Footy going backwards

Name adds to confusion

HOBART is Hobart, why add confusion by adding another name? Imagine the confusion for the gentleman who wrote recently about how excited he was when he heard his travel agent refer to Hobart as Hotel Bravo Tango — maybe he should consider changing travel agents as the airline code for Hobart is Hotel Bravo Alpha HBA. If that travel agent books him to HBT he’ll end up in Saudi Arabia. Yes there are some domestic travel sectors, for example, hire car companies, that do use HBT for Hobart Tasmania but we don’t need to add to the confusion.

Hobart has an identity that has emerged over time and with a lot of effort, promotion and expenditure to develop it in recent years. Adding another official name is not needed, not for signs, maps

Honouring his boss

SEVERAL correspondents have taken exception to the Aboriginal name for the Hobart area, arguing the British settlers founded Hobart and named it so we should stick to that rather than adopt dual naming. It’s worth reflecting that Hobart was the name given by Governor Collins in 1803-4 when he first arrived at the mouth of the Derwent, choosing the name of a Tory politician who never came here but who was the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies back in London, in other words his boss. Dual naming seems very appropriate in the circumstances. HERE we go again Gill. He says we have to make hard decisions, well we have been doing that since statewide footy started and all that has happened is we have gone backwards and now, to keep us quiet, you are going to give us “maybe” draft picks, anything to shut us up. We are going to go on like this all year. Instead of talk, do something because people in Tassie are sick to death of the crap coming from the AFL. You and your cronies are hopeless.