Great, then pay 50% for it. They are ultimatums and it should not be like that. Not much to like here for the Tassie team. Imagine starting a relationship on an ultimatum. It’s unprofessional.
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Hobart stadium business case
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Great, then pay 50% for it. They are ultimatums and it should not be like that. Not much to like here for the Tassie team. Imagine starting a relationship on an ultimatum. It’s unprofessional.
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Then they get the football team when they're ready to do it I guess.
Belreive Oval is 11,000 seats, and the rest standing room on the hill. It's fine as a temporary solution - and the AFL is fine with them using it temporarily - but there's just no way the club would make enough money to be viable with that little revenue.
As an Eagles fan you saw how bad it was first playing at the WACA, and then how bad it was trying to build Perth stadium. The new Hobart stadium would get stuck in the same political logjam.
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"Hey afl we would like 1 football team please. Also could you pay for like half of it?"
but it's ok the other way for the AFL to put on demands to a state that has a right to be playing in the AFL?
Like I said they could at least be reasonable and say we will let you in for a licence in 2029 and we would like to see that you have a new stadium of your choice for the start of the 2035 season. Demanding roofs etc is just ridiculous from the AFL.
Anyway as sad as it is for Tassie I think this will fall over, no state as small as them can afford a 1.5billion plus stadium, christ it would be hard for Victoria to afford it. A 200-300 million dollar upgrade to one of the existing grounds would be the sensible route for the state.
Not sure it will get passed the vote of the people.
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Bingo
This is correct. They just wanted to be seen to make an "offer" to get the media and public off their backs about it and give Gil one last "win" a send-off. No sane government would have touched the ridiculous demands, the clubs and league just under-estimated how corrupt and insane Tasmanian governments are.
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Maybe the Tasmanian government can ask the locals for donations
I don't think — in this situation at least — the government is being corrupt or insane.
I think the Government just understands what the team and the stadium symbolises for Tassie and that's why they're fighting for it.
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Could people in Tasmania start a GoFundMe?
Surely Clive Palmer can create some jobs and step in and fix this.
Things didn't work out very well last time Clive got involved in sport.
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Why do they have a right to be in the AFL?
What, bankruptcy?
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So, 500,000 people pay $1000 each to cover the $500,000,000 shortfall? 2/3 of the population couldn't afford it and the myth that all Tasmanians are footy mad is a mainland legend. Local leagues here have been collapsing for a decade or so. Most people I speak to don't care about a team or a stadium.
Australian Football League, by definition Tasmania have a right to be in the comp.
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So what are the chances this team doesn’t end up happening? I’ve heard some people talk like it’s already dead in the water while others have said the afl will blink and allow it to go through without a roof to help with the costs
The AFL doesn't have to blink. They'll get it through parliament and it will be built.
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You're going to have to use a few more words to explain that.
Being a state doesn't automatically give them that right.
That is the worst possible, and therefore inevitable, outcome for the state.
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A levy on Tassie tax payers for the next 40 years ought to be enough
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Well shit if we are taking sporting competition names ****ing literally.
I guess Darwin gets one and Canberra, **** it Jervis Bay is also “In Australia” so they all deserve teams as well. Do we need to do external territories? Should we include a Norfolk Island team as well?
Guess the NRL has some work to do, they’re only in three states. Ah shit guess the Warriors have to leave the comp as well.
Champions league better change its name, plenty of none champions in that comp.
Can’t wait for Hawaii to join the NFL, NBA, and NHL.
What a ****ing asinine argument.
I assume your an advocate of an NT AFL side as well then?
Yep why not, the AFL have plenty to waste.
I identify as a Glenorchy supporter.
Having grown up in Hobart and seen how stadiums can transform cities by living in 3 other capitals, I can confidently predict that the construction of this stadium would be a game changer for Hobart and the state generally. Furthermore, the alternatives are embarrassing.
Just do it!
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