News Conor McKenna tests positive for COVID-19 - Wait, what?

[Costanza_]

It wasn't mentioned in the press conference, so can we assume there is no risk to the Swans who they played last week, or North who shared a plane with them?

I'm guessing a negative test this past Wednesday means it is unlikely he either (a) had contrated it prior to last weeks game or (b) if he had contracted it, wasn't infectious?

It is a pretty good result if it means only one game is postponed. I was thinking there might be a comp wide 2 week pause and isolation for the Swans, North and Essendon.

 

[AuTo00Z]

I feared this would happen when they said they were loosening restrictions. Hopefully they reverse that decision, and will scare off any players who even think about breaking the rules (as there had been a few already who were lucky not to contract the virus).

 

[Andrew Mc]

Honestly the season should have proceeded in hubs, with players being isolated. But no, the poor darlings needed to stay at home with their families. Ah well, they're the ones that will have less $'s in their pocket now.

 

[Choogler]

2 weeks? The numbers are going up again as the restricitons are being eased.

Season will likely be cancelled surely

Not a chance unless the Govt policy forces them to. Make no mistake, AFL needs to keep the season running because without the broadcast dollars how will they get the money to prop up StK, NM, and the other non-viable Vic clubs?

 

[windyhill]

Damn, game over. Well played mate. You got me good.

Anytime pabs

 

[Choogler]

Honestly the season should have proceeded in hubs, with players being isolated. But no, the poor darlings needed to stay at home with their families. Ah well, they're the ones that will have less $'s in their pocket now.

Not all of them, just the Victorian based ones...

 

[Toump Ass]

The footage of Corona McKenna blowing litres of virus out of his nose at training shows an outrageous contempt for public safety.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

He went early February. There was no pandemic declared then, there was no do not travel warning.

Common sense would of said maybe not travel

 

[CakeEater]

Hearing Essendon will be removed from the competition indefinitely and replaced with the bye in the fixtures for this season.

You guys have a horrendous record against the bye though, are you sure you want that?

 

[zacz]

Common sense would of said maybe not travel

I know it seems like a lifetime ago now but back in February COVID was not considered much of a threat at all. It wasn't until Mid March that it was being taken seriously internationally.

 

[blue harvest]

Common sense would of said maybe not travel

??? Early Feb it was pretty much business as usual. Inbound travel from China was restricted but that's about it.

 

[CatFan79]

“There are many parts of the state particularly in regional Victoria that have had no cases,” Mr Andrews said.

“We will, if and when it is safe, reopen those communities perhaps with a different set of rules,” he said.

About f***ing time.

 

[Tasmanian saint]

AFL to investigate whether McKenna breached COVID-19 protocols

The AFL is set to probe whether Essendon's Conor McKenna has breached the league's strict protocols for COVID-19 following his positive test to the virus.

www.theage.com.au

Why did they not think to test him after he came back from a country which has had 25,368 confirmed cases?

If he wanted to travel overseas he should have been made to sit out the season

 

[blue harvest]

If he wanted to travel overseas he should have been made to sit out the season

He travelled early Feb before the pandemic.

 

[Billy ray]

If, if, if the afl find he breached and they decide that ess forfeit the game, what scores do they record? 1-0? Or average of season for and against?
Just thinking about percentages

 

[NoobPie]

If, if, if the afl find he breached and they decide that ess forfeit the game, what scores do they record? 1-0? Or average of season for and against?
Just thinking about percentages

IT will be just the four points to Melbourne.

 

[rumply]

The footage of Corona McKenna blowing litres of virus out of his nose at training shows an outrageous contempt for public safety.

I spat on the side walk today, so sue me.

 

[NoobPie]

I don’t think it takes an epidemiologist to understand social distancing following contact with someone who then tests positive, does it?

Takes one to determine who should be quarantining surely? Not some muppet being a muppet?

 

[NoobPie]

And some people still think the season shouldn't be cancelled.

Yeah, Everyone who is not a clueless idiot

 

[1970crow]

Can you ****ing moronic victorians get anything right? Even your lesser cousins have managed to control something so simple. And then there’s you dimwits. ****ing everything up for everyone else.

 

[kranky al]

Does everyone think the Premier League won’t have a positive test? Of course they will and the season will go on....that’s in a country with one of the worst death rates in the world. Cancel season my arse

Gawd you vics are dense.

wasnt the afl shut down the season in the first place - it was the social distancing regulations made it impossible to play.

victoria has a second wave (as is looking more and more likely) and wham the banhammer comes down.

 

[Senor M]

Can you ******* moronic victorians get anything right? Even your lesser cousins have managed to control something so simple. And then there’s you dimwits. ******* everything up for everyone else.

How epic is this melt....

 

[kranky al]

Not a chance unless the Govt policy forces them to. Make no mistake, AFL needs to keep the season running because without the broadcast dollars how will they get the money to prop up StK, NM, and the other non-viable Vic clubs?

Its gotta be the most delicious irony ever if having too many clubs in one state influencing the competition to have a hub in victoria leads to the comp being shut down and clubs in victoria fold as a result.

 

[philthy05]

So now the info coming out of fox footy is that he did return to the club after the first test that returned a low grade result and engaged in weight training.

Apparently they didn’t find out the first tests result immediately?

 

[1970crow]

How epic is this melt....

Infested victorians. Ruining the season for everyone else. We’ve got pick 1 sewn up and you incompetents will turn it into a ballot and we’ll select ****ing 18. Sort your shit out.