Gawndy the Great

So they’ll get a serve from the media this week, have a half hearted 2 1/2 quarter performance against the Lions and capitulate, then will play us with shot confidence the week after. Mind you we maybe using the Casey top up players by the way things are going.

Day after Queens bday. Someone in the team needs to host a COVID party and bolster immunity for the remainder of the season. There is a 10 day break.

What difference does it make? He has COVID after he most likely developed symptoms this arvo. What is becoming increasingly clearer though is that RATs and daily testing using RATs are pointless. The club could have easily avoided an outbreak had the AFL employed PCR testing as the preferred method of testing. understand it’s a bit more logistically challenging, and more expensive but in our case would have probably avoided this mess.

Its hardly a new conundrum. It boils down to is a strong offence better than a strong defence. We have seen this battle of strategies across all sports in the modern era. To beat the Demons, a lot of things need to go right, particularly if you have an offensive game-plan. It is the right game plan to beat us, but requires near perfect execution.

Not the worst idea....if they can actually get out of bed that is... Lots of data coming out that even professional athletes that have little to no symptoms are still impacted in lung health for upto a month. Dr Peter Larkin mentioned this on the radio earlier in the week.

I recall the 50 was more like 200 and Pert said this morning that most players have already had it within the MFC team.

Hopefully all 4 are cherry ripe for the Saints.

Port, GWS, GCS are the only real opportunities. I suppose you always need to start from the bottom. But boy i wouldnt want to goto any of them.

https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=987312 listening to it now. its neither here or there. Doesnt confirm that its just the 3 but doesnt say its anymore either. Just takes the conservative approach and says that we are waiting to see if anything more develops today, which is a sensible response as you dont want to say its just the 3 but then have more develop symptoms or return a positive result throughout the day. i choose to look at this a bit more optimistically.

*fingers crossed*

Ouch that sucks. Were they all the same variant?

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But our game plan is designed to burn these types of strategies by turn over. For the Hawks and any team for that matter that has an attacking style gamble plan needs an extremely high level of effective disposal for it to penetrate our defensive system. It forces the other team to take a high risk high reward approach in order to beat us. It is usually not sustainable for long periods -think Adelaide last year and their aggressive positioning and break neck speed ball movement. Doggies 2Q in the GF etc. My opinion is that we want teams to play like this knowing that we can sustain the pressure when it comes and prey on their mistakes as they will most definitely make them.

Or you may have found the source?

Unlikely to be that high given a majority of the team have already had it earlier in the year. I know it doesn’t stop you from getting again but the risk is considerably less. It’s not the same as what has happened to WC.

Geez it didnt take long for Sammy Edmund to buckle on reporting on the names. All 3 reasonably coverable. Is Dunstan out given the head knock? I think ins are: Lever, TMac (LJ), Bedford (Kozzy) & Viney (Sparrow). Melksham sub.

My thoughts exactly. Fingers crossed that it was just routine and part of the management plan.

Which begs the question what was he doing at AAMI when everyone else was at Casey Fields?

Both of these guys were away from Melbourne when the main outbreak occurred during xmas and NY. So it kind of makes sense that they are one of few left unscathed.

i think that settles the 3 for now. Kozzy & LJ and the 3rd probably at Casey.

its possible, but we will know most of it by now anyway, with Omicron typically taking 3 days to cause symptoms. PCR test will probably pick it up as early as day 2 following exposure. So we may get another few tomorrow given LJ was at the light-run yesterday if the reports are true.

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/albums/1112799/training-gallery-april-27?modal=true&type=gallery&playlistId=1112799&playlistSize=22 pick 5 - back is turned. scratch that, that is JVR. looks small.

Just looking at the training gallery from today. Assuming that the infected players wont be at training today. And so here is what i was able to see (or not see): no LJ no Trac no Sparrow no JJ no Viney no Kozzy no BBB no Brayshaw no Petty But there were pics of May, Lever, Hunt, Rivers, Smith, Bowey, Hibberd, Gawn, Clarry, Dunstan, Lingers, Baker, Fritch, Weid, Tmac, ANB, Milkshake, Bedford, Mitch Brown & Majak

I think TMac will come in for LJ and we may possibly use one of the 3 forwards to rotate through the ruck as they all have a level of experience.