Eddie McGuire's BIG plan for a Tassie team - Footy Classified | Footy on Nine
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- The Footy Classified panel puts the hard questions to Eddie McGuire, as he reveals his bold solution to the Tasmanian conundrum.
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Well done to Ed in uniting everyone with this idea. All current AFL clubs and the people of Tasmania would hate it.
His ideas are so bad, its almost like he's trolling lol
@@cliffbooth4826 I know. I cringe whenever Eddie mentions a 5 point plan.
I'd love to see North get booted down to Tasmania...
As a Tasmanian, do you really think this is what we want? This is a football state. Tassie government has already forked out too much money for "Tassie hawks". I don't see how this is any different than the current arrangement and would probably cost Tassie more. Yea no thank you
Why would Tasmania want a team called North Melbourne? Would have to be re-named Tasmanian Roos. Will never happen. And 11 home games in Melbourne and 11 in Tasmania? So, the Roos never play in Brisbane or Sydney or WA or SA?
good math
Bellerive Boomers.
Exactly. We want the Tassie Devils or we'll happily turn into a soccer state. 700k of us.
Hobart Hawks
Tassy Thumpers.
Probably the shittest idea Eddie's ever had.
Why would any Tasmanian identify with a team called "North Melbourne"?
Why would any Tasmanian identify with a Tasmanian team and support them when they already support a current team?
Good on him for putting ideas forward, but itâs a horrible one. Compromises the rest of competition, not just for the short term, but forever.
How does it compromise the comp
@@emorejhockey3082 if your a north Melbourne fan in WA your team never comes over.
@@theoliverpool22 that's just not living in the real world that's living in a fantasy world. Fact is if you are a Collingwood, Carlton, Richmond or just about any team in Melbourne fan in WA you either never see them in a season or see them once so again we need to start living in the real world and not in the world of adolescent fantasy
@@emorejhockey3082 ummmm 11 games in Melbourne and 11 games in Tassie. No other travel. Thereâs a start.
@@a1andy882 you really don't live on the real world do you, none of what you have said is actually a valid reason against the idea.
Shove it Eddie
Eddie is full of it, wonât be supported by Tasmanians if itâs a relocated North Melbourne. Investment in Hospitals must be a greater priority than a new stadium.
really short sighted. Tasmanians will just have to get over it. We'll take North Melbourne. Stadium will create wealth, and help fund things
Oh to he'll with it,,
Lets call it the Forrester
Tasmanian North Melbourne Skippy
The Bush kangaroo Victorian Hobart
Great ocean road football club..!!
@@jim210589 as long as they rename to tassie devils
And Sydney is actually a relocated South Melbourne team but everyone has now forgotten that and embraced it as Sydney just like Tasmania would in years to come. Canât keep having struggling clubs in Victoria like this and itâs either a Victorian club that needs to do something with Tasmania or Gold Coast
@@knight2425 Absolutely correctâ but add Fitzroy to Brisbane, as a kangaroos supporterâ it makes senseâ because the AFL are not going to continue propping us upâ especially if a Tasmanian side was offered a license?
This looks like something that was put together in 30mins.. I doubt Tassie will want a 'revamped' NM, or however you want to call it.. They want their own team.. a 19th team.. not too hard to comprehend.. stop making things more difficult for no bloody reason.. Eddie, would you want the Pies to be relocated?
and a team in NT, an even 20 teams!
Exactly. Send Collingwood there if it's such a great deal.
Yep we dont want North
@@binks7988 if tassie gets its own do you follow them?
@@hThemeZ carlton and tassie
It wouldn't work McGuire. Tassie want their own team not some relocated club. Move on...
Yep otherwise we'll turn to soccer and basketball which is already happening. AFL will lose 700k AFL state haha
3 years of draft concessions? Iâm sure the other clubs will be tripping over themselves to give that the big thumbs up đ€
New Tassie team or not, I don't think the league can support a 19th team, and I don't particularly want to see a 19th team
As a Collingwood fan, I'm glad that Eddie is reduced to broadcasting his hairbrained schemes in a safe and controlled manner - at a TV camera - rather than at the Pies board meetings.
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Ross and Lloydy trying to get a breath in between ed and caro is golden
This has been the problem with our game for the last 20 years.. "influencial" people are being far to proactive in advocating change, whether it be, teams, rules, fixtures, jumpers, scoring reviews or whatever.. Just stop already! What made our game so great was its tough, physical nature and the lack of stupid rules. Stop trying to turn everything into a problem and just enjoy the game.
it's cos they're getting sued 20 million for concussions every year. They're trying to pander to all their corporate interests which means create a fake beautiful perfect image that all the players are 100% clean free of drugs and marketable so they can get their next cotton on sponsorships. Money corrupts and underlying the corruption the truth will reveal that AFL is destroying the roots of the game and highly greedy and do not care about the average fan.
His plan starts off stupid and just gets worse and worse. 'Free access to streaming platforms' đ€Ł WTF. Yeah, that will get the deal done.
It will take 30 years to build a Stadium in Tassie. the Greenies will want to have a study on the Type of Grass you put in there and wether or not Seagulls will be impacted ?
don't forget they'll be building on wunjuhmunji land!
I think a similar thing should be done with Gold Coast. Turn them into the Northern Suns, have them play predominantly in NT and Queensland and give them priority access to NT players. They already have some up and coming NT superstars I think they would get around. As a smaller club with a shorter history this is a much easier sell.
Decent idea but there's not enough money in the NT I would think
@@YodgeeGaming-wv1dk they literally have footy games in the middle of summer. Basically all year round, the nt works like cricket with it seasons. The reason they wonât do an nt team is cause no other state will see the premiership again đ if they wanna make a nt team theyâll have to have a policy where 2/3rds of the team have to be white fellas just to make it fair đ and only the whites will complain about weather, aboriginals, you think they care? Iâve been told by aboriginal elders, women who would teach the kids and this is what theyâd pull, oh itâs too hot in the classroom to study but youâre just fine to play footy in direct 40 degree sun barefoot on scolding hot sandâŠ.. but because of pc culture, you canât be this blatant when saying stuff like this without some soft doodle getting offended. But thatâs why they donât have a team, and why they probably never will.
Nothing wrong with them being on the Gold Coast. Itâs the nickname that needs to change. What a joke, the suns? How poxy and whack, the mascot is embarrassing, thatâs why no one wants to barrack for them or go to games, look at the whack jumper designs. Start calling them the emus, kookaburras, fk now the bears ainât around anymore name them the koalas even, something with appeal, let alone the designs you could make from those. Idc that theyâre based on Gold Coast qld where itâs sunny. That only shows how corny the people are who came up with it.
Thatâs the problem. Itâs the same with gws regardless of on field success, oh yeah our nick name is the giants, so our mascot is a bloke in a bigger mascot suitâŠ.. how pitiful, Leigh matthews named them this, yet sounds like a 4 year olds answer. And greater western Sydney giants. What a mouthful. Could just called them the western Sydney stars, which wouldâve made sense in hindsight with how many stars theyâve had at the club, and wouldâve made sick jumper designs again. No finesse.
None of these clubs need to move. They all have their plans and processes for success which theyâll all eventually reach. All the other stuff is an easy fix, if they do what Iâve said above. It may sound trivial, but an average mascot and jumper/logo look will attract minimal numbers regardless of success achieved.
Itâs actually quite a good idea.
GWS has the population base around it to grow. Itâs critical it remains.
Gold Coast needs to go, they donât have the population base or local support to be of any benefit to the AFL
@@YodgeeGaming-wv1dk mate I have NITV and have watched games be played during the middle of aussies summer, which is December to February. And if you donât then whatâs with nt doing cricket /nba system with premiers of 2020/2021 seasons then? Literally read up on Bill Dempsey after hearing about him in hall of fame and saw this for myself when he played for Darwin buffaloes with his stats being written out in the example I provided above? And whatâs the dumb thing I said? And whatâs Darwin and gold coasts weather got to do with it? What research must I do? Aboriginals are use to the warm weather, they wouldnât prefer playing in Gold Coast just because of degree temperature when they can play right near home where all their family is and represent the nt, that was the whole point of the initial comment, you claim it wouldnât happen cause no one would want too, which is just stupid and ignorant, and then told you why they donât have an afl team, what you think they couldnât find 30 players who wanted to rep them? All the aboriginal footballers would put their hand straight up, and thatâs when it goes back to my point as to why they havenât got one, you canât make a rule that only so many aboriginal players can be on the list of an afl team based in nt where itâs predominantly aboriginal based, at least as far as their numbers go, and with that, youâd have a full list of freak aboriginal players, just a straight out aboriginal team, and as Iâve said, if that happens, every state can say goodbye to winning a premiership again. Yeah the person who wrote the comment may have been talking about the suns being the northern suns and playing split and you said they wouldnât be keen on that, you may and probably are right on that, which is why they donât get many games happening there and even more to the point of why the nt doesnât have an afl team which is what I was making. And itâs easy to understand if you use common sense. So I donât know what youâre getting at with your comments but theyâre useless in my eyes cause I have nothing to research, I do know what Iâm talking about, and I can confidently say this is true or at least logical based on the information Iâve provided and the obvious fact that there is no nt team. Have a nice day mate
You should think before you type at all.
Love him or hate him, you have to admire Eddies passion for the game. He knows his stuff and should have a position at the AFL
I'm not sure all the interstate teams would be too thrilled about playing all their 'home' games against this team at Marvel or Tassie
Eddie gets so exited about his own ideas. No wonder Collingwood was left in such carnage.
I 100% agree...."Eddie's big proposal"
Who in the hell is asking you to do this Eddie, he's a rash that won't go away
I reckon so
His ego seems to grow every year
As a proud Tasmanian, I would not support this team in any capacity! Nor would any Tasmanians! They will simply support their orgiginal clubs. Tasmania is a proud traditional state and would only follow the Dark Green gurnsey. This is a great deal for North or any other team, but not a great deal for Tasmanians, who want their own team, to call Tasmania, to be soley grown from Tasmania, not some cash grab team that is AFL run! If you put a team in Tasmania, it will grow. The players that will come from the draft will be amazing and will create something that the Crows, Port, Swans and the WA teams have. The supporters are so passionate that they will fill the staduim every week. I think Eddy here is forgetting the tasmanian people and what they stand for. He talk of growing up in North Melbourne..well imagine going to a Tasmanian game as a born and bred Tasmanian! The AFL need to relocate North to Canberra and become the Canberra Kangaroos, simple. But dont rip of the Tasmanian public...this will be a failed team if this happens and a sad day for the AFL!
I agree. Fold up North Melbourne and create a new team in Tassie.
Stupid idea, this doesn't consider what Tasmanian's want at all.
I donât think Tasmania wants Northâs sloppy seconds
No we do not.
I doubt North wants to be bailed out either. How humiliating for them.
Letâs also give them all the draft picks for the next ten years while weâre at it.
This solution is the worst possible solution. Tasmanians will hate it. North Melbourne fans will hate it. The Tasmanian government wonât support it. It wonât work. Ed is full of it and only wants to recommend what benefits Collingwood.
How about North to the VFL and a stand alone Tassie
Isn't about time we just accepted one of the Vic teams has to go out of the competition.
The Tassie Tigers has a ring to it.
Yes. I think Roos should be folded into Tasmania, not merged. They can take the core of them and relocate to become Tasmania Devils - not keeping the Roos name. It gives a fresh start, but with a bit of starting infrastructure, and diehard Roos fans will follow the team to Tassie regardless. I think them still being half North Melbourne is what sets them off.
I like that Eddie is at least bringing an idea to the table! Most people just bring whinging and complaining. It was not a fully fledged plan but at the very least the man put up his solution and not a complaint
Hahah his comparison with the NFL and LA Rams and St. Louis Rams.
The people of St. Louis still hate Stan Kroenke for relocating the franchise to LA. They hate him with a passion.
What a poor comparison Ed.
Eddie saying he feels for Nth supporters, I grew up in Fitzroy and no Fitzroy supporter supports the Brisbane Lions.
Most support a team because it represents where they are from, not because of a nickname.
Would you still support your team if it was relocated to another state?
This is exactly my thought process if the AFL were to move my Sainters. I would be straight off to a different team, without hesitation (most likely Carlton). It should be a no brainer. All AFL supporters should support teams from their home state, and if you don't, that's very strange.
@@swordiexd
YES, Iâm a Carlton supporter, itâs where I was born and many family members are Carlton. If they were the NSW Blues, would I still support them? No fcking way - Iâm a proud Victorian, and my 2nd team would have been Nth funny enough, since Iâm from the Northern suburbs
So all the players have two houses one in Melbs one in Tassie?
Spot on North Melbourne need a circuit breaker a spark to bring them back from the Abiss.
Tasmania need a football team playing on there soil because they are the only state that does not have one.
It has to happen It is sound economics as Eddy said the world is not good and who knows how it will be in the future.
I agree with most of this. There is no way AFL needs a 19th team. People want to see their own teams get success. It's never going to happen if you have 19 teams. Furthermore, there isn't enough good players for 19 teams.
here's my proposal. Relocate Collingwood to tasmania as punishment for Collingwood not doing good enough with treating black people fairly. Make sure they get enough concessions and draft picks so they do better on field, and give them a beautiful do better stadium and call them the do good tassie meat pies.
Why not Collingwood to Tassie ed?
Sod offfffff.
Eddie is absolutely obnoxious, best thing for Collingwood was him leaving. He is a self absorbed child. That idea is amazing for north, would make sense for them to take it given even when they are up and about they struggle financially and with attendances. Although itâs something that will never happen and be accepted by Tasmania. Itâs a big footy state with loads of AFL players that have come through over the years and deserves their own team. North in tassie is not the same. Period.
To be fair to Eddy this would suit northern territory if they want to have a team there, but Tasmania should have better then this. The name would even suit NT Northern Roos
Or just "Northern Roos" I mean North of Melbourne and North of Australia.
Tassie deserves a football team before Goldcoast and GWS. North Melbourne will eventually come good the best thing about premiership's is the slog getting there.
I can't see why Tasmania can't support their own team if Geelong can. Tasmania have two cities of 200k each. They could have 5 games in each city and would surely get good attendance if Geelong can. (I appreciate it is hard to find the talent for an extra team mind you)
geelong is 70km from melbourne that has 5 mil so crowds would be easier
Er... you might want to check the statistics. Launceston only has 100,000. It's no bigger than Ballarat or Bendigo. I know because I grew up there.
And Launceston is 2hrs away from Hobart (without stopping for coffee breaks), which is probably not much different than some regional Victorians take to travel to regular AFL games. The problem is that the highways in Tasmania aren't safe double lane freeway standard and there will never be a train.
The saving grace is that Hobart makes up the bulk of Tasmania's population growth now and it's booming. Don't get me wrong. I want this to get the green light as much as anyone but we have to be realistic and let Hobart have the overwhelming majority of home games. Launceston should never have been the chosen location for the Hawks to play a handful of junk "home" matches anyway.
@@eddielong8663 you're right. Has the population shrunk?
@@mike8633 Don't think so. If it has shrunk, it's very minor. But it doesn't matter because Launceston hardly gets any bigger either. You think Adelaide never changes? You've seen nothing until you visit Tasmania (Hobart a minor exception to the rule). That's part of its appeal to some but for me personally, I can't stand it.
â@@eddielong8663 Yeah Geelong's population has grown a lot over the years (now 250k vs Hobart 203k). Where as Hobart used to be bigger than Geelong. I suppose I can see where the AFL is coming from if the population contracts (how would they have enough supporters)
Iâm a Tasmanian Collingwood supporter. I donât want a Tasmanian team for too many reasons to mention here. I would never barrack for a Tasmanian team - no one would. There is nowhere to put a stadium; people cannot find homes to live in in Hobart. Itâs not a priority for our state. No one goes to North Melbourne games in Hobart as it is. I donât understand why there is such a push for a Tasmanian team - we all have a long established relationship with our existing afl teams!!!
Nah youâre wrong
Because you speak for the whole state, right?
North "home" games are not attended in good numbers because they don't belong to us. Even Hawks support plateaued out a long time ago.
The new local club once up and running, isn't trying to win over Tasmanian rusted-on supporters of other clubs. But you'll find yourself increasingly in the minority as time goes on.
What a stupid idea from Eddy. Tasmania deserve their own team. They aren't going to be proud of a team that's half Melbourne's. Half baked idea for tazzy but this idea might suit a northern territory team.
more clubs in vic have fought for their team and existence than those merged and died, all of Melbourne, North, Hawthorn, Bulldogs, St. Kilda, Richmond survived. Don't believe your club is ever broke. All these clubs were once bankrupt and lived on for 30+ years and thrived. AFL has much money in the coffers and a dead club is only deceased because their fans have given up hope.
Caro is right, when the local teams were getting talent Eddie started complaining.
They should have had a Tassie team before the Gold Coast and western sydney.
@@tubester4567 idk about gold coast but gws yes
Edward that plan is in total shambles.
We gave Queensland and W.A a Grand Final. I never wanted it away from the "G" but offer Tasmania a chance to host the Grand Final in 2-3 years time. Watch a stadium be built. Give it a roof and have sport all year round in Tasmania. Honestly with the crowds Melbourne are pulling in atm (besides Queen's Bday) offer them the Stadium rename them the Tassie Demons (Devils). A "quality" team like the Demons maybe what brings the crowds from day 1, not wait 3 years till they can recruit enough talent to do it. Wont happen and probably shouldnt but its an option.
Melbourne have no "problems" with the crowds they're pulling, lmao haha
Melbourne is averaging the 5th highest home game attendances this season. Donât buy into the media narrative that Melbourneâs crowds are down. The entire league is averaging its lowest crowds since 1996.
2019 the last season without Covid, only Melbourne, Carlton and St Kilda are getting better crowds this year. Every other club has gone backwards.
Why didnât Collingwood to Tassie if itâs so attractive?
Ed was actually spot on in this one. A stand alone team in Tassie won't work.
Maybe. But I'd rather Tasmania sink with their own team than swim with North Melbourne.
You'd be surprised i reckon
I agree standalone won't work - but I don't think Ed's proposal will either.
The problem with this issue is you can't talk about it rationally, because it always gets broken down to "passion" - and there's certainly plenty of that there. But realistically it's a small population spread over a fairly large area and people get sick of travelling large distances. Are they getting full crowds at the current Hawks and North games? I'm sure they argue that "but that's not our own team", but if they're all that passionate about football and demanding more surely 4 or 5 games a year at low capacity grounds should be selling out. A slight side (and I know the populations are very different especially in football preference) I think the AFL has it almost right in Canberra - 3 games at Manuka, against different opponents each year. Enough games to have football aficionados wanting to go to all 3, but not so much that they decide "if I miss this week, there's another in a fortnight...".
In 4 games so far in Tas this year, Blundstone arena has averaged crowds fewer than 7000, UTAS has averaged under 14K - both have a capacity of about 20K. What changes if those games were a local Tas side? Maybe a couple sellouts in the first year or so. Part of it is dwindling interest, but a larger part is that the more accessible something is, the less people worry about missing out.....so you're forever putting off going until "next time".
If both Tas and the AFL are serious, I think they need to negotiate the exact success criteria, and have a contingency in place in case things don't work out (including that if it falls apart, it won't be revisited in the immediate future). Tas (presumably) doesn't want to be left with a barely used stadium, but I'm guessing the AFL doesn't want another hungry club to feed....
Tassie has 34k people already signed to say they will get a membership. Thats more than gws and gold coast together. If we dont get our own team we'll turn to soccer. Basketball has a state side, Big Bash has a state side. A league will have a side in no time.
I wonder if he's got inside info about a stand alone Tazzy team that wont happen
So Eddie in this plan, they never play away in Perth, Adelaide, Sydney or Queensland. That's 8 clubs, half the comp. sounds like a Collingwood draw
don't really like eddies plan b but caro seems to always top it đ
Tasmania has the worst economic, health and education outcomes in Australia and Eddy expects it to continue underwriting Melbourneâs over saturated market. And to fit the bill for a $750 million stadium to serve as a âsecond home baseâ. The plan is offensive and life long fans of the game will turn the footy off in Tassie just to spite the AFL. Great time for the A-league to start growing their game âœïž
Wasnât ed the one complaining about the Sydney academy?
Sounds like the AFL has been in Eddies ear, This is a complete 180 from what he was saying a few weeks ago.
Eddie's a big thinker who often is shouted down. He's a visionist. At least he expresses solutions. Caro's response was to immediately to shut the idea up. Eddie's close to football stake holders.
I disagree with Eddie's proposal but you're absolutely correct. Eddie is an asset to our game.
Tassie will be a super club on their own.
9:34 Can anyone find any articles on John Elliot wanting Carlton to become the ''New South Wales Blues'', and move some of their home games to NSW? I can't find anything on it? Does anyone remember this?
updated plan, using the same concept while changing a few key things
1 it would be the Kangaroos. 2 bases will allow Tasmania to fund a VFL and Devil programs with a victorian base. It will bring more economic opportunity with the ability to attract Tasmanian and Victorian sponsors. and the idea that a club will only play in Melbourne and Tasmania, is because this league isn't home and away play league. How about 10 games in Tasmania and 8 games in Melbourne one game in Geelong and then 3 games on the road. this then doesn't give an unfair advantage. and there will still be one home game in Melbourne they can be played at Norths home at Arden Street Oval, with temporary stands much like the f1 grand stands. judging they get 13,000 per game. this means the heritage is still there while the ability for Tasmania to is welcomed.
Two bases wonât work for a simple reason that whoâd be up for it?
Players and coaching staff would be living in Melbourne one week and Hobart the following week. Where do you put your family? Where do you enrol your kids in school? We know the harmful effects FIFO can have on families as seen during the mining boom, you can bet that any promising player or coach will take the first rival contract offer they receive just for some stability.
Nope. Still laughable. Won't work.
So much empathy for north melbourne fans in this thread, so much understanding on their want to keep their team in melbourne. North do not want to play in tassie. they're forced to, the way Eddie should be forced into a restraining chair to lose 20 kgs, put an apple in his mouth and empty his pocket of every cent so his big mouth doesn't influence the might North melbourne kangaroos.
Have to agree with Eddie that the talent is spread thin already. Not sure if Eddieâs solution is the one. I do think there are too many Melbourne-based teams and this number needs to be reduced. You keep the big 4 clubs and add Geelong and Hawthorn to that. Leaves the Dees, Saints, Roos and Dogs. Could look at merging these 4 into 2 clubs. That will leave 8 Melb clubs.
Instead of bringing a NT team, have the Suns represent Northern Australia.
While the idea might sound good on paper, you are going to lose thousands and thousands of supporters from each club. Families who have supported a club for generations, some will transition to another club, others will just not follow footy anymore.
You might not be stupid. But that idea is.
Obviously you don't support either the Dees, Saints, Roos or Dogs, so you couldn't really care less about warping their respective futures. The Saints and Roos are vulnerable for sure but they each have potential to climb out of trouble given the proper direction. It wasn't that long ago that the Dees and Dogs were in trouble aswell and while not two of the bigger clubs, they each have a solid and stable fanbase now.
The Suns are the team that should be relocated to the Apple Isle. Hardly anyone cares about them, including some of their own players and staff it seems. Just rebadge their location name, mascott, guernsey and song. And overtime, the club will become mostly fully local.
The NT is too small. If TAS has been denied a club for so long mostly because it's "too small", then there's no way the even smaller NT should be granted one simultaneously aswell. Would be better off giving a 3rd team to Perth. Its 2.1million should be large enough to sustain 3 clubs by now.
@@eddielong8663 I personally don't care about Saints and Roos, but I like the Dogs and my family are members of the Dogs, so it would affect me too. I don't want them gone. In saying that, I'm torn whether a team should be abolished from Melbourne, on one side you have a ton of history and culture for each of the clubs, but on the other side, you have some struggling clubs that could do better in another location......There are too many teams in Melbourne, they want to expand the league, but there aren't enough good players to go around. I just don't know what the solution is.
Why the hell do you move North which at least has its stuff together off the field and actually is a functioning club when you could move GWS, which is a black hole for cash and will never have the support at Tasmania team will. I know the Tasmanian's don't want a relocated team but GWS would be much better (and frankly fold the Suns).
As long as its called the Tassie Devils.
Can't get through a week with some muppet trying to get north south
Yet West Coast / Freo / Adel / Port etc have to travel for hours every 2nd week.
Tassie have to travel further than Melbourne regardless of the concessions.
Why don't people see. If Tassie wants a team then they will struggle for the first 10 years at least. Look at GC. but then the draft picks they get will prevent teams like North Melbourne and Adelaide from properly rebuilding through the draft. This means instead of having one team struggling you have 3.
I'm a firm believer that Carlton and Brisbane's rebuilds were made twice as long as they should have been because of the concessions given to Gold Coast
Why would us Tasmanians want a Melbourne team? We already have Melbourne teams playing down here. We want our own team! Donât think Iâve ever even seen a kangaroo down here and Iâve lived here for 30 bloody years!
Not exactly a fan of Caro but Ross calling her naive about helping tourism and unemployment was rude, and probably incorrect. I think it works help tourism and would provide some jobs.
Just expand to 20 already. Tasmania need a stand alone team. After that i'd either have a canberra or a 3rd WA team as the 20th franchise. Moving the roos makes no sense
NT before canberra. Canberra will be no better than gws or gold coast.
@@themaninawhitecoatandhat7503 A third WA would be my preferred of the three, especially with how rapidly Mandurrah and the south west is growing. Canberra just makes sense population wise and would be a one city team.
I cant see NT happening until the eventual expansion to 22
I would go for a 3rd WA team, based in the North side of Perth, called the Northern Crocs, which has direct ties with NT. WA has a high indigenous culture in the north and a lot of mining for sponsorships etc. Could play out of Optus Stadium with sometimes games in Darwin, removing those other clubs from trips up there. Let the north of the country have a team made for them, that they can support - but generally playing and residing in a proper big set up footy town (Perth).
@@debuthunter5389 I can see that working a lot better than a solely NT team
Eddieâs got that Collingwood cap on lol 22 home games. Because 16 isnât enough haha
It seems like a good idea to me, but I'm not Tasmanian.
Question for Tasmanians reading: What if they did Eddie's plan, & called it the ''North Melbourne - Tasmania Kangaroos'', kind of like in NRL, you have the ''St George - Illawarra Dragons'', ''Cronulla - Sutherland Sharks'' etc. Would you support it? Cheers
Eddie Collingwood plays in a stadium without a roof so why do Tasmania need a Stadium with a Roof. Tasmania need their own AFL Team playing half their games in Hobart and half at Launceston. Tasmanians will never support North Melbourne.
As a Tasmanian I would rather watch nothing than North Melbourne.
As a neutral, I loathe everything about this.
North, Western Bulldogs and St. Kilda merger is the way forward for the over saturation of clubs in Victoria and for all 3 of those clubs.
St. Kilda Bulldogs wearing blue and white (or whatever mix you want). 3 struggling clubs united into a superclub with a supporter base that would rival the Big 4, swimming in money, and with enough resources to thrive.
The combined roster would also guarantee immediate short term success to embolden the new team and its supporter base to embrace the transition. Everything worked out pretty well for the Brisbane Lions (3 premierships within 7 years), only this time the team gets to stay in Victoria.
No good Eddie, back to the drawing board
So, now we have 19 teams and each team will have a bye each week.
Are we going to have 20 teams, 21, 22 or 23 teams.
This is ridiculous, when do we say stop, no more
IF..they were to have a team in tassie, surely they would mascot their team as the "devils"..
So in terms of namesake, that would make the blockbuster game the demons vs devil's..
We only want the devils.
As dumb as Eddie sounds, he gets credit for one thing. 19 teams is too much right now. Especially when there doesn't seem to be a long-term strategy for a 20th.
If going off Eddie's theory of merging something into Tasmania, I'd say relocate the (failed venture which is the) entire Gold Coast club down to Tassie and simply rebadge them with the Tassie title (song, mascott and uniform included ofcourse). The current crop of Suns players and staff will eventually retire or transfer to other clubs, and the club will have become for-the-most part, fully local by that point. It's a subtle way of gutting the Suns for good, which most of its club players and staff don't seem to have much loyalty for anyway.
It might not be as special as Tasmania getting a brand new club for itself but ten years down the track nobody will recognise the difference nor care anymore.
talks about lettuce and gas prices because you are so relatable to the average australian aren't you eddie?đđ
Eddie is worth a fortune. He's been buying high end property in Melbourne for years. His media salaries are pocket money in comparison. Good on him. But you're right -- not relatable.
look at him sitting there all noble and resplendent and decrepit.
Hit the nail on the head! The AFL can't afford a new team. Would be economic suicide during the times about to come. I'd say give them more than 11 Tassie games, and relocate them there.
We dont want North. We'll happily become a soccer and basketball state. 700k of us
Good idea but
You risk disenfranchising
North and Tasmania supporters
You will have apple none want.
We donât have the mentality of USA
We love our teams
They are our own
Part of the fabric
Gold Coast and GWS I think were the biggest mistake the AFL did. It's not working, and will never work. Anyone could have seen this.
Having a Tasmanian team I think risks a 3rd interstate club that will be permanently struggling off the field....
Why do the kangaroos always get mentioned. Record membership no debt. I also donât know why the stadium need a roof. In relation to Caros unemployment rate she is wrong Tasmania does not have the highest unemployment rate..
Caro's spot on if a tassie was a powerhouse with of these concessions every afl president would take those away...especially Collingwood.
North are where Melbourne was 8 years ago and it might take another 5 years to get it right...so be it.
If North Melbourne are struggling, then hand the license back and give it to Tassie
How did the first relocation work? When South Melbourne went to Sydney?
Well
Different story. South were guaranteed to fold. Sydney is a huge place and not an AFL place. So it was a case of nothing-to-lose-and-all-to-gain.
Clearly hasnât seen any Utopia episodes. They donât want a new Stadium - they want the Errol Flynn Acting Academy.
Eddie again with the Tasmania team, which I'm all for by the way.
Putting up ideas on Footy Classified is one thing, actually being in a position to do something is another.
Either it's the latter or it may as well be Mike Sheahan standing up there preaching.
Does Eddie ever NOT try to make things about him or Collingwood?
Roos rebuild for the first time in ever and they are all trying to move them again. They have no debt. They donât have to go anywhere.
Logistical nightmare. Band aid solution
Making all the non Victorian teams go to either Melbourne or tassie to play against North Melbourne without them having to leave their tiny corner of Australia is BS. One of the most stupidest things I've heard come out of his mouth, and the fact that none of the three panellist said anything about it is damning. We know Ross Lyon and Caroline is a Eddie Stooge but i would have thought that Matthew would have mentioned that this gives one team a bigger advantage then every other Victorian based club including Eddies beloved Pies, and gives to big an advantage than the other Non-Victorian clubs.
Freo done pain and suffering for 25yrs, cry me a river Eddie
The big clubs donât even go and play in Geelong. How are you going to get them to go to tassie
send collingwood to Tassie. Perfect. Tasmanians love football and so do Collingwood. Collingwood deserve a holiday, how about one year holiday in Tassie, come home in the summer to visit family. Eddie could be the president. Call the club The tasmanian meat pies. Give them $200 player payments. Job done.
Iâm a kangas supporter in WA. Iâd like to see them play in Perth
Free streaming rights to interstate members is a very good idea?
I'd relocate Norf to King island. Make just as much sense as big Ed's hair brained scheme.
Definitely don't want a second hand, hand-me-down team, and Tassie Bombers and Hawks fans likely won't either.
I always think about if we had Hobart hoops or smth
Dear Ed. If this was Collingwood going through what North Melbourne is going through how your fans except this. Good idea, but if Tassie wants a football team then they need to keep trying with the AFL.
Collingwood fans turn up to the games whether they win or lose..
Wrong, Eddie, wrong. Tasmanians donât want a Melbourne team playing âhome gamesâ in their state. Standalone team or nothing.
Tassies want own team, end of story. I wouldnt want North being any part of a Tassie team, why don't you just scrap North and have one Melbourne team
So, this ânewâ but not relocated team is in the national competition- doesnât ever travel to WA to play, never has to face a hostile MCG, Adelaide Oval or SCG and never has to go to South East Queensland. They just play at Marvel and then hop over to their brand new Tassie indoor stadium?