Menu
Franchises

AFL Side North Melbourne Considers Tasmanian Team For AFLW Expansion

A North Melbourne Australian Football League Women's team "could be launched into the national competition" as the Tasmanian Kangaroos in '19, should the club succeed in its bid to win an AFLW license, according to Caroline Wilson of THE AGE. In a "highly significant development for the battle over the game" in Tasmania, it emerged that the AFL and its state body are pushing the North Melbourne Kangaroos to "more strongly identify with the struggling heartland state" and that North is "open to the name change depending on the funding model." But AFL side Hawthorn has "thrown a curve ball" into the women's license bidding by "including a strong Tasmanian component in its presentation to be put to the AFL on Thursday." North Melbourne CEO Carl Dilena, whose club will also present to the AFL on Thursday, confirmed talks regarding the Tasmanian Kangaroos, adding that North's bid "involved not just an even split of games in Hobart and Launceston but a commitment to the development of women's talent across the state." North would play half its women's home games in Tasmania and the other half at Arden Street. The Hawthorn bid, which includes a plan to play some women's games at the Hawks' second home ground in Launceston, "comes at a highly sensitive time for the future of the game in Tasmania with the AFL working behind the scenes to endorse the Kangaroos as the league's only Tasmanian club" (THE AGE, 7/26).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 18, 2024

Sports Business Awards nominees unveiled; NWSL's historic opening weekend and takeaways from CFP deal

ESPN’s Jay Bilas, BTN’s Meghan McKeown, and a deep dive into AppleTV+’s The Dynasty

On this week’s Sports Media Podcast from the New York Post and Sports Business Journal, ESPN’s Jay Bilas talks all things NCAA. Big Ten Network’s Meghan McKeown shares her insight into the Caitlin Clark craze. The Boston Globe’s Chad Finn chats all things Bean Town. And SBJ’s Xavier Hunter drops in to share his findings on how the NWSL is making a social media push.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2017/07/27/Franchises/North-Melbourn-AFLW.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2017/07/27/Franchises/North-Melbourn-AFLW.aspx

CLOSE