News Time for the Vic teams to leave Victoria - EDIT: Hawks to Hub in Barossa, 15 teams in QLD

[master bate]

Gil can't do anything if McGowan tells him to gagf.

Flying non-WA based clubs into WA is currently incompatible with WA's hard border closure.

If McGowan is fair dinkum and consistent he either can't let them in or needs to rescind the current rules and open the border to all.

I know which one I'd be betting on.

He can let them in with a 2 week quarantine period and then host games with crowds at his huge expensive stadium.

Pack up all the Essendon players with negative tests tomorrow and put them all on a plane directly to a quarantine hotel. If they have to quarantine anyway they may as well do it in Perth.

 

[Big Crow]

Will only happen if there is absolutely no other option.

The AFL has zero integrity. This is just the latest symptom of it.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

The figures from the last week do not look good.
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That's a large increase in the space of a week.
Essendon-Melbourne fixture has already been scrapped as a result.

With Victoria being the only state where coronavirus hasn't been eliminated or the curve flattened.
What does this mean for the AFL on a national scale?

NT, SA, Tasmania and ACT are all completely free of coronavirus.
Queensland and WA are on the brink of achieving elimination too.

NSW, ACT and Victoria always aimed to flatten the curve.
The other jurisdictions went for an elimination strategy.

So far it appears that the flatten the curve strategy is working for NSW and clearly worked for ACT.
Why is it failing in Victoria despite having by far the strictest lockdown measures imposed out of any jurisdiction?

What does this mean for the rest of the AFL season with 10/18 teams being Victorian based?

While Brazil had 55k+ new cases for the day.

 

[Always Ballin]

Will Victorian teams be able to make the arduous trek across the great desert plains of Australia?

Something we West Australian teams do twice a month.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

He can let them in with a 2 week quarantine period and then host games with crowds at his huge expensive stadium.

Pack up all the Essendon players with negative tests tomorrow and put them all on a plane directly to a quarantine hotel. If they have to quarantine anyway they may as well do it in Perth.

I suggest you read up on the WA restrictions. AFL Footballer doesn't make it as an occupation that you can get an exemption for. If he lets them in without opening up the border to everyone, he'll look like a goose. At the moment he's riding about a 95% approval rating. I know Sandgropers love their footy, but I think he'd taking an absolute smashing if he made them exempt and let them in.

Even if he does let them in, the current quarantine regulations quite clearly state that you aren't allowed to leave your room for the full 14 days, save for a medical emergency or a fire.

If they were to be let in and then subject to the strict quarantine rules, they couldn't sit in a hotel room for 2 weeks and not train and then after 14 days just start playing, there would have to be a period when they're allowed to train so they can run out a game, so know we're looking at at least a 3 to 4 week delay.

It's just not going to work as it is now unless there's some softening of restrictions from McGowan and I wouldn't put any money on that happening.

 

[theyellowsash]

The Perth hub was just a load of sh*t the AFL fed to the media to keep the interstate players happy, was never going to happen.

Time to come home Eagles and dockers and let the vics play for their covid cup in their covid infected state.

Fine by us. Freo is welcome back

 

[Coaster2012]

Its actually not a crazy idea...

 

[Spook]

I suggest you read up on the WA restrictions. AFL Footballer doesn't make it as an occupation that you can get an exemption for. If he lets them in without opening up the border to everyone, he'll look like a goose. At the moment he's riding about a 95% approval rating. I know Sandgropers love their footy, but I think he'd taking an absolute smashing if he made them exempt and let them in.

Even if he does let them in, the current quarantine regulations quite clearly state that you aren't allowed to leave your room for the full 14 days, save for a medical emergency or a fire.

If they were to be let in and then subject to the strict quarantine rules, they couldn't sit in a hotel room for 2 weeks and not train and then after 14 days just start playing, there would have to be a period when they're allowed to train so they can run out a game, so know we're looking at at least a 3 to 4 week delay.

It's just not going to work as it is now unless there's some softening of restrictions from McGowan and I wouldn't put any money on that happening.

The can stay In tents with swags on Optus stadium. Then they would never have to leave their “room”

 

[nahnah]

The figures from the last week do not look good.
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That's a large increase in the space of a week.

probably all bombers players and staff

 

[Rasha]

NSW has 3x the active cases, but nobody is talking about GWS/Sydney.

Have some respect for the state that props everyone else up.

Incorrect, although their cases are slowly trickling upwards.


Nowhere near the extent of Victoria though.

 

[Evolved1]

Settle down, guys. One player with asymptomatic COVID-19 isn't going to be the end of the great state of Victoria or its stranglehold over the AFL.

 

[HairyO]

NSW has 3x the active cases, but nobody is talking about GWS/Sydney.

Have some respect for the state that props everyone else up.

We are getting 3 new cases a day and 0 community transmission.

Our actives now are overseas people in hotels doing the right thing.

 

[captain blood 17]

Happy for Richmond to do their bit and go into a hub for 5 weeks (or whatever it is).


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[Darcy 2 Fyfe]

Happy for Richmond to do their bit and go into a hub for 5 weeks (or whatever it is).


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Think about what you wish for. You know a "hub" doesn't mean having to go across town to Metricon. You may have to go to another state!

 

[Back Pocket Rocket]

Happy for the Hawks to come to SA for a month

 

[Tiger Battler]

I am okay with the Tigers going to a hub in another state as well. If things get worse in Victoria then it is logical. Although I would say if they continue with a Gold Coast/Brisbane hub those two teams would need to travel and that hub would have to be made up of Victoria and Sydney teams.
Seeing as though we play West Coast in round 5 I could see us being put in a hub is SA to play the two Adelaide teams plus one or two other teams.

 

[Power Raid]

The figures from the last week do not look good.
View attachment 896343
That's a large increase in the space of a week.
Essendon-Melbourne fixture has already been scrapped as a result.

With Victoria being the only state where coronavirus hasn't been eliminated or the curve flattened.
What does this mean for the AFL on a national scale?

NT, SA, Tasmania and ACT are all completely free of coronavirus.
Queensland and WA are on the brink of achieving elimination too.

NSW, ACT and Victoria always aimed to flatten the curve.
The other jurisdictions went for an elimination strategy.

So far it appears that the flatten the curve strategy is working for NSW and clearly worked for ACT.
Why is it failing in Victoria despite having by far the strictest lockdown measures imposed out of any jurisdiction?

What does this mean for the rest of the AFL season with 10/18 teams being Victorian based?

just demand Victorians shower and change their underwear daily. This should see the stats fall in line with the rest of the country.

#thestatsdontlie

 

[captain blood 17]

Think about what you wish for. You know a "hub" doesn't mean having to go across town to Metricon. You may have to go to another state!

All clubs have to do their bit. Happy for tiges to do theirs. Relax mate. It’s Sunday morning.


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[Inveigh Slang]

All clubs have to do their bit. Happy for tiges to do theirs. Relax mate. It’s Sunday morning.


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You might be happy but Eddie doesn't want Collingwood leaving the G... Ever!

 

[Farang83150]

Lol.. Why? Seriously uneducated.

That's your parents/teachers fault.

 

[Jpw22511]

NSW has 3x the active cases, but nobody is talking about GWS/Sydney.

Have some respect for the state that props everyone else up.

Lol your a flog.

 

[ibd77]

Too late for the Vics. Build a wall around the state and send all the countries convicts there.

 

[Sherrinator]

Ban Essendon for the season and no draft picks for the year. Haven’t taken COVID seriously. Introduce bye round.

 

[Evolved1]

The hate for Essendon pleases me.

Presumably you'll seek to ban any club, including your own, for the entire season if one player tests positive to COVID-19.

 

[SunshineBoy]

Ban Essendon for the season and no draft picks for the year. Haven’t taken COVID seriously. Introduce bye round.

It’s the first time. An essendon player has tested positive to anything, I’m surprised the spreadsheet didn’t get lost