North Melbourne chairman James Brayshaw. Picture: Craig Borrow Source: Herald Sun
NORTH Melbourne chairman James Brayshaw has given supporters a "cast iron guarantee" the club will not relocate while he remains in charge.
As he revealed plans to stay in the role until the end of 2016, Brayshaw said the Kangaroos could not be happier with their two-game commitment to playing in Hobart, but there was no truth to the rumour surrounding a possible move to Tasmania.
"As long as I have got anything to do with the running of the footy club, we are not relocating," Brayshaw said.
"I would cease to have anything to do with the club if a decision was made to relocate.
"When I took over (as chairman) in 2007 it was on the back of me standing up and saying that we aren't going anywhere, and we aren't.
"Why would we spend $17 million building this unbelievable facility (at Arden St) if our plan was to go somewhere else?"
The Kangaroos will play two home matches at Hobart's Blundstone Arena this season, and Brayshaw is keen to make it three as soon as possible.
"If you asked me if I wanted to go from two games to three games in Hobart, I'd do it in a heartbeat," he said.
But he said that with the club's commitment to Etihad Stadium and the MCG, it was contractually impossible to play more than a handful of games in Hobart.
Brayshaw was responding to a supporters' group motion to change the club's constitution to try to limit the number of home games the club can play outside of Victoria to four without the board going to the members for approval.
He and the board will not support the motion - to be put to the annual general meeting on March 19 - as they believe it would be too wordy and too restrictive on future administrations.
Brayshaw said the board would consider adding a relocation clause at the next AGM, but was reluctant to put a tight restriction on the number of games that could be played outside Victoria as he said no one could predict how the AFL landscape could change.
The motion drawn up by the We Are North Melbourne supporters' group reads in part:
"That the NMFC Constitution be amended to require a membership vote on any actual or proposed obligation, contract, arrangement or understanding, the purpose or outcome of which is to permit, allow or require the club (whether permanent, temporarily or otherwise) to play or relocate more than four home games during any premiership season outside of the state of Victoria."
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