[Edmund] ADELAIDE games scrapped. Power and Crows will leave for Melbourne this afternoon. More to come on http://sen.com.au and @DwaynesWorldSEN
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twitter.comI am hearing that Port Adelaide v Collingwood has been moved to Victoria Park and Port will wear their heritage jumper and Collingwood will wear an away strip.
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David Koch is packing a shovel to exhume the colliwobbles that were ceremoniusly buried at Vic Park in '91.
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Kochie walking into a Victoria Park Collingwood crowd would end like Tobias Funke when he tries to rehabilitate street gangs with Musical Theatre
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Wasn't it 1990 they won? I remember my old man had it on VHS. Poor bastard's seen less flags than his son
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Yeah you're right, had in my mind it was a preseason thing in '91. Some vintage Louie the lip here.
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Holy shit Perth hub might actually be a thing this season.
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RiP ankles
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Hah. McGowan won't let that happen now everyone is dirty
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He would as long as everyone isolated for 2 weeks first
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As a saints fan in Perth, please.
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Fingers crossed for games at Leederville Oval.
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Just have a bye this weekend. Fuck me.
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Yes please. Olympics starts this weekend too, so I'm sure the broadcasters would be okay having a bye round given footy ratings will be low anyway.
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I'll have one but not the other
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MG on suicide watch.
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Mitch Georgiades?
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He really hates leaving SA, allegedly.
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To be fair, it's pretty great here.
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WA festival of footy intensifies
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Fuck I was looking forward to being the Dirty Pies again
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It’s okay, being the Dirty Pies is a state of mind. For some of our fans it’s even a way of life
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Now we’ll be the dirty pies
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We should wear the Prison Bars during warmups...at our home game at the G...against Collingwood. And really confuse everyone in attendance!
And by attendance I mean on TV
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You want to kill eddie or what?
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I mean...
¯\(ツ)/¯
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Soo why are we not allowed to play in Melbourne then?
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Because GWS and Sydney are also in Queensland. It sucks, but it does mean we got into Noosa before the Saints could.
Noosa Bombers about to win a final, you heard it here first.
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How many days since Noosa has won a final?
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290 days.
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I like those odds!
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They can fly to Melbourne, we're on pace to 18 away games this year.
Another compromised season!
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Go back to the original fixtures with dogs v Adelaide. If they’re going to be in town there’s no reason not to.
Play it at Whitten oval for that Mars feel.
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I too would like Josh Dunkley back before we play Melbourne again.
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Agree. Creates a small chance for Adelaide to keep their home game.
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And Essendon are still playing their home games in QLD for some reason.
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Yep. We're getting the rawest deal this year. We will have played 6 games at home for the entire year.
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Reckon our Perth - Sydney - Perth travel that ate our bye was pretty bad.
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The lord giveth and the lord fucking taketh away
Should switch back the swapped games but we know they won't
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Just pause the season for a couple of weeks already
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Its not nearly that dire yet. If they can get games played now they should. Once they stop the season, it may be even harder to start it up. There is no guarantee that it gets easier to sort the fixture next week, the week after or the week after that and so on and so forth.
Play on until you cant logistically do so
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You make a fair point, just seems of swapping out one locked down city for another is laughable. I suppose the difference is that the SA Government are saying no to football and teams flying in during lockdown while VIC are allowing it. Well...assuming that is the difference. If it's the AFL doing this without the SA government saying Pies can't fly in then fook me!
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Also, port and crows are not allowed to train - they can in Vic - Vic will likely allow the teams to be isolated and almost do as they need to keep the show running. QLD would remain a solid option again too, with two first class stadiums available, with a few spares, and the experience of having done it before if hubs had to go ahead. I cant see a WA hub happening. Perth stadium will destroy the legs of the last teams to play each week.
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Yeh just saw that the SA clubs can't train, getting them out now is a no brainer I suppose, as disappointed as I am for Boaky's 300th, getting the season to continue is an impressive feat.
Being in WA a Perth based hub would be fantastic, I'm not sure if the concerns about Optus still being a hard surface are lingering, but there are a few more grounds around that would have adequate surfaces, but they would be far too suburban for the AFL no doubt.
I don't see McGowan allowing it even if it was a viable option though.
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Now is the perfect time to pause for 2 weeks... 13m of the population in lockdown, just synergise and pause at the same time to ensure no movement of people across areas and prevent the Delta variant from moving.
This variant takes less than 30 hours for a person to become a spreader meaning normal contract tracing and isolating contacts doesn't work. Best way to stop it is to lockdown immediately, prevent people movements, so infected people can be found/treated before spreading.
States/Country will know within a week (2 tops) if the lockdowns prevent the spread. I don't see the issue with pausing the season, with the rest of the nation, and re-starting once the spread stops.
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States/Country will know within a week (2 tops) if the lockdowns prevent the spread. I don't see the issue with pausing the season, with the rest of the nation, and re-starting once the spread stops.
Right so just wait until then and play the next two rounds.
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Wait until then, review and revise the season accordingly.
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If you pause, then the gov can keep you paused indefinitely. Even if we start playing fast and loose with the rounds like a BBL fixture, if we can keep playing games we should.
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Personally I'd be happy with an Olympics-length pause to the season - I assume the broadcasters would jump at that too...
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Why the hell is there not a Perth hub
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Mark McGowan.
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God lord this round is a cluster fuck. So we’ll play the crows at the G probably then.
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Fucking lol at the SA clubs being moved to a bigger at risk state
Just fucking lol
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Not a suprise when one state won't allow the players to train but the other will
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Launceston and Perth
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Any other teams allowed in to those states at the moment?
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Baffling
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SA govnt wont allow the teams to train...
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Launceston and Perth are available
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Are they? You checked with their governments?
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Both teams have been to Vic in the last 14 days so would have to do 14 days quarantine in Perth
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For Vic teams as well?
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bang! resurrects old thread to make obscure point.
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Literally more cases in Melbourne atm. I do love that we're going hard early though, unlike some states.
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state
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The gilded state
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Both games will be at Marvel. Port v Pies Friday night. Crows v Hawks on Saturday, double-header with Blues v Roos.
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Port just got told to go home from the club after arriving ready to head to the airport according to Mitch Cleary
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I find the irony that we're now moving games to Melbourne because of covid palpable.
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Calling it now. Adelaide to host the Hawks at GMHBA on Sunday while Geelong play a home game at the G against Richmond.
im gonna be fucking livid
Geelong fans will be seething
Ive alerted the Geelong Fire Brigade to be on standby near Nick Vlastuins home.
I was against this game, but now I see a reason for it.
If its empty, and you win the game, does it matter?
Id hold any anger until after the result of the game at minimum.
Edit: was a genuine question.. like if the stadium is empty and you win, does it matter at all?
I can understand the frustration that Geelong fans would have here. The only reason their home game is not at their home venue is to cater to the increased crowd capacity, correct? When you have no fans allowed, why can't that game be moved to their actual home ground?
There's also contracts involved, and it sets a bad precedent for any future clubs trying to move matches in the future.
AFL have 6 other matches they have had to reorganize in the past week, they have their hands full.
Sure, but if they win does it matter?
Edit: Im literally just asking that if they win, would the fans be annoyed about the stadium it was played in after the fact... Good lord
its the principal of the matter
Fair enough. I couldnt care less if they moved it to GHMBA or kept it at the G. The places are going to be empty and I doubt it would change Richmonds ability to win or lose on the night by much at all and at the end of the day that's all I care about.
Surely the fixture will change further from here. Times and locations will be shuffled again.
You would think so, but the AFL seem so adamant that the game has to be at the G. Honestly I expect the Adelaide v Hawks game to get played on Saturday at Marvel, Carlton v North gets moved to Sunday at the G and Geelong does actually get there game at GMHBA.
Im talking about every game, not just the Tiges vs Geelong. Will be quite the shuffle.
I don't think so, the Port v Pies game will still be Friday night, then just the swap I suggested before.