Tasmanian Devils
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
Gale force heads to Tasmania; Newman fined over bump; Howe forward with Elliott out
Brendon Gale has been announced as the inaugural CEO of the Tasmania Devils, Carlton’s Nic Newman is free to take on Sydney he was fined for a high bump on Alex Neal-Bullen, while injury-hit Collingwood will be without Jamie Elliott against West Coast.
- by Peter Ryan and Danny Russell
Latest
‘The NT is ready’: Powerbrokers push for 20th AFL team
A Northern Territory club could join the AFL within a decade and play at a multipurpose 20,000-capacity stadium in Darwin, NT powerbrokers say.
- by Steve Larkin
The Scoop
AFL 2024
Why the mastermind behind the Tigers’ flag list could be bound for Tassie
The Tasmania Devils have a clear target when it comes to who they want to build their inaugural list.
- by Sam McClure
The Eagle has crash-landed: what on earth has happened to West Coast?
AFL heavyweights West Coast have become the easybeats of the competition, and a club great fears there is more pain to come yet.
- by Greg Baum
Analysis
AFL 2024
Where have all the CEOs gone? Footy’s problem with finding new leaders
As the competition has expanded to include a national women’s league and soon 19 teams, veteran club bosses have lamented the dearth of emerging off-field leaders across the competition.
- by Caroline Wilson
Opinion
AFL 2024
Tas-mania: How the devil did new AFL club pull so many members?
The Devils have pulled in more than 100,000 members since Monday. The moral here is not just about the volume – which is greater by far than the AFL or the new club had anticipated – but the rush in which they arrived.
- by Greg Baum
Updated
AFL 2024
The detail in the Devil: Why the AFL’s newest club fought so hard for its name
The inaugural chairman of the AFL’s 19th club said he was always going to fight American corporate juggernaut Warner Bros. Discovery for the use of the Devils’ moniker.
- by Jon Pierik
Tasmania’s time has arrived as AFL team launched amid stadium debate
Tasmanians will come together to celebrate the birth of their own team, revealing the jumper and their nickname at a range of locations around the state and one in Victoria.
- by Peter Ryan
Why Jack Riewoldt is following the ‘Pied Piper’ in his vision for Tasmania’s AFL side
As one of the people building Tasmania’s AFL expansion club, which will reveal its colours and identity on Monday, Jack Riewoldt does not have to look far to find a blueprint for building a successful team from scratch.
- by Roy Ward
Guernsey reveal: Tassie’s AFL nickname and jumper to be unveiled
The executive director of the new Tasmanian club says it will soon launch its nickname and colours ahead of the team’s planned AFL entry in 2028.
The five big issues facing AFL and club chiefs in 2024
A review of how players move clubs, the struggles of the expansion teams, Hawthorn’s ongoing cultural probe and a pair of underperforming clubs looking to reboot their premiership aspirations loom as key issues in the AFL in 2024.
- by Peter Ryan