Based on previous history of recent practice games Victorian clubs have had against Tasmanian teams they will get thumped.
They lack for enough high intensity matches and consistent exposure to a bigger football poulation mass.
ACT being 200km from Sydney has access to a larger player pool and you could add the surrounding rural base. They also have acces to the AIS in coaching terms.
But the gap wouldn't be that big.
I suppose one of the stratergies of this competition is that it falls in the overal theme of raising playing standards via NPL structures, with the assumption that exposing the smaller states (or playing pools) to the larger will assist in evening out the playing standards universally over time.
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