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Tasmania’s AFL ultimatum is the right move, but it places the entire sport in Tasmania at risk – ABC News
If the AFL doesn’t blink, how does Tasmania replace Hawthorn and North Melbourne? And what could the departure of the two Victorian clubs mean for Tasmanian football,…
Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein believes his ultimatum to the AFL presents Tasmanians with the ultimate win-win and he’s probably right.
Either the AFL gives Tasmania a date for entry to the league, or the State Government cuts funding to Hawthorn and North Melbourne, leaving multi-million-dollar holes in their balance sheets.
It’s a threat from the pen of a Premier in charge of a state that no longer has anything to lose, and a scenario the AFL surely doesn’t want to see happen.
But if the goal…
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