THE pledge campaign in support of a Tassie AFL team is within striking distance of its target of 50,000 sign-ups.

The website unitedwestand.com.au crossed the 49,000 barrier overnight, and has been tracking at 1000 sign-ups each day.

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The pledge campaign is a key part of the plan by the Government’s AFL Taskforce to prove to the AFL that Tasmania should be the next site of a new club in the big league.

Taskforce chairman Brett Godfrey said he did not expect the pledges would stop once the 50,000 mark was achieved - and that was a good thing.

“It’s going to take a people’s push to get this thing across the line,” he said.

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Mr Godfrey said the campaign had shown there was a thirst for the club within the Tasmanian community - with 50,000 sign-ups the equivalent of about one in 10 Tasmanians.

Premier Will Hodgman said “the message to the AFL couldn’t be clearer”.