What a balls up the Grand Prix is apparently most of the drivers have already left the country yet they are allowing people to line up at the gate, government has dropped the ball bigtime on this 

If the AFL went to a 17 game season, eliminate the mid and end season byes games would start on May 9.  Even later if they have mid week games.

At worst play to empty stadiums.

It would be a terrible, depressing winter with no footy?

14 hours ago, Darkhorse72 said:

Canceling the first round won't help as we are still in the early stages of the spread. 

Um, canceling the first round will definitely help, for precisely the reason you say it won’t help!!

All it takes is one or two people in the crowd (and there would likely be more than that) to be infectious, and they could unknowingly spread the virus to numerous people around them in queues waiting to enter the ground, in the crowd in the stands, in queues for food and drinks, by leaving virus (thanks LdC) on counters where others could pick it up, etc etc. 

Edited March 13, 20205 yr by hardtack

Just now, hardtack said:

Um, canceling the first round will definitely help, for precisely the reason you say it won’t help!!

All it takes is one or two people in the crowd (and there would likely be more than that) to be infectious, and they could unknowingly spread the virus to numerous people around them in queues waiting to enter the ground, in the crowd in the stands, in queues for food and drinks, by leaving bacteria on counters where others could pick it up, etc etc. 

Virus. But agree with everything else.

Yes lets cancel the first two rounds so we can split the points against WCE & GWS. I think beginning the season round 3 against the dockers at the G sounds fantastic. 

In all seriousness everyone's health should be the number one concern and if that means we miss games or cannot attend then so be it. 

 

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

However the AFL not conceding yet. 

 

???

 

games will inevitably get suspended/cancelled. it's only a matter of time before players start to become infected and isolated.

the only way to predict and plan the season again, would be if they infected all the players and staff now, then pick up the season once again when everyone has fully recovered. but they aren't going to do that.

this could realistically linger on for months with players all getting infected on different timelines. I feel the season will effectively be ruined before we see the end of it.

Edited March 13, 20205 yr by Demon Dude

This season's just about done and dusted before it even begins, might be earliest ever we've all said bring on next year

9 minutes ago, Demon Dude said:

games will inevitably get suspended/cancelled. it's only a matter of time before players start to become infected and isolated.

the only way to predict and plan the season again, would be if they infected all the players and staff now, then pick up the season once again when everyone has fully recovered. but they aren't going to do that.

this could realistically linger on for months as players all getting infected on different timelines. I feel the season will effectively be ruined before we see the end of it.

months? try 18 of em...that's how long current estimates are for them to have a flu jab for it to be good to go to mass market 

 

18 minutes ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

months? try 18 of em...that's how long current estimates are for them to have a flu jab for it to be good to go to mass market 

yeah I know, I was talking more in relation to the viruses peak in Australia and how it will effect the footy season, rather than a timeline of curing the world of it.

 

you have to love F1

race is cancelled but it's us taxpayers who look like footing the cancellation bill while the mega bore that F1 has become marches along.

It really is a sport for dictators ... AFL on the other hand !!!

1 hour ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

If the AFL went to a 17 game season, eliminate the mid and end season byes games would start on May 9.  Even later if they have mid week games.

At worst play to empty stadiums.

It would be a terrible, depressing winter with no footy?

Sadly true. But it is coming at us like an out of control freight train.

There is no way that players and staff can be effectively isolated from the community and the virus.

The season will be postponed or cancelled.

This is going to escalate to such an extent that the AFL/Govt, will be left with no choice. The players themselves may well act themselves. They need to consider their own position first and foremost and not leave it to others to decide for them. 

 

Do we still have pick 2 in the next draft?

Elephant in the room is how clubs that scrape by financially now are going to go with a massive revenue stream yanked out from under them? Gate receipts gone, corporate hospitality out, membership sales dry up to zero/people stop paying their monthly installments. Can't even get together to rattle the tin!

In the worst case scenario of the whole season being bounced I hope the AFL has funds in reserve or there could be a few clubs in massive trouble by the time it's right to play again.

50 minutes ago, sisso said:

This season's just about done and dusted before it even begins, might be earliest ever we've all said bring on next year

What will we do until it starts to snow? I have already ordered 2 dozen cheese boards...

so what games will thrive in this new world order.

Solo darts perhaps?

 

Just now, Diamond_Jim said:

so what games will thrive in this new world order.

Solo darts perhaps?

 

Esports!!! All sports will move to become esports! 

11 minutes ago, rjay said:

Do we still have pick 2 in the next draft?

Taded it to Norf !!

 

Why are people being so hard on the GRand Prix organizers?  This is a fluid situation thats changing by the minute and hour.  It must be chaos right now trying to sort out events on that scale especially so close to the start.

Their hands are tied, same with everyone elses.

Edited March 13, 20205 yr by JakovichScissorKick

Even if the games go ahead, I can't see any of our player being allowed to play for Casey this year, the AFL clubs have the budgets to quarantine players/staff etc. but the local VFL teams don't have the same measures. Going to make it hard for those trying to break back into the team or returning from injury.

50 minutes ago, dieter said:

What a stupid, ignorant, racist thing to say. So Spain 'ruined' the world when the Spanish Flu broke out? Get a grip.

Covid-19 is just another of several zoonotic origin viruses that have spread within and from China specifically because of the hideous lack of basic hygiene, animal handling, animal welfare and workplace safety standards. 

They are far from alone in these issues but as a country with the logistical resources to incarcerate millions of people for being a 'suspect' ethnicity and to monitor the exact location, occupation and connections of any given person, the continued total failure to enforce standards in this trade is a choice made by the Chinese government.

Similarly, the culture of Chinese officaldom in choosing to arrest and threaten the doctors who initially reported on and advised action on the outbreak was a key factor in the scale of the outbreak and is also a persistent characteristic of Chinese authority.

There's no value in getting into blame but there is also no question that the particular features of Chinese government and the accepted norms of a neglected and exploited filthy underclass were major factors, as was the deep culture of utter disdain for animal welfare.

Also, the reason Spanish Influenza is referred to as such is largely because Spain was one of the few countries which did not massively cover-up the scale of infection, so there were regular news reports of it's spread there while in UK, France, Germany, etc there was dramatic under-reporting and minimal coverage.  Spain was not the origin point, did not have unusually high cases, and there was no feature of Spain which made it a greater vector of virus spread than anywhere else.  So there is entirely zero similarity between the two.