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Posted
Just now, Cards13 said:

Do they have direct flights? I always thought they had to fly back to Melbs then to Tassie.

Well firstly I assume the AFL can organise a special charter flight like they did last year.

Or alternatively they could get off the plane and then board another one immediately to Tassie. The risk of them getting infected is so minimal given they are coming to play, so are off the plane, on a team bus, into the hotel etc. They could quite easily have their movements limited.

I suggest the game in Perth will go ahead but potentially with no crowds. Basically like last year. 

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13 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Very much off topic but North are in WA which may very well be in lockdown shortly.

Guess who plays North next week?

Just read this:  "North Melbourne arrived in Perth on Friday afternoon and are fixtured to face Fremantle on Saturday night.  Both West Australian clubs are set to meet in Round 7 at Optus Stadium."

If WA gov't stops the North/Freo game that will need to be caught up at some stage.  North fly home tomorrow. So, It may not affect our round 7 game game unless the Tas or Vic governments put the North team into isolation.  Even if Tassie does it can still be played in Victoria.  ??

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Posted
1 minute ago, Lord Nev said:

Would suggest it's more about if the Freo Roos game even goes ahead and how that then impacts the next round of games.

 

It would make no difference to next week if this game is cancelled. Just like when our game against Essendon was cancelled, the following weeks went ahead as scheduled. They will likely play this game during the bye or in the week prior to finals if no other game is impacted during the season.

Posted
10 minutes ago, Hannibal Inc. said:

I suspect not.

He's played 7 quarters of competitive football coming back from a significant layoff.  

Their conversations would have been about managing him, getting his body right and getting him back out there with a few games under his belt.

And, assuming he isn't playing, quiet rightly saying something along the lines of:

'mate, we are not going to risk you coming back even a bit under done for one of the most intense home and away games all year. Not fair to you or the team. Focus on another solid VFL game and you will 100% be in the frame for a game against the roos the next week. Oh and work on your forward pressure. We want more tackles than goals....'

Smart player management in my book. 

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Jaded said:

It would make no difference to next week if this game is cancelled. Just like when our game against Essendon was cancelled, the following weeks went ahead as scheduled. They will likely play this game during the bye or in the week prior to finals if no other game is impacted during the season.

Maybe. There's no guarantee the AFL will handle this situation the same as the different one last year. Last years game was cancelled due to a player being suspected of having COVID, this is a lockdown.

Posted
6 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Yeap Perth and Peel (wherever that is) into 3 day lockdown. 

Game going ahead with no crowd. Lucky North, they are now a 1% chance of winning. 

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Posted
24 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Very much off topic but North are in WA which may very well be in lockdown shortly.

Guess who plays North next week?

Ironic given McGow's painful hubris.

We should lock our borders to WA out of nothing but spite (joking by the way - sort of)

Posted
1 minute ago, Jaded said:

Game going ahead with no crowd. Lucky North, they are now a 1% chance of winning. 

It'll be just like a home game for them! ;)

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Just now, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Whatever happens, I really hope we don't have to have our bye next week and then play North in the mid season bye.

16 weeks without a break would be a disaster.

Seems unlikely. I mean who have the players come into contact with? They just arrived. I doubt they are out partying.

They'll have their movements limited, they will get tested before returning home and then tested again during the week.

I don't think the Tassie government will give up the cash from the AFL over a handful of cases on the other side of the country, and if Tassie is happy to let them in, the AFL definitely won't say no.

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27 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Also [censored] Covid and the endless [censored] coming out of these returned travellers and these quarantine hotels. 18 months later and we still can't get it right. 

It'll never be right until everyone is vaccinated, especially with these increasingly contagious variants. Not much to be done that isn't being done I'm afraid - though looking at Australia from Europe, the situation you have is incomparably better.

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8 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Seems unlikely. I mean who have the players come into contact with? They just arrived. I doubt they are out partying.

They'll have their movements limited, they will get tested before returning home and then tested again during the week.

I don't think the Tassie government will give up the cash from the AFL over a handful of cases on the other side of the country, and if Tassie is happy to let them in, the AFL definitely won't say no.

I hope the are not staying sat the mecure!

On that, I can't believe that the federal government has not stepped in and set up out open air quarantine facilities in each state modelled on the one in the NT. Where thre has not been a single cross infection. Not one 

I mean how much more evidence do they need  that hermetically sealed hotels with rubbish air cons and no air flow are simply not up for the job.

No doubt they would say it is state responsibility but it is in the feds interest to sort it if they want to avoid border closures and get international travel back. And Scotty needs a win.

Surely the Army engineers could be called on to build such facilities  - hell Duntroon and Pucka must have facilities that could be adapted for the purpose. Duntroon is right next to Canberra airport and i'm pretty sure Puck has an air strip.

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Oh, to have Australia’s problem. In France, according to the My Health app, we had 34,318 new cases yesterday. ICU occupancy is at 118.2% of capacity

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Posted (edited)
42 minutes ago, Hannibal Inc. said:

I suspect not.

He's played 7 quarters of competitive football coming back from a significant layoff.  

Their conversations would have been about managing him, getting his body right and getting him back out there with a few games under his belt.

100% correct. The mere fact he kicked 7 as an output, is not indicative of him being ready from a fitness perspective.

Granted though, it's pretty fantastic result and feels good, but its about km's in the body.

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1 minute ago, Engorged Onion said:

100% correct. The mere fact he kicked 7 as an output, is not indicative of him being ready from a fitness perspective.

Granted though, it's pretty fantastic result and feels good, but its about km's in the body.

My understanding was that fitness wise Weid is ahead of Brown.

Posted
6 minutes ago, Fanatique Demon said:

Oh, to have Australia’s problem. In France, according to the My Health app, we had 34,318 new cases yesterday. ICU occupancy is at 118.2% of capacity

The Sad emoticon, does not convey the sadness in a way I prefer... ?

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Fanatique Demon said:

Oh, to have Australia’s problem. In France, according to the My Health app, we had 34,318 new cases yesterday. ICU occupancy is at 118.2% of capacity

That's god awful. My wife's family are in Berlin. And it's going bananas there again too. A good mate is in Spain and same story.

We are so lucky here. 

How is the vaccine roll out going in France?

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Posted
32 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

It'll be just like a home game for them! ;)

On the contrary.

Huge advantage to kangas

Posted
1 minute ago, binman said:

How is the vaccine roll out going in France?

13.27 million vaccinated. I’ve had both of my Pfizer shots and my wife has had her first. 
We’re fortunate to live in a town of 3,500 in the Lot. There are far fewer cases here. But we really can’t go anywhere or do anything. I’d go crazy without the footy. Well, crazier.  

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Interesting about Fritsch being right. 

Best chance to win with fit and firing players so if he and May are right then that does make sense.

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11 minutes ago, binman said:

That's god awful. My wife's family are in Berlin. And it's going bananas there again too. A good mate is in Spain and same story.

We are so lucky here. 

How is the vaccine roll out going in France?

Hi Binman, off to get my Astra in Berlin today, over a 1000 infections yesterday, hope your wifes family are Dees supporters, thought I was the only one here!

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50 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Yeap Perth and Peel (wherever that is) into 3 day lockdown. 

Geography lesson :) - it's not the wheatbelt!

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