UTS Chief Economist Tim Harcourt says “poor old Tassie” has been waiting 33 years for an AFL team so “$240 million over 33 years is not very much” after the AFL sent a “pretty clear” message during negotiations.
‘You don’t support the stadium; you won’t have a team’: AFL ‘pretty clear’ to Tasmania
“A lot of people are under this impression, ‘Oh we just want a team playing at Bellerive and York Park but we don’t want the stadium’,” Mr Harcourt told Sky News host Rita Panahi.“The AFL will take it off the table.”
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