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Solemn Sloth posted:I want to see what the umpiring is like with no crowd AFL umpires have been forced to train alone in a bid to allow the season to begin as planned on Thursday, March 19. With the umps such a valuable commodity, all standard AFL and AFLW training has effectively been suspended. The move is to protect the small group of people who have such a huge role in putting the game on - with no umpires, there are no games. “As a precautionary measure we have advised AFL and AFLW umpires of alternative training arrangements for the time being,” an AFL spokesperson said. Umps will do fitness work individually and be reviewed and instructed remotely via ‘tech’. The measures come less than an hour after an NBA game was cancelled following revelations a referee had officiated a game involving an infected player two days earlier. 
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How will the players know when to dispose of the ball without 20k+ telling them? 
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Mar 12, 2020 19:43
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I actually wonder how many staff you need on site to safely operate a venue as big as the MCG with spectators banned. I guess you could shut all the gates up and have some security patrol the outside, have all the players, officials and tv staff come in underground which would cut down a lot
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Mar 12, 2020 21:47
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First 3 rounds will be empty stadia games is my guess atm and could roll on further if needed.
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Mar 12, 2020 23:32
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If the NBA and others are postponing things instead of going behind closed doors, I can’t see footy going forward with closed-door games of their own. I don’t think it’s the right solution. Given the weekly nature of footy schedules — not sure you can pack in mid-week games — it’ll probably wind up being a shortened season. Only question is how short.
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Mar 13, 2020 00:39
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harperdc posted:If the NBA and others are postponing things instead of going behind closed doors, I can’t see footy going forward with closed-door games of their own. I don’t think it’s the right solution. Chop first five weeks off, everyone plays everyone else once
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Mar 13, 2020 00:47
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Solemn Sloth posted:Chop first five weeks off, everyone plays everyone else once This. Except the afl will push to play round 1, just as a locked out match. The thing is, somebody on an afl list or working at an afl club will be infected and confirmed in the next two weeks. Law of averages say it. (Hell, Lauren Tesoriso from Richmond aflw is in lockdown because her room mate just got home from Japan) This means the season gets suspended or pushed back. But they can't push the season back because the cricket world cup is on here at the end of the year. One solution is reorder the league. Lockout all games, bring all teams to Melbourne and play 1 game a weekday, 3 games a day on weekends, primetime tv one after the other until someone gets sick. Try to knock out as many games as possible in ~3 weeks then suspend the season and work it out later. Waits between games would work out to 5 of 6 days for teams. It might work.
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Mar 13, 2020 03:22
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Welp https://twitter.com/Raf_Epstein/status/1238294372732432385?s=19
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Mar 13, 2020 03:44
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Carlton and Gold Coast matches to continue unimpeded
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Mar 13, 2020 04:23
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The joke I would have said is put matches on from everyone’s training ovals/suburban grounds but that’s not really productive given that sports in other parts of the world are being postponed. Solemn Sloth posted:Chop first five weeks off, everyone plays everyone else once This is the right answer and the faster they do it, the better. Get the isolation started now.
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Mar 13, 2020 04:49
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Breaking https://twitter.com/DanielCherny/status/1238313843912130560/ MysticalMachineGun posted:Carlton and Gold Coast matches to continue unimpeded Try Hawks, they had low crowds.
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Mar 13, 2020 05:04
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drunkill posted:Carlton had the 5th largest game ave attendance last season. Dammit, I knew I'd pick a popular team, should've just stuck with GC
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Mar 13, 2020 05:13
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harperdc posted:If the NBA and others are postponing things instead of going behind closed doors, I can’t see footy going forward with closed-door games of their own. I don’t think it’s the right solution. Why not? The entire issue with this is the crowds providing greater infection chances. Closed games will have likely a hundred or two people working in what are effectively huge stadiums. If players come down with it well then you cant do much about that.
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Mar 13, 2020 05:21
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Nutsngum posted:If players come down with it well then you cant do much about that. The AFL has bigger playing squads/lists, and athletes in Europe and the US are already coming down with it. If they went forward somebody would test positive and that would throw everything into immediate chaos; better to lock things down now for a month. Also it was my assumption footy players would be like rugby or gridiron and require one week or so between match days, please inform me if that’s incorrect.
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Mar 13, 2020 06:03
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In the dim past of the NSWRFL (what's effectively the NRL now), they actually had seasons start with a couple of Wednesday games in the early rounds. But yeah, AFL games usually need 5-6 days between, with exceptions like when the Anzac Day game is on Wednesday. Only other precedent is when Night Premiership games were played on Tuesday nights in the 70s and 80s. Thing is this situation is going to be most of the year. The Olympics are probably done (maybe postponed a year), a lot of other poo poo is going to be up in the air, only advantage sport has over other entertainment is you don't necessarily need a crowd particularly if it's on TV if everyone's fit, but it's going to have a hell of a weird feel about it. And since up to a third of the population is likely to be infected at some point we're going to see outright cancellations at some point.
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Mar 13, 2020 07:40
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Crowd lockout for Round 1 confirmed: https://www.afl.com.au/news/384878 Watch a player get infected between now and Thursday so the season is delayed. drunkill fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Mar 13, 2020 |
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Mar 13, 2020 08:37
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The beauty of a silent quarter time.
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Mar 13, 2020 09:19
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Looking forward to being able to hear in crystal clarity my favourite players swear up a storm
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Mar 13, 2020 11:04
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North girls just kicked 10 unanswered goals to win. from 20-2 to 20-66
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Mar 13, 2020 11:18
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drunkill posted:North girls just kicked 10 unanswered goals to win. I don't think Geelong's hearts were in it anymore after Morrison was stretchered off 
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Mar 13, 2020 11:22
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monolithburger posted:I don't think Geelong's hearts were in it anymore after Morrison was stretchered off I thought only Dutton had gone down, this is even better
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Mar 13, 2020 11:35
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Go Dees
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Mar 14, 2020 09:41
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Dees pls
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Mar 14, 2020 09:47
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lol Hore did not want to kick that goal at all I've been saying it for a while now but she's a gun
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Mar 14, 2020 09:50
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Birch is a gun interceptor but I hope Downey can find her feet when she comes back into the side with someone taking her role as she's one of my favourite players
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Mar 14, 2020 10:00
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snaeksikn posted:Dees pls Thread title
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Mar 14, 2020 10:05
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Melbourne better win this because I can’t see either of these teams winning next week given how tired they’re going to be, and if Melbourne drop two games we are at serious risk of getting pipped by Collingwood for finals
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Mar 14, 2020 10:24
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An ACL injury definitely helps things
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Mar 14, 2020 10:47
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OH gently caress OFF
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Mar 14, 2020 10:57
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O'Dea is having a shocker. That from the pocket did everything possible to not go through for goal
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Mar 14, 2020 10:58
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Those were some atrociously unlucky bounces for the Dees.
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Mar 14, 2020 10:59
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Footballs the worst loving sport, it can gently caress right off forever
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Mar 14, 2020 11:11
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Get hosed. Just once have the ball bounce like that for us you loving piece of poo poo. Just loving once. Absolute jammiest loving bullshit you’ll ever see
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Solemn Sloth posted:Footballs the worst loving sport, it can gently caress right off forever Agreed
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Mar 14, 2020 11:21
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Confirmed that footy sucks
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Mar 14, 2020 11:28
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Adelaide and melbourne in the real contest: who can have the fewest listed players available for selection
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Mar 14, 2020 11:36
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Four in the row for the blue girls yeah! Those bounces were horrible for melbourne, plus peppering away with shots on goal and all of them being points for the best part of three quarters. But we were unable to land a handpass for three quarters, then it finally clicked in the end and we were able to just run out the game. They'll be tired as hell though and have a long recovery during the week, at least we play the eagles at home so should win that too.
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Mar 14, 2020 11:44
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Melbourne need to fix their kicking at goal. This and the st Kilda game we should have really had by the throat, and instead now looking very likely to miss finals. We have Freo in Perth next week, Collingwood have st Kilda and Geelong in the run home. The fact that Collingwood will make an AFLW finals series before us makes me physically ill. Daisy deserves better than this bullshit
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Mar 14, 2020 12:14
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snaeksikn posted:Dees pls Dees nutz
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When the 2020 season gets cancelled and players can just TRAIN for the next 12 months until the 2021 season... will that season be the best ever??
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