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.
As one of the people building Tasmania’s AFL expansion club,which will reveal its colours and identity on Monday,Jack Riewoldt does not have to look far to find a blueprint for building a successful team from scratch.
The executive director of the new Tasmanian club says it will soon launch its nickname and colours ahead of the team’s planned AFL entry in 2028.
A review of how players move clubs,the struggles of the expansion teams,Hawthorn’s ongoing cultural probe and a pair of underperforming clubs looking to reboot their premiership aspirations loom as key issues in the AFL in 2024.
The former premier says Australia’s most wealthy and successful sporting code has crossed the line. Gillon McLachlan was clearly irked by this.
Just weeks after walking off the MCG for the final time as a Richmond footballer,Jack Riewoldt has officially changed his colours,becoming the first employee of the Tasmanian Football Club.