I really think a 30k seater stadium is way too big for a team based in Townsville but that is an issue with Dairy Farmers anyway. Most certainly an in town stadium gets better patronage than an out of town stadium.

Haven't heard anything about the stadium lately.

30k is too big even for NRL but I guess it's future-proof. Dairy Farmers only gets close to full when the Cowboys play Brisbane or a finals game.

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Do they rig the draw AFL-style for bigger crowds?
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Yes they do (It means that the draw is uneven and the AFL controls everything).

I don't follow the NRL...
Do they rig the draw AFL-style for bigger crowds?
When did the cowboys last host a finals game?

Last finals game was 8 September 2012 (saturday night) against Brisbane which drew 21k. That's without a doubt the biggest fixture possible for the Cowboys. DFS holds about 26k. A 25-30k all-seater in the middle of town is probably a good idea.

Cheers. The overwhelming trend in stadia around the globe seems to be to place them as close to downtown as is financially possible.
Adelaide Oval games always draw a few more punters through the gate than games at Hindmarsh despite the oval being Shute for viewing.

You mean the NRL? If so....we must be the only football code that doesn't rig our fixture for bigger crowds then? Probably helps in the long run for us not to have one city providing lots of teams, a much more even footprint across the nation looks more sustainable IMO.

Friday night games on SBS will be a massive boost to image of the game (if done properly) imho

TASMANIA will host one of the season's most-anticipated A-League matches on Saturday - but it wants more than that in the future.

Melbourne Victory and Central Coast Mariners clash at Launceston's Aurora Stadium in a battle between first and third that would be the biggest soccer game played in the state, Football Federation Tasmania chief executive John Boulous said.

Victory will play one home game a year in Launceston for at least the next two years and Boulous hopes Football Federation Australia will see fit to send a game a year to Hobart as well.

But in the long term, Boulous said the dream for Tasmania was to have an A-League team.

"That's the aspiration," Boulous said.

"But it's certainly a way off. In talking to the FFA, the league is embedded for a while, but the Tasmanian Government are of a similar opinion to us in that we want to get the local game strong, get a strong relationship with an A-League club - which we have now with Victory - and get a program of games down here so we can help create hype.

"Who knows then where we can go from there."

Victory will donate $5 of every adult ticket sold and $3 from every concession ticket to the Tasmanian bushfires appeal.

"We'd be very hopeful of a crowd around the 6000-7000 mark," Boulous said.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/football/tasmania-wants-more-a-league-action-in-the-future/story-fndb5nmd-1226549836283

Tasmania has gone down a rung in my book, unless Hobart can somehow justify a full season..

Wollongong
Canberra
Auckland
North Queensland

Tasmania has gone down a rung in my book, unless Hobart can somehow justify a full season..

The only thing Tasmania goes down on is it's siblings.

The only thing Tasmania goes down on is it's siblings.

The crowd at Tassie isn't going to help them get a team.

Congratulation to the idot’s who scheduled an A-League game in Launceston at the same time a Big Bash Game was being played in Hobart Fair Dinkum no idea some people running the game in this country

Ummm... The A-League fixture list was announced 3 weeks before the BBL fixture list. Not really sure that your conclusion is therefore valid. Cue the people who think the BBL was deliberately trying to undermine the A-League. ;)

13 Wollongong Wolves (2015)
14 Canberra Athletic (2015)
15 North Queensland Fury (2017)
16 Geelong (Ford) Rangers (2017)
17 Auckland City (2019)
18 Gold Coast Red Bulls (2019)

I honestly can’t see Tasmania maintaining a team in the A-league any time soon,
Hopefully we will have a 2nd Division up and running by 2020 which would be more suited to a Tassie team

Just go the whole hog and introduce both Hobart and Launceston at the same time. Tassie Derby baby.

We are unlikely to be able to afford one club down here unless the economy improves drastically. Two is completely out of the question.

An interesting thing to consider is whether having two teams in the state would actually reduce interest in the League because of the passion that the Tassie shirt brings out. Having two teams might just take the level of interest back to that of the AFL state competition down here. As an example I expect that quite a few fans from the north west would come to a Tasmania United game in Launceston but I wouldn't expect many at all to come to a Launceston Gunners game.

Maybe when the state's population is another 200k larger things might be different.

We are unlikely to be able to afford one club down here unless the economy improves drastically. Two is completely out of the question.

An interesting thing to consider is whether having two teams in the state would actually reduce interest in the League because of the passion that the Tassie shirt brings out. Having two teams might just take the level of interest back to that of the AFL state competition down here. As an example I expect that quite a few fans from the north west would come to a Tasmania United game in Launceston but I wouldn't expect many at all to come to a Launceston Gunners game.

Maybe when the state's population is another 200k larger things might be different.

Ummm... The A-League fixture list was announced 3 weeks before the BBL fixture list. Not really sure that your conclusion is therefore valid. Cue the people who think the BBL was deliberately trying to undermine the A-League. ;)

Tasmania got a better crowd for this week's game than Canberra got for their last A-league game... More than Gold Coast got for the majority of their games, and on a par with many of Fury's "good" crowds.

Well once the BBL schedule was released the A- League should have moved the game. My point is a Melbourne team playing up against a local team in the Hurricanes on the same day the most locals would always support the Tasmanian team first.

Still the crowd was on par with the Nix crowd yesterday with no real local interest and very little promotion and still way better than most Gold Coast Crowds

Is there any local rivalry between north/south, or one major city and another? Could that be played on?