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After this season Hocking will introduce the foam spray for the umps to mark a circle around the man on the mark - it would at least provide a few laughs.

AFL should bring the umpire inspection of boot studs, like this:

They are open because Queensland has had no community spread for 103 days so locals and visitors from some states can do all of those things. Queensland has stopped Victorians travelling to Queensland because of the high level of infections in Victoria. They agreed to let AFL teams from Victoria...

Wembley Stadium is a poor analogy to use. The Premier League champions don't have finals. The champions are decided on the home and away season - every team plays every other team home and away, and that's it. So no grand final. If you are thinking of the FA Cup that doesn't really work...

This is one issue that does rely largely on anecdotes, people's experiences, and opinions. There are many matters were definitive data and research is not available. Sports science, for example, is replete with studies where it is difficult to design studies that obtain really useful data. Are...

That would be because World Cups are not home and away competitions played over a whole season. It is ridiculous analogy.

You almost make it sound like you were there. :) Pope Formosus in 897, dug up and tried 7 months after he died. I think it was mainly about politics and power and corruption. Vatican -same as.

No one notice Italy's silent time bomb We have had a lot of conjecture and guessing in this thread about the factors that contributed to Italy's situation with Covid 19. The attached article, even though it is from the Australian, provides an excellent analysis of the earlier stages of the...

What you are saying then is that Italians may not have large families but they spend more time together than Australian families. So Australians don't ever see their grandparents or parents - you are just making stuff up. Australians do include Australians from different backgrounds -...

The increase today was 460. Our largest single day increase.

Italians don't have large families. They have one of the lowest birth rates in the world. Australia has a birth rate of 1.8 per woman in Australia, Italy has a birth rate of 1.3. UK and USA have the same birth rate as Australia.

Agree, I think that is clearly the best option. There will probably be smaller lists next year too. I would also like to see the drafting changed raised by a year.

Yep, and weddings limited to celebrant, couple getting married and two witnesses - I guess even if it was an outside wedding. Boot camps though all good with up ten participants. That makes a lot of sense? Still some sense tonight - beauty parlours, tattoo places shut down. Barbers and...

I don't think Italians were anymore more cavalier than we have been, and we had the advantage of seeing what had happened there. Politicians here were encouraging people to go out and support local restaurants and businesses only two weeks ago. A week ago the PM was telling people to go to the...

Bergamot is lovely town in a fantastic area. And I love their football team Atalanta, even though I'm a Roma fan. It is very sad.

People were dumb, but the government needs to wear this too. Last weekend the PM was telling people they should go to the Rugby. Last Sunday the Chief Medical Officer was telling people it was ok to shake hands and was stilling shaking hands with people himself.

Agree, our border control has been very slack when dealing with arrivals. A decision was made that all arrivals should go into self isolation, which was good. However I've seen many news reports showing arrivals simply walking of the plane hugging people and then heading off home. No temperature...

So most people you know never visit their family members in nursing homes. Do they send you regular reports on the frequency of their visits to see the parents and grandparents in nursing homes. You either just made that up or the people you know aren't representative of the community - based on...

If you are paying tax at 49 cents in the dollar you really should get a new accountant

Should have been a free kick to Sampi

This site has the testing data by state - apologies if you have already come across it. The interesting thing is that whenever anyone is asked how many tested kits we have left no one gives a clear answer. Federal and State governments are all trying to get more which is no doubt difficult, but...

Pretty much the same in WA, up from 35 to 52.

Are you assuming that the demand for ventilators for conditions other than Covid 19 will just disappear?

Italians have been grateful for help from China. Two groups of medical doctors and staff with Covid 19 experience and lots of medical equipment. The second groups came with 9 tons of medical equipment - ventilators, testing kits etc.

Who made you the sheriff? He has opinions about the impact of Covid 19 on the AFL season. He has used the European experience of Covid 19 and its impact on football there. You have a different opinion, great, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't post his views and what he has based them on. That...

I don't think the WA government have given any indication that they want to close state borders. This was an issue raised by a lobby group of doctors -...

Yeah, the ICU physicians would understand far less about this than you. Or could just be that you an idiot.

At least we both agree that whether or not we have community transmission is as an important element of all this. As I said I have a more pessimist assessment of the information than you do and I'll be pleased if the coming weeks prove my assessment to have been incorrect. In regard to the last...

I agree that two week quarantine is a significant step and will make a big difference. I don't know how comprehensively those rules around testing have been implemented. The availability of testing kits is a huge issue - the CMO and state officials have indicated that is the case...

That was the case in the early days of testing but the rules around testing are now enforced more strongly because of the shortage of testing kits.