Tasmanian AFL Bid - AFL Arguments Against A Tasmanian Side

AFL Arguments Against A Tasmanian Side

There are a number of factors for the AFL's dismissal of Tasmanian AFL bids. However some of these arguments have an inherent conflict of interest which is noted by many commentators. As a result, the AFL's official stance has been to cite population, sponsorship interest, financial viability and regional rivalries.

Read more about this topic:  Tasmanian AFL Bid

Famous quotes containing the words arguments and/or side:

    There is no assurance of the great fact in question [namely, immortality]. All the arguments are mere probabilities, analogies, fancies, whims. We believe, or disbelieve, or are in doubt according to our own make-up—to accidents, to education, to environment. For myself, I do not reach either faith or belief ... that I—the conscious person talking to you—will meet you in the world beyond—you being yourself a conscious person—the same person now reading what I say.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    He killed the noble Mudjokivis.
    Of the skin he made him mittens,
    Made them with the fur side inside,
    Made them with the skin side outside.
    He, to get the warm side inside,
    Put the inside skin side outside;
    Rev. George A. Strong (1832–1912)