys. The entire net worth of City Hall would be a rounding error on Warner Bros books.

Ironically, this is an area that KW-W would absolutely excel in and I would trust her 100% to get the best possible result. Not so much Polo Gil.

[GVGjr]

Good luck prising that Trade Mark from Warner's hands.

Surely they own the cartoon character not the Tassie Devil animal image?

[Grantysghost]

To keep them afloat I'd have a rotating nickname as advertising space.

Tasmanian Amazon's for eg.

Yes the apostrophe is on purpose.

Hold on would they be state named? That would be a first.