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AFL unveil home ground for its second Sydney team
THE AFL will today make a bold incursion into rugby league's heartland with the unveiling of the home ground for its second team in western Sydney.
AFL boss Andrew Demetriou will be at Rooty Hill today to reveal the first look of a new $30 million stadium for the western Sydney team.
It is only a small project they're working on ($30 million, 10,000 seat capacity) as a joint venture between the AFL and the local council (Blacktown)- It's an interesting approach though, and another addition to the AFL's stadium ownership strategy someone posted on a couple of months ago.
Essendon have Windy Hill, West Sydney welcomes you to Rooty Hill
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Sydney's new team will be the proud tenants of a nice new round.
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A far cry from the AFL trying to buy Homebush a little while ago.
Rooty Hill. nice. Why does Sydney get two teams, I thought it was a Gold Coast team
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It is. There are plans for 2 new AFL teams in the next 5 or 6 years
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They are setting up a Gold Coast team, with the Sydney team suppossed to start the next year. I feel sorry for Tasmania getting the rough end of all of this- I know they're only small but still reckon it'd be easier to get a decent crowd of Tasmanians to support a team of thier own than relying on the disaffected mungo supporters of Western Sydney.
I'm assuming they've managed to organise a siren that everyone can hear in the last couple of years.
i wouldn't have thought the locals would care
the debt owned by the ANZ in the stadium would have still ben owned by ANZ so one of the AFL's investors, namely NAB didn't see it as a good idea. (according to something i read anyway)
The Tasmanians aren't happy with it, but the AFL is keen to conquer the biggest market in Australia apparently, regardless of how much they have to spend to do it. The Swans have only recently (last 10ish years) been able to carve out their own corner in the Market so i dare say they may be concered about this as well. The theres AFL in the mindset that they can still get a club to move to Tasmania, probably St Kilda or Hawthorn. Their canning the "Competitve Allowance" handout that allows some Melbourne teams to keep their head's just above water so the AFL is playing hardball with it's established clubs let alont any possible new locations.
They are a touch, but playing hardball with their own "Heartland" won't win them friends. Apparently to idea of a "Celtic" club that was indicated in Saturdays paper had Eddie McGuire up in arms, but that possibly was becasue Collingwood are using Ireland as their own little scouting area at the moment