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I just saw that the WA premier intends on keeping the state border closed to prevent possible infections arriving from NSW, Queensland and Victoria. No mention of SA there so perhaps playing a round robin between their four sides plus a local derby might see that state open in time to avoid their sides having to move to a temporary Victorian hub. 

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Just now, Rab D Nesbitt said:

I just saw that the WA premier intends on keeping the state border closed to prevent possible infections arriving from NSW, Queensland and Victoria. No mention of SA there so perhaps playing a round robin between their four sides plus a local derby might see that state open in time to avoid their sides having to move to a temporary Victorian hub. 

that would give you three rounds... good concept but would it be worth the effort

The afl are also making murmurings of giving the interstate teams more home games (like 10) to counterbalance the travel factor. Methinks a little wedge politics is being played by all sides notwithstanding the "we'll be guided by the medical experts" stance.

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42 minutes ago, TRIGON said:

I wonder if the R1 results will still stand?

they were talking about that on the 3aw sports show a few days ago. No certainty that they will annul round 1 but unless they stuff up the fixture my thought is that the results will stand The decision maker will be the TV people. If they will pay more for 17 rounds that 16 guess what ???

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55 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

that would give you three rounds... good concept but would it be worth the effort

The afl are also making murmurings of giving the interstate teams more home games (like 10) to counterbalance the travel factor. Methinks a little wedge politics is being played by all sides notwithstanding the "we'll be guided by the medical experts" stance.

Hi DJ. Yeah, fair point. I just thought that those three weeks might create just enough wriggle room for the border situation over there to end and avoid any hubs. 

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1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

As much as I'd love for it to happen due to us stinking it up in round 1, on what grounds should round 1 results be cancelled?

They were official games as far as I'm concerned.

No grounds...never stopped the AFL before.

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I understand the WA fans having a bit of a sook, especially as the AFL prevented the WA clubs from training in larger groups (I still don't know what authority they actually have to control that). Each state's teams were going to come across their own advantages and disadvantages, fact is that surely at some point WC and Freo will have to have an extended stay on the Eastern seaboard because if they are going to play games every 4-6 days where exactly are they going to have the time to train and recover if they keen flying back to WA.

My thoughts are that the WA government already have an in principal agreement with the WA clubs to let them and interstate fly in-fly out, but they are trying to get some leverage to gain their own advantages/deals before officially agreeing to it.

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26 minutes ago, brendan said:

Imagine if crowds were allowed to go would be a sell out imo 

Without a doubt brendan. Wouldn’t that be a beautiful thing? You’d probably have a heap of neutrals attending just to hear some noise from the stands. 

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1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Eddie’s trying to get Melbourne V Collingwood  to reopen the season for Queens-birthday.

Of course he is, and with no crowd. Then it would be their turn next year. Greedy [censored]

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1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Eddie’s trying to get Melbourne V Collingwood  to reopen the season for Queens-birthday.

Good idea.

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On 5/4/2020 at 6:34 PM, ding said:

OFC i would say yes. Im a nurse Jaded, and if we all started saying it was just too hard, how do you think that might affect the country. I was, and remain prepared to be quarantined from my family to do my job. Your second para says that my answer was irrelevant to you anyway so i dont know why you bother to ask in the first place.

As for the training part, if any club can find a way to make a meal of this enforced break, it will be our club. If we come back in ripping nick and playing better than the rest of the field i will be shocked to near death. 50 plus year of failure will sow those kind of seeds.

"hub idea is ridiculous anyway" Never argued otherwise. Its their whole attitude of "We didnt sign up for this"... Nobody did.

 

I can't thank you enough for the work you do as a nurse. It sucks that you have to endanger yourself everyday for the benefit of everyone else.

I think what players are saying is that they never signed up for being away for 20 weeks from their family. Unfortunately as a nurse you do sign up for the position of putting yourself at risk for the good of others. It's why nurses are so selfless. 

They have sacrificed their wages, and many of them have lost their job security (rookies, players on match payments and bonuses, players on the fringe, older players close to retirement etc). While I don't feel for them like I feel for you guys who are in the medical profession, or supermarket workers and those who are out of a job completely, I do understand completely their worries and their reservations.

At the end of the day they are all people just like us, with families, mortgages, and so on. They are worried and feel like if the AFL goes into a hub situation they would be left with little choice but to comply or lose their livelihood. It's not a great situation and one I don't think they are fairly being thrown into.

 

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3 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Eddie’s trying to get Melbourne V Collingwood  to reopen the season for Queens-birthday.

And Eddie's suggesting WCE locate to Melbourne for the hub games in 2020.....

So we get to play them in WA and Collingwood get to play their away game at.....MCG or Docklands!

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2 hours ago, Mickey said:

And it's our turn to host, isn't it? Damn

Would the AFL schedule us to host Richmond and Collingwood in front of no crowds this year and make no money?

Then next year Richmond and Collingwood host us for Anzac eve and QB day and they then get all the money.

Pert can't allow this to happen if he's a half decent CEO.

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3 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Would the AFL schedule us to host Richmond and Collingwood in front of no crowds this year and make no money?

Then next year Richmond and Collingwood host us for Anzac eve and QB day and they then get all the money.

Pert can't allow this to happen if he's a half decent CEO.

Of course he wont want it to happen but the AFL make the rules re fixture.

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2 hours ago, Cards13 said:

Of course he wont want it to happen but the AFL make the rules re fixture.

I suppose we don't even know what the revenue sharing model will be from here. May not simply be 'home team gets gate receipts' anymore. We'll have to wait and see

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8 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Would the AFL schedule us to host Richmond and Collingwood in front of no crowds this year and make no money?

Then next year Richmond and Collingwood host us for Anzac eve and QB day and they then get all the money.

Pert can't allow this to happen if he's a half decent CEO.

Won't happen.

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