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[Van_Dyke]

 

[Taylor]

They wouldn't change their policy on border closures after a non-related event occurring mid March.

 

[Mesc]

They wouldn't change their policy on border closures after a non-related event occurring mid March.

How do you know ?

 

[Taylor]

How do you know ?

Because we didn't that happen with the QLD government post their own election.

 

[Purple_Turtle]

Double derby delight! AFLW derby 2.0 poised for Optus

West Australian footy fans will be spoilt for choice next weekend with the AFL poised to announce back to back AFL and AFLW derbies next Sunday afternoon at Optus Stadium.

thewest.com.au

 

[wayToGo_]

The West protecting its gullible Ego's readership in case Freo win tomorrow already:

The side will be lacking experience with multiple senior players left out due to injury including Nic Naitanui (hamstring), Elliot Yeo

6

Elliot Yeo

Age

32

Ht

191cm

Wt

91kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.5

5star

K

11.7

4star

HB

7.8

5star

M

4.6

4star

T

4.5

5star

CL

3.0

4star

D

18.9

4star

K

10.9

4star

HB

8.0

4star

M

2.1

2star

T

5.8

5star

CL

5.5

5star

D

16.6

4star

K

9.4

4star

HB

7.2

5star

M

3.6

4star

T

0.6

3star

CL

1.4

4star

(osteitis pubis), Jake Waterman

2

Jake Waterman

Age

28

Ht

192cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.3

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

5.2

5star

T

1.2

3star

G

1.0

4star

D

9.8

2star

K

7.8

3star

HB

2.0

1star

M

5.8

5star

T

0.3

1star

G

1.5

5star

D

12.2

3star

K

7.6

3star

HB

4.6

4star

M

4.6

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.8

4star

(back), Tim Kelly

11

Tim Kelly

Age

31

Ht

184cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.6

5star

K

13.5

5star

HB

10.1

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

4.0

5star

CL

4.9

5star

D

19.9

5star

K

12.3

5star

HB

7.6

4star

M

3.1

3star

T

4.7

5star

CL

3.6

4star

D

21.6

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

11.2

5star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.8

5star

CL

3.8

5star

(thumb), Josh Kennedy (calf), Mark Hutchings

34

Mark Hutchings

Age

35

Ht

182cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.8

4star

K

8.8

3star

HB

7.0

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

4.3

5star

CL

2.3

4star

No current season stats available

D

19.4

5star

K

12.6

5star

HB

6.8

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

5.0

5star

CL

3.6

5star

(knee) and Bailey Williams (quad).

Fremantle will field a near full strength side on Saturday with the only notable omissions being star forward Matt Taberner (quad) and ruckman Sean Darcy

4

Sean Darcy

Age

27

Ht

203cm

Wt

111kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.1

3star

K

3.4

1star

HB

6.6

4star

CL

2.4

4star

HO

28.8

5star

D

6.8

1star

K

2.0

1star

HB

4.8

3star

CL

1.8

4star

HO

20.3

5star

D

11.4

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

6.8

5star

CL

2.6

5star

HO

32.0

5star

(knee).

I like that I can enjoy laughing at their ridiculousness and not have to pay them a cent for the privilege.

 

[Purple_Turtle]

The West protecting its gullible Ego's readership in case Freo win tomorrow already:

The side will be lacking experience with multiple senior players left out due to injury including Nic Naitanui (hamstring), Elliot Yeo (osteitis pubis), Jake Waterman (back), Tim Kelly (thumb), Josh Kennedy (calf), Mark Hutchings (knee) and Bailey Williams (quad).

Fremantle will field a near full strength side on Saturday with the only notable omissions being star forward Matt Taberner (quad) and ruckman Sean Darcy (knee).

I like that I can enjoy laughing at their ridiculousness and not have to pay them a cent for the privilege.

Feel like Wilson and Blakely deserve as much of a mention as a few of those players.

 

[wayToGo_]

Feel like Wilson and Blakely deserve as much of a mention as a few of those players.

Yep + Tucker, Logue, Sturt, Hill

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

The West protecting its gullible Ego's readership in case Freo win tomorrow already:

The side will be lacking experience with multiple senior players left out due to injury including Nic Naitanui (hamstring), Elliot Yeo (osteitis pubis), Jake Waterman (back), Tim Kelly (thumb), Josh Kennedy (calf), Mark Hutchings (knee) and Bailey Williams (quad).

Fremantle will field a near full strength side on Saturday with the only notable omissions being star forward Matt Taberner (quad) and ruckman Sean Darcy (knee).

I like that I can enjoy laughing at their ridiculousness and not have to pay them a cent for the privilege.

Sturt, Wilson, Tucker, Tabs, Darcy...

Good thing 7 is an sponsor of both clubs to ensure fair and equitable reporting...

Edit: And Logue like you said

 

[Docker82]

Feel like Wilson and Blakely deserve as much of a mention as a few of those players.

If Hutchings and Williams (I actually rate this kid but he’s not proven at all) deserve a mention you may as well include players that were available but not picked anyway.

 

[sumavich]

Just makes you realise how much stronger our list has become with those outs

 

[Purple Jesus]

The side will be lacking experience with multiple senior players left out due to injury including Nic Naitanui (hamstring), Elliot Yeo (osteitis pubis), Jake Waterman (back), Tim Kelly (thumb), Josh Kennedy (calf), Mark Hutchings (knee) and Bailey Williams (quad).

Who?

 

[Alfonz]

The West protecting its gullible Ego's readership in case Freo win tomorrow already:

The side will be lacking experience with multiple senior players left out due to injury including Nic Naitanui (hamstring), Elliot Yeo (osteitis pubis), Jake Waterman (back), Tim Kelly (thumb), Josh Kennedy (calf), Mark Hutchings (knee) and Bailey Williams (quad).

Fremantle will field a near full strength side on Saturday with the only notable omissions being star forward Matt Taberner (quad) and ruckman Sean Darcy (knee).

I like that I can enjoy laughing at their ridiculousness and not have to pay them a cent for the privilege.

Ha! I just wrote a comment in another thread (saying this exact thing would happen) before reading this thread or checking the news websites. Like clockwork. Found the article and I like how they make their case by mentioning the new recruits of Langdon and Witherden as if they are 18 year old rookies.

 

[Square Peg]

AFL season fixture in doubt as WA hard border throws out current interstate plans
Jon RalphThe West Australian
Fri, 26 February 2021 10:42AM
The AFL admits it might have to scrap its current fixture after only a single round as tight West Australian border restrictions threaten to cause fixture chaos again.

The league has Fremantle flying to Victoria in Round 1 to take on Melbourne, with West Coast scheduled to play the Western Bulldogs in Melbourne in Round 2.
It means Fremantle could not fly back into Perth to host GWS in Round 2 because the players would be forced into a 14-day quarantine after having visited Victoria.

West Coast would have an identical problem for its Round 3 fixture.

The WA government has stated it will need 28 days without community transmission in Victoria before dropping border restrictions, which means Melbourne’s two cases on Friday effectively re-sets that marker to zero days.

AFL fixturing boss Travis Auld conceded on Friday that the league was still in talks with the WA state government about how the fixture could proceed.
The tight restrictions might force the WA-based teams on the road for the early weeks of the season again in a reprise of last year’s nightmare fixture.

“The Round 1 fixture as it stands, we can proceed with that. The challenge will be Fremantle coming to Victoria to play Melbourne. It presents an issue as it stands for Fremantle going back to WA, they would have to quarantine,” Auld said.

That causes issues for them but it causes issues for us as a competition and West Coast play Gold Coast in Round 1, but in Round 2 they come to Melbourne.

“So it’s the same issue for them. We have a challenge in West Australia. We have got to work through that challenge. Our goal is to work through the fixture to the extent we can but clearly we have to work with those clubs and the WA government to see if there is a better solution without compromising the health of the community.

Asked what that compromise might be, Auld replied: “I wish I had the answer to that”.

The AFL has short-term options including cycling those clubs through Queensland for several weeks after playing Melbourne sides to effectively “cleanse” them for 14 days.

It means they could continue playing each week then fly from Queensland back into WA, with no border restrictions between those states.

But the Herald Sun understands if either West Coast or Fremantle play any team which has played a Victorian side within the past 14 days, the WA-based teams become “dirty” again and have to quarantine for 14 days upon their return.

All of it shapes up as a recipe for disaster unless the WA government relaxes its hard-line stance after the state election on Saturday March 13.

The league could also seek exemptions for WA teams to have tighter COVID restrictions when they leave Perth and be able to return without quarantining.

But the league will have to hope for almost no positive COVID cases across the country helped by a vaccine rollout if West Australia does not relent.

“What I do know is we will explore every opportunity., It’s what we did last year, we have to start the season and when we encounter some speed humps we will find our way around those and I am confident that as an organisation and industry we will be working with our partners and players and clubs to work through it.

“As it stands today it feels difficult to find a way through those restrictions. What we do know is that many things can change between now and March 18 and we have to remain open to differing options. We are having conversations with those clubs and the government and it may not be an issue, it may be an issue for a round or a week and I don’t think anyone knows.”

TLDR?
The WA state government are ****ing idiots

 

[arsesmart]

TLDR?
The WA state government are ******* idiots

Aren't they just calling it according to the rules?

 

[Dockernut]

Frederick’s focus as he makes gains

The young mid is hoping to improve with more experience

www.fremantlefc.com.au

Do yourself a favour if you haven’t already and watch young Caleb speak in this interview. I deadset could not love this kid any more than I do. Ripping player and person.

 

[A New Hope]

Frederick’s focus as he makes gains

The young mid is hoping to improve with more experience

www.fremantlefc.com.au

Do yourself a favour if you haven’t already and watch young Caleb speak in this interview. I deadset could not love this kid any more than I do. Ripping player and person.

Both great kids, the dockers have some pretty good youth to take them forwards right now

 

[mayne iac]

Why rick?

 

[Piggy Smalls]

Frederick’s focus as he makes gains

The young mid is hoping to improve with more experience

www.fremantlefc.com.au

Do yourself a favour if you haven’t already and watch young Caleb speak in this interview. I deadset could not love this kid any more than I do. Ripping player and person.

He’s got AFL captain written all over him. Quality on and off the field.

 

[Clems Knee]

TLDR?
The WA state government are ******* idiots

OR...
Jon Ralph is an idiot.
The two cases in quarantine in Victoria don’t reset the 28 day rule, and the 28 days will be over before Round 1 if there are no further outbreaks.
If there are further outbreaks in Victoria in that time, the AFL will be expletive idiots if they carry on as normal.

 

[go_the_dockers]

Pavlich, Farmer, Bell.

McPharlin was tempting, but our backline looks good at the moment.

 

[Piggy Smalls]

Pavlich, Farmer, Bell.

McPharlin was tempting, but our backline looks good at the moment.

I think you’ve jumped threads

 

[dont bowl there]

Road trips should be a standard form of the fixture, even more so during a pandemic. Makes no sense for a team to come to WA and head straight back home, just play both teams and a SA team on the way back. Same as us going to VIC, play at least 2-3 games on a road trip and head home.

 

[SiempreFreo]

Help! I can't watch the live stream of the scratchie. Keeps asking for details but won't accept them???

 

[ep2018]

Help! I can't watch the live stream of the scratchie. Keeps asking for details but won't accept them???

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