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Nine’s Peter Ryan reported Melbourne was told it should play an intra-club because it would not be forced to play midweek.

Cynically because Saad is a best 22 player and James Stewart is not.

Was this ever a realistic possibility?

Officially a farce. James Stewart is a forward. Wasn't he training with the backline?

Here is the current injury list based on last weeks list and no announced injuries yet from the scratch match. PLAYER INJURY LENGTH Braydon Preuss Achilles 2-3 Weeks Marty Hore Toe 4-6 Weeks Harry Petty Groin Indefinite Kade Kolodjashnij Head Indefinite Aaron Nietschke Knee Season

Shocked that Robbo, an Essendon fan, would take this position.

You could have a point there. They would at least need to quarantine for a certain period of time to ensure a negative result. There is so much uncertainty regarding the incubation period. Throw in McKenna's negatives, then his irregularity and then his positive.

I actually don't think there is any training scenario that is better or worse. If it gets into the club then there are serious ramifications for that club and potentially another club (if there is gameday contamination) and then potentially the whole league and season. Essendon will be extremely lucky if McKenna is the only infected. Having said that the fact that one player has it and trained with others means they too need to quarantine for 2 weeks just like the rest of society is expected to.

The current plan seems to be attempting to make the situation fair for Essendon and therefore (unintentionally) making it unfair for us. Why should we be disadvantaged by their mistake.

In fact here are the stats for 2020. I've kindly asked for stats for 2018 and 2019. Will report back if I get an answer.

Do we know if those players (and presumably some staff [footy and admin]) who came into contact with McKenna are isolating right now? What about the people that the other players in the group of 8 subsequently were in contact with? Are they isolating? And the people they came into contact with? Flow on effect is huge.