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Tasmania FC thread

Decentric said:
One other theme which is arising in discussion, is that football may be the biggest participant sport, but jogging, swimming, cycling, yoga, Pilates, may be 3- 5 times more popular as participation level pastimes than team sport.
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You can jog anywhere, swim in the sea, cycle on the road, do yoga and pilates in your own bedroom... But soccer needs PITCHES! All the physical and mental benefits, for all ages and sexes. We need financing. Who's supporting the game?
 
HappyGuus said:
You can jog anywhere, swim in the sea, cycle on the road, do yoga and pilates in your own bedroom... But soccer needs PITCHES! All the physical and mental benefits, for all ages and sexes. We need financing. Who's supporting the game?
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Was about to say the same, most of those apart from swimming pools don’t require any infrastructure.
 
HappyGuus said:
You can jog anywhere, swim in the sea, cycle on the road, do yoga and pilates in your own bedroom... But soccer needs PITCHES! All the physical and mental benefits, for all ages and sexes. We need financing. Who's supporting the game?
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It is the AFL anti- stadium lobby in its current manifestation ( which I'm part of) pointing out that high participant sports need to be well catered for - as opposed to a low participant sport like AFL.

At the same time many of those proffering these opinions also advocate that football/soccer, league and union have no purpose built stadium. Moreover, that football is the major international game that needs a reasonable purpose built stadium, not AFL needing a more expensive stadium that isn't even suitable for cricket.
 
@Decentric your thoughts. Tassie need to fix their pyramid. They had pro/rel for a season before COVID hit and they ditched it.

That system seemed like a good enough way to get north and south linked to the NPL. Why haven't they brought that back yet? And any word on expansion? They were heading for 10 teams in NPL, but again COVID killed it.

The top teams in the north and south conferences are way too strong not to be in NPL. South East only just lost to South Hobart in the cup. They are easily NPL level. And Northern Rangers are always up there every season.
 
HappyGuus said:
@Decentric your thoughts. Tassie need to fix their pyramid. They had pro/rel for a season before COVID hit and they ditched it.

That system seemed like a good enough way to get north and south linked to the NPL. Why haven't they brought that back yet? And any word on expansion? They were heading for 10 teams in NPL, but again COVID killed it.

The top teams in the north and south conferences are way too strong not to be in NPL. South East only just lost to South Hobart in the cup. They are easily NPL level. And Northern Rangers are always up there every season.
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I'm a bit out of the loop to proffer an opinion, HG.

It might change as I attend more NPL games.
 
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