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If some teams can’t play all their 17 games regular season games due to disruptions then the AFL can reduce the number of games that count for regular points. If some teams only manage to play 15 games then all other clubs have only their best 15 results counted for points and percentage  and their worst  2 results not counted. That could work to even things out and might let us and Essendon wriggle out of the outstanding game to be played. 

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16 minutes ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

the afl have to do everything they can to keep the season going as otherwise at least six clubs, 1000s of jobs, and 100s of 1000s of supporters are at risk of being lost

I think the game style is doing that by itself... I watched one half of football last week when usually I would watch 2.5.

5 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Would visiting clubs, such as two Victorian clubs, be able to play each other halfway through the 14 day quarantine period? I appreciate that for the average visitor, quarantine might mean complete isolation, but i could see that it might be different under the protocols the AFL would be putting in place with the health officials in those places.  

That's the million dollar question ... The answer in NSW is yes but the other states... who knows. You would of course need to give the stadium a deep clean after we used it.

There is the added question of what if a player came from one of hot spot postcodes.

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10 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Looks like all the Melbourne clubs can go to NSW for 2 weeks play matches and then they can move on to Qld etc.

If so places like Wagga might see a match with crowds. No need for them all to go to Sydney

ACT being floated as well.

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Tonight I saw the Richmond captain on tv saying that a number of their players had young children and some were expecting children soon. He said some of them were questioning wether they would go. Consider Viney from the MFC, his first child was born a few day ago and he has to leave for what could be 4-8 weeks. If I where him I would be seriously considering “ see ya next year guys”. 
With that in mind I have decided this years competition is seriously damaged.

I will be attaching little significance to the results.

 

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23 minutes ago, old dee said:

Tonight I saw the Richmond captain on tv saying that a number of their players had young children and some were expecting children soon. He said some of them were questioning wether they would go. Consider Viney from the MFC, his first child was born a few day ago and he has to leave for what could be 4-8 weeks. If I where him I would be seriously considering “ see ya next year guys”. 
With that in mind I have decided this years competition is seriously damaged.

 

 

 

If thats their attitude they should definitely never join the military then.   Try being deployed for 12+ months.

AFL players are soft as butter.

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6 minutes ago, TheKozzieExperience said:

 

If thats their attitude they should definitely never join the military then.   Try being deployed for 12+ months.

AFL players are soft as butter.

Rubbish.

People who join the military do so knowing the sacrifices up front.

No AFL player has ever signed up to a season expecting to leave behind their families for weeks on end. It is a ridiculous notion to suggest they are soft. It is such a hard decision and for players with young children, newborns, babies on the way, perhaps ill parents, or no other family support around their partners to help with small kids, it is very much a lose-lose.

I feel for everyone in this situation, and I wouldn't begrudge any player who chose their family in what is already a compromised season. 

This is a job for players, and very few people would put their job ahead of their family. 

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43 minutes ago, old dee said:

Tonight I saw the Richmond captain on tv saying that a number of their players had young children and some were expecting children soon. He said some of them were questioning wether they would go. Consider Viney from the MFC, his first child was born a few day ago and he has to leave for what could be 4-8 weeks. If I where him I would be seriously considering “ see ya next year guys”. 
With that in mind I have decided this years competition is seriously damaged.

I will be attaching little significance to the results.

 

Regardless of this we are still SERIOUSLY SHIZEN!! Watch Richmond return to form with the "Easybeats game plan dismantlement"

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22 minutes ago, TheKozzieExperience said:

 

If thats their attitude they should definitely never join the military then.   Try being deployed for 12+ months.

AFL players are soft as butter.

The difference is when you join the army you know the conditions, these are far from normal conditions for AFL players. Not a lot of sympathy for your fellow humans.

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14 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Rubbish.

People who join the military do so knowing the sacrifices up front.

No AFL player has ever signed up to a season expecting to leave behind their families for weeks on end. It is a ridiculous notion to suggest they are soft. It is such a hard decision and for players with young children, newborns, babies on the way, perhaps ill parents, or no other family support around their partners to help with small kids, it is very much a lose-lose.

I feel for everyone in this situation, and I wouldn't begrudge any player who chose their family in what is already a compromised season. 

This is a job for players, and very few people would put their job ahead of their family. 

Got it jaded. Gee some people have little feeling for their fellow humans.

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9 minutes ago, TheKozzieExperience said:

 

Well there's your  big mistake.

Equating a new flu strain to the horrors of war.   This COVID19 thing is a picnic in comparison.

Please try again.

 

You total miss the point so why go on.

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2 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Dockers game definitely not happening, and definitely not on the Gold Coast. 

Pity. Was hoping to go down to GC  and watch them.

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16 hours ago, old dee said:

Tonight I saw the Richmond captain on tv saying that a number of their players had young children and some were expecting children soon. He said some of them were questioning wether they would go. Consider Viney from the MFC, his first child was born a few day ago and he has to leave for what could be 4-8 weeks. If I where him I would be seriously considering “ see ya next year guys”. 
With that in mind I have decided this years competition is seriously damaged.

I will be attaching little significance to the results.

 

Do you think you would still feel that way if we won this year's flag?.

It's easy now to say that us winning won't happen. (It's been easy almost every year since 1964 to say that it won't happen.)  But if you really mean it, you have to say now that you would feel that way even of we win the flag. My view is the opposite. I think this year's flag will be the one that will be the hardest to win, whoever wins it. They (or we) will have overcome the most disrupted schedule with the most complicated set of training and living rules, at least since the end of World War II. It will be a victory worth savouring.

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1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Do you think you would still feel that way if we won this year's flag?.

It's easy now to say that us winning won't happen. (It's been easy almost every year since 1964 to say that it won't happen.)  But if you really mean it, you have to say now that you would feel that way even of we win the flag. My view is the opposite. I think this year's flag will be the one that will be the hardest to win, whoever wins it. They (or we) will have overcome the most disrupted schedule with the most complicated set of training and living rules, at least since the end of World War II. It will be a victory worth savouring.

I think there is a better chance of a virus vaccine than us winning a flag in 2020. We currently cannot beat time with a stick. Better than average chance now the GF will be played in WA in October and by then numerous players will have pulled out. This year is a just a money saver. 

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35 minutes ago, old dee said:

I think there is a better chance of a virus vaccine than us winning a flag in 2020. We currently cannot beat time with a stick. Better than average chance now the GF will be played in WA in October and by then numerous players will have pulled out. This year is a just a money saver. 

Haven't heard that expression before. I rather like it.

I wouldn't mind the double of a Covid vaccine and a flag in 2020. What a topsy-turvy year that would be! 

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10 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Haven't heard that expression before. I rather like it.

I wouldn't mind the double of a Covid vaccine and a flag in 2020. What a topsy-turvy year that would be! 

Somewhere north of wonderful LDC. And use it at will. 

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Just saw a headline pop up on my phone, "all AFL players and staff in the lock down hotspot zones must move out o those zones prior to midnight tonight or not be allowed to travel interstate."

Who knows maybe Steele will get confused by where he lives and forget to get out leaving him home for some time lol.

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24 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Just saw a headline pop up on my phone, "all AFL players and staff in the lock down hotspot zones must move out o those zones prior to midnight tonight or not be allowed to travel interstate."

Who knows maybe Steele will get confused by where he lives and forget to get out leaving him home for some time lol.

Not exactly what the State Govt was trying to achieve ....standby

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59 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Just saw a headline pop up on my phone, "all AFL players and staff in the lock down hotspot zones must move out o those zones prior to midnight tonight or not be allowed to travel interstate."

Who knows maybe Steele will get confused by where he lives and forget to get out leaving him home for some time lol.

Suspect that is most likely to affect bulldogs, north and ess players. 

Edit:  Apparently about 50 people (players/staff) need to move out tonight.  Only teams not affected at all are Cats, Dees, Hawks.

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3 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Suspect that is most likely to affect bulldogs, north and ess players. 

Edit:  Apparently about 50 people (players/staff) need to move out tonight.  Only teams not affected at all are Cats, Dees, Hawks.

Just as I thought the bloody Dees can never find a player in the hot spot!!!!

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