From Cairns.com.au
Reported by Andrew Piva
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Coast Football Club chief executive Travis Auld says his
club is serious about having a presence in the Far North
and hopes to bring a VFL game to Cazalys next Âseason.
Auld was a guest of AFL Cairns during the league’s
presentation night and spoke of the Gold Coast’s journey
to becoming the AFL’s 17th franchise.
After playing in the TAC Cup this
season, the Gold Coast will enter a side in next year’s
VFL before joining the AFL in 2011.
With Far Northern products Charlie
Dixon and Rex Liddy on Gold Coast’s roster, Auld wants
his club to be accepted across Queensland.
"The VFL is an 18-game competition
and we’ve agreed to play eight of those in Melbourne,"
he said.
"The other 10 we want to spread the
brand as wide as we can.
"If there is an opportunity to play a
game in Cairns we’ll definitely look at it and talk to
the AFL about how we might fund that.
"But it would certainly be exciting
to get our brand into the Cairns market, particularly in
that we’ve got a couple of players from this area.
"We need the support of all of
Queensland, not just the Gold Coast, and therefore the
ability to get out there in the market and play some
games elsewhere is good for our kids."
With the AFL also pushing ahead with
expansion into western Sydney, he said regions such as
the Far North could provide future stars.
"There is an enormous amount of talent up here...
untapped talent," he said.
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