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analysis Tasmania s AFL ultimatum is the right move, but it places the entire sport in Tasmania at risk SatSaturday 13 FebFebruary 2021 at 12:02am Severing ties with North Melbourne and Hawthorn would mean a $30 million hole in the winter tourism economy. ( Print text only Cancel Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein believes his ultimatum to the AFL presents Tasmanians with the ultimate win-win and he s probably right. Either the AFL gives Tasmania a date for entry to the league, or the State Government cuts funding to Hawthorn and North Melbourne, leaving multi-million-dollar holes in their balance sheets. It s a threat from the pen of a Premier in charge of a state that no longer has anything to lose, and a scenario the AFL surely doesn t want to see happen. ....
Sunday, 10 January 2021, 6:09 am The Open shearing final lineup at the Peninsula Duvauchelle Shears on Saturday. Photo / Supplied National 2019-2020 No 1-ranked Open shearer and New Zealand transtasman shearing series team member Troy Pyper got his second win of the current season in a close result at the Peninsula Duvauchelle Shears yesterday(Saturday). From Southland, now based in North Canterbury and just back from shearing in Hawke’s Bay, he won the the title at the Duvauchelle A and P Show for a third time in a row. But there was just a 0.43 points margin from runner-up Ant Frew, of Pleasant Point, in a 10-sheep Open ....