Rugby League Winfield Cup games the Can

largely offset only by the 15 or so home NSW

helping to pay off the bills that now are

to see a second tenant at Bruce Stadium

The ACT Government would be delighted

committee envisages, the two codes could

Properly promoted and planned, as the

guered Swans and Bears could also be

of the troubles that have befallen the belea

entering into a national competition. Some

avoiding some of the pitfalls inherent in

sport, the Raiders and the Canberra Cannons

could learn much from their brothers in

plex near its Ainslic club.

acquire and develop a football playing com

The club also has longer-term aspirations to

club in Canberra might be headquartered.

leap in logic to guess where any AFL-based

clubs, so it doesn't take much of a quantum

base to rival any of Melbourne's big name

social premises and, presumably, a financial

Ainslie's expansion will give it licensed

an AFL team would destroy the domestic

well as the Raiders and the Cannons and that

find it hard maintaining an AFL team, as

Sceptics would say that Canberra would

Canberra's viability in the AFL.

game is to provide a true measuring stick for

recognised for their drawing power, if such a

miership points be between quality clubs

that the proposed June 1993 ^ame for pre

In regard to the first issue, it is important

opponents might be drawn could be limited

One would suggest the pool from which

and entertainment, as well as being well-cdu

to have more disposable income for leisure

well be a case of let the market decide. In less

It terms of population support, it might

quality and drawing power of their oppo

the competition at any given time or the

reflected by either their relative standings in

team, the Raiders or the Cannons might be

possible that attendances for either an AFL

their sports and want only the best. It's quite

They are pampered and knowledgable in

Line 4.12.0 The ACTAFL competition itself has been

Line 4.12.1 dominated by Ainslie and Qucanbcyan in

Line 4.12.2 recent seasons and before that by the then

Line 4.12.3 "big three" of Eastlake, Ainslic and Manuka

Line 4.12.4 to the stage where crowds have been in de