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Sydney COVID Case & Our Match

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1 hour ago, Demonland said:

How do you police that?

Block them off at Swan Street?

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    1 hour ago, Demonland said:

    How do you police that?

    standard No DH policy

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    5 minutes ago, adonski said:

    Interesting to note the Swan's are travelling same day

    https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/news/west-coast-v-fremantle-round-7-crowds-locked-out-of-perth-derby-due-to-covid-risk/news-story/7438b2231bba7f6e03e5d860213d25b9

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    We had to get up at 4:30am to play in Tassie by 1:10pm so why should the Swans be gifted travel a day earlier (in non-COVID Case times). 

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    4 minutes ago, adonski said:

    Interesting to note the Swan's are travelling same day

    https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/news/west-coast-v-fremantle-round-7-crowds-locked-out-of-perth-derby-due-to-covid-risk/news-story/7438b2231bba7f6e03e5d860213d25b9

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    On a slightly related note, did anyone catch Gawn mentioning same day travel on the podcast?

    Gawny mentioned how same day travel for early arvo games doesn't work too well for a lot of players like himself. As he mentioned getting up at 3am to travel to the airport must mean a pretty early flight but sounds like it definitely had an impact on the players energy. It was pretty clear in that first quarter. Obviously due to covid it sounds like its necessary but hopefully something that doesn't happen as often in the future. Hate to see games impacted by things like same day/morning travel with players tired from early starts/planes.

    Anyway this is a night game so I image less of an impact.

     

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    I can't believe this. Paranoia. Anyway what has a bunch of players on the field got to do with crowds in a stand. Why would there be no attendance ?????

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    10 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    We had to get up at 4:30am to play in Tassie by 1:10pm so why should the Swans be gifted travel a day earlier (in non-COVID Case times). 

    They shouldn't be gifted anything. Ideally I'd make them cycle over but unfortunately it's not up to me.

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    Potentially it could mean the Swans stay in Melbourne after the game

     

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    11 minutes ago, Yung Blood said:

     

    On a slightly related note, did anyone catch Gawn mentioning same day travel on the podcast?

    Gawny mentioned how same day travel for early arvo games doesn't work too well for a lot of players like himself. As he mentioned getting up at 3am to travel to the airport must mean a pretty early flight but sounds like it definitely had an impact on the players energy. It was pretty clear in that first quarter. Obviously due to covid it sounds like its necessary but hopefully something that doesn't happen as often in the future. Hate to see games impacted by things like same day/morning travel with players tired from early starts/planes.

    Anyway this is a night game so I image less of an impact.

     

    A poster on Game Day reckoned Max was drunk. Explains it: they were definitely not 'on' in the first half.

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    1 hour ago, dl4e said:

    I can't believe this. Paranoia. Anyway what has a bunch of players on the field got to do with crowds in a stand. Why would there be no attendance ?????

    It’s pretty silly. No attendance at a game played in Sydney would make sense, as there is a risk of someone in the crowd having and spreading Covid (see WA). 
    They can ban anyone who was in NSW from attending as they did with the Geelong v West Coast game a few weeks back, but if there is no community spread in Victoria why would we not be able to attend? 
     

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    I keep having to clarify I’m saying this from London but I really can’t believe some of the extreme measures put on the players, explains our lacklustre start and full credit to North who were able to cope better with it. 

    I can’t work out why it isn’t just as easy to go into a hotel and just stay in there the whole time aside from going to/from the venue. 

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    Just heard on SEN Swans might now be flying into Melbourne 24hrs before originally planned. If the Lions v Freo game can go ahead with a crowd at the Gabba this weekend surely ours can have attendance.

    They are expecting more cases in Sydney due to the man being potentially highly contagious yet one of his immediate family members has returned a negative. 

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    9 hours ago, Yung Blood said:

     

    On a slightly related note, did anyone catch Gawn mentioning same day travel on the podcast?

    Gawny mentioned how same day travel for early arvo games doesn't work too well for a lot of players like himself. As he mentioned getting up at 3am to travel to the airport must mean a pretty early flight but sounds like it definitely had an impact on the players energy. It was pretty clear in that first quarter. Obviously due to covid it sounds like its necessary but hopefully something that doesn't happen as often in the future. Hate to see games impacted by things like same day/morning travel with players tired from early starts/planes.

    Anyway this is a night game so I image less of an impact.

     

    Bussing Gold Coast to BNE then flying to Cairns arriving an hour before the match certainly killed our season 2020?

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    13 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Or no Sydney fans, period. ?

    Obviously you must have a red and blue scarf,  red and white straight out the in door.

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    11 hours ago, Yung Blood said:

     

    On a slightly related note, did anyone catch Gawn mentioning same day travel on the podcast?

    Gawny mentioned how same day travel for early arvo games doesn't work too well for a lot of players like himself. As he mentioned getting up at 3am to travel to the airport must mean a pretty early flight but sounds like it definitely had an impact on the players energy. It was pretty clear in that first quarter. Obviously due to covid it sounds like its necessary but hopefully something that doesn't happen as often in the future. Hate to see games impacted by things like same day/morning travel with players tired from early starts/planes.

    Anyway this is a night game so I image less of an impact.

     

    I might have missed something but wasn’t it our choice to travel the same day to Tassie or were we forced to do this?

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    If the Swans play it too cute with their travel arrangements and the game can't go ahead as scheduled, then the game should be cancelled and them forfeit the match day points.  We shouldn't be disadvantaged by the compressed late season fixture that a delayed match would no doubt impose on us.

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    When we last played at the MCG the ground announcer instructed that anyone who had been in Perth in recent days or on a particular plane flight between Melbourne and Perth had to leave the ground immediately. There was any way of enforcing that instruction, though. It may be the same this weekend for anyone who has been in Sydney in the last few days - Swans players and officials excepted, of course, subject to each passing a recent Covid test. 

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    3 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    Just heard on SEN Swans might now be flying into Melbourne 24hrs before originally planned. If the Lions v Freo game can go ahead with a crowd at the Gabba this weekend surely ours can have attendance.

    They are expecting more cases in Sydney due to the man being potentially highly contagious yet one of his immediate family members has returned a negative. 

    The Lions Freo game is not the same.

    Here we have a person out and about for a few days across Eastern Sydney with what is reported as being a high viral load.

    Not everyone uses the Service NSW QR system, so there may be a few not traceable.

    None of that is paranoia, it's a statement of fact.

    Given the incubation period we don't know what the risk is of Sydney players or support staff potentially being caught out.

    This next comment is not directed at you so please don't take it like that: it's probably best we don't shoot from the hip regarding the risk around this in relation to the epidemiology. It's obvious some commenters (and this doesn't just relate to DL) view all of this as paranoia and overkill, but it's worth remembering things can get out of hand very quickly.

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    18 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

    This next comment is not directed at you so please don't take it like that: it's probably best we don't shoot from the hip regarding the risk around this in relation to the epidemiology. It's obvious some commenters (and this doesn't just relate to DL) view all of this as paranoia and overkill, but it's worth remembering things can get out of hand very quickly.

    Indeed. And the problem is that if there is very little spread or an outbreak does not occur it is easy to say 'see, what an over reaction' . 

    This is similar to the challenge of getting traction for effective prevention policies across community the social wellbeing spectrum, particularly health policy. It is hard to sell an absence of something. Easier to treat the symptom than address the cause.

    Cheaper too. In the very short term. Which unfortunately is what government is often focused on short term success increases their chance of reelection.

    Much, much more expensive in the long term however. 

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