mauriesy

The last two outbreaks in Victoria came from SA quarantine and Sydney's northern beaches. I'm not sure what the Victorian government can do when a contact of Wollert man (who came from SA) travels to numerous places around Melbourne for a week with symptoms and doesn't get tested. Get vaccinated. It's the only way of dramatically reducing the risk of severe disease or dying, and it does help lower transmission, if not completely.

We've already beaten Debusseys this year 85-60 in round 4. This thread is starting to un-Ravel. Once Britten, twice shy.

You watch the Sunday Footy Show? Gave up ages ago. They could halve the length of that show and stop wasting my time if they just stuck to match reports and genuine football discussion and analysis, rather than all the egotistic banter, self-promotion, useless quizzes and other irrelevant chat.

A very minor issue. To quote the article: "It was reported the Demons were told weeks ago by the AFL that their predominantly red guernsey was too similar to the Bulldogs’ predominantly blue guernsey. " Everyone who is whingeing now needs to harden up. We won in our traditional guernsey. We'll wear the indigenous one next week, I suspect the Lions will wear prefominantly white.

One week with #negativelingers. ?

To use a Melbourne analogy, waiting 6 months for the Pfizer jab over the AZ is like refusing, when the bushfire is coming, to evacuate in a Land Rover because you want to wait for a Range Rover.

The roll-out is very poor, but if we all sit around and wait until October or beyond for non-AZ, we'll get more cases, maybe a severe third wave, go continually in and out of lockdown (and we'll never get unhindered football!). You've only got to look at the case rates in the UK, Europe and the USA now to see how dramatic the reduction is following high vaccination rates. They're 5-10% of what they were (with the UK using mostly AZ). Or look at poorly vaccinated India.

There are precedents for enforcing health or social policy. Some aboriginal settlements have a "no school, no pool" policy. You can't enrol your kids in any kindergarten or school now without certain vaccination certificates. I don't see it as unreasonable that people couldn't attend crowded places (including football) without being vaccinated. The difficulty is working out the system and identification to control it.

All AFL teams have been given strict restrictions. There's no limit on trravel into and out of the state, and they'll get permission to go anywhere.

I had the first AZ vaccination last Sunday. Just a very mild headache for a day afterwards. The clotting risk is lower as you get older, for 70-year-olds it's about 2 per million. Less than the chance of a car accident on the way to the clinic. Sometime, events will be limited to fully vaccinated people. That's an incentive to get it.

So we've beaten three of these and haven't played the other two. ?

So Jackson back, but a week or two more off for Viney.

You mean "exorcise".

Regardless of individual games or examples, there are three areas that are inconsistently adjudicated: holding the ball, throwing and whether a kick travels 15 metres.

Does Goodwin get any credit for bringing in Yze and Williams?

Seems to me a disposal efficiency somewhere above 70% and a couple of critical errors per game is league average or better. But some on here think only 100% DE and zero CE is acceptable, even in a game that was very high pressure, with showers and a slippery ball that was not conducive to great skiils or totally avoiding errors. Can we give some leeway from perfection without perjoratives such as "putrid" and "atrocious"?

I don't think much increased pressure and a more solid defensive structure is "fluff".

Good player that Jawdyn.

It's not as hard as it looks. Even Oskar Baker had one possession running down the wing on Saturday night, according to Luke Darcy. ?

It's a bit confusing describing it as a "barcode" when it's really just a number.

Clear your cookies and you'll have to reenter all your log-ins. It's an Age article, so just open the link in an incognito or private window.

On Sunday, shifting TMac was to shore up the backline when Tomlinson went down. It was Plan B ... the one that people on here say we never have.

So we "aren't all that different", except we've changed five backs, three mids, three forwards (i.e. half the team positions) and two assistant coaches?

Interesting that Rhyan Mansell had two rough conduct charges in the Tiger's match against Port Adelaide on April 9 and was fined $6000 (2 x $3000), down to $4000 with early pleas on both.

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