Wasn’t it said it’s up to Essendon if they can field a team?
So we say no.
The entire team is a close contact.
Problem solved
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It’s actually up to the AFL, not Essendon, they are the controllers of the game.
This is the play. Tell them there’s no possible way to guarantee they haven’t been close contact. For the safety of the whole competition, the players all have to isolate.
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Was it smart to have the whole
Backline group training in a group of 8?
You have to. The backline coach is part of the small group.
So did he train after the “irregular” result?
They said he was removed as soon as the result came in and then retested which came back positive.
The irregular one or the positive one. I’m a bit confused as to the timeline.
The irregular one.
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Don’t think so. Afaik irregular result came in Friday after training, 2nd test taken Saturday morning (didn’t train Saturday morning as a precaution,) and positive result came in Saturday afternoon.
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An Friday was a full contact training session yeah?
i was really looking forward to getting on the p*ss today, beautiful sunshine, dons game
ahhhh
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Yep. Plus a gym session after.
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We beat Carlton in 2016
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Though they deem the training outdoors to be low risk, it’s the indoor weights session that’s the main concern.
The football industry is so toxic and self important that it makes me sick.
We are in the middle of the worst health crisis of our lifetimes. People are dying in their 100s of thousands.
The UK prime minister - a guy whose incompetent management of the crisis would have led to the loss of thousands of lives - gets crook and there is (quite rightly) an outpouring of support. All over the world, people (including lots of sportspeople) get sick and we get behind them / wish them well (Rudy Gobert was licking microphones FFS).
But ONE young football player in this parochial (frankly insignificant) sport gets crook and we are spending hours of analysing footage from training, baying for blood looking to blame him for jeopardising a whole season. Guilty of just happening to be the first. NO ONE, other than an opposition coach and different code, actually considers the health and well-being of the player (including the long term impacts for an elite sport person) and their teammates.
This infected, dirty guy has compromised our ability to escape from our miserable lives for 2 hours to watch guys kicks a footy in front of an empty stadium in the most meaningless season in history, and that makes us irrationally mad. It really is a sad industry.
I hope Conor is okay. He must fee that he is in a very lonely place.
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Been to buy groceries lately?
Irregular test came after training on Friday. He was called in for another test Saturday morning and didn’t have contact with any players. Socially distanced from staff. The team followed all protocol closely.
I thought you were already on to early openers…
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