good to hear if true. i was going to attend the meeting last night but decided against it due to not knowing the feel of the room and having a strong opinion myself on the matter.....
and my opinion (means jackshit i know) is this - firstly i'll state that i love local and professional sports. it's a huge part of my life like it is with many others so i want it back as soon as possible. however what the AFL and below leagues who are considering continuing are doing is completely irresponsible. we've just had 10 postcodes shut down and i can bet you that there's AFL players who live in these areas. they are part of the same community as we are, just as local footballers are. so to think it is safe for them to bang and crash into each other but not safe for people to watch - people from the same community, is just ridiculous. hey and after we smash into each other for 2 hours let's be socially distant while singing our song. for safety of course, lol..... if people don't see the humour and contradiction in that then there's something wrong. at local level it's ok for my child to play against others from all over the state with full physical contact but not safe enough for me to watch? taking the piss surely.... you seriously cannot have community restrictions but let people from those communities compete in contact sports then return to their homes as normal. it seems a hub with daily testing of who comes and goes is the only possible solution and obviously not available at local level. we are not the UFC, NBA, NFL etc that have the money to try to implement these things. focus on health and getting past this pandemic before worrying about whether or not sport should go on.
Agree. Too many contractions for a season to “feel right” in going ahead. Would be a different story if everything was open and we were just accepting new cases to keep the economy going.
if this mess isn’t over by December - I wonder what that means for cricket and an April 2021 start for footy.