DaTBird187
What D Farke?
- Feb 9, 2014
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I feel like Dan Andrews is particularly unimpressed with WA and Mark McGowan.
Mcgowan has used rather course language in talking about Victoria. Words like "infestation" "dire" and "Victorian crisis" have been peppered through his rhetoric for quite some time.
While Victoria has been moving backwards in terms of daily cases and restrictions. McGowan was rather smug in announcing 60K at Optus from 18th July.
Especially pertinent here is that he uses Victorians as the bogeyman in his justification for hard borders. An argument that, up until the last two weeks, was probably becoming untenable, and policy that Andrews deeply opposes.
That has to rub Dan Andrews up the wrong way.
Given that Dan Andrews runs the AFL, it probably explains why they were so reluctant to set up a WA hub, and really had to be brought to the table kcking and screaming.
The irony is that WA may become the most important element in any plan to get a 17 game home and away season complete in a way that allows all clubs to play each other once.
Dan is not pleased about this reality.
And on top of that his "Why would anyone go to South Australia" quip coincided with his state becoming the pariah of the nation.