St Kilda seeking certainty from AFL that NAB Challenge match against Essendon will go ahead
Article about Essendon possibly withdrawing from the NAB Challenge. The article mentions that St Kilda has seeked assurances from the AFL as to whether their match against Essendon on March 7 will go ahead. There is also mention of Melbourne considering its own contingency plan should our match against Essendon be cancelled.
What do you think our contingency plan could be:
1) A full scale intra-club game that weekend;
2) Fill the Casey Scorpions team with 20 or so MFC players against another VFL team;
3) Option 1, AND arrange a practice match with either St Kilda or GWS on March 27 or 28, who also may have their games cancelled against Essendon. The problem with this is we (and the opposition) won't have a rest before round 1, but then again our rest will be on the weekend of March 20-22.
Less than ideal match practice preparation thanks to the Dons.