Tasmania AFL bid: 'they haven't bothered to look at it'

The AFL's request for another year to examine Tasmania's case for a standalone team is both unreasonable and disrespectful, according to the state's AFL taskforce and Premier Peter Gutwein. A long-running saga appeared to come to a head last week when Mr Gutwein informed AFL House that Tasmania would not continue contract conversations with Hawthorn and North Melbourne until it received a timeline for its own team.