If you’re working in an office role you don’t need to take a mandatory test every single time you front up to work so why do these guys? They’re not front line workers or anything.
If it’s about those individuals who want to desperately know if they have COVID, irrespective of their own symptoms, why can’t those individuals just take their own tests as often as they feel they need to and all the other players and staff can just take them when they actually feel crook like anyone else who isn’t a footballer is doing? Or at most when someone close to them was confirmed positive.
We eventually have to shift from routine daily testing for these guys to just testing based on symptoms. I’m sure plenty who are really keyed into all that will tell us that isn’t now but it has to happen at some point.
Yeah it makes you lose a bit of interest as a supporter when there is so much uncertainty about player availability from week to week and all the carry on.
I know people take the pi$s out of the BBL, fair enough, but I usually follow it pretty intently however I’ve found myself drifting away from it in the last couple of weeks because of how much of a farce it’s become with one team having to play without nearly all their good players against a team that might be missing none or missing only one or two etc
The only thing that may be on the AFL’s side is that by the time their season starts (unlike the BBL) a lot of the players will have already contracted it. But I’m sure there will still be enough who haven’t that it will be a sizeable disruption. Then you’ll probably get some guys who get it twice etc.
If our training report is anything to go by then it sounds like 15 of our best 22/23 might have decided to get it out of the way. Might hold us in a good spot for the season.
Season will be shamozzle until the definition of a close contact is changed:
" * A close contact can also be someone that has spent 4 hours at the same site, workplace or venue as a case during a significant transmission event. This will be determined by Public Health"
They need to get rid of close contact concept altogether.
Well Mark McGowan’s announcement tonight has quashed the idea of a season free of quarantine and isolation periods.
I reckon heads would have dropped collectively at Eagles and Dockers HQ tonight. That’s them basically farked over again for another season.
How do we think the AFL will manage it? (apart from ‘poorly’).
Do the Eagles and Freo spend the whole year (or a large part of the year) on the road?
Or do they do it for blocks and then come home for a block of games in Perth while non WA teams have to go over and quarantine and play? Or is some sort of fly in/fly out pseudo quarantine agreement a chance to be struck?
AFL needs to say under no circumstances will there be any quarantine or even testing. The two WA sides must be made to hub for as long as it takes and lose their home games without compensation
Unlike the last two years every other club is free to travel anywhere and play except WA. No other border restrictions. I’m betting 16 clubs and the AFL will all agree to not travelling to Perth at all
Easier if both teams forfeit the season with their squads going into a draft for 1 year with each other club getting about 5 players each (which would help them manage their own Covid unavailability during 2022).
You know it makes sense
I’d be keen to get Matt Tabener with our first pick