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All you people question what are the Kangaroos thinking? Ill tell you what there thinking... They dont have the money to field a VFL team so they are desperate to keep there players in a competition that will benifit the players. A similar alignment worked very well when Port Melbourne and Sydney had a partnership. From Sydneys premiership this year 10 players played at Port between 2000-2002. At least the VFL team (Tasmania, North Ballarat) will be calling the shots. My disappointment is this is a huge step back for the competition and both North Ballarat and Tasmania. With Port standing alone I hoped that other clubs would follow suit in the future but for this to happen, its not great. All this said jesus Tassie will have a super team now they will have access to some talls.

North Ballarat- weak effort aligning to North Melbourne. Went ok in 2004 as a stand alone. Was average in 2005 due to poor return from former AFL players. Crosisca is a dud as a coach. They sacked Stevie Wright who did well where the roosters improved dramitacally. Poor decision as North will treat the Roosters like they did to Port (very poor). Dean Laidley is a tool and does not give a hoot about the VFL. He is arrogant and rude. Ghazi should have hammered him. Imagine what Buster Harland would do to a bloke like Laidley. Tassie- with such a progress and impact in their time in the VFL they will go backwards with such a stupid decision to align with North Melbourne. Will the Tassie crowds tolerate when one of their own players make room for a Dean Laidley dud like Shane Harvey. Fancy Nprth keeping Shane Harvey instead of Aaron Davey. They also kept Shane Harvey instead of Jeremy Clayton. Shane Harvey would struggle to fire up for Parkmore Pirates in the Southern League 3rd Division. North Melbourne reserves should be in the Diamond Valley so the Valley teams can smack the crap out of them. Also a feral crowd like North Heidelberg will make there life hell. I admire Frankston and Port Melbourne as they are the real footy teams in the VFL and are STAND ALONE with no attachment to AFL FILTH. I hope the Borough and the Dolphins do real well next season. To North Ballarat and Tassie, I hope you both have poor seasons and get rid of North alignment for 2007.

Tassie will probably select Jade Rawlings in their draft which will give them a good marking tall in the forward line, other than that there are not many other positives andwil go a long way backwards due to this.

footyman wrote:Just increases my hate of Tasmania. How Tasmanian are the Devils going to be now? All the years of preaching that they are made up of locals and are a local side to support and that they give their own state based kids a chance to play high level footy - RUBBISH! Same applies for North Ballarat.

Don't know how on earth this is going to work. Will be interesting to see if there is any sort of backlash from the local junior football administrators and coaches about the alignment between these two clubs with Kangaroos.

Any news on this? Surely the VFL must need them to get this organised so we can start getting the fixture out?

Yeah but the alignments haven't actually been signed off on yet. Last I heard, the Devils were still waiting on the Kangaroos to agree to a 3-to-5 year deal. And the Roosters still have had a meeting with their members, but the board hasn't signed off on the deal either.