Peter Gutwein said he would call out Tony Cochrane's anti Tasmanian AFL team views

Premier Peter Gutwein said that up to 7,000 people were expected to have attended the game, up from what was expected to be around 2500.

"That is a great outcome from Tasmanians that want to demonstrate that we support achieving the goal and aspiration of our own AFL license," he said.

Gentle jabs continued to be thrown towards Gold Coast Suns chairman Tony Cochrane who has previously said he doesn't approve the concept of a Tasmanian team.

"He's made his position perfectly clear and I've made our position perfectly clear - and that is that we want to progress towards getting our own AFL license, that's our aspiration and we'll continue to take every possible step to achieve that," Mr Gutwein said.

"It's obvious that not all presidents support that, when those presidents make comments that are negative in terms of our license application, when they denigrate the state in terms of its weather, or in terms of its business case or in terms of the people that have put that business case forward I think it's quite appropriate to call out those presidents."

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Upgrade discussions are also underway for the state's major sporting facilities, with a steering committee formed to oversee legislative changes for the development of the government's Stadiums Tasmania election commitment, which would see the assets transferred into government ownership.

"We've begun our discussions with the Clarence City Council and also the Launceston City Council in terms of what the transfer of assets will look like, but what this will do is enable us to have one body that manages the major sporting stadiums in Tasmania," Mr Gutwein said.

"Stadiums Tasmania will be considering regional facilities on the North West Coast as well.

"We are well advanced and said that we'd get on with that in the first 100 days, and we're taking steps to do that."

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