Hawthorn renamed - The Tassie Hawks

[Chewy]

This news is the best thing to happen to Big Footy since Chris Tarrant.

Jokes and hysteria aside, reading this thread has highlighted Jeff Kennett's arrogance and thick-headedness. Did they not see any possible backlash to this news? Surely they could've handled this situation better than springing it on the Hawk faithful with little or no forewarning. The cloak and dagger approach has only served to add fuel to the alarmists' fire.

Misinformation and confusion reigns.... Jeffed again!

I guess its like selling 4 nights every year with your wife to the tassie premier for 15M....

yeah, laugh all the way to the bank .....

anyone ever see indecent proposal?

How on earth are Footscray - sorry, the Western Dogs going to win a premiership when they can only afford to pay their players 90% of their salary cap? And that's with an AFL handout.

I'd rather sell my wife for $15 million than my mother for 2 cents.

 

[Chewy]

I've just head the news - is this jumper for real? The brown and yellow are already ugly - but this jumper is awful.

I'm a bit confused - Will Hawthorn be known in the official AFL fixture/ladder etc as "Hawthorn" or "Tassie Hawks"? If it is still Hawthorn, then what's the big deal? It would be dreadful to win a flag and have "Tassie Hawks" engraved on the cup.

I didn't really like us having "Kangaroos" engraved on the 1999 cup, would have preferred "NM". I guess it's a nice dilemma to have.

Is your name fusion because you're a nuclear scientist?

 

[BUBBALOUIS]

If so next years fixtures will have the Tassie Hawks written on them.

please enlighten us oh wise one. Does this years fixture and ladder refer to Collingwood or Lexus? Does it refer to Hawthorn or HSBC? dOES IT REFER TO fORD OR gEELONG?

You must have some inside information that the rest of us dont to know that thats what the fixture will refer to us as

Please , please , please keep up your jubilation in trying to rip down a Victorian club, but dont sprout complete lies

 

[Punt_Road_Roar]

please enlighten us oh wise one. Does this years fixture and ladder refer to Collingwood or Lexus? Does it refer to Hawthorn or HSBC? dOES IT REFER TO fORD OR gEELONG?

You must have some inside information that the rest of us dont to know that thats what the fixture will refer to us as

Please , please , please keep up your jubilation in trying to rip down a Victorian club, but dont sprout complete lies

LOL

Hey I heard a rumour that after the four years is up the Tassie Government want the same deal but next time will also want you to change the brown in your jumper for green.

But hey to you that would be fine because youll get more $$$$ for it.

Good luck with your relocation

Go Tassie !!!

 

[Chewy]

Well summed up. Having lived in Tassie for 6 months last year, I just can't see how their economy could support a full time team. If they can sell out every game and buy a heap of memberships over the next five years, then that may change, but I can't see it happening.

Hawthorn, Melbourne, North and Footscray have all bein proactive in trying to bring in more revenue to try to ensure their survival in VICTORIA. I've yet to find a passionate supporter of any of these four teams that genuinely want their team to relocate or end up like Fitzroy.

It would be negligent to not try new things (North experimented with Friday night footy, developing corporate sponsorship in the 70s, coming up with a Grand Final Breakfast, playing home games in Sydney, then Canberra, and now Gold Coast, renaming the club for broader appeal, playing in ugly orange and white jumpers for sponsorship etc)

Most people say that the Vic market is saturated, and cannot support the current number of teams, so the poorer clubs have to look at playing a few games elsewhere unfortunately. The big clubs will always be powerful and attract better sponsors. The little clubs like North and Footscray will always be fighting for survival, having to experiment. I'm happy with the way things are - it would be an uninteresting competition if there were no underdogs, and it was just the current 6 interstate teams and 4 powerful Vic teams.

One of the more sensible posts in the entire thread.

Apologies Fusion. Maybe you are a nuclear scientist.

 

[Philhawk]

What is the general feeling about this amongst Hawks fans?

My thoughts,

**** YOU JEFF.

 

[BUBBALOUIS]

LOL

Hey I heard a rumour that after the four years is up the Tassie Government want the same deal but next time will also want you to change the brown in your jumper for green.

But hey to you that would be fine because youll get more $$$$ for it.

Good luck with your relocation

Go Tassie !!!

oh well if all else fails we can rattle some tins ..... oh wait some other team did that didnt they?

 

[buddy23]

I would have rathered an AFL payout - Carlton is broke, but at least it hasn't sold out its supporters.

 

[ManWithNoName]

3 mobile Bombers along with the Essendon team is embarrassing, Tassie Hawks is better than HSBC Hawks.

Also why are Melbourne fans so eager to give crap over this, its feels like a beggar laughing at your new suit.

We don't refer to ourselves as the 3 Mobile Bombers thankyou very much. We're a competent club, not one that has to whore itself out.

 

[MadDawg]

That`s all you could come up with ? Embarassing.

So much material with Essendon these days its hard to know where to start, a bit tired on a Friday sorry.

 

[Chewy]

If that is the case its doing a bloody good job disguising how it is doing a seriously large slice of that right here. For some reason people think that a city of the size of Geelong and basically Ford works fine but Hobart and Cadbury's wont. I am not saying for one second I am happy with what has transpired here, particularly as a tax payer, but those who assume Tassie hasnt got at least the equivalent base in terms of population and industry that Geelong has are misguided. FFS we get 20,000+ to a game in Launcestion which is almost one third the size of Hobart.

It can certainly support its own AFL side if it got serious, moved it to Hobart and actively sought backing, but the AFL dont want that, they'd prefer untested waters in Qld to a smaller fry of already die hard AFL support they knwo they dont need to win over.

Sounds like a bit of the old north/south, Hobart sour grapes.

Launceston is a one hour flight from Melbourne and centrally located within an easy drive of all the north coast towns like Devonport and Burnie. Hobart is also only a couple of hours drive away.

Good onya Thylacine! Keep sucking those lemons!

 

[MadDawg]

We don't refer to ourselves as the 3 Mobile Bombers thankyou very much. We're a competent club, not one that has to whore itself out.

3 mobile are your naming rights sponsor. HSBC used to be our naming rights sponsor but we dont refer to ourselves as that either.

 

[SurreyBlue]

Love it. Tasmania has officially got a side.
4 "home games in Tassie" and 7 "away games in Victoria".!
Next wait for the Gold Coast Kangaroos.

 

[Tim the Toolman]

Tassie Hawks....Hawthorn the family club....well now they've got the biggest family of all to support them!

 

[jacqui9]

I am a Southerner - used to love seeing the AFL exhibition matches at North Hobart Oval.

I am stoked this has happened. Despite having lived in Adelaide for nearly seven years, I was born and raised in Tasmania so still consider myself Tasmanian.

The Tasmanian people are just as passionate about Aussie Rules than the Vics or the Croweaters. So I am very happy.

Well Done Hawthorn.

 

[Geddy Lee]

So where am I going to see Hawthorn being called the Tassie Hawks? At the Tasmanian venue? Or everywhere? Or nowhere?

 

[dmc333]

Sponsorship. Tourism sponsorship. Nothing to see, move along.

 

[windyhill]

So much material with Essendon these days its hard to know where to start, a bit tired on a Friday sorry.

That`s better.

 

[hutstar]

I think this is a huge win for the Hawks. They get to buid a brand in another state withourt actually relocating!
Sure, a bit of identity crisis might happen early, but in the long run the Hawks will still be Hawthorn, with a bit of market diversification. Good play.

 

[SA HAWK]

What is the general feeling about this amongst Hawks fans?

Doesn't bother me too much as i live in sa. Financially it sounds like a great deal which will ensure a secure financial future.

If i lived in melbourne and we don't get the games at the mcg we have asked for i would be pretty dirty.

I will support the team whatever they do. Even if they do eventually move to tassie which i don't think will happen.

 

[MadDawg]

That`s better.

Thankyou, you can also catch me performing at various other forums on the internet.

 

[Sedition]

LOL

Thirdly, for a relocation or an official change of name to occur - i.e. NOT HSBC Hawthorn Hawks, but HSBC Hawks, we would need 75% of the membership base to agree with the boards decision.

As it stands we have 28,000 members - which is decent considering we only had 6 home games last season, if a relocation or merger was up for proposal you could pretty much add another 10,000 fans to that membership figure wanting a vote - I'm the only member in a family of 20-30 Hawthorn supporters, like in 1996 they would sign up in a flash to get a vote on the club's existence.

For a relocation or name change to occur the board would require 22-30,000 members to agree with them. Going on 1996, you would be lucky to get 3,000

Yer - but wat happens if 10 000 hawks fans drop their membership over this and 20 000 tasmanians take up membership?

A membership of 30 000 - 20 000 being Tasmanians.

 

[Cassius_Clay]

Just announced on SEN

Jeff Kennett press conference at 2pm

Pathetic.

 

[Kingpin]

Tas Govt buys Hawks' naming rights

The Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon says the Hawthorn Football Club will be known as the Tassie Hawks from next season.

The Tasmanian Government has announced a five-year deal to become the club's official naming rights sponsor.

The Mr Lennon says $3 million-a-year deal has bought Tasmania naming rights and blanket promotion at all Hawthorn home matches at the MCG.

As expected, four games a year will be played at York Park in Launceston with at least two against other Melbourne-based clubs.

Mr Lennon says the money will not come from tourism funding but cannot be more specific about the budgetary arrangements.

Hawthorn's vice-president Martin Ralston says the deal means the Tasmanian Government will be providing about a quarter of the club's revenue.

-ABC.net

Pity the Lennon Government won't spend the money where it's REALLY needed - like the crumbling, chaos ridden Health System in the state. Pathetic.

 

[rodogs]

This news is the best thing to happen to Big Footy since Chris Tarrant.

Jokes and hysteria aside, reading this thread has highlighted Jeff Kennett's arrogance and thick-headedness. Did they not see any possible backlash to this news? Surely they could've handled this situation better than springing it on the Hawk faithful with little or no forewarning. The cloak and dagger approach has only served to add fuel to the alarmists' fire.

Misinformation and confusion reigns.... Jeffed again!




How on earth are Footscray - sorry, the Western Dogs going to win a premiership when they can only afford to pay their players 90% of their salary cap? And that's with an AFL handout.

I'd rather sell my wife for $15 million than my mother for 2 cents.

thats cause you're a mummies boy - we play 100% of salary cap **** weed