How did the NRL get it right with the Dolphins? Early days, but the new NRL team the Dolphins seem very competitive in their first season.

In contrast, the two most recent AFL teams have at very best been partially successful after many years.

The Giants made the finals, a PF and GF after many years and have now slipped back down the back.

The Suns have never looked like making the finals.

With talk of a new AFL team in Tasmania, what can the AFL learn from the way the NRL went about the Dolphins?

What can the AFL do better with their next new team?