Talking Footy

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

People of North QLD travel longer and have done since 1995 when watching their team.

Stop with the excuses.

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

If they want a team it will, if they're two headed idiots, they won't.

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

Two headed idiots then.

cos789 wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

so they'd make money easily based on the above

The Glory say they break even on 13.5k. dave, you understand that.
You'r flying in two nrl sides, paying nrl salaries, nrl salaries to a lot larger number of -players, coaches and hangers on;
and on top of that the nrl have been heavily promoting the match on all media.

You can add up dave ? That's a hell of a lot of adding up to subtract from the income.
No wonder the nrl is such a poor financial state - can't even add up.

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Xman wrote:

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

Two headed idiots then.

its beyond me why people from the same state are at war

Striker wrote:

Xman wrote:

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

Two headed idiots then.

its beyond me why people from the same state are at war

That's because they aren't. I think you made that up.

Practically every major decision about the development and government of Tasmania has been affected by the problem of north-south rivalry. The cost of such controversy, in both practical and psychological terms, is considerable. It is also a problem in dealing with government and corporate bodies in other states and at the national level. The primary cause of the rivalry between the North and the South is the difficulty of providing accessible and equitable levels of government services to all sections of the population.

The era beginning in 1960 gave rise to some of northern and southern Tasmania's most spectacular rivalries, climaxing with Hobart's effort to secure AFL roster matches.

Ald Thomas said the vitriol and negativity that accompanied Hobart's footy bid had been too much for his council colleague Marti Zucco to bear.

There have been numerous attempts over the years to end the sometimes bitter rivalry between Launceston and Hobart.

The latest involves Launceston Mayor Albert van Zetten and Hobart's Alderman Marti Zucco, who announced last week that they were hoping to have a "memorandum of understanding" between the two cities.

The move follows claims of parochialism during the campaign by Hobart businesses and local government to get AFL games at Bellerive Oval and the right to stage the world title defence fight of former Launceston boxer Daniel Geale.

Historians believe Tasmania's North-South rivalry dates from the first few years of European settlement when Van Diemens Land was divided into two jurisdictions.

That ended in 1813 when the colony was united under one governor.

The course of parochialism may have been set in those days but has no doubt been nurtured for political and commercial reasons ever since.

The best-known attempt at quelling regional rivalry occurred in February 1959.

The town clerks, who today would be called city managers, of Hobart (Mr J. S. Cole) and Launceston (Mr C. S. Staubi) ceremoniously buried two gold- painted hatches under the pavement in Brisbane Street.

The Examiner reported that Tasmania's cold war was now "dead and buried".

"Nobody actually admitted there was a war, just a difference of opinion, when the town clerks of Launceston and Hobart buried gold-painted hatches under a paving stone in Brisbane Street," the newspaper said.

The symbolic gesture, watched by thousands of people, coincided with the annual conference of the two city councils.

More significantly it occurred on Friday the 13th during the annual Launceston Fiesta and there was a witch-burning, hay rides, a wine waiters' race, country music performer Reg Lindsay and a tug-of-war between NTFA footballers.

Despite the lighthearted nature of the ceremony, it was reported next to a story on closer co-operation between the Launceston and Hobart councils on issues such as planning authorities and new local government laws.

It also came a day after The Examiner reported that the Riverside Ratepayers' Association had voted to secede from the Beaconsfield Council.

On the 50th anniversary of the hatchet ceremony in 2009, it was revealed that no one seemed to know where the hatchets were buried or even whether they were still under the pavement outside the former Launceston Hotel in Brisbane Street.

The burial site was said to be marked with a metal plaque and there was no sign of that either.

Recent events would suggest that parochialism is far from dead and buried.

Striker wrote:

Parochialism isn't a war! There's one state government, right? There's one governing body for AFL, right? So there is no war!

All you're providing there is rivalry material. Hell, that's like calling every Sydney club's hatred of Manly or Canterbury a war! And yet they work together when it comes down to it being a part of the NRL!