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The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

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MugaB said:
Hahahaha, geez its pretty easy to get a ticket to watch and AFL game (GWS) in canberra or western sydney, not so much in the state of WA
They'll pull from that well again
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Maybe in a decade or two when we hit 3million but at the moment both clubs here are quite happy with profits and large fanbases. Diluting with a third club for no obvious gain makes little sense. Dockers are drawing from South of city and Eagles adequately cover the North and beyond.
There has been media talk of a club based in the North (Joondalup area) but they would be directly pulling from Eagles fanbase so cant see the eagles allowing that.
Canberra is the only obvious choice though it does damage GWS who dont need any more shrinkage.
 
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Perth Red said:
Maybe in a decade or two when we hit 3million but at the moment both clubs here are quite happy with profits and large fanbases. Diluting with a third club for no obvious gain makes little sense. Dockers are drawing from South of city and Eagles adequately cover the North and beyond.
There has been media talk of a club based in the North (Joondalup area) but they would be directly pulling from Eagles fanbase so cant see the eagles allowing that.
Canberra is the only obvious choice though it does damage GWS who dont need any more shrinkage.
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Ok, well we'll have to see then
 
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Perth Red said:
Maybe in a decade or two when we hit 3million but at the moment both clubs here are quite happy with profits and large fanbases. Diluting with a third club for no obvious gain makes little sense. Dockers are drawing from South of city and Eagles adequately cover the North and beyond.
There has been media talk of a club based in the North (Joondalup area) but they would be directly pulling from Eagles fanbase so cant see the eagles allowing that.
Canberra is the only obvious choice though it does damage GWS who dont need any more shrinkage.
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canberraweekly.com.au

ACT Government locks in 10-year $28m extension with the Giants | Canberra Daily

The ACT Government has extended its agreement with the AFL and the GWS Giants for a further 10 years in a deal worth $2.85 per annum. Under the
canberraweekly.com.au canberraweekly.com.au

www.gwsgiants.com.au

GIANTS Announce Landmark Long-Term Partnership Extension with ACT Government

The GIANTS have extended their partnership with the ACT Government.
www.gwsgiants.com.au www.gwsgiants.com.au

GWS has a ten year $28m agreement with the ACT Government to continue to play at Manuka Oval until 2032.
 
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Perth Red said:
Maybe in a decade or two when we hit 3million but at the moment both clubs here are quite happy with profits and large fanbases. Diluting with a third club for no obvious gain makes little sense. Dockers are drawing from South of city and Eagles adequately cover the North and beyond.
There has been media talk of a club based in the North (Joondalup area) but they would be directly pulling from Eagles fanbase so cant see the eagles allowing that.
Canberra is the only obvious choice though it does damage GWS who dont need any more shrinkage.
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The options for team 20 that get discussed in Aussie Rules circles are Canberra, NT/NT and Cairns in a "Northern Australia team", Perth, Adelaide, Auckland, and Brisbane as a possible smokey.

You can basically rule the NT, NZ, and Brisbane out. Despite the popular media support for it, the NT/Northern Australia stuff is a pipedream. If Auckland/NZ is explored as an option it will almost certainly fall apart in the early stages of business planning unless there's significantly more broadcaster interest for AFL content in NZ than anyone reasonable suspects. And though the AFL wants a second Brisbane side to happen, and will almost certainly look at it behind the scenes, a second Brisbane side would be even more expensive and less stable than GWS and the Suns at the moment, and there just isn't any will for another project like at the moment.

That leaves Canberra, Perth, and Adelaide as the only realistic options.

The GWS deal isn't a major concern or road block to Canberra getting it's own side as pretty much everyone who pays attention can see that Canberra's situation with GWS is becoming increasingly toxic. Both sides of the fanbase are becoming increasingly resentful of the other, and as a result this current deal will almost certainly be the last no matter what happens.
The real road blocks to Canberra getting it's own side is the lack of an AFL standard stadium in Canberra, and the fact that it'd almost certainly be another expensive expansion project that would need to be heavily underwritten to survive just like GWS, the Suns, Lions, and now Tasmania.

Adelaide and Perth, especially Perth, are seen as markets where you could plonk a team down tomorrow and it'd more or less support it's self from day dot without the need for much interference or support from the AFL, and that's a very attractive prospect to a lot of the AFL's stakeholders, especially the other clubs.

Anyway, that's basically the lowdown of the current AFL expansion debate, and currently I'd put my money on Perth getting the 20th team if I was a betting man.
 
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Steel Saints said:
canberraweekly.com.au

ACT Government locks in 10-year $28m extension with the Giants | Canberra Daily

The ACT Government has extended its agreement with the AFL and the GWS Giants for a further 10 years in a deal worth $2.85 per annum. Under the
canberraweekly.com.au canberraweekly.com.au

www.gwsgiants.com.au

GIANTS Announce Landmark Long-Term Partnership Extension with ACT Government

The GIANTS have extended their partnership with the ACT Government.
www.gwsgiants.com.au www.gwsgiants.com.au

GWS has a ten year $28m agreement with the ACT Government to continue to play at Manuka Oval until 2032.
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The AFL's next broadcast deal starts in 2025 and finishes in 2031, and is reported to have a clause in it for expansion to a 19th team. The broadcast rights and GWS's deal with Canberra ending at about the same time seems to have been planned by the AFL so that one can lead seamlessly into the other.

It's unlikely that the Tasmanian side will join the league until roughly 2028, and the expansion to a 20th team will be included as part of the next broadcast deal, meaning that the 20th team almost certainly won't enter the comp until some time in the early 2030s. That leaves Tasmania a few years to get established, then the GWS deal runs out just in time for Canberra to enter a standalone team in the early 2030s if the AFL chooses to expand to Canberra.
 
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But wait there’s even more state and federal money for the other stadium In tasmania (another 130 million between them )
 
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