Demetriou: AFL expansion to 20 teams would include Tasmania

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Demetriou: AFL expansion to 20 teams would include Tasmania

Authored by: Chris
on Thursday, October 22 2009 @ 07:05 am ACDT

Demetriou talks about Tassie, which is probably a given, and then talks about Western Australia or Northern Queensland. However, WA and Queensland already have two teams. With a 15-20 year horizon, what about Auckland?

Demetriou: AFL expansion to 20 teams would include Tasmania

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Thursday, October 22 2009 @ 12:41 pm ACDT

For any 15-20 year horizon :
then, at that time, hopefully AFL owns Docklands outright and has a Vic Govt funded boutique 3rd Melbourne stadium....

..a bit like the song "2525", if all the Melbourne Clubs have managed to survive, they should then be as solid as they'll ever be. Thus, beyond 15 years, the need to relocate/merge might not be so compelling.

Barassi's notion of success in Sydney to justify consideration for a Sydney hosted AFL GF includes 3-4 SYdney/NSW based teams going gang busters.....so.....might there be an argument for a new Syd team every 25 years? How about that Irish team out of Sydney!?!? (the SWAFL has the Bondi Shamrocks).

Nth Qld/NT (plus PNG/PI's) seems a good idea. A 3rd WA team seems a good idea, until the ore runs out.

NZ......really hard to see that - becuase, apart from anything, it's an off-shore team in the AFL. Is that really wanted? Otherwise, if that's tolerable, then South Africa would be more compelling sooner.

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