There are fears one of Tasmania's former powerhouse Australian rules football teams is dangerously close to not being able to field a team, with sporting greats likening the situation to a canary in a coalmine for other clubs.
"There's some warning signs for me. If it's happening at Glenorchy, it's going to happen to someone else," said Hawthorn premiership player Rodney Eade, who was recruited from Glenorchy in 1975.
Eade believes a range of factors, both internal and external have contributed to Glenorchy's predicament. "It probably indicates things they've done wrong development wise and why players don't want to play there, but also probably the parlous state of footy in Tasmania." News of the Magpies precarious position is particularly unsettling to rusted-on Tasmanian football followers, who for decades have known Glenorchy to sit atop the state's football pyramid.
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