Football bosses have urged the Tasmanian Government to decide whether North Melbourne will play two games at Bellerive Oval in Hobart next season.
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Monday, May 30, 2011
AFL issues deadline over Tas matches
Published:Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:03 AESTExpires:Tuesday, August 23, 2011 7:03 AEST
Thursday, May 26, 2011
AFL determined to see Hobart matches
Posted May 25, 2011 14:43:00 AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou has challenged the Tasmanian Government to push through North Melbourne's proposal to play matches in Hobart.
Hawthorn already plays four games a year in Launceston, while the Kangaroos and the AFL have been in negotiations with the Government since late last year to play two home matches each year at Bellerieve Oval from 2012.
Cricket Tasmania is pushing for a quick decision, with Premier Lara Giddings expected to discuss the financially-sensitive issue in cabinet shortly.
"We support AFL football being played in Tasmania, and ultimately now it rests with the Tasmanian Government to step up to the plate," Demetriou said at the National Press Club in Canberra.
"It's where it sits and there's a new Premier there now, I think she understands that everyone is pulling in the same direction.
"I'm hoping that the Premier and the Government step up to the plate because this is like our third time we've been to see the Government about getting football played in Hobart."
Demetriou continues to see Tasmania at the most likely home for a 19th AFL club, but does not know when that will be.
The AFL has no immediate plans to add any further sides, having already expanded to 18 clubs when Greater Western Sydney joins the competition next year.
"You can never say never," Demetriou said on the prospect of a side in Tasmania.
"I guess if there's another club ever to appear as the 19th club, they (Tasmania) would appear to be the most logical place to put that club, because they're a state rich in history of AFL football.
"What timeframe that is, I don't know."
Tags: sport, australian-football-league, tas, hobart-7000, vic, melbourne-3000Thursday, May 12, 2011
Trengove to miss three AFL matches
Updated May 10, 2011 21:52:00 Melbourne's young on-baller Jack Trengove is out for three AFL matches after failing to beat a charge of rough conduct.
Trengove's heavy tackle on Patrick Dangerfield during the third quarter of the match at the MCG on Sunday left the Adelaide player concussed and forced him from the field.
Trengove could have accepted a two-match ban with an early guilty plea.
The 19-year-old, who was the number two draft pick in 2009, will miss matches against North Melbourne, St Kilda and Carlton.
"I'm disappointed but I've got to move on now," Trengove said after his tribunal hearing on Tuesday night.
Trengove will have 325 demerit points imposed on his playing record.
The youngster argued that he did not apply excessive force in the tackle.
Demons assistant coach Kelly O'Donnell described Trengove's technique in the tackle as almost perfect and noted the umpire did not award a free kick against him.
Melbourne's club biomechanics expert Kevin Ball said the force with which Dangerfield hit the ground was increased because the Adelaide player was making a kicking motion as he was tackled, throwing Trengove and Dangerfield off balance and quickening the Crows player's fall.
Player advocate Iain Findlay said it was a fair tackle and did not involve a slinging motion.
"It's an accident that happens," Trengove said.
"I don't intend a guy to get concussion from that sort of tackle."
Legal counsel Andrew Tinney seized on Trengove's statement that it was important to make every tackle "stick".
"This was a tackle that was simply too forceful," Tinney said.
Adelaide's medical report said Dangerfield suffered impaired cognitive function following the incident and is being monitored on a daily basis, although he is yet to be ruled out of Saturday's team to play Gold Coast.
Trengove's ban is another blow for the seventh-placed Demons, who have lost Jack Grimes for the rest of the season because of a foot injury the star utility suffered in Sunday's 96-point win.
Meanwhile Sydney defender Ted Richards was found not guilty of a rough-conduct charge.
Richards, who was facing a one-match ban, successfully argued that his bump on Western Bulldogs utility Lindsay Gilbee was not to the head/neck area during the second quarter of Saturday's game in Canberra.
"I'm very grateful to the club for supporting me," 139-game veteran Richards said.
"I'm just very excited to be playing this week."
The eighth-placed Swans host lowly Port Adelaide at the SCG on Saturday.
Fremantle's Nathan Fyfe was due later on Tuesday night to challenge the severity of a $2,400 fine for making contact with an umpire.
However, the hearing has been delayed because of technical issues with the video link.
- AAP
Tags: sport, australian-football-league, australia, nsw, sydney-2000, vic, melbourne-3000 First posted May 10, 2011 20:12:00
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