There are a lot more than couple of good breweries now.   New craft breweries are opening every month.

I know you and a couple of other 442 members were recent whisky tourists!

I'd guess there would be quite a number of Victory, and possibly City, fans who'd look forward to a Tassie away trip in the HAL.

Parents live in Tassie (Burnie), highly recommend visiting Tassie at least once. Had the pleasure of living there for a year, beautiful place

I would make every away trip! A weekend of whisky and football - what more could you ask for?

And yes, quite a few good craft breweries. Add in a stadium deal like the Nux did with Garage Projects and you'd have yourself a real winner.

I was just thinking about a few of the breweries throwing their hat into the ring.

If they get a decent stadium deal, plus the FFA grant from the new TV deal should make most new ventures (Tasmania or otherwise) viable... 

You could get a Mona/Moo Brew co-sponsor thing going on. Plus, the Moo Brew logo is pretty clean and simple and would look decent on a jersey I reckon.

If they were to go a green jersey, which I reckon they should, Iron House would work well. James Boags and Cascade with more money than the others would also be serviceable. 

Moo Brew (MONA) used to be the standard bearer for Hobart  breweries. It also has their own decent wine too. Very interesting  art museum too.

The Moo Brew beer has been transcended by the beer from Shambles Brewery , Hobart  Brewing Company, Last Rites, Double Head and possibly T Bone.

Captain Bligh Brewery also do a fabulous Huffcap Stout.

Shambles do their own gourmet beer as well as other Tassie wine, beer and cider, whisky and gin.

Society Salamanca specialises in Tassie beer  craft beer, and has quality cider, wine, gin and whisky too. 

Lark's is a fabulous whisky tasting  venue, with an old English pub ambience. Plus it has outstanding local wine, gin, plus cider and beer on tap. I think you might be familiar with it!

I might have a fuzzy memory of Lark...

But I agree, nice little venue. Had good music last time I visited too.

Need to get across more of the Tassie brews though, cause if you're saying they're better than Moo Brew, they must be pretty special.

The owner of MONA, David Walsh,  is great mates with NPL club, Hobart Olympic's president, George Mamacas.  George loves football and also has deep pockets.  I can imagine him in a Tassie HAL consortium. 

Boags and Cascade are rubbish beer compared to the local craft breweries. They have money though.

Ironhouse  usually has very good beer on tap. It is my favourite drinking venue which is on the East Coast at remote Four Mile Creek. They do excellent wine too, but their bottled beer is variable in quality - although it is often outstanding on tap.

I can imagine the owner, John White, putting the Ironhouse  logo on a HAL shirt.

They've stopped the music as they wanted to get rid of geriatrics like my mates and myself, and focus on whisky drinking tour groups like you and your 442 mates.

The music put off the  whisky connoisseurs from their tasting!

For this to work, they would really need to introduce both Hobart and Launceston clubs. There is a deep hatred between both cities and derbies really bring the people in. Both Melbourne and Sydney (and possibly Brisbane) should have had 2 clubs right from the start of the HAL. Geographically, Hobart and Launceston are further apart than Sydney and Newcastle, so there would be next to no overlap in fans. Melbourne supporters would definitely fly down for away games, it's only 1hour 15mins to fly there, not to mention Tassie is a fantastic place to visit. That being said, I am curious as to why the AFL has never expanded to Tassie. I know there is some sort of Hawthorn/Tasmania connection (Hawks have approx 8K Tasmanian members) but surely they would want there own club. Realistically Tassie is probably better suited for a later expansion. I reckon Canberra, Gold Coast, Wollongong and Geelong would be slighly less risky places for the next expansion.

Can't help but feel the gist of that last article was let's support an A-League team to show we want/deserve an AFL team.

I guess there's no harm in that sentiment since the seasons will never clash but it doesn't bode well if that's where you have to point to for support before it's even started.

Some of the negative people here must be those bitters we hear so much about.
Tasmania has twice the population of the support base of NQF.A club which was supported ,but failed purely because the owner ran out of money and FFA chose to support Brisbane instead.At the time NQF was everybodies second team and people were prepared to put thier hands in their pockets to help keep it alive.
The idea that 500k people is not good enough to support a Football team is bananas.Who cares about population growth.South Korea and Japan are projected to have no people left in fifty years.Should they close all their Football clubs?
We want a National footprint.We want HAL clubs everywhere ,so grassroots have a team to support in their region.We shouldn't be blocking anyone from playing in the HAL.
If a club can be financed and break even,even with a small support base,then it should have a chance of being in the HAL.Isn't that the whole point of promotion and relegation?
All those Negative people,need to take a glass of hot milk and lay down and relax.Even rich clubs rise and die.Small clubs should never be excluded just because they are small.
It's times like this I wish I could use some emojees.

🇦🇺🙈💩🐢😇

Thx Caltex:)

Yeah I could imagine the viewing would be a millions times better there but unless the Tas Gov upgrade those rectangular grounds the FFA won't want a bar of it for HAL matches. 

The backing seems to come from Stamoulis and Belteky, both ex Victory Board Members - that is why the FFA is listening. 

Green is going towards the Mexico 78 kits

Maybe Decentric can confirm, but green is that Tassie colour? The original Tassie bid was based on green and white.

Offers a bit of difference to the rest of the league too.

I assumed red and green (with white fitting in). 

Some rexamples

Tassie away, travelling on the Spirit on the Friday afternoon. That would be one big weekend.

Oh baby.

Checked it out and bottle green is their official state colour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_state_colours Maroon and yellow as secondary colours.

Had a crack at my version.

Home:


Away:

I dont hate it.... because it is my clubs traditonal kit (of late) pretty much 

would be weird to see Tasmania wear it though, but that is my personal issue

Real Betis is similar 

I like Depotivo Cali's kit



but would love to have their away kit (I think it would look good in most colours substituing the green)

The top kit - minus the captain armband rings, would be pretty sweet.

Yeah, I think if they had the red lion on their emblem also, so it doesnt look like Ireland. Can still be called "red lions" even if you wear green and white (like eg Canterbury Bulldogs wear blue and white). They are south south of the border so to be mistaken as Mexico isnt the worst thing. 

It's official in practice. From the Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet:

Sporting coloursThere are no official State sporting colours, however the recognised colours are:

	Bottle green	PMS colour 342
	Yellow	PMS colour 114
	Maroon	PMS colour 194

All the local sporting bodies, including football, got together and agreed on these colours over one hundred years ago. From the Hobart Mercury, 13th Feburary 1925:

TASMANIAN SPORTING COLOURS.
STORY OF THEIR ORIGIN.
Mr F A Brooke writes

-I have had several enquiries lately as to the origin and correct colours for Tasmanian sporting bodies. The idea was first promulgated at a meeting of the Bellrieve branch of the ANA and a meeting was called by Mr T S Nettlefold, chairman of that branch and hon secretary of the Tasmanian Rowing Association. This was held in 1910, 13 being present, viz: Soccer (W M Soundy), rifle (A V Giblin), golf (V J Elliston), rowing (T S Nettlefold), Tennis (C Allanby), Australian football (late W H Gill) cricket (P Facy), lacrosse (T Hunton), racing (T A Tabart, jun.), yachting (late J T Powell), bowls (J R Johnston) baseball (Geo. Brewster) and amateur Athletic Association governing athletics, cycling, swimming, and boxing (F A Brooke)

The colours decided on were rose (red), primrose (yellow) and myrtle (green). The basic colour was myrtle (green). The map of Tasmania was in primrose and each sport had its own particular emblem in rose. In the AAA a barred gate represented athletics a winged foot cycling, a handshake boxing, a diver swimming emblem. Whilst anyone may wear the colours, only those who have represented the state are permitted to wear the map.

Myrtle and bottle green seem to be very simillar shades of lightish green, depending on what source you find.

Here's Bottle Green on findthedata.com:


And Myrtle Green:

barf.gif