Retired #45: Conor McKenna ☘️ - Returning to the AFL to play with Brisbane - 17/11

[andleanback]

If it can be proven Essendon aren't training within the guidelines set and our players are breaking restrictions, i believe we should forfeit 4 points for any game we cant field a team for. If we are training within the guidelines, none of our players are breaking restrictions and we still get hit with Covid through nothing other than bad luck, that should be on the AFL to reschedule and postpone games. Ollie Wines and BZT getting a weeks suspension for breaking restrictions looks like a very light penalty when you consider what a positive test can do to a club. If its 4 points on the line for breaking restrictions clubs will take them a lot more seriously.

No the 1 week is a joke to begin with, the punishment should not affect the team. The AFL should come out and say from now on if a player breaks restrictions it’s 6 weeks or 25k fine take your pick.

 

[DERO]

this is all starting to feel really familiar.

 

[VelvetSledge]

this is all starting to feel really familiar.

I was just starting to think that.

I'd almost started to forget.

 

[Bjchan13]

No the 1 week is a joke to begin with, the punishment should not affect the team. The AFL should come out and say from now on if a player breaks restrictions it’s 6 weeks or 25k fine take your pick.

Players would take restrictions seriously thats for sure.

 

[DonsRule]

False positive? Health authorities re-analyse AFL player's COVID sample

7NEWS.com.au understands new theories have emerged as discussion points between Essendon and the Victorian health department.

7news.com.au

Health authorities expand analysis of AFL player Conor McKenna's COVID sample
Tom Browne

Essendon and Victorian health authorities are undertaking new tests on Conor McKenna's coronavirus test sample. Credit: Getty

Victorian health authorities are undertaking additional tests on Conor McKenna’s COVID samples, 7NEWS.com.au understands.
A false positive is a line of inquiry and discussion point between Essendon and the health department, but it is too early to determine if that’s the case.

 

[DapperJong]

MCDEVIIIITTTT!!!!!!!

 

[TheGrizz]

False positive? Health authorities re-analyse AFL player's COVID sample

7NEWS.com.au understands new theories have emerged as discussion points between Essendon and the Victorian health department.

7news.com.au

Health authorities expand analysis of AFL player Conor McKenna's COVID sample
Tom Browne

Essendon and Victorian health authorities are undertaking new tests on Conor McKenna's coronavirus test sample. Credit: Getty

Victorian health authorities are undertaking additional tests on Conor McKenna’s COVID samples, 7NEWS.com.au understands.
A false positive is a line of inquiry and discussion point between Essendon and the health department, but it is too early to determine if that’s the case.

Holy crap haha

Imagine if it is a false positive. The back peddling from media personalities will be hilarious and imagine all the talk back tough guys who stoked the flames

 

[R t james]

Hopefully He gets thru healthy but the news showed him coughing , spitting and blowing his nose , any signs of cold or flu like symptoms stay home and get checked , that’s what I’d be disappointed with , not how he contracted it , he’s just a bit unlucky with that . Someone from somewhere was going to get it , maybe not the last from any club

 

[JayJ20]

False positive? Health authorities re-analyse AFL player's COVID sample

7NEWS.com.au understands new theories have emerged as discussion points between Essendon and the Victorian health department.

7news.com.au

Health authorities expand analysis of AFL player Conor McKenna's COVID sample
Tom Browne

Essendon and Victorian health authorities are undertaking new tests on Conor McKenna's coronavirus test sample. Credit: Getty

Victorian health authorities are undertaking additional tests on Conor McKenna’s COVID samples, 7NEWS.com.au understands.
A false positive is a line of inquiry and discussion point between Essendon and the health department, but it is too early to determine if that’s the case.

Very interesting. Poor guy has been dragged all over the place before everything was analysed. I feel sorry for him.

 

[JayJ20]

Hopefully He gets thru healthy but the news showed him coughing , spitting and blowing his nose , any signs of cold or flu like symptoms stay home and get checked , that’s what I’d be disappointed with , not how he contracted it , he’s just a bit unlucky with that . Someone from somewhere was going to get it , maybe not the last from any club

Have you exercised in the middle of winter? He is asymptomatic, meaning that he doesn't have any flu-like symptoms.

 

[DERO]

Hopefully He gets thru healthy but the news showed him coughing , spitting and blowing his nose , any signs of cold or flu like symptoms stay home and get checked , that’s what I’d be disappointed with , not how he contracted it , he’s just a bit unlucky with that . Someone from somewhere was going to get it , maybe not the last from any club

SETTLE DOWN TOM BROWNE

 

[DapperJong]

SETTLE DOWN TOM BROWNE

Connor has been intentionally "covid spraying" because he homesick and **** this club

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

What a jerk, seeing family and looking for a place to live.

If I was a privileged AFL player on those $$$, I would see nobody and live on the street.

 

[Fridge16]

Which rules did Conor break?

Oh sorry, are we doing the old "No one tested positive so they didn't take drugs", "there is no evidence", "whatever they took was approved by ASADA but not WADA" stuff again are we?

He's admitted to two breaches.
Visiting family
Attending an open house

 

[Lore]

Oh sorry, are we doing the old "No one tested positive so they didn't take drugs", "there is no evidence", "whatever they took was approved by ASADA but not WADA" stuff again are we?

He's admitted to two breaches.
Visiting family
Attending an open house

No, he admitted to visiting family and attending an open house. Neither of those are rule breaches unless you're trying to write clickbait.

 

[Fridge16]

this is all starting to feel really familiar.

Yep, I'm not putting my head in the sand and coming out looking like a fool this time. One of our players made a mistake, we need to own it, cop the repercussions and move on.

 

[Fridge16]

No, he admitted to visiting family and attending an open house. Neither of those are rule breaches unless you're trying to write clickbait.

So everyone in the AFL is saying its a breach but Essendon supporters? Dero is right, this DOES feel familiar.

 

[Mercurial89]

this is all starting to feel really familiar.

We had analysis of touching the nose, now we have analysis of blowing the nose.

I assume next we have an investigation for recreational drugs of what they are putting up their nose. Maybe in a couple of years.

 

[Lore]

So everyone in the AFL is saying its a breach but Essendon supporters? Dero is right, this DOES feel familiar.

Everyone in the AFL? Who would that be?

Here's an article that details the situation as at 9am this morning, and explains the actual document that players were given regarding the Return to Play protocols:

The murky rule that could determine infected Bomber‘s AFL fate

The murky rule that could determine infected Bomber‘s AFL fate

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[DERO]

Connor has been intentionally "covid spraying" because he homesick and fu** this club

Positive test for homesickness?

 

[Fridge16]

Everyone in the AFL? Who would that be?

Here's an article that details the situation as at 9am this morning, and explains the actual document that players were given regarding the Return to Play protocols:

The murky rule that could determine infected Bomber‘s AFL fate

The murky rule that could determine infected Bomber‘s AFL fate

www.foxsports.com.au

Thanks for the link, its a well balanced article. As it says the open house thing he may get away with, and by that description he probably should. He still broke the rules with the family visit and would cop a 1 to 2 week suspension for it as described in the article. I'm not going to hang him for it but its incredibly disappointing that we are in this situation.

 

[JayJ20]

So everyone in the AFL is saying its a breach but Essendon supporters? Dero is right, this DOES feel familiar.

He may have breached protocol or he may not have breached protocol. That's as much as anyone outside of the club, DHHS and the AFL know. Let's wait until the facts come to light.

 

[Fridge16]

He may have breached protocol or he may not have breached protocol. That's as much as anyone outside of the club, DHHS and the AFL know. Let's wait until the facts come to light.

Sounds familiar

 

[DERO]

WHEN THE TRUTH COMES OUT WE WILL BE IN A REALLY GOOD POSITION

 

[Lore]

Thanks for the link, its a well balanced article. As it says the open house thing he may get away with, and by that description he probably should. He still broke the rules with the family visit and would cop a 1 to 2 week suspension for it as described in the article. I'm not going to hang him for it but its incredibly disappointing that we are in this situation.

They are his host family, not sure he'll even get whacked for that. Would be pretty poor from the AFL to allow every other player to visit bio/adoptive/foster parents, but as soon as it's a 'host' family it doesn't count. Do you reckon Walla is allowed to see the McDonalds in Gippsland? Depriving international players of that same support is pretty harsh.