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1 hour ago, Skuit said:

Why is everyone so keen for this game - and round - to go ahead? In terms of ladder position and outside of finals, this is one of our most keenly anticipated matches in years. Now both teams have had significant disruptions, and the match will be played in an empty stadium without a crowd. I've personally lost all interest, and I say this with having no prospect of attending the game live to begin with. 

Why not just bring the bye forward and give it a week to see what happens, while also helping to minimise the risk of exposure to players - which could disrupt the competition to a much greater degree. ? Other recent snap lockdowns have proven successful, and we may just get crowds allowed in and $$$. Instead, our players have to wait till gameday to see if the match is even going ahead. I understand the AFL's get-as-many-games-done-when-you-can mentality last year, but this is a completely different situation.  

I suspect the AFL's rationale here is that they are getting games played this weekend because it's possible. You don't know what is going to happen in the future so taking a bye this week runs the risk that a further game will need to be caught up in the future. Getting the round played is one fewer game that the AFL has to work out later.

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    1 minute ago, old dee said:

    I am headed for the single malt after that comment LH. However Not sure the supply will last 3 weeks. 

    Liquour stores are an essential service, od so no excuse for not replacing that single malt :cool:

    Hang in there buddy.

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    8 minutes ago, Olgreybeard49 said:

    Sam Edmund "We know who the player is and have chosen not to name him. He is  in the rehab group".

    Does "rehab group" include all players with any injuries, or just players with long-term recovery needs?

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    4 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Does "rehab group" include all players with any injuries, or just players with long-term recovery needs?

    He went on to say it was a player recovering from injury and had not been in close contact with the main group of players in the last few days.

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    8 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    Yeah, and as you can see from the picture, there isn't any snow either. 

    ...not like anyone could head there with the lockdown anyways.

    course you can, got 8 hours to get there

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    15 minutes ago, Olgreybeard49 said:

    Sam Edmund "We know who the player is and have chosen not to name him. He is  in the rehab group".

    What’s the big deal? The player went unwittingly to a Tier 1 site. It’s not like he’s brought himself or the AFL into disrepute

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    14 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    Liquour stores are an essential service, od so no excuse for not replacing that single malt :cool:

    Hang in there buddy.

    I can make it LH single malt or not. Just remembered we have a planned power outage here tomorrow. That will increase the fun. Had better dust off a book. And make sure  the emergency internet modem is charged up. The fun never ceases.

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    36 minutes ago, Olgreybeard49 said:

    Sam Edmund "We know who the player is and have chosen not to name him. He is  in the rehab group".

    Good news.

    Given that 2020/2021 is the gift that keeps on giving I was expecting the player to be Petracca, Oliver or Salem.

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    17 minutes ago, In Harmes Way said:

    What’s the big deal? The player went unwittingly to a Tier 1 site. It’s not like he’s brought himself or the AFL into disrepute

    Players privacy rights would be reason most likely.

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    56 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    I can't see it not being prolonged. There is no way they will know in a week if the lockdown has been effective. Even if the case numbers come down or level out. They will need to wait a week or maybe even 2 to make sure.

    Even this is an optimistic take I feel.

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    21 minutes ago, In Harmes Way said:

    What’s the big deal? The player went unwittingly to a Tier 1 site. It’s not like he’s brought himself or the AFL into disrepute

    Because if it does come back as positive then that player will feel like absolute [censored] that he's put the game on hold. Even if it's a negative result he still doesn't need to be named. Probably feeling enough guilt as it is.

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    The winning team should get vaccinated while singing the song!

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    Not the week to have a positive Lingers story I guess. Or anyone else for that matter. 

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    58 minutes ago, In Harmes Way said:

    What’s the big deal? The player went unwittingly to a Tier 1 site. It’s not like he’s brought himself or the AFL into disrepute

    Unless the player in question is subsequently identified as being out on Chapel St at 4:20am while in the rehab group.
     

    Best to keep it at ‘player visited a tier 1 site’, and have people wondering whether they ate Maccas in Bayswater instead (bad move.. bad move)

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    6 hours ago, Jaded said:

    100% it’s one of the bars in Chapel Street. 
    I knew this season was going too well. 
     

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    48 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Because if it does come back as positive then that player will feel like absolute [censored] that he's put the game on hold. Even if it's a negative result he still doesn't need to be named. Probably feeling enough guilt as it is.

    I dunno Dazzle, glass half full i say.  Imagine having a substantial impact on a match without even taking the field!

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    33 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

    Imagine if our captain wasn’t able to play, would be huge.

    And imagine if we won without him.

    He's been a bit off since the North game.

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    4 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    The Dees/Ess Sunday game last year was postponed because McKenna tested positive on the Friday and the Saturday.  It was a new situation and no time to develop contingencies.

    iirc McKenna had been in the weights room and attend meetings with his 'group'.  The health department ticked this off as being ok and other Ess players did not need to isolate for 14 days. 

    Unless one of our players or officials tests positive I see no reason why tomorrow night's game should not go ahead. 

    Quite right about last year. Someone should tell Dwayne Russell on SEN as some guy phoned up saying Melbourne should forfeit the match and points go to the dogs if they cannot form a team. Russel agreed with this guy. 

    Russell in his position on radio should know about last years postponed match. Beggars belief.

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    6 minutes ago, MT64 said:

    Russell in his position on radio should know about last years postponed match. Beggars belief.

    Dwayne really is not the sharpest. Listeners often call up to make a point and unless it's something very obvious, it many times goes right over his head, and the caller's wasted half and hour of their life waiting on hold to talk talk to a brick wall.

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    2 hours ago, old dee said:

    I am headed for the single malt after that comment LH. However Not sure the supply will last 3 weeks. 
    relax everyone I just discovered a bottle of Irish SM that will help.

    Me too, Dan Murphy's straight after one last time at the gym. SM recommendations welcome.

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