Diamond_Jim

only if they guarantee the gate WA are equally if not more desperate

Heard a snippet on radio about their (Collingwood) football jumpers etc needing to be bagged into PPE type bags before leaving the stadium. Talk about being treated as untouchables. Anyone for a pizza ?

okay ... time for a bidding match between Perth and Adelaide. Throw in Sydney and Brisbane if you wish Let's be sensible we have a product to sell and no ground gives us an advantage/ disadvantage Optus gives you higher crowd numbers but I would be asking the States to underwrite a minimum gate figure

now suggesting in the Age that the extension will be longer than a week My guess is the Monday night of QB

"we are being guided by medical advice" Couldn't help but chuckle that Queensland Ana and her health advisor had not been vaccinated and then when they were publicly pressured they decided to get the flu vaccine first

interesting comment and perhaps very correct In the latest CNBC deal for the A League they are suggesting half is in contra

money deal from the Gabba/Qld govt perhaps Qld just paid $8M for the NRL State of Origin that was to be held in Melbourne

another poster suggested that he work on coming in sideways to avaoid being oushed under the ball so often. Has some merit.

Easy.. he's too far forward in the marking competition that doesn't allow him to protect the space or to get the crucial second grab How to fix it... no idea

Playing Collingwood at the SCG might get us a few dollars. I'd assume we're doing the sums

contracts are full of boiler plate clauses. One of them is force majeure. If it applied (very complex) it would help NT and not us. Otherwise the contract will simply say "we turn up and we get paid". I've seen some contracts that seek to include sovereign risk (the government interfering with the contract by third party laws) but they are rare. Wouldn't surprise me though if the F1 contract has one in it which means Vic Govt will pay if we don't let them in.

So I assume no VFL effectively for four weeks assuming Casey doesn't play during the MFC bye

correct I suggested that the 2021 blockbuster games should have been a shared gate game before the season started. While I didn't anticipate zero crowds everyone knew there would quite likely be compromised figures. How both our blockbuster home games came to be in the same year is a worry from a financial viewpoint. To also lose the NT game is just the proverbial cherry on top

I think that's close to reality significant closures until after QB and then slow removal of restriction over a minimum of 4 weeks. So in simple terms a minimum of 6 weeks from now

Hopefully not but TBH I would feel rather flat.

don't forget.... consultation with stakeholders

TBH I've moved on from the venue for this game to thinking about how we can solve the massive loss from the QB fixture. A bye and moving by one week is a good start but even then the crowds will be limited. We can't seem to take a trick when it comes to finances.

He'd walk into any other side in the competition. 40 goal forwards don't grow on trees

like it a lot

Tired of having our season compromised by finances. We've been doing it for 20 odd years starting with the slae of our home game to Brisbane. Happy to throw in $10-20 to soften the blow. I've learnt to like the Alice game as an exception but NO MORE

Thought Crows were in with a chance there. Will be nice to see Tiges and Bombers play next week over in the safe safe west.

combine that with the sub optimum crowd on Anzac Eve and this season is looking grim money wise when in a normal world we would be raking it in.

Gave 10 votes to the coaching staff in the Demonland poll. The coaching dynamic has clearly changed. In years to come we may know why but in the meantime keep on with whatever they are doing. TBH I was amazed that the Dogs with their supposedly brilliant and quick midfield played into our hands by going wide so often. They have obviously bought into the impassbale MFC backline wall story. On the other hand Adelaide never read the book.

maybe... certainly no other State will let people from Melbourne in for at least two weeks. NSW.. who knows the present rule for NSW is that you can go in but you have to isolate for the period of the Melbourne lockdown. Lot of rules are now based on the premise that your "home rules" travel with you. Would you go to Sydney and be the only one in a mask? This was the rule for Perth people going to non metro Perth during their recent lockdown. If it was school holidays I think you would find Qld being a lot more accomodating. Another missed tourist period would not play well in the Sunshine State.

and Carlton if they manage to knock over the Swans