Tasmania needs the roofed stadium so that it can have a team in the AFL,but the venue has been designed to offer the state so much more.
Tasmania Devils executive director Kath McCann was the brainchild behind the club’s $10 memberships,which have already attracted 195,000 members.
Chris Scott might have been given a licence by league headquarters to discuss the big issues,such as holding the ball decisions,but his Cats have more to worry about.
Brendon Gale has been announced as the inaugural CEO of the Tasmania Devils,Carlton’s Nic Newman is free to take on Sydney he was fined for a high bump on Alex Neal-Bullen,while injury-hit Collingwood will be without Jamie Elliott against West Coast.
A Northern Territory club could join the AFL within a decade and play at a multipurpose 20,000-capacity stadium in Darwin,NT powerbrokers say.
The Tasmania Devils have a clear target when it comes to who they want to build their inaugural list.
AFL heavyweights West Coast have become the easybeats of the competition,and a club great fears there is more pain to come yet.
As the competition has expanded to include a national women’s league and soon 19 teams,veteran club bosses have lamented the dearth of emerging off-field leaders across the competition.
The Devils have pulled in more than 100,000 members since Monday. The moral here is not just about the volume – which is greater by far than the AFL or the new club had anticipated – but the rush in which they arrived.
The inaugural chairman of the AFL’s 19th club said he was always going to fight American corporate juggernaut Warner Bros. Discovery for the use of the Devils’ moniker.
Tasmanians will come together to celebrate the birth of their own team,revealing the jumper and their nickname at a range of locations around the state and one in Victoria.