Lord Nev

Achilles soreness rather than injury. Was listed as 'test' so don't reckon he'll be out a month.

I think it's a ban on "non-essential staff", so would think that probably includes family, sadly.

Kozzy's in!! (And Bedford too)

3 months seems a long time out for just kicking someone's shin. Would surely at least complicate his existing issues. We saw how much he has to go through just to train the amount he does in the 'To Hell & Back' episode, so it's hard to imagine that same foot being broken would have no impact on it or the time frame he's expected to miss.

https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-information-on-social-distancing Read the above post from Dr Larkins. Then read the information sheet here. I'm not sure what "elite athletes" has to do with anything, so not sure why you keep bringing that up, it's about minimizing risk (not sure how many times that needs to be said). This has been explained to you numerous times now, so I see no point in engaging with you further if you're not actually willing to engage rather than just repeat your irrelevant and ill-informed points ad nauseam. Cheers.

“By any measure around the world whether it is World Health Organisation advising Australia or even our national health department, we think 10 to 30 per cent of Australia will contract the virus,” he said on Fox Footy’s AFL 360. “You can do the numbers, even if we go to 10 per cent when we have 2.7 million people in Australia. “So the chances of a player out in their normal environment coming in contract with somebody is extraordinarily likely.” Given AFL clubs have a large support group around them, Larkins suggested it would be hard to stop a potential infection across the playing group. “The absolute issue is that it is person to person contact, right now we’ve got no positive tests in any AFL player and there’s been many players tested,” he said. “But we’ve still got a cohort of 60-70 people support around a club, so the chances of it happening are going to be there. I think it’s a public health concern, we don’t do it from a sport point of view. I don’t want a season to be impacted but it already has been." Why it is ‘extraordinarily likely’ an AFL player will contract coronavirus

Read my post again. I'm assuming you're being deliberately obtuse now.

I repeat, we have to minimize the risk. Social distancing is a key factor, how exactly do they enact that in footy? I repeat, "elite athletes" can still pass on covid-19 to vulnerable people. I repeat, footy isn't an essential component of life. One of the reasons schools haven't closed (yet) is that a lot of those children would be going into the care of grandparents currently. You seem to only be thinking of the "elite athletes" and entirely missing the actual point.

Nowhere did I say that, and frankly trying to stretch or misrepresent what people have said is a pretty pathetic way to interact. I'm about minimizing risk. I have many relatives and friends who are at high risk with covid-19 and risking their lives for something as comparatively trivial as footy is not something I'm willing to do. Playing footy isn't an essential component of life currently.

Because those healthy players can still be carriers and pass it on to other people who are vulnerable. You can carry it without showing symptoms.

Cancel til May, but even then don't guarantee it will actually happen. Australia is dragging it's feet on this badly.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GDRDtbQeo8Xgc1tpxOLWHhFYP8inGKbE/view

Here's a fantastic YouTube channel to help kill some time: Melbourne FC History

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fe4vW8CfMRjq6WQQru0QyhDIcr3l0hAA/view

Sure, some stats are a bit shonky (disposal efficiency is a useless stat), but measuring the difficulty of a kick and then how many times a player nails it is a pretty handy stat. People get too carried away with having a crack at Champion Data anyway, stats don't always tell the whole story, but they just measure the numbers part of it. As they say, the game isn't played on paper.

Last year Champion Data had a pretty good stat where they had a 'kick rating' based on degree of difficulty of every kick and then how many of each kick a player completed successfully. Jones was number 1 at the Dees.

Mate, you've taken the argumentative tone from the start. Other people don't have to agree with you "sheesh". In 2018, Max had his season low of 30 hitouts v the Suns. We won by nearly 100 points. In 2019, TMac kicked 6 goals in our win against the Blues. Guess who didn't play that day? For mine, TMac is they key to us winning games. Not by a huge margin, but if he's in form, taking marks, kicking goals then we generally win. IMO the ruck is a fair way down the list in terms of impact on game results, we saw that when we got on a roll a few years back with Pedersen taking most of the ruck duties. Sure, it's far better to have a great ruck, and they can give you an advantage, but they're not usually the deciding factor in winning or losing, and our 2019 season clearly demonstrates that.

I don't think you're grasping the point mate. Gawn played great, our mids won a heap of clearances and we got the ball inside 50 a ton, so all the things you think are important all happened, yet we finished second last. That tells you that Gawn can play fantastic and do all the things you want, but the team still fails in a huge way.

Maybe read it again mate.

Max was All-Australian last year. Ranked 3rd for hitouts. As a team we were 8th for clearances and 5th for inside 50s. We finished 17th. TMac kicked 18 goals.

For sure, and you do realize you can be the best player but not the MVP?

Best player, but not 'most valuable' in terms of results. Pedersen and Watts in the ruck showed that IMO.

Same foot. Wouldn't be the same injury as this time it's a collision injury, but it may complicate the existing one that he still manages daily.

Just days after he made a joke out of the whole thing and was going around touching all the reporters mics and recording equipment to 'prove' it was not a big deal... Yikes.

It's all explained in the article. Apart from the care factor, which could be explained by how desperate we all are for footy to start?