James Bresnehan

Clarence expects to regain two star players for its top-of-the-ladder showdown against North Launceston at UTas Stadium on Saturday with Noah Holmes and Josh Green to come back for the TSL blockbuster.

The Old Scholars kick off their 2024 season this weekend with reigning premier St Virgils looking to go back-to-back and University out to exact revenge for last year’s grand final loss.

Tasmania’s AFL team ambassador Jack Riewoldt wants the state’s new flagship sporting organisation to become one of the biggest community sports clubs on the planet and the first building block fell into place at Queenstown’s famous gravel oval on Thursday night.

Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry boss Michael Bailey has urged the state government to drop its Macquarie Point political time bomb and consider the alternative stadium design announced this week.

HOBART‘S newest racing yacht Tenacity has joined a quartet of local entries in this year’s Rolex Sydney to Hobart in a fleet that will include four supermaxis to lead the charge for line honours.

Tasmanian tyro Elise Barwick will make her AFLW debut for the Gold Coast Suns against Richmond on Sunday and the Hobart speed machine has a message for other Tassie girls.

A bunch of former Tasmanian and Victorian AFL stars have descended on Hobart to pay homage to the state’s 1990 State of Origin win over the Big V with a charity “rematch” at North Hobart Oval on Saturday.

WILD Oats is a shock omission from the Sydney Hobart yacht race this year with the event’s most successful skipper Mark Richards revealing the race’s most famous yacht had been sidelined for the 77th edition of the blue water classic.

Big companies are lining up to sponsor Tasmania’s new AFL club including a “global giant” already involved in football.

WANTED: Tasmanian characters, footy stories and experiences that will help Tassie Tigers ace Jack Riewoldt in his assignment of stitching together the culture and DNA of the state’s new AFL club in his post-playing career job – called The Fabric.

Macquarie Point stadium is a key priority for the new board of Tasmania’s AFL club, with chairman Grant O’Brien saying his team would work tirelessly on a charm offensive to get politicians and the public over the line on the venue.

NORTH Hobart’s bid for back-to-back Division 1 flags headlines a triple-header day of SFLW grand finals at North Hobart Oval on Sunday while the Tigers say they are up for the fight.

THE best player in the Old Scholars has been released from hospital after a season-ending injury that puts University under the pump heading into its do-or-die preliminary final clash with OHA at Richmond Oval on Saturday.

Mathew Armstrong started his career with Hobart in the Statewide League and was selected in the first AFL National Draft in 1986, going to Fitzroy as pick 24.

Queensland ready to get down and dirty with Tasmania

TASMANIA’S new-born AFL team must have a master coach to attract talent from around Australia and lead it through its first few seasons and Richmond’s Tassie Tiger Jack Riewoldt would jump at the chance to be part of the team.

A MULTIPURPOSE stadium at Macquarie Point could become Tasmania’s sport and cultural “cathedral” and new Stadiums Tasmania chairman Michael Malouf says the whole of Australia is barracking for Tasmania to get an AFL licence.