Cyclone Watch: How late is too late...

[ShadowCat]

that bloke has withdrawal symptoms if he doesn't have his weekly salty whinge

Fagan was saying the exact same thing. This is on the AFL, and has nothing to do with the coaches or the players. They were kept waiting until close to the players flights taking off, re: Geelong...which was just unconscionable by the AFL. None of them had any idea until 1PM, and were waiting on the AFL's call.

 

[Mr Meow]

that bloke has withdrawal symptoms if he doesn't have his weekly salty whinge

Your sentence more accurately describes Richmond supporters and Geelong (Scott, Dangerfield, Hocking, KP etc).

 

[FootyLad0]

that bloke has withdrawal symptoms if he doesn't have his weekly salty whinge

Do you even BigFooty?
Tigers fans notoriously whinge about anything Geelong related even on threads not even involving Richmond, literally have a reputation on here because of how prominent it is that oppo fans with no stake in either team just shake their heads…and you’re saying Scotty whinges? Oh the irony lol

Which club board makes threads talking about another oppo club claiming that there is a “conspiracy” by the Corrupt Football League to help them succeed? Like genuine cooker takes. Was even a thread saying the fixturing was purposely done to hold Richmond back

It certainly isn’t coming from the Geelong threads.

 

[QuietB]

You do realize your preferred option means we don't get a bye at all this season, yeah?

Cats could use some long service leave

 

[Bay53]

Interesting that the NRL have gone the other way and transferred the Dolphins v Rabbitohs Friday game to Sydney.

Pretty poor form from them really, players forced to leave their families and houses as a cyclone approaches.

The NRL had another complicating factor that the AFL didn’t.

The Broncos play in Sydney on Thursday night, where there is no major threat of weather.

So if you didn’t move the Dolphins game for the reason the players shouldn’t leave Brisbane, do you also cancel the Broncos game as well? (The Gold Coast Titans have a bye this weekend).

My tip is that if the Suns and or Lions had been already scheduled to be away this weekend, those games would have gone ahead.

The QLD cricket team play a Shield match starting tomorrow in Hobart, I doubt there is any talk about cancelling that match.

 

[VL3OJ]

Seriously, Dillion couldn't organise a large drinking session in Moondog World.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

We’re offering customers a free date change up to 7 days before and up to 14 days after their original travel date or a voucher to the value of their untravelled flights.

Good, unless the reason you were going to Brisbane is delayed more than 2 weeks...

Just refund the ticket money you cheap campaigners.

Where possible, we encourage customers to bring forward their flight to travel prior to the evening of Thursday, 6 March 2025.

Jetstar encouraging people to get into SE Queensland before the cyclone hits... rather than encouraging people to stay away from the disaster zone.

 

[Billy ray]

 

[DaRick]

Reposted from the BL thread, because I know some non-BL/GCS supporters live in Brisbane/GC.

I'm sending out messages to my American friends who have experienced more severe hurricanes/cyclones (by US standards, Alfred will likely be a pretty strong tropical storm, so not severe, although there's an outside chance of it being a weak Category 2 on the Simpson-Saffir system).

I'll post anything I get.

 

[DaRick]

An addendum to the above post - please click on the attachments below:

As an addendum to this, I spoke to a Florida resident. His words:

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Note that a bad Category 3 on the Simpson-Saffir Scale is something akin to Cyclone Larry (maybe fractionally weaker), which occurred 1500 km/h north of Brisbane and which was notoriously destructive.

Officially, Cyclone Tracy is a bad Category 3, but the damage there was so comprehensive that I always found that reading suspect.

 

[VL3OJ]

The pissweak ploy by Dillon is to wait for emergency services to raise the warning level or get invited by the Qld government to call it off. once that trigger has occurred they are obliged to follow the request and that excludes them from all their contracts from caterers, airlines. Travel arrangements, TV and broadcasting (and all the subcontracts). So the league couldn't give a rat's toss bag about the safety of supporters, players or the 4n20 pie boy making it home safely. They were only interested in mitigating financial risk. There is no plan B with a building full of AFL execs.

Wake as piss

 

[Bay53]

The pissweak ploy by Dillon is to wait for emergency services to raise the warning level or get invited by the Qld government to call it off. once that trigger has occurred they are obliged to follow the request and that excludes them from all their contracts from caterers, airlines. Travel arrangements, TV and broadcasting (and all the subcontracts). So the league couldn't give a rat's toss bag about the safety of supporters, players or the 4n20 pie boy making it home safely. They were only interested in mitigating financial risk. There is no plan B with a building full of AFL execs.

Wake as piss

I can’t see how anything could be considered piss weak to wait for the advice from the government who have access to all the experts.

No one was put in danger by a decision being made Tuesday rather than Monday.

The ironic thing is Thursday night may now not be too bad, it is Friday when the real problems will start.

 

[Boxo004]

I can’t see how anything could be considered piss weak to wait for the advice from the government who have access to all the experts.

No one was put in danger by a decision being made Tuesday rather than Monday.

The ironic thing is Thursday night may now not be too bad, it is Friday when the real problems will start.

Very true. That was a strange rant

 

[Kapow!!!]

The NRL had another complicating factor that the AFL didn’t.

The Broncos play in Sydney on Thursday night, where there is no major threat of weather.

So if you didn’t move the Dolphins game for the reason the players shouldn’t leave Brisbane, do you also cancel the Broncos game as well? (The Gold Coast Titans have a bye this weekend).

My tip is that if the Suns and or Lions had been already scheduled to be away this weekend, those games would have gone ahead.

The QLD cricket team play a Shield match starting tomorrow in Hobart, I doubt there is any talk about cancelling that match.

The NRL are lead by a grub who couldn't give a flying f*** about the welfare of the players or their families and the fact the Dolphins are playing is an absolute blight on them, not the AFL for not matching them

Edit: I should also add the Dolphins fans as there's a decent possibility quite a large amount of them probably won't have power to watch the bloody game

 

[Boxo004]

The NRL are lead by a grub who couldn't give a flying f*** about the welfare of the players or their families and the fact the Dolphins are playing is an absolute blight on them, not the AFL for not matching them

Edit: I should also add the Dolphins fans as there's a decent possibility quite a large amount of them probably won't have power to watch the bloody game

Absolutely he is 100% about the money.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

The NRL are lead by a grub who couldn't give a flying f*** about the welfare of the players or their families and the fact the Dolphins are playing is an absolute blight on them, not the AFL for not matching them

Edit: I should also add the Dolphins fans as there's a decent possibility quite a large amount of them probably won't have power to watch the bloody game

Completely different situations, the NRL don't really have byes till around Origin in clunks it's usually just a team each week, and it's not as simple as rescheduling. They literally have rescheduled it and flipped the game in round 17 (think that's the round). The AFL are fortunate in round 3 we can catch up on one of the games easy. Both ways to do it is fine, and players are not forced to play in the Dolphins game in fact a few aren't and that's their call.

 

[MisterMarcus]

I can’t see how anything could be considered piss weak to wait for the advice from the government who have access to all the experts.

No one was put in danger by a decision being made Tuesday rather than Monday.

The ironic thing is Thursday night may now not be too bad, it is Friday when the real problems will start.

Yeah but no Brisbane/GC team member would be remotely in any headspace to play tonight, regardless of whether the cyclone actually hit a day or two 'late'.

 

[Kapow!!!]

Completely different situations, the NRL don't really have byes till around Origin in clunks it's usually just a team each week, and it's not as simple as rescheduling. They literally have rescheduled it and flipped the game in round 17 (think that's the round). The AFL are fortunate in round 3 we can catch up on one of the games easy. Both ways to do it is fine, and players are not forced to play in the Dolphins game in fact a few aren't and that's their call.

1) Not even remotely the point or even important in the grand scheme of things. Priorities are f***ed. Both ways of doing it are not fine.
2) They absolutely could just reschedule it another week. If you're a competent sporting organisation you make it work.
3) Really sucks to be the Dolphins who are essentially handicapped a game in the season now because players want to be with their families through a cyclone.
4) Again sucks to be their supporters who will most likely be unable to watch the game.

Seriously it's a braindead call from people with hideous priorities and is rather indefensible.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

1) Not even remotely the point or even important in the grand scheme of things. Priorities are f***ed. Both ways of doing it are not fine.
2) They absolutely could just reschedule it another week. If you're a competent sporting organisation you make it work.
3) Really sucks to be the Dolphins who are essentially handicapped a game in the season now because players want to be with their families through a cyclone.
4) Again sucks to be their supporters who will most likely be unable to watch the game.

Seriously it's a braindead call from people with hideous priorities and is rather indefensible.

Go on go through the draw and tell us where you are fitting in this game (actually name a place you are putting it not the old 'just make it work'), it's impossible. The only time there's multiple teams with byes is Origin, and that is just as bad as clubs would be 1/2 strength at most. The players agreed to the swap and that's the reschedule, and it's fair for everyone, fans have organised things around games, you aren't just impacting one game, and under no planet with the Players Association agree to a mid week game then playing on a weekend one week. If anything the game will give fans something to watch anyway, players are not forced to play, Dolphins have dealt with worse last year in terms of injuries.

 

[maskmcgee]

Postponed and the cyclone decides to wait 48 hours to show up.

 

[Mr Q]

The cyclone is taking so long to get there it's starting to look like rescheduling to round three might not be long enough....

(I'm glad I don't live in Brisbane, the dread of waiting would be killing me)

 

[Drunkcat]

It is now coming in rd3

 

[maskmcgee]

So now what, this non cyclone didn't hit Brisbane at all? Classic incompetent AFL cancelling matches for no reason.

 

[bzparkes]

Not gonna lie, AFL somewhat vindicated in wanting to wait.

This pathetic wet fart of a cyclone ended up being a bit of a disappointment...

 

[Billy ray]

Posters in here with no idea