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If we get robbed of our Queens Birthday game I will spew. 
Get it together Victoria. How are we always in this position? How?! 
I refuse to let Covid ruin our best chance of a flag in 60 years. 

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    2 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    If we get robbed of our Queens Birthday game I will spew. 
    Get it together Victoria. How are we always in this position? How?! 
    I refuse to let Covid ruin our best chance of a flag in 60 years. 

    Thought crossed my mind about 5 mins ago. The Big Freeze, the huge occasion, the black and white ferals. Not to mention its my birthday that day.

    Heartbreaking just thinking about it.. 

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    23 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    If we get robbed of our Queens Birthday game I will spew. 
    Get it together Victoria. How are we always in this position? How?! 
    I refuse to let Covid ruin our best chance of a flag in 60 years. 

    There is no chance we are playing at the G in front of crowds on Queens Birthday. 

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    10 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    There is no chance we are playing at the G in front of crowds on Queens Birthday. 

    It’s still 3 weeks away. It might be back to 50% capacity by then. 


    30 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    It’s 15 days so 2 weeks tomorrow. I simply cannot see lockdown ending this Thursday and things just going back to the way they were straight away. 

    Stop ruining my life ?

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    1 hour ago, layzie said:

    Thought crossed my mind about 5 mins ago. The Big Freeze, the huge occasion, the black and white ferals. Not to mention its my birthday that day.

    Heartbreaking just thinking about it.. 

    and have some sympathy for the filth.......queens birthday was to be their grand final

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    This is a massive fortnight for us and it's going to cost us a lot of money.

    The NT game was going to net us $800,000, according to Pert, and in pre-lockdown conditions even with Collingwood struggling we'd have hoped to draw 60,000+ to Queen's Birthday.

    We are going to be hit as badly as any other club from this.

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    2 hours ago, Demonland said:

    There is no chance we are playing at the G in front of crowds on Queens Birthday. 

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    4 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    This is a massive fortnight for us and it's going to cost us a lot of money.

    The NT game was going to net us $800,000, according to Pert, and in pre-lockdown conditions even with Collingwood struggling we'd have hoped to draw 60,000+ to Queen's Birthday.

    We are going to be hit as badly as any other club from this.

    Not to mention we are finally going well and we can’t go to games. Absolute balls. 

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    1 hour ago, Demonland said:

    It’s 15 days so 2 weeks tomorrow. I simply cannot see lockdown ending this Thursday and things just going back to the way they were straight away. 

    I'm old enough to remember 14 days to flatten the curve.

     

    And here we are in our 162nd day of lockdown......

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    12 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    This is a massive fortnight for us and it's going to cost us a lot of money.

    The NT game was going to net us $800,000, according to Pert, and in pre-lockdown conditions even with Collingwood struggling we'd have hoped to draw 60,000+ to Queen's Birthday.

    We are going to be hit as badly as any other club from this.

    combine that with the sub optimum crowd on Anzac Eve and this season is looking grim money wise when in a normal world we would be raking it in.

     

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    It would be likely we’d probably go back to the 50% capacity at best. Gee wiz too much to fathom right now.

    It should also be remembered that not all that should be getting tested (that were present at the exposure sites) will get tested.  Not all checked in with the QR code and therefore can't necessarily be traced.  We are relying on 100% goodwill

    And often the symptoms don't show up for 5 days or more (even though this particular strain can be transmitted in 24 hours)

    So the 4 or 5 positive tests per day that we've had since the lockdown started might not be an accurate number ... it could be 10 or 12 per day with the disease being passed on unawares.  And they may have a target figure (zero?) that needs to be met for a certain amount of days

    Bunker down (again) is my reckoning but hopefully no longer than a month or at best, a total of 2 weeks 

    Obviously,  I really hope I'm wrong

    The AFL have got on the front foot with regards to where the games are to be held so there's that (as well) 

    On a brighter note the games will go ahead with crowds at all the games (just not in Victoria for the time being) 

    And if we're good enough we can win anywhere, anytime anyway

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    2 hours ago, Jaded said:

    If we get robbed of our Queens Birthday game I will spew. 
    Get it together Victoria. How are we always in this position? How?! 
    I refuse to let Covid ruin our best chance of a flag in 60 years. 

    Keep the bucket handy.

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    The question is why announce a 7 day lockdown if it’s really obvious that it’s not going to be enough? Could be stepping into political territory here so I’m just going to shut up now. 

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    10 minutes ago, layzie said:

    The question is why announce a 7 day lockdown if it’s really obvious that it’s not going to be enough? Could be stepping into political territory here so I’m just going to shut up now. 

    Because they should have put us into lockdown as soon as we had that one case we didn’t know the link to. They didn’t. They stuffed up yet AGAIN. And so they don’t want to deflate us all and cause more angst. They say 7 days, we say ok we can do that. Then they say just a few more days and so on. 
    Imagine if the original 6 week lockdown last year was announced as an 8 months lockdown. We would burn the place down. 
    It’s manipulating hope. 

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    18 minutes ago, layzie said:

    The question is why announce a 7 day lockdown if it’s really obvious that it’s not going to be enough? Could be stepping into political territory here so I’m just going to shut up now. 

    Because nothing is necessarily obvious ... day by day the evaluation can change with the spread of this disease (particularly this particular strain) 

    So they apply a week and that could be for starters, added on to or just the 1 week

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    8 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    Because they should have put us into lockdown as soon as we had that one case we didn’t know the link to. They didn’t. They stuffed up yet AGAIN. And so they don’t want to deflate us all and cause more angst. They say 7 days, we say ok we can do that. Then they say just a few more days and so on. 
    Imagine if the original 6 week lockdown last year was announced as an 8 months lockdown. We would burn the place down. 
    It’s manipulating hope. 

    Everyone said the 5-day lockdown in February was going to be extended.

    It wasn't.

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    11 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    Everyone said the 5-day lockdown in February was going to be extended.

    It wasn't.

    Totally different scenario. It was a very small outbreak with minimal exposure sites. It was hot. It was a different variant. And the key is we went very early. We needed to go to lockdown on Tuesday last week. Then it would be 7 days. We will be lucky to get out in 14 days. A month would not surprise me either. This is clearly running away from contact tracers. 

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    11 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    Because they should have put us into lockdown as soon as we had that one case we didn’t know the link to. They didn’t. They stuffed up yet AGAIN. And so they don’t want to deflate us all and cause more angst. They say 7 days, we say ok we can do that. Then they say just a few more days and so on. 
    Imagine if the original 6 week lockdown last year was announced as an 8 months lockdown. We would burn the place down. 
    It’s manipulating hope. 

    This is along the lines of my thinking. The only difference is this time round we the public are much more aware of the metrics and speed of spread so people take a look at the figures and length of lockdown and wonder if that will do what's needed. 

    Plenty more that can be said but will keep the politics to a min.

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    Hotels inadequate for containing virus. Mask wearing apathy. Vaccine procurement & distribution far too slow. Vaccine uptake apathy. Blood clot media hysteria. QR code check in complacency. Subsequent vaccine uptake stampede closes sites for walk ins. 

    No surprise we're back in lockdown. 

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