Very Jaded

100% it’s one of the bars in Chapel Street. I knew this season was going too well.

Media conference at 11. Seven day lockdown. Welcome back to hell caused by the utter incompetence of multiple governments. Hooray.

Melbourne players and club in isolation. A player has been to an exposure site. Game may not go ahead. Get. [censored].

20 cases and the season is off? Come on everyone needs to take a chill pill. We are not in June 2020.

Could do with a demolition job.

It’s our home game so should be moved to the G. It’s free Friday night. [censored] playing them at the Gabba.

Hawks vs GC game postponed. No idea why.

So they said we can go and yet tickets don’t appear to be available. What’s the deal? Game is in two days.

Why would they not be allowed into the state? If other states are Covid free there is really no issue with them returning. Besides they will be told to stay in a bubble and test. AFL clubs are really easy to control. It’s the community that’s the problem.

But I am not in any risk factor category so they won’t give me anything. AZ or otherwise.

I’m 34. If I rocked up and said can I get vaccinated they’d let me?

Correct. I should have been more clear.

Firstly you can’t because nobody under 50 can get vaccinated unless they fall into one of the A categories of being high risk or a specific worker like healthcare. They did make a ruling that under 50s tho are not meant to get the AZ. Those under 50 who had it done before the decision and had no side effects are eligible for their second dose. Again it’s mostly health care workers. The roll out for under 50s is meant to start when we get Pfizer or Moderna supplied.

There is no supply of Pfizer and they won’t give AZ to under 50s due to greater risk of clotting. The issue for under 50s not being vaccinated is supply rather than demand.

It’s not surprising how we constantly find ourselves with outbreaks larger than any other state

So long as all cases are linked it’s good. If we get random cases in the community we are faarked. I too suspect we will go into a snap lockdown over the weekend but the game will go ahead with no crowds. It’s minimal risk as it’s a controlled environment. Everyone can get tested pre game and tracked and traced.

Totally agree. Problem is we don’t have enough Pfizer vaccines so all of us young ones can’t get vaccinated anyway.

Hey I would get jabbed if they’d let me. It’s the old people letting us down. Eligible but super low uptake. What’s a little blood clot between friends? ?

Don’t think he’s tall enough. Bont will kill him in the air. Lever to Bont.

What the fudge happened to Viney? I will continue to bang on about giving him a 5 year deal. Silly decision given his body is forever breaking down.

Harmes needs to go to Libba. He is their best extractor. Too hard to tag Bont. I would let him go head to head with Trac. Lever to take him up forward? Oliver head to head with McRae. Caleb Daniels is IMO one of the best players in the competition. If we do not put a purely defensive player on him like Spargo or ANB he will destroy us. Fritsch and his 0 defensive efforts are a bad idea. I think this is going to be a hard task for us at Marvel. The Dogs are deadly by foot and very fast. If they dominate clearances like I suspect they would, we will be in a world of pain. It is much harder to defend a quick clearance at Marvel which is smaller, and if we turn the ball over the way we did against Adelaide they will really hurt us.

Apparently 4 more positives already today. Crowds look very unlikely. I'll be thankful if we don't go to lockdown!

It is actually mind blowing that umpires are not full time professionals, when so much money goes into betting on games. It is also mind blowing that time and again 'home ground' umpires make blatantly wrong decisions against the away interstate club. How about we make a rule that when a team is visiting from interstate, all umpires must be neutral, that is they must be from a third state. Also lets get the umpires better security, so they aren't scared to make correct decisions. Feral crowds should not ruin games. Umpires should have influence the result of a match, but its been happening for years. The AFL admits mistakes but does nothing to rectify them.

To be fair that only happened in WA and we know they are panic merchants. As much as I want to go to this game, I want to avoid lockdowns more. A wide long lasting lockdown would impact the season far more than one game with no crowds.

If capacity is heavily reduced it’ll just be a Bulldog centric crowd which will not help us at all. I prefer no crowds than less crowds. I think no crowds make sense and as much as I want to go, I think it might help us. Thankfully it’s not our home game.