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Hey all, As the title says. I've only got one, but I might be back. I'm writing several books on Tasmanian football and want a ridiculous amount of detail... Presently, I'm putting together the carnival teams for 1924 in Hobart, and I've got the players' clubs identified except for one guy...

This is one of my favourite absolutely pointless but fascinating time wasting topics...! 4 billion years of life struggling to grow on this rock, and all it would take is one reaction in the sun to produce a super sized solar flare that hits the Earth and that's it, the planet is sterilised in...

No religion whatsoever. It's my conundrum as someone who also backs choice. Thing is, humanity trumps certain freedoms...my choice is to go kill someone, but sorry, they tell me I can't do that...my freedom to hard all of my well earned cash is compromised by taxation and assistance... So for...

Can be, certainly gets a headline from those who want it to push an agenda. However, it's also a statement of fact if you also consider that this discrimination is a hard-wired human characteristic coming from the most basic survival instinct, a distrust of those outside the tribe...every...

Hmmm...there are exceptions, but it kinda does, actually...! The "right" comes from the original French Court definition, where the King's most trusted men would stand on his right and back him rigidly...the left more likely to disagree. So the right backs the establishment, therefore "the way...

How does that stack up in the 21st century, when we can actually dig a child from the womb and artificially support it from a point significantly before that? Tellingly, you've used the word "can"...child mortality is a thing, obviously, and our medical knowledge is designed to save life in a...

Had this conversation with my wife only last night, after our son-in-law said he was going to keep his Ned Kelly beard but shave his head and she said "you'll look like a Muslim!"...he said "that's racist", and then of course the usual M-in-law v S-in-law battle that's gone on since cavemen...

I don't even pretend that I could properly empathise with the women in this position, so I don't bang on about pro-life or pro-abortion.....unlike just about everything else, I know when to shut up... I will only ever ask one question though, because the answer is there - when is the exact...

Got a few somewhere which got turned into DVD, and then stripped again...

I recorded the last quarter of the Sandy Bay game in 1995 which was drawn...I'll have a look...

Cavemen ate fruit. They lit fires at night and dismembered the remaining parts of the gazelle they killed and turned them into weapons, jumpers, bait and musical instruments (ever wondered where the term catgut violin strings came from? There's a distant origins story)... Not much else to do...

Billions of years ago, a Mars sized body collided with Earth and the resultant debris formed our moon. If that body hit the Earth minutes either side, it would have collided differently and more or less debris would have affected the moon's size, rotational speed and distance from Earth... The...

What's been proven twice now is that Tasmanians will back the side. We just saw 200k people sign their names as members...of course, $10 each will do that, but they expected 40k and lived in hope... The other time was those Devils years. It happened quickly in 2001 because Statewide folded...

Stadium will need paying for. Why people aren't adopting the attitude "fill that stadium every week" is beyond me. It should be the 21st century's equivalent of VFL Park and a major part of the government's tourism budget... 24 weeks, 7 Devils matches...then get clever and work out a costing...

When are we up to the stage of being able to buy Devils car seat covers? I'm driving around with a Devils head bumper sticker and Hawk covers which are worn out from the NQ sun...

Dad's side of the family are mostly swampies from Invermay, so if you know what that means you'll understand they all barrack for North Launceston and that's a big thing in this family! However, Mum's isn't, and somehow a few of us slipped through the cracks and became East Launceston...

Mighty Cascade Tasmanian Tigers have the two lowest scoring scalps in ODD history now, to go with that you beaut 32 all out NSW managed a couple of years ago...nothing better than bitchslapping mainlanders...Tigers, Jackjumpers, can't wait for the footy team to give us the chance 52 weeks a...

And right here, Danman, it's all spelt out...these two teams are already in the Premier division...

I'd go back to 1879 as well if necessary, because it "backs up my claims" (which are historically factual and pretty much the story of Tasmanian football...got some gaps there you need to fill in your own head, bud, and if you want to argue any of this historical stuff with me, good luck...!)...

No more crazy than your conspiracy theory - I'd argue my idea is better than your vision of a dystopian future, amd tou already agree with most of it...! Four team comps: Huon, Kingborough before the 1967 bushfires made them join Huon, TFL, NTFA, NWFU, NWFU East, NWFU West, CHFA, KIFA when they...

In the decades before the 1970's, when football interest in the state was at its all-time highest, most of the comps were running around with four teams, and those teams paid for themselves... This comp, though, has two things dead against it: 1) No one watches local footy. 2) Numbers playing...

Use your words, bud.

Should be a four team comp. Three Launcestons and Longford...

1) You would have lost heaps. That doesn't mean all but it does mean enough, and the AFL saw, through trial and then error, that it wouldn't be a great idea... 2) How do you justify an equal cut when you don't have an equal playing field? Your figures come from the most privileged mind! Let's...

Huge start by the Eagles that season. After they thrashed the Hawks in round 7 though, their numbers for the rest of the season were inferior, so they'd been caught up to well before the finals. In 1992, they only spent three weeks in the entire season in the top 3, were out of the six midway...

Nah...not seeing a trend. The team in 1996, 2006, 2016, and now 2022-24 changed each time, different eras...it's just coincidence... What happened this season though - Sydney racked up the numbers to get to 11-1, and then they started getting blunted. They were quite insipid at times...

The Hawks were favourites in that GF. They were thrashed at Princes Park, but treated the return game in Perth as a recon mission which completely set them up for what really was an upset, their win in the QF again in Perth. By this point, it was the same old premiership minded Hawks, and once...

The "market" is the TV product. This is the only reason why my avatar is now a Devil's eye! All 18 sides contribute to the 9 game product, and tv deems it to be worth more than $4b. Every team gets a cut, and because what was a hypothetical 19th franchise would get some of that too, once the...

The pivotal moment was the mid-80's threat to the VFL of liquidation. There had been literally decades of chat about expanding into a national comp, and Barassi was quoted as saying he thought it should have happened in the 1960's. From the 1970's, the rationale was very soccer-like - keep...

It's hard not to enjoy the hype from my angle (still a Hawk for the moment!), but there have been many teams in the past labelled as a sure thing from lower finals and they've always ended up short, with the fairly glorious exception of the Dogs... Port were absolute shite, and the Hawks looked...