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I searched and could not find an Essendon specific football COVID-19 thread and given the weekend's events I thought I may as well create one.
To say I'm somewhat peeved at the club and to a lesser extend Connor is an understatement. Why am I more annoyed at the club? The following snippets from published articles:
the league strongly advised clubs not to divide the team up into forwards, backs and midfielders when deciding the composition of their small groups, in case they were to have one entire line wiped out by quarantine.
"The AFL is not considering postponing the entire round, but the Essendon-Carlton game remains in doubt.
The AFL's view is that the small training groups were designed for this contingency, so that if a player tested positive they could limit the number of others potentially affected. If a small group was all put in quarantine, the league said it would be akin to a group of players getting gastro and the game going ahead.
It is also the reason the league strongly advised clubs not to divide the team up into forwards, backs and midfielders when deciding the composition of their small groups, in case they were to have one entire line wiped out by quarantine.
The clubs were initially told to divide players into small groups of eight but that was later increased to nine."
So, don't group forwards, backs and mid together was the advice, which seems pretty sensible to mean. I mean I'm not a rocket scientist but even I can see that losing an entire group to isolation *might* cause a team some slight inconvenience.
But of course we ignored this
"The fact the AFL will need to reschedule at least one Essendon match – yesterday’s postponed game against Melbourne – and possibly more, has added an extra layer of complexity onto the already vexed nature of the redrawn 2020 fixture.
But instead of the matches being rescheduled, the Dons could be forced to go in without McKenna as well as Adam Saad, Cale Hooker, Michael Hurley, Matt Guelfi, Jordan Ridley and Mason Redman, all of whom have been in the Irishman’s small training group, if they are deemed to be ‘‘close contacts’’ of McKenna."
So, despite advice to the contrary we grouped the following players together:
Connor Mckenna
Adam Saad
Cale Hooker
Michael Hurley
Matt Guelfi
Jordan Ridley
Mason Redman
Even if the plan was to play Mckenna forward WHY WHY WHY would we have the rest of those players in ONE group? It defies belief that we can be so poorly run so soon after the ASAGA, it’s as though we’ve learned nothing. I had hoped that we might have started to become more professional but this has me questioning that.
To say I'm somewhat peeved at the club and to a lesser extend Connor is an understatement. Why am I more annoyed at the club? The following snippets from published articles:
the league strongly advised clubs not to divide the team up into forwards, backs and midfielders when deciding the composition of their small groups, in case they were to have one entire line wiped out by quarantine.
"The AFL is not considering postponing the entire round, but the Essendon-Carlton game remains in doubt.
The AFL's view is that the small training groups were designed for this contingency, so that if a player tested positive they could limit the number of others potentially affected. If a small group was all put in quarantine, the league said it would be akin to a group of players getting gastro and the game going ahead.
It is also the reason the league strongly advised clubs not to divide the team up into forwards, backs and midfielders when deciding the composition of their small groups, in case they were to have one entire line wiped out by quarantine.
The clubs were initially told to divide players into small groups of eight but that was later increased to nine."
So, don't group forwards, backs and mid together was the advice, which seems pretty sensible to mean. I mean I'm not a rocket scientist but even I can see that losing an entire group to isolation *might* cause a team some slight inconvenience.
But of course we ignored this
"The fact the AFL will need to reschedule at least one Essendon match – yesterday’s postponed game against Melbourne – and possibly more, has added an extra layer of complexity onto the already vexed nature of the redrawn 2020 fixture.
But instead of the matches being rescheduled, the Dons could be forced to go in without McKenna as well as Adam Saad, Cale Hooker, Michael Hurley, Matt Guelfi, Jordan Ridley and Mason Redman, all of whom have been in the Irishman’s small training group, if they are deemed to be ‘‘close contacts’’ of McKenna."
So, despite advice to the contrary we grouped the following players together:
Connor Mckenna
Adam Saad
Cale Hooker
Michael Hurley
Matt Guelfi
Jordan Ridley
Mason Redman
Even if the plan was to play Mckenna forward WHY WHY WHY would we have the rest of those players in ONE group? It defies belief that we can be so poorly run so soon after the ASAGA, it’s as though we’ve learned nothing. I had hoped that we might have started to become more professional but this has me questioning that.
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