Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire believes there’s a “consortium” already in place trying to make Perth dwelling to a possible twentieth AFL staff.
With a remaining resolution on Tasmania because the nineteenth licence anticipated within the coming days, McGuire stated the following step can be to take the competitors out to twenty groups – however the place?
Perth is already dwelling to 2 golf equipment within the West Coast Eagles (launched in 1987) and Fremantle Dockers (launched in 1995).
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While each golf equipment are struggling on the sphere in 2023, the Eagles are arguably the wealthiest membership within the competitors – and have been even named probably the most worthwhile sports activities membership in Australia again in 2018.
Earlier this 12 months it was revealed the Eagles posted a $3.46m revenue in 2022 – regardless of a disastrous two-win season.
Speaking on 3AW, McGuire stated the AFL wanted to embrace the Australian-wide facet of the competitors.
“They are going to get to 20 – once they get to 19, they’ve got to get to 20,” he stated.
“We may as well – let’s not have byes. Let’s get that extra round of football in.
“There is a consortium that wants to put a third one into Perth – and because they’ve got the stadium over there, they want to keep that rolling through.
“Will that impact on the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle at the moment when they are sort of at the bottom of the ladder? No time is the perfect time.”
McGuire stated whereas he’d like to see a staff primarily based within the Northern Territory, he understood that wasn’t an choice given it’s “in complete disarray socially at the moment”.
The former Pies president stated the AFL wanted to suppose financially when scheduling groups at venues.
“I’d love to see your team (speaking to co-host Jimmy Bartel about GWS) play 11 games in western Sydney and 11 games in Canberra. There’s no need for you to come to Melbourne,” he stated.
“That way we would end up with by let’s call it 2030, we could end up with the Gold Coast playing in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland and Alice Springs – there’s no point them coming to Melbourne to play Collingwood or Carlton – it’s a loss maker.
“Let’s make these teams (GWS and the Gold Coast) what they were invented for and that is to build the competition.
“They’ll get (to the MCG) if they get to finals and things – don’t worry about that.
“If we do that, then we would have Western Australia and you could have three teams in Western Australia and I was keen on North Melbourne playing 11 in Tassie and 11 up here (in Melbourne), but we’ll have our own team in Tassie. We’ll have Tassie, South Australia, Western Australia, if we get you guys (GWS) meaningfully into Canberra for the first time for 11 home games – tick. Western Sydney, 11 home games, that’s all you get anyway.
“We have to pour resources up into Queensland at the moment because NRL are throwing everything at it – that’s the growth area.
“There’s nothing coming out of Tassie except good will – tick. But there’s no growth or money coming from out there.”
Originally printed as Eddie reveals radical fixture repair as ‘consortium’ backing WA Team 20
Source: www.news.com.au
