Today I learned Launceston had its own NBL franchise for three years! AND WE WON THEE NBL SEASON IN 1981! GOAT NBL TEAM!

[Jazny]

Launceston Casino City - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

No wonder the AFL don't want us to have an AFL team. They fear us! Launceston City! We exist to win premierships! (or whatever they are called in basketball)... unlike Port who exist to embarrass themselves and go 0-5 and 119!

 

[zackah]

Pretty embarrassing you don't know your home town's history really Couldn't you just ask anyone that lives there?

Surely you see them all at family xmas get-togethers?

 

[Jazny]

Pretty embarrassing you don't know your home town's history really Couldn't you just ask anyone that lives there?

Surely you see them all at family xmas get-togethers?

I have been locked in my grandparents attic all of my life!

How would I know about something that happened way before I was born in a boring sport that nobody cared about until the Jackjumpers came along and started beating everyone?? Maybe Launceston won in bowls or darts or some other sports that is also mostly played by ugly people!! It does not change the fact that we are the GOAT basketball team! They had to fold us because we were humiliating the league.

 

[HAPPY CHEFFY]

 

[Crabapplepittard]

Seriously mate just **** off with this shit.

 

[Jazny]

Seriously mate just fu** off with this shit.

Why is the 1981 Adelaide poster melting all over my thread?

Oh wait, I remember!

 

[FurTheWin]

They had to fold us because we were humiliating the league.

The number of unused chairs in your photo tells a different story

 

[NetworkNerd]

Won the final against Nunawading... Do titles won in the era of players who were plumbers or bricklayers even count?

 

[hawkman]

So despite winning a title they ended up folding a year later anyway. Can see why the AFL don't want to put a team in Tasmania

 

[Haduken]

odd wiki suggests it was the Canberra Cannons who won that year Not Launceston..

List of NBL champions - Wikipedia

I was a kid who had just moved to Canberra with my family.The Cannons were a really big deal back then. Phil Smythe and Andy Campbell

 

[Wallaby]

The number of unused chairs in your photo tells a different story

Not to mention the fact that one of the 'club officials' at the pennant unfolding is wearing an Oakland Raiders shirt. Which was probably more interesting for the locals at the time.

 

[Purple Suit]

Not to mention the fact that one of the 'club officials' at the pennant unfolding is wearing an Oakland Raiders shirt. Which was probably more interesting for the locals at the time.

You mean LA Raiders, it’s 1981

 

[MAXIMUM GRUNDAGE]

I learned there was once a St Kilda Saints in the NBL and they've won twice as many Premierships as their AFL counterpart.

 

[Wallaby]

You mean LA Raiders, it’s 1981

Oakland Raiders. They didn't move to LA until 1982.

 

[Jazny]

So despite winning a title they ended up folding a year later anyway. Can see why the AFL don't want to put a team in Tasmania

You mean LA Raiders, it’s 1981

That photo was taken recently after the banner was stolen and recovered again!

 

[Jazny]

Seriously mate just fu** off with this shit.

Why do you wish to be an evil person? You are allowed to be nice for once!!

 

[Purple Suit]

That photo was taken recently after the banner was stolen and recovered again!

Was it stolen by the Perth Wildcats? They seem to have nearly every other one so should be the prime suspect.

 

[Biggy_Boy]

Launceston Casino City was the second of three NBL clubs who would use the Tigers moniker (INCORRECT). The Launceston Casino City was never the Tigers, the others being the Adelaide based Glenelg Tigers who played in 1979, and the Melbourne Tigers who played from 1984–2014 before becoming Melbourne United.

Great article. You know it's important when even Wikipedia doesn't tell you to fix it.

 

[Jazny]

Was it stolen by the Perth Wildcats? They seem to have nearly every other one so should be the prime suspect.

Why did Launceston humiliate them when they were allowed in the league?

 

[Stronzo]

I think you’ll find that’s from some kind of Tassie inbred league.

 

[Purple Suit]

Why did Launceston humiliate them when they were allowed in the league?

Wildcats entered in 1982 and Launceston never won another flag. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[Jazny]

Wildcats entered in 1982 and Launceston never won another flag. Coincidence? I think not.

Not a coincidence, Wildcats cried and made the NBL fold Launceston so they didnt have any decent competition.

 

[Baldur]

I endured a couple of hours in Launceston once. This film has nothing on Launceston for two hours.

 

[Jazny]

I endured a couple of hours in Launceston once. This film has nothing on Launceston for two hours.

Please stop embarrassing yourself. You could have went to the basin!

 

[Purple Suit]

Not a coincidence, Wildcats cried and made the NBL fold Launceston so they didnt have any decent competition.

They were so upset that in 1987 they vowed to never miss finals again which 35 years later they are still upholding.