Corona virus, Port and the AFL.

[Capital Power]

Also wondered this. Are your long term Dazza and Shazza's getting the extra $550 a fortnight dole check? Cos if so the local dealers are gonna be loving life. Surely this has to be for recently unemployed due to the circumstances only??

Not sure. My capacity to absorb any more of this is rapidly waning, so i've switched off the news.

 

[Kickpuncher]

So if the season is canned Adelaide will forever hold the record for lowest crowd at Adelaide Oval. Small wins right?

 

[Steve Dore]

...
Sooner or later an NRL player will test positive but the NRL will tell no one and play on.

This can't happen. COVID-19 is a notifiable disease.

 

[Established1870]

Yep, you read correctly. I'm not sure why it's so focussed on welfare recipients, as I would have thought the real extra help needs to go to those who suddenly, through absolutely no fault of their own, have no job to go to. All of this makes me wish I'd studied economics. REH will explain it to the rest of us, I'm sure . All I know is that I'm always in the wrong demographic whenever the Government wants to be magnanimous.

I actually have been able to find and read more about it and people losing their jobs will be entitled to what I posted above with 99% of the normal stuff for applying for Centrelink waived so no assets tests or anything like that. The superannuation one is also heavily geared towards people who've lost their jobs because of the new rules and regulations. People who are unemployed or were laid off since the start of the year can apply to withdraw up to $10,000 from their super pending ATO approval.

 

[Iwish]

The nrl clubs and league will go to the wall and they know it. They don't have anywhere near the financials of the afl. Which is why they won't stop playing.
As far as the afl is concerned nearly all the clubs will be on the brink of collapse if the season is ultimately cancelled. Even some of the bigger clubs.
The afl will have to use all the future fund money and borrow millions on top of it to steady the ship and assure all 18 clubs survive which I think will happen But afl will look different for years to come.
You won't see these big footy depts with dozens of assistants, development coaches, fitness staff, and other support staff.
It could look like the vfl/sanfl of the 80's and 90's with a coach and just a handful assistants and support staff.
The afl will set out how many employees each club can have so everyone is even and yes the players will be paid less a lot less. Which is why i think shorten games might be a thing going forward.
The afl unfortunately won't be this big powerful financial league anymore. But then again I can say the same for all organisations world wide there will be many economic casualties.

 

[Del165198]

The nrl clubs and league will go to the wall and they know it. They don't have anywhere near the financials of the afl. Which is why they won't stop playing.
As far as the afl is concerned nearly all the clubs will be on the brink of collapse if the season is ultimately cancelled. Even some of the bigger clubs.
The afl will have to use all the future fund money and borrow millions on top of it to steady the ship and assure all 18 clubs survive which I think will happen But afl will look different for years to come.
You won't see these big footy depts with dozens of assistants, development coaches, fitness staff, and other support staff.
It could look like the vfl/sanfl of the 80's and 90's with a coach and just a handful assistants and support staff.
The afl will set out how many employees each club can have so everyone is even and yes the players will be paid less a lot less. Which is why i think shorten games might be a thing going forward.
The afl unfortunately won't be this big powerful financial league anymore. But then again I can say the same for all organisations world wide there will be many economic casualties.

Hopefully this ends the stupid gold coast/gws experiment. Cash bleeding like a stuck pig to those two.

 

[Capital Power]

I actually have been able to find and read more about it and people losing their jobs will be entitled to what I posted above with 99% of the normal stuff for applying for Centrelink waived so no assets tests or anything like that. The superannuation one is also heavily geared towards people who've lost their jobs because of the new rules and regulations. People who are unemployed or were laid off since the start of the year can apply to withdraw up to $10,000 from their super pending ATO approval.

Aha. Thank you. I'd actually advise against doing the Super withdrawal as you'll basically be doing it at your fund's lowest point and "cashing in" the recent losses. However I can understand that for many people it will be their only way of maintaining cash flow. **** you, virus .

 

[Incarnate]

You know what gets me? This would’ve been what the world was like not too long ago as regards smallpox, polio, diphtheria, measles, rubella, mumps, tetanus, varicella, pneumococcal, meningococcal and a bunch of other shit that could kill or maim you and your kids for life.

But you know, vaccines.

And a frightening number of plums would have us go back there, with COVID-19 thrown in.

You know as a father of two under 8 I actually am relieved that the data shows their demographic to be at a the smaller end of the mortality rate.
Problem being they are still vessels, vehicles, dare I say harbingers of death to those around. Haha.

But I have recently taken my father of 82 years into our household and he is acutely susceptible to this with conditions such as dormantmesothelioma, a pace maker, diabetes and liver issues. Thankfully he is air gaped in a studio apartment I built on our property for him but I have been very wary of the extreme possibility of transmission between all of us.

The irony is, my old man was born in Berlin 38’, contracted both dypyheria polio as a kid and beat it, lived in war torn Berlin as a child and survived only to be ****ed by his snotty nosed grand kids. Haha. Hopefully not on my watch.

 

[*PAF]

This can't happen. COVID-19 is a notifiable disease.

Whaat no 3 strikes rule?
Wait till the AFLPA hears about this.

 

[Pt Augusta Power]

Havent a heap of cases come from Aussies bringing it back from overseas? You cant shut the borders to them.

Shockingly the virus isn't racist.

Point missed but okay then.

 

[*PAF]

You know what gets me? This would’ve been what the world was like not too long ago as regards smallpox, polio, diphtheria, measles, rubella, mumps, tetanus, varicella, pneumococcal, meningococcal and a bunch of other shit that could kill or maim you and your kids for life.

But you know, vaccines.

And a frightening number of plums would have us go back there, with COVID-19 thrown in.

We should be allowed to hit like multiple times on some posts.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

PORT PREMIERS IN MARCH APRIL MAY.....

 

[Capital Power]

PORT PREMIERS IN MARCH APRIL MAY.....

And we hold the record for i50s in the new AFLXX format. May never be beaten

 

[Grave Danger]

With all the panic buying there's been (and probably worse to come) at the supermarkets, Coles must be drowning in money, so perhaps they could up their centre circle sponsorship and bail out the AFL and its 18 clubs for full exclusive naming rights.

 

[snozulu]

2 cases at the whyalla hospital i have heard

 

[Del165198]

So gilldo trashes decades of AFL statistical history for the botched abortion of aflxx 2020 pseudo exhibition 16 minute quarters games.. and for what. Strike the entire season from the history books.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Just thinking...

Players get sent home to their families in their home states. Get comfy. Hard to come back.

2020 becomes the biggest trade period of all time.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

ScoMo has closed Hillsong.. it's real

 

[Pt Augusta Power]

So Morrison keeps schools open???

but it’s a critical situation? **** this guy

 

[Eddie Dingle]

ScoMo has closed Hillsong.. it's real

And the happy clapping ceased

 

[Pt Augusta Power]

‘I don’t want to see our children miss a year of education’

send them to school and chuck Em in a small room with 20 other kids.

also scomo

‘this is a critical situation- social distancing ya da ya da’

**** sake you dickhead - be a ****ing LEADER!!

 

[Magus]

So gilldo trashes decades of AFL statistical history for the botched abortion of aflxx 2020 pseudo exhibition 16 minute quarters games.. and for what. Strike the entire season from the history books.

 

[pastmyprimus]

The NRL season has to be postponed. SmoMo's closed all outdoor sporting venues.

 

[Byrons Firen]

People: pulling knives over toilet paper weeks ago.

Me: considering facetiming my elderly mother and getting her to say “I love Gabe Horn”.

Please give her my very best wishes