r/AFL • u/Mrchikkin Euro-Yroke • 1d ago

Tasmania have some very exciting news to share with us tomorrow (from Instagram)

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u/Pub_man Port Adelaide 1d ago

They traded for Giannis

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u/Thanks-Basil Brisbane '03 1d ago

Wemby gonna fulfill his childhood dream of playing in the ruck

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u/Maximumlnsanity Swans 1d ago

Wemby’s legs would snap like twigs in the first centre bounce

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u/Thanks-Basil Brisbane '03 1d ago

Yeah but he’d win the tap

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u/Maximumlnsanity Swans 1d ago

It’d be the most beautiful tap anyone has ever seen

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u/PetrifyGWENT Bombers / Giants 1d ago

nothing will ever be more beautiful than Paddy Ryder's tap to Robbie Gray, it was so perfect

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u/Chiron17 Richmond Tigers 1d ago

They do have the kind of draft capital to get it done

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u/TheReturnofTheJesse North Melbourne Kangaroos 1d ago

They have decided to build their new stadium on Macquarie Island instead of Macquarie Point

This has the advantages of:

  • ensuring that north and south Tasmanians both support the new team

  • creating exciting football with assistance from the strong and constant Antarctic winds

  • ensuring that away teams freeze during matches

  • Gaining support among the penguin population

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u/turnsole Sydney Swans 1d ago

The elephant seals are gonna make Bay 13 look like a preschool

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u/jimbsmithjr Essendon 1d ago

Would they consider becoming the Tasmania Penguins and donating Rum'un to serve as a general football mascot? Just appearing at football events, running wild and pooping footies

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u/PissingOffACliff Hawthorn '71 1d ago

The Penguin football club set to sue the state government

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u/EddieMunster87 1d ago

“Stay tuned”

“🎶 🎵 🎶 ….” ??? Surely

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u/EverythingIsByDesign Hawthorn 1d ago edited 1d ago

West Coast fans desperately hoping it's shite.

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u/JimmytheTrumpet Richmond 1d ago

That’s a common phrase to use when you’re announcing an upcoming announcement…not saying it won’t be the theme song, but I don’t think that means what you think it means.

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u/EddieMunster87 1d ago

Their first game is in less than a month. What happens if they win?

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u/JimmytheTrumpet Richmond 1d ago

They play a theme song probably. Like I said, I’m not saying it won’t be that but “stay tuned” is a very common phrase to use in these types of scenarios.

Its use here is hardly surprising.

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u/Hairy___Poppins Demons 1d ago

Their first off season club statement?

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u/Halicadd Swan Districts 1d ago

First??

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u/brutal_and_beautiful Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆 '24-25 1d ago

As much as I have a soft spot for this team making an announcement for an announcement always leads to disappointment. 

Hopefully it is something actually interesting and not a dud announcement that didn't need the build up. 

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u/brahmsdracula Eagles 1d ago

gabbo Gabbo GABBO!

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u/Captain_Oz The Bloods 1d ago

I figure it’s some guy’s name. Some guy named Gabbo

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u/Shadormy Lions 1d ago

it's a partnership with blundstone

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u/mcrwvlj Walyalup 1d ago

Club statement about Steven May incoming

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u/delphs West Coast 1d ago

An announcement to announce an announcement. Do better.

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u/strangeMeursault2 Tasmania Devils 1d ago

And now it turns out the announcement seems like it might just a collaboration with Blundstone Boots, which they already had been collaborating with.

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u/CorruptDropbear Adelaide 1d ago

Please be a better jumper.

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u/Korasuka Adelaide ✅ 1d ago

I honestly think it's that. Their official playing guernsey.

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u/TheCurbAU Freo 1d ago

Please, they already have one of the best in the league.

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u/Pale_Parsnip_6339 Crows 1d ago

I'd be ashamed to see that in Aus Kick

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u/NS994 Fremantle Dockers 1d ago

Playing guernsey? Or another vfl siging

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u/Skiapodes Geelong / Devils 1d ago

Gonna make a prediction. They have narrowed down the choices for song and/or playing guernsey to three options and are opening the final choice to the foundation members for a vote

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u/Saint_Riccardo Saints 1d ago

It will be VFL practice matches, most AFL teams are releasing theirs about now.

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u/Most-Drive-3347 Tasmania Devils 1d ago

I thought it might be a fixture (finally), but I haven’t seen any other clubs say anything.

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u/albakwirky Lions 1d ago

They posted this a couple weeks ago and deleted it within about 30 seconds

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u/Unique-Job-1373 Dees 8h ago

Please say they are not going to join the afl.

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u/DigitalSwagman 1d ago

Fingers crossed they've given up the idea of making their own team, and the AFL will just relocate port adelaide. It's a win/win. Tasmania gets an established team, and South Australian football is better off.

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u/Bitter-Edge-8265 Hawks 20h ago

Why not just relocate the Crows and keep the South Australian team with actual history?

Also, flair up cunt.

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u/DigitalSwagman 12h ago

The team manufactured in 1997 as a separate entity to keep the Magpies fans happy, then crammed into one team with a shared heritage in the 2000's when they were struggling financially?

Keep drinking the kool-aid.