News Grand Final at the Craypot

[happy_eagle]

We’ve spent 12 days out of 243 this year locked down.

You know that old saying

The glass is either 4.9% empty of 95.1% full

 

[ioppolo]

We’ve spent 12 days out of 243 this year locked down.

I think it's more a case of lockdown meaning serious lockdown, no fans whatsoever previously. If there was a lockdown Sept. 24th then there wouldn't be fans if it were a normal H&A fixture.

 

[MrKK]

We’ve spent 12 days out of 243 this year locked down.

Hasn't there also been 2 home games suddenly changed to zero crowds outside of the lockdown periods?

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Emailed today...

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Same email almost word for word about the finals games, but no priority tickets for WC members for those so far, so not expecting another email lol.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Hasn't there also been 2 home games suddenly changed to zero crowds outside of the lockdown periods?

Ah yes, that’s a point.

The odds are low, and the last two times we’ve had community cases (that FIFO guy with the weak positive and the truck drivers last week) we haven’t had any restrictions, but when they have come in they’ve resulted in lockouts with no warning, I take the point.

 

[E92_]

Absolutely hilarious that Eddie was denied entry

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Absolutely hilarious that Eddie was denied entry

Even better that he played the “don’t you know who I am?” card.

Hopefully the response was “yes, you’re the former president of the side that finished 17th”.

 

[Ochre]

Absolutely hilarious that Eddie was denied entry

I wonder why

 

[arfadunger]

If they've let Lyon in I can't see any reason that Eddie isn't allowed (apart from of course lying on his application form to try and get his kids in).

 

[amazingjoshy]

If they've let Lyon in I can't see any reason that Eddie isn't allowed (apart from of course lying on his application form to try and get his kids in).

As I understood, that's exactly why he was refused

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Can he just resubmit his application and be allowed in, or it a longer term ban for being a lying campaigner?

 

[Chris_6678]

Fine with Eddie coming over but for him to make up bullshit so his two sons can come over and enjoy themselves while others in Victoria would love to do the same but cannot...

 

[MacMum]

Have decided I really like your Premier. Haven't stopped laughing.......the steam will be rising from Eddie's head!

I liked the bit where your Premier said Eddie wasn't essential to the game....and he's not since he's no longer a Pres of a club, just a tv host and a member of his club like you and I are.

 

[Balls In]

Absolutely hilarious that Eddie was denied entry

I think it was petty grandstanding.

 

[Tugga27]

I think it was petty grandstanding.

Huh?

By whom?

 

[Eaglemaniac]

So the state govt that messes up its lockdowns, gets an extra two years on a contract to host an event that only isn’t being hosted because if it’s incompetence? Na, the VFL isn’t viccentric at all..

 

[Balls In]

Huh?

By whom?

Ask yourself why its even come out that "the application went all the way to the police chief and McGowan" and why the premier felt it necessary to then make statements about Eddie being all upset about it. Just unnecessary grandstanding.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

and why the premier felt it necessary to then make statements about Eddie being all upset about it.

Because he was asked?

 

[Tugga27]

Ask yourself why its even come out that "the application went all the way to the police chief and McGowan" and why the premier felt it necessary to then make statements about Eddie being all upset about it. Just unnecessary grandstanding.

Have you considered the premier commented on it due to the fact that McGuire told every media platform he could about it?

The only grandstanding was done by McGuire.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Green out makes GWS so much easier to barrack for.

Just need Oliver to be suspended and replaced by Nathan Jones, and I'll have two teams to barrack for whose supporters won't be able to fly over to take seats off plebs like us

EDIT: Unless Port say "* it" and wear their prison bars in the Grand Final. With Eddie stuck in Melbourne. That would be epic.

 

[Balls In]

The only grandstanding was done by McGuire.

Not to mention the actual decision to block him was pure grandstanding. Denying one of the most influential media figures to attend the GF who posed no risk to the public whatsoever.

 

[MacMum]

Hope you guys can cheer for my boys should they get to Perth.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Not to mention the actual decision to block him was pure grandstanding. Denying one of the most influential media figures to attend the GF who posed no risk to the public whatsoever.

Even reading McGuire’s version of events, the final decision was made by the Police Commissioner, not the Premier.

What about the suggestion that he lied on his form by falsely listing his sons as employees of his company?

 

[MacMum]

I actually think they do both work for his media co. At least one does, the other boy is probably old enough too.

 

[Tugga27]

Not to mention the actual decision to block him was pure grandstanding. Denying one of the most influential media figures to attend the GF who posed no risk to the public whatsoever.

You do know one of the reasons his application was refused, was because he included his 2 sons as production assistants don't you?