Big push? North Melbourne's Liam Anthony gets his kick away in Hobart. Picture: Michael Dodge Source: Herald Sun
North Melbourne and GWS players play at Blundstone Arena, Hobart. Picture: Michael Dodge Source: Herald Sun
NORTH Melbourne stalwart Ron Joseph fears the club is being pressured by the AFL into becoming the league's Tasmanian team.
Joseph yesterday added his weight to a supporters' group demanding the club board limit to four the number of "home" matches that can be played outside Victoria each year.
"The fear of every North supporter is that the club is once again in the sights of the AFL," Joseph said.
Club chairman James Brayshaw gave supporters a "cast iron guarantee" on Saturday that North would not relocate while he remained in charge.
But the We Are North Melbourne supporters' group has put a motion to change the club's constitution and force the board to obtain the approval of members for any extra matches played outside Victoria. Members will vote on the resolution at the annual general meeting on March 19.
Brayshaw said his board did not support it because it would be too restrictive on future administrations.
Joseph said he smelt a rat.
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"The resolution shouldn't be a problem for James Brayshaw - he is the one who boasts that he gave the club back to the members," Joseph said.
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"He didn't. Bob Ansett and Peter de Rauch did that. And the resolution simply protects any board on its own whim - or in cahoots with the AFL - picking the club up and packing it off to Tasmania or merging it.
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"Why wouldn't every member support it? All it is saying is that members have got a right to have their voices heard if there is any proposal to go to Tasmania or to merge.
"I don't trust the AFL and the way they go about things. North would be playing in gold stripes now on the Gold Coast if they had got their way (in 2007).
"The AFL is top-heavy, overpaid and dangerously unaccountable."
North will play two home games in Hobart this season under a three-year deal that began last year.
Former Kangaroos chief executive Eugene Arocca has also backed the supporters' group.
"Anything more than four home games interstate is a step towards relocation," Arocca said.
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