Preview Round 1, 2022: Hawks v North, MCG Sunday March 20th at 1.10pm

[Ned Ryerson]

Forever?

Will we have players missing Grand Finals in 10 years time because they tested positive and have nothing other than a runny nose?

I didn’t say forever - I meant for the near term.

 

[Steven Tyler]

At time of writing, Sicily is good to go.

With covid we know a lot can change quickly though.

 

[rei154]

If our backline is hit by this I would imagine we would see Howe, Morris or Finn come in to play in that space.


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[Stratton24]

Pretty sure I heard somewhere that 80% of AFL players have already had Covid.

And the majority of the 20% who haven't had it yet were from the two WA teams.

I think it will be Freo and Eagles who have the biggest issues with Covid (at least for the start of the season) based on this.

You can get COVID more than once and you can also have to isolate as a close contact.

 

[Flukey!]

It honestly should be no surprise if each week we have 1 or 2 missing because of Covid.
The good thing is that the players should only ever miss a week and not more.

 

[Psicosis]

Big Boy & Breust.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Big Boy & Breust.

I could live with those two more than Sicily and Hardwick.

 

[Bardo State]

I could live with those two more than Sicily and Hardwick.

Brockman and Lynch step up I'd think. It's a drop in quality but at least not an area with existing injury issues.

 

[RIOLINWITPUNCHS]

I didn’t even realise Ward who were was battling a calf complaint…

Ward already suffering a sore calf from carrying us in 2 practice games.

Sheesh.

 

[threesixpio]

It honestly should be no surprise if each week we have 1 or 2 missing because of Covid.
The good thing is that the players should only ever miss a week and not more.

And other teams will be similar unless they had COVID parties in the preseason - and yes I know you can catch again but recovery is clearly better for most who have repeat bouts

 

[thehardway]

So if true:

Big Boy out - Both Reeves and Lynch play
Breust out - Macdonald plays fwd
Hardwick out - Howe or Morrison plays back.

 

[Simon Crawshay]

You can get COVID more than once and you can also have to isolate as a close contact.

Seems like the close contact isolation rules will be gone in a month or two so that won't be a factor soon.

You can get it more than once but I think you get a good 3 months immunity after you have had it.

Will still be a factor but hopefully not as big an issue as the season rolls on.

 

[Simon Crawshay]

So if true:

Big Boy out - Both Reeves and Lynch play
Breust out - Macdonald plays fwd
Hardwick out - Howe or Morrison plays back.

Not great but not the worst outcome either to be honest.

Be good to get a look at MacDonald, I like the cut of that young fellows jib.

Also good to have a look at how Lynch and Reeves can operate in tandem.

 

[MillerHawk]

Seems like the close contact isolation rules will be gone in a month or two so that won't be a factor soon.

You can get it more than once but I think you get a good 3 months immunity after you have had it.

Will still be a factor but hopefully not as big an issue as the season rolls on.

I know someone that had Covid twice in 35 days. Unlucky but possible.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

So if true:

Big Boy out - Both Reeves and Lynch play
Breust out - Macdonald plays fwd
Hardwick out - Howe or Morrison plays back.

It’s only Breust and Big Boy from what has been said

 

[thehardway]

It’s only Breust and Big Boy from what has been said

Hope you're right. We need Fear the Beard to come through with the latest info.

 

[TazHawk15]

It’s only Breust and Big Boy from what has been said

Punky would be a huge loss.

BB not so much.

 

[Blackhawk42]

Is it possible that it's all 4 of Hardwick, Sicily, McEvoy and Breust?

Fox Footy update doesn't say 2 players. Just mentions a 'string' of players.

 

[Flukey!]

For what its worth, 71% of The Age "experts" tipped us to win.

 

[daniel23]

Are we allowed to pick players from our top up list if it is only a couple player or do we need pick from our main list first ?.

 

[CleanRightBoot]

At time of writing, Sicily is good to go.

With covid we know a lot can change quickly though.

Thanks for the intel Fear The Beard

Sicily is the key to both our attack off halfback and my Supercoach team

 

[Bardo State]

Are we allowed to pick players from our top up list if it is only a couple player or do we need pick from our main list first ?.

The wording around the rule is you have to have
- 28 or fewer players available
- at least 1 player would have to be absent due to covid protocols, and
- it would not be "reasonable" to play another listed player

What's "reasonable"? I'm sure according to clubs, it would be 'any selection that might help us win a game'. And according to the AFL it's probably along the lines of 'any selection that wouldn't generate too many "rorting the system" articles in the press'.

For round 1 I doubt that Hawthorn would have fewer than 28 listed players available for selection so top-ups won't come into it.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

For what its worth, 71% of The Age "experts" tipped us to win.

Sadly that's about the same percentage of them that tipped us to get the spoon.

 

[TheBigHorne]

The wording around the rule is you have to have
- 28 or fewer players available
- at least 1 player would have to be absent due to covid protocols, and
- it would not be "reasonable" to play another listed player

What's "reasonable"? I'm sure according to clubs, it would be 'any selection that might help us win a game'. And according to the AFL it's probably along the lines of 'any selection that wouldn't generate too many "rorting the system" articles in the press'.

For round 1 I doubt that Hawthorn would have fewer than 28 listed players available for selection so top-ups won't come into it.

It's the AFL, they will make up what's fair play or not on the spot

 

[Steven Tyler]

Are we allowed to pick players from our top up list if it is only a couple player or do we need pick from our main list first ?.

Our list is that bad that you’d rather “top up” players than Hawthorn listed players?