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caesar88 said:
I just can't see any clubs offering up their best players for multiple games in a week, regardless of interchanges. There will be two different standards of Swans games we'll see. One with the stars, one without them.
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Lucky we don’t have many stars so our team should stay the same most weeks
 
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caesar88 said:
I just can't see any clubs offering up their best players for multiple games in a week, regardless of interchanges. There will be two different standards of Swans games we'll see. One with the stars, one without them.
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you think sydney will add some stars?
 

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SGBeach said:
I was looking forward to the pro Reid / anti Reid debate.. but he's injured.. gonna miss round 1.
He still walks into the side for round 2 ;)
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COVID 19 does a better job 'creating space' than Reid.

Prove me wrong.
 

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caesar88 said:
Would rather just cancel the season than have this BS about multiple games in the span of a week with top up players involved. That's a shit look for the game, and one that achieves literally nothing (who says these top up players are any less likely to get the virus than the listed players?)

Gil is a dil
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You're not considering the financial impact to not having a season, or obligations to advertising and/or television rights agreements...

Then there's all the small vendors associated with each of the games, the hits to the small pubs, restaurants etc that live of the revenue raised through holding these games...

The actual games themselves are the smallest part of the considerations, and probably the easiest... take every possible care to protect the players & support staff.

But cancelling the season... financial disaster for lots of folk... lets hope it doesn't happen...
 
Kirkswan said:
You're not considering the financial impact to not having a season, or obligations to advertising and/or television rights agreements...

Then there's all the small vendors associated with each of the games, the hits to the small pubs, restaurants etc that live of the revenue raised through holding these games...

The actual games themselves are the smallest part of the considerations, and probably the easiest... take every possible care to protect the players & support staff.

But cancelling the season... financial disaster for lots of folk... lets hope it doesn't happen...
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You're right, I'm not considering any of those things. They all seem kinda insignificant when compared to, you know, loss of human lives.
 

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Good on the AFL for aiming to get a season completed this year.. I'm all for it. Only postive i can see with cancelling the season is it means Richmond can't win the flag! And they might be cooked by 2021.
 
caesar88 said:
You're right, I'm not considering any of those things. They all seem kinda insignificant when compared to, you know, loss of human lives.
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Seriously? You reckon it's insignificant when you lose your business, then your home and then you and your family are living on the streets? And if you're there for greater than six months, chances of you ever climbing back out are greatly diminished... And then multiply that by thousands of people all over the country... And now they're all living on the streets, let's have an unusually cold winter and they get the flu... then lets see how many are dead!

What about the casual employment population... changes brought in to protect small & medium size business mean that those workers are not being paid for time off, regardless of whether or not they're sick. I think they're somewhere around 10-15% of the workforce...

I don't know what the homeless population is like in Perth, but in Sydney (and it's satellites Newcastle & Wollongong) it's significant, and a steadily rising figure... Pretty sure Melbourne is similar...

There is not just one aspect to this, there's multiple... stop putting shit on the people trying to cope with a very real, very fast moving situation... they are walking a tightrope trying to protect all Australians, not just the ones the virus is likely to kill.

Gil's not my favourite person, neither is any politician... but right now there are no other options.
 
I don't know what the players perspective is on the dangers.

If they continue to train, then they still have physical contact with their teammates. If they play matches, they have physical contact with 22 other opposition players. I guess it is like the pr0n industry. Where there is always a level of risk of transmission. But everyone gets regularly tested and there is a known group of participants.

But is the alternative to cancel the season and training and make the players sit at home in isolation? So they are guaranteed not to catch anything from AFL.

Maybe some players will exercise that right and withdraw from the season. And others might prefer to try to play out the season.
 

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