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2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

You couldn't script that luck.

As mentioned before I expect our CEO to have negotiated for Melbourne to receive half the proceeds if this game is in Darwin, due to:

a) Losing our contract for the Alice Springs game in June.

b) Being the bunnies that have to cop a Darwin game whilst we're in a critical phase of our season. 

Such is the life of a football club in 2021.

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29 minutes ago, old dee said:

Their Queenslanders remember not the sharpest tools in the shed.

Are we not? 
 

A Queenslander would have know the word you were after is “they’re”.

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If they move this game back to Darwin then there is no way it will be played in the afternoon. It's still stinking hot during the day but the conditions are really good for a night game. Most of our side would be familiar with the place so it would be more of a home game for us if it happened I think. We'd also be flying to Perth a whole week before our next game anyway so recovery shouldn't be an issue. 

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The only potential good thing to come from playing this game in Darwin will be money, if we get a financial benefit to going there.

We just saw on the weekend how we play when the ball is slippery. The conditions aren't going to suit us. Let alone the physical impact having to immediately fly to Perth to commence quarantine.

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I’d hate us to be whiners like Scott but if we did a flyflo situation into Darwin and back that up with Perth that will completely destroy the players bodies coming to the end of the season. I hope the club is pushing for a Victorian game or at worst game on the Gold Coast. 

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4 hours ago, Pates said:

I’d hate us to be whiners like Scott but if we did a flyflo situation into Darwin and back that up with Perth that will completely destroy the players bodies coming to the end of the season. I hope the club is pushing for a Victorian game or at worst game on the Gold Coast. 

Why is this a problem? 3hrs to NT, then , what, 2 to Perth and 5 home?

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14 hours ago, ProperDee said:

Are we not? 
 

A Queenslander would have know the word you were after is “they’re”.

And a Victorian would have known the word you were after is “known” ?

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5 hours ago, Pates said:

I’d hate us to be whiners like Scott but if we did a flyflo situation into Darwin and back that up with Perth that will completely destroy the players bodies coming to the end of the season. I hope the club is pushing for a Victorian game or at worst game on the Gold Coast. 

Will it though?

Darwin to Perth roughly 4 hours, the same as Darwin to Melb. 

Could see Darwin to Melb, then Melb to Perth being an issue - but cutting a leg out by going straight from Darwin to Perth for quarantine could actually work for us. 

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7 minutes ago, 1964_2 said:

Will it though?

Darwin to Perth roughly 4 hours, the same as Darwin to Melb. 

Could see Darwin to Melb, then Melb to Perth being an issue - but cutting a leg out by going straight from Darwin to Perth for quarantine could actually work for us. 

I cant see how a week in quarantine is anything else but bad news for us. Bad feeling about both venues if it unfolds as I expect.

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1 hour ago, 1964_2 said:

Will it though?

Darwin to Perth roughly 4 hours, the same as Darwin to Melb. 

Could see Darwin to Melb, then Melb to Perth being an issue - but cutting a leg out by going straight from Darwin to Perth for quarantine could actually work for us. 

We wouldn’t be able to do our usual routine, the players would be away from their families and basically in quarantine. It’s also the fact of going to the draining conditions of Darwin and onto the pretty fast track and warm conditions of Perth, I could really see it having issues for us. 

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9 minutes ago, Pates said:

We wouldn’t be able to do our usual routine, the players would be away from their families and basically in quarantine. It’s also the fact of going to the draining conditions of Darwin and onto the pretty fast track and warm conditions of Perth, I could really see it having issues for us. 

Whilst it's only a week, it's long enough that the players would start to acclimatise to their time zone (and then reacclimatise coming back). At least our last two games would be in Victoria.  

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I know that footballers in other countries are seen as prima donnas by followers of our code but at the highest level an English Premier League side could be playing a domestic game on a late Sunday afternoon followed by a Champions League game as far away as Moscow (a four hour flight) midweek followed by another domestic game on the weekend. If they're good enough to play for their respective country they might have to fly to any part of the globe for a midweek international (Manchester to La Paz in December for example where there isn't just a climatic change but an elevation difference of over 3,600 metres) then back again for another domestic game. NFL players will play in Miami one week, Green Bay the next and Denver the week after. 

 

 

 

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10 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

I know that footballers in other countries are seen as prima donnas by followers of our code but at the highest level an English Premier League side could be playing a domestic game on a late Sunday afternoon followed by a Champions League game as far away as Moscow (a four hour flight) midweek followed by another domestic game on the weekend. If they're good enough to play for their respective country they might have to fly to any part of the globe for a midweek international (Manchester to La Paz in December for example where there isn't just a climatic change but an elevation difference of over 3,600 metres) then back again for another domestic game. NFL players will play in Miami one week, Green Bay the next and Denver the week after. 

Soccer is nowhere near as physically taxing as Australian Rules.

NFL is but players don't spend the whole game on the ground and wear padding.

And in both of those sports players get paid significantly higher salaries.

And another issue is in both of those sports travel is relatively even: e.g. in the EPL every side plays every other side home and away, and in the NFL every side has either 8 or 9 road games per season, alternating fairly. 

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5 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Soccer is nowhere near as physically taxing as Australian Rules.

NFL is but players don't spend the whole game on the ground and wear padding.

And in both of those sports players get paid significantly higher salaries.

And another issue is in both of those sports travel is relatively even: e.g. in the EPL every side plays every other side home and away, and in the NFL every side has either 8 or 9 road games per season, alternating fairly. 

Hi there Titan. I appreciate what you're saying but I was just trying to give some perspective with the amount of travel time AFL side have when compared to other sports. On average we play 6 interstate games a year, at least half of which will usually be no more than an hour away by air and played in similar conditions to our own. I'm not sure how much playing 60 games a season of a supposedly less taxing sport in comparison to our 22 games factor into a players flight fatigue any more than how much padding they wear in a game could. Likewise I don't know if Trac would necessarily feel more refreshed than Nibbler getting off that plane in Perth next Sunday just because he's on $500k a year more. 

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4 minutes ago, old dee said:

I wonder if the MFC is any wiser than us as to where this game will be played? 

I’m down to do this week’s match preview but haven’t started it yet.

Spoiler: There’s every chance it will be late.

 In the meantime, does anyone have a line on our form at TBC?

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1 minute ago, Whispering_Jack said:

I’m down to do this week’s match preview but haven’t started it yet.

Spoiler: There’s every chance it will be late.

 In the meantime, does anyone have a line on our form at TBC?

No wins ! 

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Just now, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

It bugs me that Melbourne supporters anguish so much over interstate travel. The non-Victorian teams all do far more than we do every year (apart from Covid-affected seasons). I'm pleased to see the club doesn't complain and just gets on with it.

Spot on , good teams win no matter where they play the not so good don't  because they don't win as often not matter the locations. 

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3 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

I’m down to do this week’s match preview but haven’t started it yet.

Spoiler: There’s every chance it will be late.

 In the meantime, does anyone have a line on our form at TBC?

I've just put TBC into Google maps and it's come up with the Templestowe Baptist Church. I would have thought Demons and the Baptist Church might not lead to the best possible outcome.

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This is bordering on the ridiculous, AFL site still showing TBC, it is approaching a Carry on satire. Come on Gil get a grip man , make statement, Do, don’t just think, Do.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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