Tasmania has risked the ire of western Sydney, calling it "Boganville", ahead of submitting its own bid for an AFL team.

But western Sydney refused to rise directly to the bait, saying instead that it looks forward to having its very own AFL team.

Tasmanian bid team member Saul Eslake, the ANZ's chief economist, has repeatedly referred to western Sydney as "Boganville".

Eslake said on Monday it was a "jocular reference" to western Sydney being better known as a home to bogans - "not somewhere that is noted for its enthusiasm for Australian Rules football".

Western Sydney's Blacktown City Council Mayor Charlie Lowles said in response that all sports were important to the 1.8 million people who proudly call western Sydney home.

"Blacktown City looks forward to hosting the second AFL team in Sydney and to the sporting talent that will come from the second team," Lowles said.

"Western Sydney will be great for the future of AFL and AFL will be great for the people of Western Sydney."

Tasmania bid spearhead, Premier David Bartlett, said he would present the state's case for a team at AFL House in Melbourne on Friday.

Sport Minister Michelle O'Byrne will go with him to rove the contest with the AFL executive and AFL chief commissioner Mike Fitzpatrick.

The AFL has not flinched in its commitment to awarding the only two new AFL licences to teams from the Gold Coast and western Sydney.

It has said it will accept the Tasmanian bid document, despite never having asked for it.

Mr Bartlett said the submission represents Tasmania presenting an opportunity to the AFL.

"We are ready and waiting for a future AFL licence," Mr Bartlett said.

"The submission we will present on Friday is extremely strong in terms of how Tasmania can deliver the necessary criteria required for an AFL licence, stadium economics, revenue and expenditure, sponsorship, membership of the `Tasmanian Football Club' and crowds at (Launceston's) Aurora Stadium."

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