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[TradeDraft]

 

[BoxMatrix]

Round one to go ahead (for now). No crowds allowed.

 

[Black_White]

So.... the treasurer has it.
And as he had a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.......

 

[Pragmatic Shill]

So.... the treasurer has it.
And as he had a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.......

Peter Dutton isn't the Treasurer.

 

[Dead Eye Didak]

Round one to go ahead (for now). No crowds allowed.

How ridiculous to play round 1, then we may be on a hiatus for a few weeks after that!
Why wouldn't they wait a few weeks to see where the virus progress is at, then make a decision after that? Can see round 1 being flat as a tack.

 

[Kappa]

How ridiculous to play round 1, then we may be on a hiatus for a few weeks after that!
Why wouldn't they wait a few weeks to see where the virus progress is at, then make a decision after that? Can see round 1 being flat as a tack.

Because if we play round 1 the afl will still get some TV and sponsorship money

 

[TradeDraft]

Because if we play round 1 the afl will still get some TV and sponsorship money

and TV Channels love the Big Viewer Count with no one there

 

[Black_White]

Peter Dutton isn't the Treasurer.

Isn’t he?
Ive really lost touch with the do nothing Government.
They are so boring it’s hard to watch/listen to their speeches.

 

[soreplums]

Interesting to see how the men in white umpire without a crowd bias!

 

[Dead Eye Didak]

Because if we play round 1 the afl will still get some TV and sponsorship money

That's about it, the only happy ones will be Gill and his cronies. The players obviously don't want the season to start next week, and probably majority supporters.

 

[TKiL]

Pies will win flag..... with no-one there to see it - Pies are the innovative, drama, do it different club

 

[docks]

So.... the treasurer has it.
And as he had a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.......

Dutton has it Yet Morrison is going to see his ‘beloved’ sharks, shouldn’t he self isolate until he gets his results?

 

[Mostfamousclub_Pies]

Got to go ahead with the fixture for now, and do the right thing in order to protect public safety.
I’d rather watch them play on TV than not at all. They’ll know we’ll be screaming at our TV’s. The upside is that we’ll love them even more when we see them again live.

 

[Pragmatic Shill]

They aren’t. There’s been a noticeable shift in reporting the past 48 hours I’m not certain of the trigger, but I’d suggest it was the WHO’s declaration. Since then awareness has heightened.

What we need to do is eradicate sensationalism from the discussion. One end of the spectrum is the “this isn’t as bad as the flu blah blah blah” the other is “everything will go into lockdown indefinitely” and the truth likely rests somewhere between those extremes. The reason for that is we just don’t have enough information.

For instance at the rate this is going I’m anticipating an Italy style lockdown at some stage within the next few weeks. Beyond that we just don’t know. Yes discussing something like a footy season is pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things, but it’s about mindset because hardline thinking on the back of little evidence leads to mass stupidity such as panic buying.

I also need to stress that I asked for clarity because for all I know the powers that be have already decided that 2020 is done if someone within clubland tests positive. I may see that as hysteria, but it might be factual.

As long as they wait until Monday week to implement an Italy-style lockdown so I can catch the Spirit of Tas over and officially move into my new unit that's fine by me.

 

[Scodog10]

As long as they wait until Monday week to implement an Italy-style lockdown so I can catch the Spirit of Tas over and officially move into my new unit that's fine by me.

With Dutton getting it who knows how it will go because it means the cabinet will probably need to self isolate and that means the next step is parliament shutting...

 

[Kappa]

Interesting to see how the men in white umpire without a crowd bias!

West Coast to bottom 4

 

[Mostfamousclub_Pies]

Circa 1994 AFL advertising campaign. “I’d like to see that”.
Ironically they won the flag that year.

 

[soreplums]

West Coast to bottom 4

Would be the best time to play them away

 

[Horaceg]

How do you stamp it out?

People don’t put up with that cr@p, people did

 

[JB1975]

This notion of Collingwood playing without crowds, I'm really not sure how they'll go without the benefit of my considered wisdom from the sidelines. Poor bastards.

 

[Saintly Viewed]

This notion of Collingwood playing without crowds, I'm really not sure how they'll go without the benefit of my considered wisdom from the sidelines. Poor bastards.

They’ll just read bigfooty when resting on the bench

 

[manicpie]

Interesting to see how the men in white umpire without a crowd bias!

Equally as interesting will be if the players kick straighter for goal without crowd pressure

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

To clarify what is the basis for this type of hysteria? I expect it from a poster like Kappa, but this stuff seems to propagate more effectively than the actual virus.

The basis for it is that this virus will spread and it's likely someone at an AFL club will contract it. The season will then become compromised and people will lose interest in it and only watch it out of desperation because they'll become bored witless at home.

I don't think this is going away any time soon. Most experts believe this could become the new normal for the next few months.

 

[Saintly Viewed]

A question for posters.

If we played the whole season sans crowds and won the flag

OR

everything was normal you could go to every game and we just made the GF but didn’t win.

Which do you prefer?

The flag thank you very much

 

[wicksy]

I am glad you are not making the decisions because the economic effects of your suggestion would be diabolical. We already have a number of infected people here so it's not like we would be locking out a problem that doesn't already exist. You don't by any chance have any spare toilet rolls?

Agree to disagree sound ok with you? Im too exhausted to fight with people over this...