Cubs2Lions
Norm Smith Medallist
Always thought a Northern Kangaroos team would be fascinating in the competition with their 5 biggest home matches being played in Melbourne while the rest up in Darwin / Alice Springs so it could help the club have an increased fanbase and financial situation in two different states and the sport would have a foothold in NT without committing full-time.7 game Darwin deal would be good, yes. Anyone got a billion to offer North?
Yeah I think NQ and Newcastle are unlikely.
Itāll probably be WA3 and either no more teams after that or not a 21st for 50 more years.
Ideally Iād like ACT, NT and NQ.
The other issue with WA3 is lack of draft zoning. A lot of WA players play over east. With a 3rd WA team, if they donāt put in a mechanism to keep more WA players from going interstate then itāll weaken the teams even more, not that the AFL give a s**t.
But after all, this is the AFL and they are more interested in greed than growth, just look at the Tassie debacle.
Donāt understand the hype behind WA3 tbh as the 20th entity and will probably be a Perth ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦. located in the Northern metro areas and would play all their matches in the shiny new Perth stadium for $$$$$$$$ as why would want officials wanna name a club called Joondalup when they can just name it something much more simpler.
Same with the hype of SA3 (Norwood), but because I live in Adelaide that I wouldnāt mind another club for more footy in the state alone even though it wouldnāt benefit any other states in the meanwhile.
Still think if Manuka Oval gets redeveloped or new Civic stadium built into a 20-25k stadium, Canberra would be my preference but they really need to kick GWS out of Canberra and play in their own state before any serious considerations are in place for ACT.