What's potentially missing from this is the ongoing/long term impact from Covid in 2021.
It's not clear things will be back to normal next year, at all.
So what happens if clubs aren't getting gate receipts. Where is the income coming from to fund these contracts, and what does it potentially mean for staffing football departments and ancillary functions of clubs.
We could be at a point of commencing season 2021 across QLD, Radelaide and WC, again.
Interesting times ahead.
Cracking weather on the North Coast at present. Looking forward to riding to work on Mon/Tues 28, 31 deg.
Anyway, 60% 1-5mm and 24 deg on Sat at Broadbeach. 50% < 1mm tomorrow, 25.
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Notwithstanding the heartfelt nature of that, I am experiencing some congitive dissonance. I've always thought that writing like that is beyond all Collingwood supporters?
Has a Demonland member infiltrated the Pies board to try to undermine any thoughts of keeping him to help underpin any effort to get him?
You'd hope - hope - that everyone in the club is turning their minds to similar recent scenarios and the failures to ensure the players come out breathing fire from 2.10.
The Giants are playing for finals though. If they beat the Saints by enough, and Bulldogs lose, they're in, if they win by enough to overcome the deficit to us (if we win).
Spoke to brother in law - Pies (yes, yes, I know - my darling wife and their entire family are Pies - a fact she did not disclose on our pre-relationship disclosure form) - about this. He said "you can have him. Can't take a contested mark, soft." I responded "lolz, he will fit in at Melbourne then. " (Self flagellation, it's a Melbourne thing, eh).
Anyway, that feedback doesn't accord with what everyone else here says.