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54 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

NT want their own AFL team but won’t let us play this Friday. What a joke!

They should put their hands up to hub a bunch of teams then. If they really want this then they need to grease some wheels. 

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    1 hour ago, Fat Tony said:

    NT want their own AFL team but won’t let us play this Friday. What a joke!

    I can't see how these two matters are in any way related.  What's the "joke"?

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    1 minute ago, demonstone said:

    I can't see how these two matters are in any way related.  What's the "joke"?

    It is ridiculous that they aren’t allowing AFL players who are tested regularly to play at Alice this week. 

    And at the same time they are asking for a new team. 

    All take, no give. 

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    Again Fat Tony, there's no connection between the two. 

    One is a Government led health and safety decision for Alice Springs and its communities based on a little pandemic you may have heard of and the other is AFL NT's wish for a local team in the future.   

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    1 hour ago, Fat Tony said:

    It is ridiculous that they aren’t allowing AFL players who are tested regularly to play at Alice this week. 

    And at the same time they are asking for a new team. 

    All take, no give. 

    See my previous posts, the cancellation of this weeks game in Alice is understandable 

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    Plenty of threads I could put this but this is as good as any. I find it almost laughable that Europe is able to create a system that allows the Euro’s to take place with the players flying in and out and being isolated but Australia’s states after a year of this have still been unable to come up with a system to create freedom of movement to allow professional sport to continue. 

    The players and staff would be amongst the most tested people in the country, it just doesn’t make sense to me. With proper precautions and systems in place this match could easily have taken place in NT. 

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    7 hours ago, Pates said:

    With proper precautions and systems in place this match could easily have taken place in NT. 

    Totally agree. And then for the SA CHO to come out yesterday and say this is pure lunacy:
    https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/afl/covid-crowd-advice-for-adelaide-afl-matches-duck-and-just-do-not-touch-that-ball-ng-b881889263z

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    1 hour ago, dice said:

    Totally agree. And then for the SA CHO to come out yesterday and say this is pure lunacy:
    https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/afl/covid-crowd-advice-for-adelaide-afl-matches-duck-and-just-do-not-touch-that-ball-ng-b881889263z

    it shows you clearly the morons running the system

    and these people advise the political morons

    No wonder the joint is a mess

    Please save us all!!

     

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    8 hours ago, Pates said:

    Plenty of threads I could put this but this is as good as any. I find it almost laughable that Europe is able to create a system that allows the Euro’s to take place with the players flying in and out and being isolated but Australia’s states after a year of this have still been unable to come up with a system to create freedom of movement to allow professional sport to continue. 

    The players and staff would be amongst the most tested people in the country, it just doesn’t make sense to me. With proper precautions and systems in place this match could easily have taken place in NT. 

    Completely different contexts though pates.

    In Europe, they are travelling to countries where there are still thousands of cases a day. The sytems are in place to protect the players from getting covid.

     Here the systems are designed to stop the players spreading covid in states where there are zero cases and no community transmission. So the goal is to protect the population.

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    12 hours ago, Fat Tony said:

    It is ridiculous that they aren’t allowing AFL players who are tested regularly to play at Alice this week. 

    And at the same time they are asking for a new team. 

    All take, no give. 

    Victorians complaining about how other states and territories are managing the pandemic is so rich it’s giving me a heart attack.

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    17 minutes ago, Nasher said:

    Victorians complaining about how other states and territories are managing the pandemic is so rich it’s giving me a heart attack.

    Yep very easy to live in a small island state with close to 0 international arrivals, no interstate work force, very small immigrant population and low inner city movement with low population density. 
    Unless you live in NSW you have legitimately zero right to chest beat about the handling of Covid in your state. They are the only state with similar population movement, density and international arrivals to Melbourne, and they have nailed it without shutting their borders every 3 minutes. 
     

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    1 minute ago, Jaded said:

    Yep very easy to live in a small island state with close to 0 international arrivals, no interstate work force, very small immigrant population and low inner city movement with low population density. 
    Unless you live in NSW you have legitimately zero right to chest beat about the handling of Covid in your state. They are the only state with similar population movement, density and international arrivals to Melbourne, and they have nailed it without shutting their borders every 3 minutes. 
     

    Jaded NSW has taken the majority of returning travellers 3 to i compared to Victoria

    By every measure this states (victoria)response has been criminally poor and the government both bureaucrats and politicians should be condemned

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    13 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    Yep very easy to live in a small island state with close to 0 international arrivals, no interstate work force, very small immigrant population and low inner city movement with low population density. 
    Unless you live in NSW you have legitimately zero right to chest beat about the handling of Covid in your state. They are the only state with similar population movement, density and international arrivals to Melbourne, and they have nailed it without shutting their borders every 3 minutes. 
     

    I didn’t realise the NT was an island?

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    4 minutes ago, Nasher said:

    I didn’t realise the NT was an island?

    I was talking about Tassie. 
    NT has a federal government quarantine facility. The only facility in the country that is actually built properly. And if you want to talk about population density, proximity to other large cities, movement of people and so forth, NT does not come into it. 
    Their facilities are also half empty. 
     

    I think we have had our fair share of bloody poor mismanagement in Victoria. Our second wave as an utter joke. But this lockdown was caused by poor handling of travelers in SA where someone healthy was next door to someone sick. Like wtf?! 
    We should have gone to a snap lockdown after the first mystery case. We didn’t. Now we are in for an extended period of lockdown and restrictions, which is devastating for our economy, our kids and our well being. But this started in SA and they should take some of the blame for learning absolutely nothing about quarantine management. 

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    21 minutes ago, Kent said:

    Jaded NSW has taken the majority of returning travellers 3 to i compared to Victoria

    By every measure this states (victoria)response has been criminally poor and the government both bureaucrats and politicians should be condemned

    Don’t disagree at all. 
    We haven’t done a good job in Victoria. But I’m sick of small states with hardly no international travelers and little density having a crack at Victoria. 
    NSW is the gold standard. If we were as far away as WA, Tassie or the NT, if we shut our borders every 3 minutes like QLD, if we had the population density of SA, then fair point. But Melbourne is in a totally different category. 
    We have the highest population density, we have large movement across the city each day, we have large immigration population who live in large household setting. We also have large number of factories, processing facilities, a massive international port and so forth. We can’t be compared to other states except for NSW. I wish we could go into a government exchange program with them. But we can’t. 
     

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    On 6/1/2021 at 10:17 PM, Spud said:

    Tickets on sale Wednesday apparently. If regional gets an unlikely exit clause on Thursday from lockdown, I might make a road trip up myself on Friday to add a few extra at the game. The new NSW travelled case of covid has probably ruined that chance though....

    Cheers legend.  Got myself my 6yr old son and a mate tickets. Picking young bloke early from school and on our way by 12pm Noon. Game on Boys.... 

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