Mega Thread Coronavirus & the AFL - season postponed. (Thread part 1 - cont in part 2, link in thread)

[Chief]

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Mega Thread - Coronavirus & the AFL - season postponed. Part 2 * CONTINUED ABUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED *

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/pages/covid-stats-australia/

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[The_Reaper]

Isn't the average wage like 80k pa?

Lel no.

 

[deanc]

Which is precisely his point - a very high chance a player will test positive some time during the season even if it's shortened.

As soon as a player tests positive - well, as a contact sport there's zero chance the season will continue.

While the focus/discussion seems to be primarily on players contracting COVID-19, I've not seen any mention of the other essential staff also involved during game day at clubs.
Consider for every player (22) participating in a match you have (on average) three other staff involved (66), who include assistant coaches, runners, medical staff, stats people etc. and who are mostly in their 40's/50's or older - Dr Bruce Reid must be about 120yo this year surely...?

Accordingly I suggest if ANY of these people involved during a match contract COVID-19 then sadly that could also result in the end of the season...

 

[kaiserchief13]

Mid to high 60s I thought

Average Salary Australia

www.livingin-australia.com

82k according to that

This is pre tax

 

[Thetrader15]

Is anyone actually worried about the players?

Fit, financially secure blokes in their 20s and 30s with access to great healthcare.

The players are

 

[boncer34]

The 1918 season was the season of Spanish Flu - an even deadlier pandemic than covid-19. But then they had the perspective of the great war. I look to what they went through and what challengers we face now andI can only say the AFL are a bunch of cowards. I dont get the choice of withdrawing from my work without severe financial penalty - why should AFL footballers?

Oh boy

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Part of me wants the games to go ahead so I have something completely different to be completely anxious and stressed about.

 

[1980GFVideo]

I’ve written off 2020 as a season. It doesn‘t feel real and should just get scrapped, and probably will be anyway. Bring on 2021.

Yeah I'm the same mate and feeling deflated.

Now this winter is just about being bloody cold and living in dark.

 

[sammm]

I haven’t seen the players come out publicly and complain. Just that they aren’t thrilled with the prospect of losing income. Shock horror.

They should be grateful. With no tourists, and a shutdown of public interests Many people will lose their jobs

 

[Bombermania]

The $80k average is for full time male wages. the average for all is somewhere in the $50k to $60k range.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

I don't know about rounds, but I reckon we'll at least have every team play each other at least once, even if it means we have multiple shortened games everyday (or almost) in the space of 3-5 months. In this day and age, the outrage would be huge if you were to further cut games, and the AFLPA probably won't be happy with further paycuts. Unless teams start withdrawing from the season, I still think we'll get around 150-160 games this year (also factoring the potential scrapping of finals in favor 1st vs 2nd grand final), even if they're significantly shortened and all played within a short period of time.

Good thing we trialled AFLX.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Cured. Now get on with clinical testing, quicksticks.

Existing drugs that are available now.

Researchers want to trial drug ‘cure’ for coronavirus on patients

A team of Australian researchers say they’ve found a cure for the novel coronavirus and hope to have patients enrolled in a nationwide trial by the end of the month.

www.news.com.au

 

[matty lloyd the champ]

Average Salary Australia

www.livingin-australia.com

82k according to that

This is pre tax

You should be looking at median salaries which exclude outliers in the data set. The median salary in Australia is roughly between 55 to 60k.

 

[dont bowl there]

They should be grateful. With no tourists, and a shutdown of public interests Many people will lose their jobs

They can be grateful for their job and also not happy they are losing wages. The two things aren’t mutually exclusive.

 

[AuTo00Z]

While the focus/discussion seems to be primarily on players contracting COVID-19, I've not seen any mention of the other essential staff also involved during game day at clubs.
Consider for every player (22) participating in a match you have (on average) three other staff involved (66), who include assistant coaches, runners, medical staff, stats people etc. and who are mostly in their 40's/50's or older - Dr Bruce Reid must be about 120yo this year surely...?

Accordingly I suggest if ANY of these people involved during a match do contract COVID-19, sadly that could also result in the end of the season...

I'm sure every person will be tested. They could possibly have it so that you must meet certain requirements to be eligible to participate on game day (probably everyone except coaches and players). So anyone over the age of 60 or history of poor/unstable immune system etc would probably automatically be ineligible.

 

[screech]

T20I Word Cup. If SACA were to allow the AFL priority over the ICC, there would be hell to pay.
There's a decent chance there won't be a T20 WC though. There could still restrictions, too early to tell.

They managed to run the Womens T20 WC without needing Adelaide Oval

 

[JohnnyFontane90]

That's ridiculous. Why even play R1 if everything gets postponed thereafter?

I'd prefer they look at a 17-week season, tentatively starting early May, subject to further review.

The idea is they need to get 17 games in before Christmas and they’re expecting a massive disruption in the middle so they’re trying the squeeze as many games in now as they can before a player tests positive.

If they wait til may to start and the outbreak lasts longer than expected, they don’t leave enough time on the back end to get the quota of games in.

 

[Plugger35]

That's ridiculous. Why even play R1 if everything gets postponed thereafter?

I'd prefer they look at a 17-week season, tentatively starting early May, subject to further review.

The AFL need to get games played when they can, if no players test positive before Rd 1 starts then it should go ahead and then the AFL can just take it round by round after that until a player tests positive and they have to postpone games.

If they delay the start until May there is more chance of players being infected and less chance of the season starting and getting a 17 game season completed.

 

[The Nostradamus]

The idea is they need to get 17 games in before Christmas and they’re expecting a massive disruption in the middle so they’re trying the squeeze as many games in now as they can before a player tests positive.

If they wait til may to start and the outbreak lasts longer than expected, they don’t leave enough time on the back end to get the quota of games in.

Pretty much this

the way it’s tracking I think aus will be in total lockdown for the month of June and maybe a bit more when s**t hits the fan and they need to slow it down

they will try squeeze games either side of the middle of the year

 

[Sweet Jesus]

The idea is they need to get 17 games in before Christmas and they’re expecting a massive disruption in the middle so they’re trying the squeeze as many games in now as they can before a player tests positive.

If they wait til may to start and the outbreak lasts longer than expected, they don’t leave enough time on the back end to get the quota of games in.

Before Christmas? How late can it run?

Is this season going to be Mickey Mouse and not legit? Whoever wins it, it seems likely people will say "yeah but that wasn't a real season".

 

[dont bowl there]

Pretty much this

the way it’s tracking I think aus will be in total lockdown for the month of June and maybe a bit more when s**t hits the fan and they need to slow it down

they will try squeeze games either side of the middle of the year

The way it’s tracking we will be in lockdown within a fortnight.

 

[The Nostradamus]

The way it’s tracking we will be in lockdown within a fortnight.

I think we have at least a month before mandatory lockdown May/June is where I think it will be too high/peak and a need for mandatory lockdown to slow down the virus and buy time for the vaccine, assistance to hospitals etc

 

[BACCS]

Cured. Now get on with clinical testing, quicksticks.

Existing drugs that are available now.

Researchers want to trial drug ‘cure’ for coronavirus on patients

A team of Australian researchers say they’ve found a cure for the novel coronavirus and hope to have patients enrolled in a nationwide trial by the end of the month.

www.news.com.au

How valid is this? Always skeptical of news.com.au, but that sounds very promising.

 

[new breed]

Cured. Now get on with clinical testing, quicksticks.

Existing drugs that are available now.

Researchers want to trial drug ‘cure’ for coronavirus on patients

A team of Australian researchers say they’ve found a cure for the novel coronavirus and hope to have patients enrolled in a nationwide trial by the end of the month.

www.news.com.au

These Doctors/ Researchers are amazing they sound confident that these drugs are registered and tested on other epidemics previously , so we are on the right track thanks to these Doctors / Researchers .

 

[StickyMick]

Average Salary Australia

www.livingin-australia.com

82k according to that

This is pre tax

The median wage at around 48k is a much better indicator.

 

[Pykie]