AFL 2025: How Tasmania Devils mascot stacks up against your club

Tasmanian primary school students designed Rum’un – a big, furry freak. Here’s why they might have done better than some of the other AFL clubs. HAVE YOUR SAY.

It is hard to envisage a more terrifying mascot than what Tasmania revealed to the world via a disturbing interpretative dance performance narrated by Jack Riewoldt on Tuesday night.

But surely the social media outrage over the appearance of Rum’un – whose design was influenced by primary school students on the Apple Isle – is misplaced.

Where was this energy for the unimaginative, boring and weirdly similar Gold Coast and GWS mascots when those expansion clubs revealed their pick to prance around the boundary line and take selfies?

Defence wins premierships, not mascots. But everything in AFL clubland is a competition, so here are the updated mascot power rankings in the wake of Rum’un’s arrival to the scene.

Originally published as AFL 2025: How Tasmania Devils mascot stacks up against your club