Give us our game back Andrew 5
September 21st 2008 07:59
Hi Andrew,
For your convenience, I have collected a few comments from people who don't agree with your decision to grant an AFL expansion franchise to western Sydney, where nobody wants it, and refuse one to Tasmania, where everyone wants it.
So here, in case you missed some of them, are a few opinions opposite to yours. Just one suggestion: you may find it conducive to comprehension if you pull your head out of the sand before reading them.
"One thing is certain. The AFL can never call itself a truly national competition until Tasmania is included."
Editorial, Mercury newspaper, Hobart
"(Starting an AFL team in western Sydney) would be like me trying to start a rugby league side in Geelong."
Michael Leary, chief executive of Penrith Panthers
"It took at least a dozen years for the Swans to become a viable team and it could take at least as long for a western Sydney team."
Saul Eslake, chief economist of ANZ
"We are in the process of actually putting another rugby league academy in the (western Sydney) area. It's a very strong rugby league area."
Michael Leary, chief executive of Penrith Panthers
"It is all about money and it shouldn't be all about money. The game is a profession to some, but to the vast majority it is a leisure pursuit."
Lucinda Sharp, Melbourne psychologist and sports performance specialist
"There is a romantic notion that is perpetuated about having a team (in Tasmania). But I think we would do a great disservice by relocating a team here that would be unsustainable."
Andrew Demetriou, chief executive of the AFL
"Crap."
250,000 Tasmanians
"Crap."
58% of Victorians polled by The Sunday Age newspaper in March 2008
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