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Tasmania is once again receiving the sh*tty end of the stick with plans for the afl to introduce 2 new teams, one coming from Sydneys west, the other from Queenslands Gold Coast.
Tasmania has produced champions in Australian rules football time and time again, yet the AFL will not give Tasmanians what they have craved for decades, that being a team in the national competition.
This really has to be the time that rugby league, in particular the NRL, takes full advantage of this situation and starts promoting rugby league in Tasmania with a view to winning them over to the game of rugby league.
What the hell, why not give them a few NRL games a year played down there and for one year, being 2012, play an extra state of origin game there to give Tasmanians a first hand look at how great the game of rugby league is.
The NRL should also get down there at grass roots level and get the game being played in schools.
For all the knockers of this idea out there if rugby league can be successful in Melbourne it sure as hell can be successful in Tasmania if promoted and the game is strucured correctly.
Tasmania has produced champions in Australian rules football time and time again, yet the AFL will not give Tasmanians what they have craved for decades, that being a team in the national competition.
This really has to be the time that rugby league, in particular the NRL, takes full advantage of this situation and starts promoting rugby league in Tasmania with a view to winning them over to the game of rugby league.
What the hell, why not give them a few NRL games a year played down there and for one year, being 2012, play an extra state of origin game there to give Tasmanians a first hand look at how great the game of rugby league is.
The NRL should also get down there at grass roots level and get the game being played in schools.
For all the knockers of this idea out there if rugby league can be successful in Melbourne it sure as hell can be successful in Tasmania if promoted and the game is strucured correctly.