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Slightly off topic but I just wanted to say that I live in Lucca in Italy and that, from our experience, the most important thing to do is to stop the spread of the virus....by whatever means necessar

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You would have to be a real [censored] to call the club and abuse their membership department and demand refunds right now.  This is not within their control and a club like ours can ill afford canc

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MEMBERS of the Melbourne Football Club have rallied around the Club in the wake of the news that crowds won’t be allowed into games for the foreseeable future due to COVID-19. In an impressive di

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 Channel 7 set to call AFL games from remote bunker to adhere to social distancing rules

Channel 7 is confident viewers won’t notice a significant difference in its revamped AFL coverage, which will include commentating games without being at the venue.

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 Channel 7 set to call AFL games from remote bunker to adhere to social distancing rules

Channel 7 is confident viewers won’t notice a significant difference in its revamped AFL coverage, which will include commentating games without being at the venue.

fox sports has been doing it for years during the escort community service cup

makes no difference - a lot of them are still terrible play-by-play and 'special' commentators

fox generally has a body on the ground so it'll be interesting to see whether 7 do

is bruce going to be calling from a bunker in adelaide while the others are in melbourne?

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the Crows training saga could have serious consequences. AFL are talking premiership points and/or suspensions according to Caroline Wilson talking on 3aw.

She also let on that clubs were told that a player breaking social distancing laws could look at a season long suspension.

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the Crows training saga could have serious consequences. AFL are talking premiership points and/or suspensions according to Caroline Wilson talking on 3aw.

She also let on that clubs were told that a player breaking social distancing laws could look at a season long suspension.

Wow that’s ramped up!!

I heard a News Report this afternoon where it was said that nothing would happen. I am glad things have changed. 
 

I am sick of Sportsman setting their own agendas. 
social Distancing is 1.5 metres

Deal with it

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2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Wow that’s ramped up!!

I heard a News Report this afternoon where it was said that nothing would happen. I am glad things have changed. 
 

I am sick of Sportsman setting their own agendas. 
social Distancing is 1.5 metres

Deal with it

the SA Police let them off with a warning but the AFL penalty is yet to be decided. I suspect that it will be financial only but Gil may wish to stamp his authority. Suspension of the coaching staff involved could be the halfway house.

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the SA Police let them off with a warning but the AFL penalty is yet to be decided. I suspect that it will be financial only but Gil may wish to stamp his authority. Suspension of the coaching staff involved could be the halfway house.

Hehe a big penalty will go a long way towards easing the supposed Vic-bias tensions!

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WA Premier keeps on saying they wont lift the border restrictions so no idea of when WA may open.

The plus is that they have as I understand been letting in fifo mining workers all along so there is some precendence for exceptions.

WCE v Richmond or Collingwood at Perth would be  a nice opening round game

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8 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

WA Premier keeps on saying they wont lift the border restrictions so no idea of when WA may open.

The plus is that they have as I understand been letting in fifo mining workers all along so there is some precendence for exceptions.

WCE v Richmond or Collingwood at Perth would be  a nice opening round game

Nothing has changed in the last 30 years all this is v them crap and we’re special - hope they get burnt by their politics

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Nothing has changed in the last 30 years all this is v them crap and we’re special - hope they get burnt by their politics

Not doing themselves any favours, especially if they want to lobby to move the GF in future.

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16 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

WA Premier keeps on saying they wont lift the border restrictions so no idea of when WA may open.

The plus is that they have as I understand been letting in fifo mining workers all along so there is some precendence for exceptions.

WCE v Richmond or Collingwood at Perth would be  a nice opening round game

Fine. 2020 can be a 16 team comp and they can sit it out.

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3 hours ago, gs77 said:

Fine. 2020 can be a 16 team comp and they can sit it out.

Or they can just bunker over here until restrictions are lifted.

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https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2020-coronavirus-covid19-updates-latest-afl-news-return-to-play-date-testing-gillon-mclachlan/news-story/b30aecd9389a8a48a68b87fc27be0ece
 

I’m not sure if this has already been discussed but with the NT pushing their case saying they can have crowds I wonder whether (like the Suns) we’re pushing to still play our usual Alice Springs game this year. Would people here be supportive of it?

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