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Sydney COVID Case & Our Match

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18 minutes ago, Hell Bent said:

It’s been reported in Sydney that some of the coaches were at same cafe same day... hold onto your hats

They will be required to isolate until they return a negative result. They were there in the same time period according to the reports. Hat has blown completely away.......

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    15 hours ago, Rusty Nails said:

    Block them off at Swan Street?

    You'd have to start doing that from the intersection at Church St onwards...otherwise you wouldn't have a prayer.

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    Sydney Swans coach John Longmire and his assistants are awaiting the result of COVID-19 tests after visiting a Moore Park cafe on Monday in the same timeframe as a man who was infectious with the virus.

    It comes as players and staff from the Sydney Roosters were also sent for testing, putting this weekend’s AFL and NRL fixtures on a knife’s edge.

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    When I was in a spot where someone tested positive back in feb I wasn't allowed to return to work until 14 days. I had to self isolate and get a test on day 1 and day 11. 

    This is just another curve ball thrown 

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    13 minutes ago, Satan said:

    Sydney Swans coach John Longmire and his assistants are awaiting the result of COVID-19 tests after visiting a Moore Park cafe on Monday in the same timeframe as a man who was infectious with the virus.

    It comes as players and staff from the Sydney Roosters were also sent for testing, putting this weekend’s AFL and NRL fixtures on a knife’s edge.

    jesus, what are the odds of the swans coaches being at that exact same cafe on the same day?

    Covid can go [censored] itself. Actually it does self-replicate so it even has that covered! 

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    10 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

    When I was in a spot where someone tested positive back in feb I wasn't allowed to return to work until 14 days. I had to self isolate and get a test on day 1 and day 11. 

    This is just another curve ball thrown 

    This is what I don't get; I hear this as a rule - perhaps only in some jurisdictions? -  but "...awaiting the results of COVID-19 tests..." in the Sydney coaches case implies they only need a negative test (and no isolation meanwhile??) for full steam ahead for Saturday! If your experience - as experienced by many others, evidently - were to apply, Saturday night was off the minute they walked into that cafe

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    28 minutes ago, Satan said:

    Sydney Swans coach John Longmire and his assistants are awaiting the result of COVID-19 tests after visiting a Moore Park cafe on Monday in the same timeframe as a man who was infectious with the virus.

    It comes as players and staff from the Sydney Roosters were also sent for testing, putting this weekend’s AFL and NRL fixtures on a knife’s edge.

    So I guess Longmire and his staff will be working from home on Saturday night??

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    Just now, Demonland said:

    How Melbourne is it that on the cusp of a great season COVID returns to ruin everything.

    Someone has to say it, then: We are Premiers

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    On the serious side, though, if the competition were to return to the horrors of last year, with hubbing, etc, by all accounts we would be one of the better adapters to it. Last year's hubbing seems to get a lot of credit for where the team is now as a bonded unit.

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    Given the Roosters (NRL) were also in the same cafe, I'm sure our game will still go ahead fine. The NSW gov't and the NRL will do whatever they can to continue on as normal, so it'll look weak on the AFLs part if they don't go ahead as normal. Not saying I agree with any of that, but it's how it will play out.

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    3 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    How Melbourne is it that on the cusp of a great season COVID returns to ruin everything.

    The Age reports that Longmire and Co only need to test negative and they'll be all good.

    If they had to self isolate for 14 days despite testing negative then our game wouldn't be going ahead I wouldn't think.

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    When you next get cold and flu like symptoms remember to go to as many shops, bars, cafes, parks etc as you possibly can, particularly while you are most infectious.

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    NSW has succesfully contained covid "outbreaks" without any lockdowns before and will again. If it happened here we would be in a state of meltdowns. Play the game as normal.

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    6 minutes ago, BigFez said:

    When you next get cold and flu like symptoms remember to go to as many shops, bars, cafes, parks etc as you possibly can, particularly while you are most infectious.

    Not to mention every single BBQ store in the Greater Sydney area.

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    24 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    The Age reports that Longmire and Co only need to test negative and they'll be all good.

    If they had to self isolate for 14 days despite testing negative then our game wouldn't be going ahead I wouldn't think.

    Hopefully it's only a hypothetical, but would the AFL require the Swans to play if the players were OK to do so but the senior coach was not? I would have thought so...it's no different from the Senior Coach being ill as we saw with Clarkson a few years ago when Bolton took over.  

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    1 hour ago, Satan said:

    Sydney Swans coach John Longmire and his assistants are awaiting the result of COVID-19 tests after visiting a Moore Park cafe on Monday in the same timeframe as a man who was infectious with the virus.

    It comes as players and staff from the Sydney Roosters were also sent for testing, putting this weekend’s AFL and NRL fixtures on a knife’s edge.

    o boy !!

    coaching by zoom.. why not

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    7 minutes ago, Accepting Mediocrity said:

    Not to mention every single BBQ store in the Greater Sydney area.

    Wife and I found that hilarious. Bloke was gagging for a new barbie.

    Or else has plans to rob a barbie shop.

    :mahoney2:

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    Brora Rangers who play in the Highland League in Scotland have just been awarded the league title on goal difference from my home town team Fraserburgh (grrrr) despite having played just three games of a thirty four game season. 

    Should covid derail the AFL season again then we should be afforded the same courtesy. ?

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    11 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

     

    John Longmire and some of his assistants have all received negative COVID-19 results after being tested.

     

    Good, game on.

    Shouldn’t they Still have to isolate for 14 days. Haven’t returned travelers tested negative on day 1 or 2 then positive later on. Some even on day 11. Protocols seem different for every situation. 

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