From: psgjf@gamgee.cc.flinders.edu.au (<G.J.Fraser>)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.australian
Subject: Re: Second WA Team!
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:24:38 GMT
Organization: Flinders University

In article <1992Oct2.110734.3375@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> CS19241099G@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (CRAWFORD, TROY) writes:
>
>	Hey footy fans, being a Geelong supporter this will sound like sour
>grapes, but it's not!  What I want to know, is when the hell are the AFL
>going to bring in another team in WA and SA? Sure, the Eagles won the flag -
>good luck to them - but unless something is done soon, eagle v crow grand 
>finals will be all the rage, which is good for the national comp, but 
>considering 11 clubs are victorian, it leaves it a little bare inside the
>state lines.  
>	Fair enough, the AFL are planning to bring in another team, prov-
>ided feasibility reports are positive, but why not just bring in a team from
>Fremantle and another from Adelaide in the next two or three, years and
>start them off with slight concessions, and see how they develop?
>	An envisaged problem is the failure of Brisbane and Sydney and the
>over-abundence of Melbourne clubs! I feel that the AFL needs to show some
>balls if they want to continue the national comp!  Either re-locate or merge
>some teams, and although traditionalists and fans of the teams in question
>will go bananas, it is the only way the national comp will fully develop!
>We need a greater balance of equality nationwide!
>	Sure I may cop some flack over this, but c'mon, it is for the good
>of footy....and no, Geelong shouldn't be one of those teams!
>	Thoughts please?
>
>		Chris....
>
>E-Mail: In%"cs19241099g@lust1.latrobe.edu.au"


I agree that rationalisation  of Melbourne clubs needs to happen if the
League wishes to remain viable and national.  Getting a team from
Tasmania should be a priority.  They wouldn't suffer as have the Bears
and Swans as there is hardly any competition from Rugby and only a little
from Soccer.  A relocated teams from Melbourne may be the way to go if
there are to be no mergers.  Perhaps the Hobart Lions (they did play
games there this year)?  If there is to be reorganisation in Melbourne,
or should that be Victoria, then it would probably be better on regional
grounds (pun intended!) with Geelong, St. Kilda, Essendon and probably
Footscray remaining because of their location.  Carlton, Collingwood and
Melbourne probably because of their support and probably Hawthorn also.
That leaves Fitzroy, North and Richmond.  I've suggested a Fitzroy move
to Tassie.  How about a merger of North with Carlton?  Richmond and
Melbourne?  They both see the MCG as their home.


Melbourne/Richmond
Carlton/North
Footscray
Essendon
Collingwood
St.Kilda
Hawthorn  That's seven in the metropolitan area.
Geelong
Hobart Lions (Fitzroy) The Tassie flag has a red lion on it.
Sydney Swans
Brisbane Bears   Will do much better for support in the city.
Adelaide Crows
West Coast Eagles
Fremantle Doctors? Dolphins?

That is 16 teams and much more national.

Cheers, Geoff
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