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1 minute ago, Billy said:

Ban Essendon for 14 days, move on and give us the 4 points 

Precisely. If players can be suspended for breaching Covid19 rules, then clubs have to go if they can’t produce a team clean of the virus.

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    18 minutes ago, Deeoldfart said:

    Apparently McKenna was in Ireland and did his 14 days in quarantine.  Only returned to training last week.

    Reports form China from the harbin outbreak saying that some cases of the virus is having a longer incubation Period, plus taking longer to clear from system.

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    I think they’ll reschedule the match. Perhaps to a later date or have a 3-games in 2 weeks scenario.  Thursday night to Tuesday night to Sunday night fixture.  Stay tuned. 

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    2 minutes ago, Darkhorse72 said:

    Reports form China from the harbin outbreak saying that some cases of the virus is having a longer incubation Period, plus taking longer to clear from system.

    Considering he went into isolation for 14 days and has now tested positive....

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    23 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

    Apparently he tested +ve earlier in the week but was a-symptomatic and continued to train to even early this morning, where a second test revealed another +ve test.

    Not across the protocols with everything covid related, but if the system allows for training after a positive test to continue, that is amazingly ignorant by either the AFL or EFC.

    So he tested positive...to a club test.

    ...if that's true and was allowed to train.

    Then he and the club ge banned from the rest of the season.

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    We should get the 4 points..  what is worse is building match fitness which other clubs can and we can;t.  You can’t train for the intensity of games during the week.  Even a intra-club match is not the same. 

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    1 minute ago, Cards13 said:

    Considering he went into isolation for 14 days and has now tested positive....

     14 days was a numebr plucked out of the air to a large extent.

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    If they only postpone the game. Come later on in the season, you get a few injuries that aren't major, could you deliberately infect a player so that you get an extra two weeks for your players to recover? An extreme measure but it could be done!

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    ....by the way, how in the f... was he let back into the country in the first place.

    The borders were closed I thought.

    He's not in an essential industry.

    Is he an Australian citizen or did the bombers pull in a favour.

    FFS...

     

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    3 minutes ago, Age said:

    If they only postpone the game. Come later on in the season, you get a few injuries that aren't major, could you deliberately infect a player so that you get an extra two weeks for your players to recover? An extreme measure but it could be done!

    Well a lot of what goes on in the AFL is arguably criminal from a supporters point of view, but this would land someone in jail.

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    1 minute ago, rjay said:

    ....by the way, how in the f... was he let back into the country in the first place.

    The borders were closed I thought.

    He's not in an essential industry.

    Is he an Australian citizen or did the bombers pull in a favour.

    FFS...

     

    Interesting point. Is he on a work visa or is he a naturalized Citizen?

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    Wow, this mob have a dodgy track record

    Drug cheats & now ignoring Covid-19 ignorance 

    Well done EFC 

     

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    3 minutes ago, rjay said:

    ....by the way, how in the f... was he let back into the country in the first place.

    The borders were closed I thought.

    He's not in an essential industry.

    Is he an Australian citizen or did the bombers pull in a favour.

    FFS...

     

    Lot's of journalist have thrown around the term closed borders, but international flights have never stopped. People returning from overseas need to do 2 weeks of hotel quarantine.

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    I’m gutted - I was looking forward to that. Has just made me hate Bombers even more.

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    9 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    I think they’ll reschedule the match. Perhaps to a later date or have a 3-games in 2 weeks scenario.  Thursday night to Tuesday night to Sunday night fixture.  Stay tuned. 

    but bummers will have more than one game to catch up. will distort whole competition

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    6 minutes ago, rjay said:

    ....by the way, how in the f... was he let back into the country in the first place.

    The borders were closed I thought.

    He's not in an essential industry.

    Is he an Australian citizen or did the bombers pull in a favour.

    FFS...

     

    Hear hear Rjay.  Should be a 21 day quarantine for sporting teams.  So much to lose if it gets loose.  More importantly, this is really gonna stuff my whole weekend!

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    47 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    connor mckenna from druggies (recently overseas)

    game on sunday in jeopardy

    Been back for over a month and served 2 weeks isolation like everyone else

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    Gil fronting up now

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    3 minutes ago, Seraph said:

    Been back for over a month and served 2 weeks isolation like everyone else

    correct... interesting as to where he picked it up

    Luckily we have that world class contact tracing app

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