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billythekid
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Nth Ballarat a no go!
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Looks like Nth Ballarat is another victim of Baillieus costcutting.

Budget puts paid to Roos' regional dream

Caroline Wilson
May 8, 2012

Andrew Demetriou says the league has visited the stadium in Ballarat and deemed it not up to AFL standard as it is.

Andrew Demetriou says the league has visited the stadium in Ballarat and deemed it not up to AFL standard as it is. Photo: Pat Scala

THE prospect of AFL games being played in Ballarat is off the agenda for the foreseeable future, with the league confirming that last week's state budget snub had ended for now North Melbourne's plans for expansion into regional Victoria.

AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou has confirmed that North has been told that Ballarat is no longer on the agenda although the club still harbours ambitions to explore development opportunities in the region.

''We would have fixtured them to play there but it's not to be,'' Demetriou told The Age. He added that the league had visited

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