No Oppo Supporters Non Bulldog Footy Talk - Bulldogs only - Part 3

[CarnTheScray]

I think Carlton will be 13-14th. North are definitely going to be bottom 4.

 

[Virgin Dog]

There is such a massive gulf between Geelong's best and worst players. Soon as the vets retire, they're cooked

 

[weltschmerz]

There is such a massive gulf between Geelong's best and worst players. Soon as the vets retire, they're cooked

I expect Clark and Miers to be stars, but they can't carry a team on their own.

 

[Merlins Revenge]

Dockers await results after player tested for coronavirus

A Fremantle player has been sent for precautionary testing for coronavirus and been isolated after presenting with flu-like symptoms

www.afl.com.au

If he tests positive, that opens up a whole other can of worms..

 

[BrisDog]

Mid season draft could become really important if several of our players have died from the virus.

big year for Sam Power in that regard

 

[dogwatch]

From the ABC News tonight. I presume other news media are carrying similar reports:


Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says it is only a matter of time before schools close across the state and large sporting and cultural events are cancelled to combat the spread of coronavirus.

While the Premier said the State Government had no immediate plans to cancel football matches or the Grand Prix, he said "extreme measures" would likely need to be taken in the future, when there is a significant number of transmissions of the disease within Victoria.

"We will need to ask Victorians to do things we have never asked them to do before," he said.


...


AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan said if mass gatherings were suspended "then we will play games in stadiums with no crowds."
He said the AFL had a working group to deal with the issue and had listened to what the Victorian Government had said today.
"Our advice at the moment is to push ahead as planned and round one will go ahead as planned with supporters," he said.
"But I think we take note of what was said today."
Asked if games could be delayed, Mr McLachlan said the league intended to stage every scheduled match.
"That is all I can say and we will continue to make the decisions we need to, to get that done," he said.
He encouraged fans to continue attending matches as long as that was allowed.

Victorian Premier flags 'extreme measures' to combat coronavirus

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says it is only a matter of time before schools close across the state and large sporting and cultural events are cancelled to combat the spread of coronavirus.

www.abc.net.au

 

[King Harold]

Herald Sun and Collingwood have finally merged web sites

 

[weltschmerz]

Didn't hear which commentator it was, but one of them said you could grate cheese on Sam Walsh. I'm not the only one who's compared an AFL player's abs to a cheese grater now.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Did Holmes really just say the atmosphere was electric?

 

[Chicago1]

Am I still allowed to hate Richmond? The best thing about this virus thingy so far has been not having to hear "YELLOW AND BLACK" yelled out by cretinous Tiger supporters as their team ran through an invisible banner!

 

[NBates]

Am I still allowed to hate Richmond? The best thing about this virus thingy so far has been not having to hear "YELLOW AND BLACK" yelled out by cretinous Tiger supporters as their team ran through an invisible banner!

I thought exactly the same thing

 

[NBates]

He was off...

 

[JTCWBFC]

holy shit this is boring - think the blues got the same memo as the crowd

 

[Chicago1]

If this is the only Round of the season and Richmond end up on top of the ladder on percentage, will they be declared Premiers for 2020? If so, let the coronavirus take me swiftly!

 

[Fossie 32]

I'm going for Liam's boys!

 

[weltschmerz]

I like watching Carlton get mauled.

 

[random__hero]

Crooze injured

 

[Chicago1]

Would it be crass of me to text my one-eyed Tigers fan friend (the one who rambles on incessantly on Twitter about the Tigers) and ask her where she's sitting with her family tonight?

 

[bresker]

Thanks Carlton

 

[Fossie 32]

Not a big margin in modern day truncated quarters football

 

[Chicago1]

Home ground advantage playing at the MCG with all of their adoring fan there for the Tigers. Unfair!

 

[Snarls Barkley]

This is so weird without the crowd atmosphere. It’s going to be one strange round of football.

 

[Bont2Bruce]

Crooze injured

The poor guy seems to be made out of paper mache

 

[bresker]

they Should have played one last game of soccer in Chernobyl as the reactors melted . That would have cheered everyone up and not been massively weird. This is like when your creepy uncle turns up late at the party.

 

[NBates]

Why do we always get teams on the rebound? (as we will if we get to round 2)