Jaded No More

Yep. Funny how the teams who are losing up there are having a sook, while nothing from Port....

Agreed. Safer not to play them for 14 days

Poor Hore, how you tear a quad muscle while in the gym?! Crap luck. Not ideal about Petty, but this year is a right off anyway, so hopefully the surgery can fix the issue for the long term.

Also this game was meant to be televised on FTA, which means both Channel 7 and Foxtel would need this game to be made up as part of the TV rights deal. No chance it won't go ahead. It needs to be rescheduled and I assume it will happen either during the quarantine period for the WA hub, or later on in the year when other games are postponed etc.

Still not a single cluster from the protests. Isolated cases only. The debacle are the stupid [censored] who knew they had the virus and still went to visit family. Those are the big clusters now that have spread across Melbourne. Apparently one family had a 100 person party with infected family members. Absolute f’ing stupidity. Should be named, shamed, and thrown in jail for 14 days.

It’s a risk. But equally it’s a big risk to separate the line groups and risk lack of cohesion and an inability to practice position specific tactics. I don’t know how you do that. If anyone tests positive at the club, we would be compromised significantly regardless.

Honestly winning this year would be harder than almost any other year in history. While the draw is compromised (when is it not?), this will also be the first time in a long time where each team plays each other once, thus making it more even. Given the nature of this season, this would be a massive mental victory for whoever manages to win, and I would take nothing away from the premiers. Nor would I be happy to put a question mark next to our name, if we won it.

Work is considered essential travel if you can’t work from home. AFL is a job and is the livelihood of thousands. I believe Harmes lives in the Casey area, but given the current restrictions AFL players SHOULD adhere to, they shouldn’t be out in the community so it’s irrelevant.

As per usual our club is scared to do anything but pull the company line. I want someone to come out and say we are sick of losing out because of other clubs doing the wrong thing.

If you take the premiership away clubs have nothing to play for. And sadly the competition won’t survive financially if we don’t have a season this year, no matter how compromised.

Seriously if this guy breached the rules and our club doesn’t go demanding the 4 points, I will be furious. If this happened to Collingwood Eddie would be screaming blue murder. Completely unfair!

[censored] this season. I hope we get thru today with no injuries. Although knowing our luck....

Annoying for us, as in essence we have done nothing wrong and it will end up biting us in the [censored] as we will need to jam this game in somewhere later in the year off a short break or play another game off a short break which disadvantages us. I know it’s nobody’s fault, but why this always happens to us is beyond me. We are damn cursed. Cannot catch a break.

2020 is a real ****show. Wake me up in 2021

I just can’t believe this involves us... but then again... of course I can!

It’s very possible that it’s a false positive. If he’s tested negative first. The chances of a false positive when you’re doing so many tests are quite high.

A lot of underdone players going in. Bennell, Vanders and Hannan do not leave me with great confidence of getting thru a full game. Massive call on Jones. Melksham was worse and he isn’t our ex captain and does not have nearly as many credits in the bank. He is on thin ice. Neal Bullen did a lot more than him and yet he is dropped. Seems unfair, although I’m not fan of ANB.

Demonland ? Edit - that was earlier in the week. I just read today's training thread and it appears he did train. So I have clue.

He didn't train this week. Could he just be not fit?

Gawn dominated the ruck last week too and it didn't help us much once Carlton learnt to read his taps.

The lack of respect for a player who has given his all for a decade and stuck fat when he should have gone elsewhere, is truly pathetic. Players are allowed to slow down towards the end of their career. The malice being shown towards him is completely unnecessary. He has done everything right by our club, and deserves the same back. That includes hero supporters sticking the boot in.

Agreed, and I also think that comes from playing with a crap backline for years where he was basically the only experienced player and tried filling in the holes as third man up. He needs to let that go and trust that Lever, who to be fair he has barely played with, can do that now. But it must be a hard habit to break. Smith on the other hand needs to calm his farm and just do the basics well first, rather than trying to outmark his dad at every contest. For me Smith is the perfect case of looks like a perfect footballer, plays like a mess. But I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I also question just how fit he was, given he hasn't trained much last week or participated in the game simulation training. Can't be 100%, no matter what the coaches are saying in the media.

Yep. When your opponent is a foot taller than you, how else are you expected to defend? That match up was beyond stupid.

I love how he also made sure Carlton hit the post twice in the last quarter, thereby ensuring we won with a last minute miss by Fritsch. Genius!