Diamond_Jim

Looks bad for Essendon from a playing perspective in the next two weeks... from the channel 7 report above... quoting the Chief Health Officer "If that individual (McKenna) has trained with such a number that they won’t be able to play, then that’s how they will have to proceed,” Sutton said. “But if they can manage with the existing player list, minus those close contacts, then they will proceed. “I think they are still working up the close contact list.”

They always were at Metricon The time of the Suns match was delayed to give them a Sunday afternoon TV game in place of ours. TV rules..especially this season ridiculous that they can't stream our practice match because of broadcast rights

sounds like an essential outing to me... no different to shopping etc which is allowed The guy has just returned from Ireland.... he needs to live somewhere

I suspect he was looking for a rental.... sounds ok to me but he should have checked Suspension of player at worst Public scourging not necessary and unhelpful

but we will be fresh after the week off

pleasant result obviously we played Carlton into form including teaching the how to stop playing... mind you they left it till 3/4 time

they were 24 hours away from the possibility of two teams being at risk. Was just luck that he was not selected to play Sydney last week(and I assume no scratch match) or that would have added two more teams at risk

The game could be deferred until post season and would only be played if relevant to finals (That would be our luck...) WHEN WILL ESSENDON PLAY AGAINST MELBOURNE THIS YEAR? Although there is no official word from the AFL, the two teams can’t play this week for the reasons outlined above. But with shortened quarters, there is every possibility the Dons and Dees will meet mid-week or even after the home and away season and before finals. FoxFooty

So Weid will be back on the MCG !! I think some footage is in order please MFC

Pies v Saints Now ten minutes into fourth quarter Last goal scored...6minutes into third quarter ....... yawn (in fact few scores at all) PS and at the 15 minute mark Pies score a goal

don't think so A teacher tested positive. A player's child went to the same school. Game was delayed to allow the player to be tested https://7news.com.au/sport/rugby-league/nrl-match-postponed-for-covid-19-check-c-1099534

depends how you look at it. In theory you trace and test 3 levels of contact. He's 1. His team mates are 2 Swans are level 3

just checked... he didn't play

Given that the players are all in very closely managed bubbles the immediate source should "in theory" not be too hard to find

If as Whispering Jack has said Essendon have to serve a two week isolation (they also played the Swans last week who have just played North) then the season is seriously compromised. It can be caught up but ....

correct... interesting as to where he picked it up Luckily we have that world class contact tracing app

it takes a day or so to manifest itself sometimes. The science on testing is all over the place.In quarantine you are tested twice.Once on day 2 and again on day 9 for example

MFC involved in another first I assume they will test them all and wait for the results..... Monday game perhaps. It happened in the NRL last week and a game was delayed for a day or so

Guardian reported that it's cancelled but who knows.........

Just got cancelled apparently.....mmmmmm

Victorian Premier just announced a tightening of restrictions Not good but community sport to continue (only non contact) Details still coming out

Good point... there is also the Northern Blues Hope the clubs are sensible with temporary clearances etc. There's also the difficult question of how to pay these players.

the average TV audience in Victoria for VFL is 25% higher than the average TV audience for AFL in NSW. It is not far short of the average viewing audience for the Swans. Why would media companies pay more for an almost stagnating audience in raw numbers and a declining audience in percentage numbers

As an aside the highest rating AFL game in Sydney last year got 87,000 in Sydney to watch it. Brisbane 74,000 It's not exactly killing it north of the border http://www.footyindustry.com/?p=4889

yeah ... I get it but as a visual medium it's boring