Jaded No More

Covid- the gift that keeps on giving.

Definitely no to Sydney for the QB game. Not big enough of a crowd. SA are bastards I don’t want to give it to them. WA too far to travel altho we have a bye the following week. QLD not enough interest.

South Australians. What a bunch of actual morons.

Sadly agreed. They already said we can't got to regional Victoria over the long weekend. No chance they'll say "but please go to the football". Absolute balls.

They already said no regional travel in Victoria over the long weekend. They might ease restrictions slightly.

Another 7 day lockdown here in the great city of Covid. Please nobody who doesn’t live in Melbourne tell us it’s only 7 more days. PTSD is high.

SA being absolute a holes. We are in lockdown because you stuffed up your quarantine. Not once have I seen them offer to help out Victoria. Bloody typical. Thank god for NSW. One normal state.

100% I woke up with a tiny sore throat and I’m already in line to get tested even tho I have been at home since the lockdown started and live nowhere near any exposure sites. People wait far too long and in the meantime visit 1200 bars and restaurants and bottle shops and work.

You’ll get way more crowds at AO. QLD people don’t care enough about footy. Adelaide is also a much shorter trip. But I do recognize the problems with their hard border that they caused ?

If Hubs are off the table it means the AFL got an assurance from the Vic government that they don’t plan on having a long lockdown and extended restrictions for outdoor gatherings. Of course nobody knows what [censored] will hit the fan next, but make no mistake the AFL has their ear firmly in the Vic government. This is a big money making industry for a lot of people.

But today they’ve issued an alert because someone with the virus in Victoria went into NSW. I swear Victorians just do not know when to sit their [censored] down.

Rub it in. I left my house for 40 minutes today to walk around the block with a mask. It was glorious.

Mystery injury of the last month- Burgo. Hasn’t taken one of these injury updates in ages. Has he already gone back to SA?

What's worse? home schooling, 5km radius, or AFL season rapidly going down the toilet? F$%^n Covid!

Correct. SCG is a pointless stadium. Apart from the money aspect, playing the Lions at Giant Stadium is a win for us. It is an easier trip than going to the NT and we play well there. Lions are not advantaged by this at all. I know missing out on the money is really hard, especially for our club which has worked so hard to be financially independent of the AFL. But, in terms of purely football, this is not a bad outcome (if it is the outcome?!). We really really need to beat the Lions, anyone who thinks the risk of playing at the Gabba is worth it, has lost their mind. Brisbane are directly competing with us for a top 2 spot. Imagine if we go to the Gabba and lose this game and as a result end up finishing 4th and needing to travel up there again in finals. No thank you! This is the most important game of the our H&A season outside of last week. Make it 2 from 2 and top 4 is all but sewn up! Lose and suddenly we are par with the Dogs and Lions are only 1 game behind us.

I honestly don't blame the players. I would not want to be away from an unknown time from my family either. Surely we need to get thru this next 2-3 weeks and then other states can start to ease their rules around Melbourne based teams. As it is, the risk is minimal while we are all in lockdown.

This game deserves to be at the MCG and have crowds. It would be better to push it to the following weekend (as we don't play Essendon until the following Saturday night, and hope we have some crowds by then. That is 18 days away. We may well be back to 50% capacity by then? This game is so important not just to our bottom line, but also to MND. Doing it anywhere else would not do it justice.

But if we have to go interstate and quarantine we miss the prelim final. And what if you go and we don’t make it? If the GF is going to be interstate again between two Victorian teams they should push it back 14 days to allow Victorians to attend ?

You mean the 6-8 weeks lockdown last July that lasted 5 months? I am not suggesting this will be a 2 months lockdown. I’m simply saying this will be a lot longer than the 7 days initially outlined and that restrictions (masks, reduced capacity at venues, gatherings etc) will be in place for most of winter.

He is a genuine A grader already. For a 19 year old with 20 games to solidly hold his position in the best defensive unit in the competition is just bloody impressive. I think he will end up playing wing when his tank is up to it. Has the speed, skills and physicality to do it beautifully.

Time for Clarry to get the peroxide out. He is a Salem home hairdressing Covid job away from a Charlie.

Do you even have Covid in Victoria if you haven’t been to 6 Indian grocers, 5 Thai restaurants, 2 AFL games, 3 pub crawls and travel exclusively on public transport to your high risk job? ?

Because if games go back to being played predominately interstate then of course it puts a massive strain on the club and our chances. Brisbane Sydney and Port will be loving this.

Goodbye normal winter in Melbourne. Goodbye our football season and flag chances. It was all too good to be true.

QLD premier will never let anyone come to Victoria and then come back while we are in lockdown. She is as bad as WA. I also think the AFL prefers to play with crowds where possible for financial reasons.