Mega Thread COVID & AFL

[Van_Dyke]

Team,
as the season is approaching and there’s still much to discuss with regards to covid, please use this thread to talk about it and the potential impacts of it on the AFL season and the league more broadly. Please note however that if you want to talk about the politics of covid, the politics thread is the place for this and political posts in this thread will be deleted, please keep this thread to how it may impact the competition

 

[Righteo]

People of all ages should be more worried about what the upcoming flu season is going to do to an immunocompromised population. There should be stronger messaging about everyone getting their flu shot this year

 

[Madas]

Question
Could Fyfe as captain sit down with the players in the bench area or are there Covid protocols prohibiting this ?
Or are there just general rules about who can sit there ?

Can’t think that it would be disallowed and personally I’d like to see it happen . Surely he could be providing valuable advice and encouragement

 

[Nothing]

There's only a certain number of players and staff allowed on the playing arena. Exceeding that number results in infraction points.

 

[Madas]

There's only a certain number of players and staff allowed on the playing arena. Exceeding that number results in infraction points.

good explanation thanks .
I was fearing it’s because he didn’t care .

 

[Nothing]

good explanation thanks .
I was fearing it’s because he didn’t care .

Regulation 12 of some light bedtime reading

https://resources.afl.com.au/afl/document/2021/03/17/b6360979-67bb-4717-9d52-23efac705d15/Amended-AFL-Regulations-Effective-17-March-2021-FINAL-CLEAN.pdf

 

[mattis117]

Back to baseline restrictions from this Friday, so NO MORE MASKS unless you're visiting aged care, a hospital, or taking public transport/rideshare/taxi.

No more proof of vax.

No more capacity limits anywhere.

No more close contacts! Only isolating if you actually have COVID. So happy about this!

 

[Taylor]

I wonder if we can pack out the stadium next Friday night against the Kangaroos.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

I wonder if we can pack out the stadium next Friday night against the Kangaroos.

bloody oath we can.

 

[BStaff17]

I wonder if we can pack out the stadium next Friday night against the Kangaroos.

How many more people would they have got last Saturday without the 75% restrictions.

Would it have been closer to 50k?

 

[CapitalA]

How many more people would they have got last Saturday without the 75% restrictions.

Would it have been closer to 50k?

Sell out.

 

[Taylor]

There was around 43,000 at the game Saturday night.

 

[Spirit Level]

Could be our first ever non-derby crowd over 50000 next Friday night

 

[mattis117]

Can't believe the AFL scheduled our Round 10 game vs. Collingwood at 3.20 on the Sunday - what a load of bollocks. This should have been the Saturday night special, instead they've put Richmond and Essendon, VFL much? I wonder if they regret this given how the last three rounds have panned out.

 

[freoextra]

Can't believe the AFL scheduled our Round 10 game vs. Collingwood at 3.20 on the Sunday - what a load of bollocks. This should have been the Saturday night special, instead they've put Richmond and Essendon, VFL much? I wonder if they regret this given how the last three rounds have panned out.

They don’t regret any VFL based decision.

 

[greatgatsby]

They don’t regret any VFL based decision.

Can't believe the AFL scheduled our Round 10 game vs. Collingwood at 3.20 on the Sunday - what a load of bollocks. This should have been the Saturday night special, instead they've put Richmond and Essendon, VFL much? I wonder if they regret this given how the last three rounds have panned out.

You know the Richmond-Essendon game is the Dreamtime game? Probably bigger than Anzac Day soon. No way is our game against Collingwood going to match it.

 

[Piggy Smalls]

Can't believe the AFL scheduled our Round 10 game vs. Collingwood at 3.20 on the Sunday - what a load of bollocks. This should have been the Saturday night special, instead they've put Richmond and Essendon, VFL much? I wonder if they regret this given how the last three rounds have panned out.

Dreamtime game always gets the FTA slot on Saturday night

 

[BStaff17]

Can't believe the AFL scheduled our Round 10 game vs. Collingwood at 3.20 on the Sunday - what a load of bollocks. This should have been the Saturday night special, instead they've put Richmond and Essendon, VFL much? I wonder if they regret this given how the last three rounds have panned out.

Do you reckon channel 7 will be regretting that the Melbourne v Fremantle game at the MCG is a Saturday twlight on fox not saturday night prime time.

West coast v Bulldogs at Optus is the 7:20 saturday night game that weekend.

 

[BStaff17]

Could be our first ever non-derby crowd over 50000 next Friday night

Surely norf being dog s**t will make it harder as the number of norf fans wont be as high to drag the crowd number up.

 

[ilikepotatoes]

Do you reckon channel 7 will be regretting that the Melbourne v Fremantle game at the MCG is a Saturday twlight on fox not saturday night prime time.

West coast v Bulldogs at Optus is the 7:20 saturday night game that weekend.

Nah I reckon watching west coast getting pumped on prime time is great.

 

[Madas]

How many more people would they have got last Saturday without the 75% restrictions.

Would it have been closer to 50k?

50 easy
The bandwagon is quickly filling

 

[rolling01]

50 easy
The bandwagon is quickly filling

No chance, carlton game was sold out and still 2k under capacity turned up. Lot more blues supporters than north in WA.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

Surely norf being dog s**t will make it harder as the number of norf fans wont be as high to drag the crowd number up.

But the ground work has been laid. There will probably be 5,000 ******* Eagles supporters there wearing Eagles strip hoping to get their ugly ******* heads on tv in the hope of being gifted a signed Dockers guernsey.
Got me ****ed why we would do that.
Win this week against Geelong and they will come.

 

[Redgum]

Covid is completely out of control in WA at the moment, we now have the highest daily cases in Australia. I have been holding of going to the foody because of it, as my partner has a lot of health issues, and I cannot afford to catch it. We always thought McGowan pulled the trigger too early with the easing of restrictions particularly with the wearing of masks. Since then the numbers have been skyrocketing, at least until then, they were in manageable numbers and were looking to be coming down. I have no idea where they are going except up.

 

[ilikepotatoes]

Covid is completely out of control in WA at the moment, we now have the highest daily cases in Australia. I have been holding of going to the foody because of it, as my partner has a lot of health issues, and I cannot afford to catch it. We always thought McGowan pulled the trigger too early with the easing of restrictions particularly with the wearing of masks. Since then the numbers have been skyrocketing, at least until then, they were in manageable numbers and were looking to be coming down. I have no idea where they are going except up.

My family and I have been to every game this year, masks on, and are yet to have caught it.

At this point I do think it is a matter of when than if at the football however.

 

[Madas]

My family and I have been to every game this year, masks on, and are yet to have caught it.

At this point I do think it is a matter of when than if at the football however.

The vast majority of people catch it and get over it in a few days
I am completely in agreement with how this was all handled by WA government to get vaccination numbers up but it’s time to move on with the endemic IMHO .
If the intensive care numbers get too high and hospitals are not coping then rethink the strategies.