Certified Legendary Thread China History in the Making Part 2

[bomberclifford]

 

[Steve Dore]

 

[CharlieKelly]

I'm gonna assume the game will be moved to Marvel Stadium, it would be the first time we've played St. Kilda in Melbourne since 2013

 

[PowerBaz]

Great movie!

 

[Relativity]

I'm gonna assume the game will be moved to Marvel Stadium, it would be the first time we've played St. Kilda in Melbourne since 2013

Mildura here we come.

 

[CharlieKelly]

So according to the schedule in Round 10

MCG in use Friday (Hawthorn v Melbourne), Saturday (Richmond v Sydney) and Sunday (Collingwood v West Coast)
Marvel in use both Saturday (Western Bulldogs v Carlton) and Sunday (Essendon v Gold Coast)
Adelaide Oval is free all weekend

Looks like the Saints might have a home game here in Adelaide...

 

[Jonts]

So according to the schedule in Round 10

MCG in use Friday (Hawthorn v Melbourne), Saturday (Richmond v Sydney) and Sunday (Collingwood v West Coast)
Marvel in use both Saturday (Western Bulldogs v Carlton) and Sunday (Essendon v Gold Coast)
Adelaide Oval is free all weekend

Looks like the Saints might have a home game here in Adelaide...

Or you'd trade it for a home game the following year

 

[RossFC]

Looks like the Saints might have a home game here in Adelaide...

We should pay them 500k just so that doesn't happen.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

So according to the schedule in Round 10

MCG in use Friday (Hawthorn v Melbourne), Saturday (Richmond v Sydney) and Sunday (Collingwood v West Coast)
Marvel in use both Saturday (Western Bulldogs v Carlton) and Sunday (Essendon v Gold Coast)
Adelaide Oval is free all weekend

Looks like the Saints might have a home game here in Adelaide...

Why?

Sunday fixture is
Ess v GC at Docklands 1.10pm AEST start
Coll v WCE at MCG 3.20 AEST start
Stk v PA in Shanghai 4.10 AEST start

So you can start the Port game at Docklands at 6.10pm AEST and its after the MCG game finishes, has clear air for TV and radio, and as both teams have a bye the following weekend, no big deal if Port players have to spend the Sunday night in Melbourne.

Ess v GC game would finish about 3.45pm so clear everyone out by 5.00pm for a 6.10pm start. Let people in for Port game at 5.10pm. If that's too tight, make it a 7.10pm start, clear everyone out of the early game by 5.30, let in fans for the Port game at 5.45pm.

Can also make it a Monday night game. Once again both teams have a bye the next weekend, so no real dramas, players aren't being forced to play 5 or 6 days later.

 

[FootyJunkie]

Game will probably move to Marvel on a Thursday night in Round 12, 4 days later, with both sides having their bye in Round 11 instead

Such a move would begin a string of 5 consecutive Thursday night games in the fixture

 

[raptalia]

The latest DFAT Smarttraveller advice is that Australians should reconsider plans to visit China...

'Due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus we now advise you ‘reconsider your need to travel’ to China overall and ‘do not travel’ to Hubei Province. Chinese authorities have restricted travel for parts of the country and may extend these restrictions at short notice. Travellers may be quarantined, due to their health condition or previous location.'

Anyone thinking of visiting China in May would have to be having second thoughts and those who have already booked would be checking the cancellation clauses in their travel insurance.

This is a difficult situation for the AFL and the PAFC and SKFC and I have some sympathy for their situation. They will want to promote the China game but at the same time be acutely aware of the potential dangers of travelling to China in May. They are probably monitoring developments and trying to work out when to raise the red flag.

Things are not going to get any better in the immediate future and if the game does not go ahead it may have financial ramifications for the PAFC. Maybe someone with more inside information would know if there are likely to be any knock on effects for the PAFC?

I still have the same questions I had last week when my post was treated as a joke by some. Make no mistake cancellation of the game in China, if it happens, could have financial implications for our Club. There are questions to be asked and answers to be found.

 

[Garibaldi Red]

No surprise that the AFL are watching the situation. Nothing really in the story, although the reporter had to put in that St Kilda players got crook last year, so have just put the pic here.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Now renamed Corona Cup.

Looking for a sponsor......

 

[Hong-Kong Phooey]

Maybe just tell Ken the game is still on China even if moved

 

[chiwigi]

Just got an email from my daughters school. Any of the students that went back to China in the holidays are being forced to stay away from school for a minimum of 14 days post their return.

My son is due to go to China on a school trip in April, the poor bugger has worked nearly every weekend for the past two years to pay for it!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Game will probably move to Marvel on a Thursday night in Round 12, 4 days later, with both sides having their bye in Round 11 instead

Such a move would begin a string of 5 consecutive Thursday night games in the fixture

No it won't as that stuffs up the players bye time off and training schedules and the AFL probably won't make the final call until about Rd 9.

Plus 7 will want to broadcast a Thursday night game, as would the AFL, but Fox Footy would want to keep their elusive broadcast.

A Sunday night game at Docklands is the easiest option followed by a Monday night game as 2nd best option.

 

[Garibaldi Red]

 

[raptalia]

Why don't the AFL simply do what all sensible travellers are urged to do? Look at the Smart Traveller website. At one stage the AFL were 'working closely with the Australian Government' but now they are waiting for the World Health Organisation. The two are not necessarily congruous.

The WHO are unlikely to rush into anything for fear of repeating the mistakes of 2009 when they declared novel H1N1 a pandemic only to find out it was a variant of common influenza. Meanwhile a dangerous situation exists in China.

On the positive side...

• The majority of people who have contracted the coronavirus have recovered.
• The higher proportion of the dead are people who were suffering from respiratory problems.
• Scientists in Melbourne have managed to successfully grow the corona virus and it is hoped this will lead to a vaccine. The thinking is if you can grow it then safely inhibit that growth you may have the basis for vaccine.

All is not lost and the game in Shanghai may go ahead BUT the clock is ticking.

 

[OneGreatClub]

The latest DFAT Smarttraveller advice is that Australians should reconsider plans to visit China...

'Due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus we now advise you ‘reconsider your need to travel’ to China overall and ‘do not travel’ to Hubei Province. Chinese authorities have restricted travel for parts of the country and may extend these restrictions at short notice. Travellers may be quarantined, due to their health condition or previous location.'

Anyone thinking of visiting China in May would have to be having second thoughts and those who have already booked would be checking the cancellation clauses in their travel insurance.

This is a difficult situation for the AFL and the PAFC and SKFC and I have some sympathy for their situation. They will want to promote the China game but at the same time be acutely aware of the potential dangers of travelling to China in May. They are probably monitoring developments and trying to work out when to raise the red flag.

Things are not going to get any better in the immediate future and if the game does not go ahead it may have financial ramifications for the PAFC. Maybe someone with more inside information would know if there are likely to be any knock on effects for the PAFC?

I still have the same questions I had last week when my post was treated as a joke by some. Make no mistake cancellation of the game in China, if it happens, could have financial implications for our Club. There are questions to be asked and answers to be found.

Hope we can get the 500k we are paying the Saints back then as they won’t have sold their home game if it’s in Melbourne in the end.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

 

[raptalia]

Hope we can get the 500k we are paying the Saints back then as they won’t have sold their home game if it’s in Melbourne in the end.

That would be the fair outcome but since when have the AFL been fair where the PAFC are concerned?

Getting some financial compensation from the AFL is essential as we are continually told that the China strategy is important in terms of balancing our books.

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

 

[Eddie Dingle]

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Oh the hilarity.

 

[TeeKray]

Lol. The game is more than four months away. Revisit in three months.