They haven't finalised a location in Hobart.  Even concept designs are site specific so although they might know the things they want in a stadium it's not sensible to spend money on developing designs at this stage.  I did see an artists impression in one of the local rags a couple of years ago but they are not usually reliable.

”Rockhampton could end up with two rival sports stadiums amid a federal-state funding stoush. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk pledged $25 million to upgrade the city's main rugby leage venue Browne Park on Thursday.

However less than a fortnight ago, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson announced $23 million for the proposed rival Rocky Sports Club stadium on behalf of the federal government. Rockhampton and the surrounding electorates of Keppel and Mirani are a key battleground between Labor and One Nation in the October 31 state election race. The premier says the state funding will add 4000 seats to Browne Park, which will give the arena 12,000 seats and make it eligible to host NRL, AFL, Super Rugby and A-League matches. "This is something the community is passionate about, I'm passionate about and we want to see that stage one happen," Ms Palaszczuk said on Thursday.”

https://www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/6940230/political-stoush-over-rival-qld-stadiums/?cs=9397

https://twitter.com/brentcostelloe/status/1308685030890168320

Moving seats at UTAS Stadium in Launceston doesn't make sense at all. They'd have to basically rebuild the whole thing. Surely cheaper to build a separate venue, and then you'd have two.

Liking the proactiveness, not sure about this though

Just build a new rectangular stadium in Hobart. Start small if necessary and build it up over time.

There should be a ban on teams having multiple home grounds (I'm looking at you Western United).

The stadium site, in fact the whole suburb, is a thin crust of soil overlying saturated marine silt.  When they built the grandstand they were driving piles to rock some 10 to 25m down.  There is video of the pile driver hitting the pile cap twice to get it through the crust and then it sank from then on under its own weight.  Moveable stands on that site would be an engineering masterpiece and have a price tag to match.

The situation here in Tasmania is a bit unique.  Half of the population lives in the south and half in the north and in my view both would struggle to be able to support an A-League team on their own.

When Victory and Adelaide played regular preseason games in Launceston they started off with an 8k+ crowd but after a while it dropped down to around 4k.  Initially a good number of football fans drove up to Launceston for the games but that dropped off quite quickly.  Tas Football bods decided to move the games south but they got an even smaller crowd with very few people driving down from the north.

Think the only game times that would suit fans travelling either north or south would be a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

I mean the BBL team makes it work just being called hobart and only playing there, playing at multiple grounds has been shown to be a dud. Surely the demographics of the south make it more attractive? Everything is centred around Hobart which last i heard is growing faster than the north and with a younger population.

Will the NBL team be based in Hobart?

Yes, at Derwent Stadium, which the franchise owner has got the state government to swing for an upgrade.

The Hurricanes also play at UTAS Stadium.  Last season they played 2 of their 6 games in Tasmania there.  The games in Hobart got  between 6k and 11k attendance while the games in Launceston got 6k and 8k.  The first unsolicited Tasmania United bid for an A-League club in Tasmania had crowd projections similar to what the BBL got last season but from memory the hire charge for Blundstone Arena was much higher than UTAS Stadium.

If a rectangular stadium was to be built Hobart would be the place for it.

They should scrap the plans for Launceston and just build a rectangler stadium in Hobart! 

They came up with this last year so not sure why FFA can’t lobby for it to be rectangular as they already have Blundstone arena and UTAS as oval grounds 

Surprised to hear that about Bellrieve Oval, as they've had a good deal with South Hobart for any home FFA Cup games for a while from what I hear. I actually was there for the only game they've played there so far, I found it far better than York Park:



Needless to say, anything other than a rectangular venue should be a non-starter for the WWC.