Originally Posted by
KTigers
+1 I grew up south of Hobart in the glorious 70s and besides playing and supporting our local team in the Huon Valley league, my brothers,
friends and I would hitchhike or scam a ride into Hobart and walk up to North Hobart Oval, which truly was the centre of the known universe
at the time, to watch TFL games. Grand finals would regularly pull 23,000 or 24,000 back then, this was at a time when Hobart's
population was about 140,000. It was a very big deal. We barracked for teams in the VFL but they all came a distant second after local footy.
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