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Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED - PaulP - 03-22-2020
What the next few months looks like...................
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufDqfQxPnJo
Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED - LP - 05-03-2020
I can't see the AFL ever going back to the myriad of assistants, trainers and medicos, it was just way over the top and COVID-19 has been the trigger the AFL needed to get that under control. The AFL by accident was delivered a way to pry the parasites off it's teat!
I wonder if the AFL will try to take the same opportunity to pull the AFLPA and Club Playing Lists into some sort of rational realignment?
Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED - capcom - 05-03-2020
... and taking that through to its logical conclusion, it'd extend to all other sports and businesses. The AFL and clubs are not sacred cows immune from change.
Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED - LP - 05-03-2020
(05-03-2020, 01:32 AM)capcom date Wrote:... and taking that through to its logical conclusion, it'd extend to all other sports and businesses. The AFL and clubs are not sacred cows immune from change.Most commercial business is already pretty lean though, AFL was bloated and suffering extreme nepotism, perhaps some charities and bureaucracies are more analogous to AFL.
When you look at what some clubs were doing off field in terms of coaching and match-day staffing, those of us who tend towards sarcasm might be forgiven for thinking the clubs were basically making sure they were non-profit!
Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED - LP - 05-03-2020
Dangerfield loud and proud.
I'm clearly biased, but to me this bloke wants to give nothing and get everything in return, he seems not to have even a minuscule of interest in what is best for the sport in general, yet he dresses his opinion up as exactly that!
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/play-it-forward-dangerfield-warns-cuts-would-damage-football-20200503-p54peo.html
Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED - PaulP - 05-03-2020
I'm guessing Dangerfield speaks to the players and represents the majority opinion, as opposed to going off half cocked and just pleasing himself ? It should hardly come as a surprise that he advocates for the status quo, which helps the entire player pool.
At any rate, I think this drastically different post-covid world scenario is being somewhat overstated. There will surely be a period of relative austerity, but once things are back on track I expect the AFL arms race to resume, and we will be back to where we were before all this erupted.
Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED - flyboy77 - 05-03-2020
It's BS, it's done, here and NZ at least.
we might get a modest 'cluster' here or there but even that is highly unlikely.
The thing doesn't linger in cupboards or drawers for months...
That said, the SD rules will endure to some extent but it must be unwound carefully. Absolutely.
Bottom line, Dan's just being a socialist twat. There is no science to support his current position.
Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED - Thryleon - 05-04-2020
(05-03-2020, 11:07 AM)PaulP link Wrote:I'm guessing Dangerfield speaks to the players and represents the majority opinion, as opposed to going off half cocked and just pleasing himself ? It should hardly come as a surprise that he advocates for the status quo, which helps the entire player pool.Agree
At any rate, I think this drastically different post-covid world scenario is being somewhat overstated. There will surely be a period of relative austerity, but once things are back on track I expect the AFL arms race to resume, and we will be back to where we were before all this erupted.
(05-03-2020, 12:06 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:It's BS, it's done, here and NZ at least.
we might get a modest 'cluster' here or there but even that is highly unlikely.
The thing doesn't linger in cupboards or drawers for months...
That said, the SD rules will endure to some extent but it must be unwound carefully. Absolutely.
Bottom line, Dan's just being a socialist twat. There is no science to support his current position.
Its hard to say this with absolute confidence.
Either the situation was highly over stated (doubtful) or we are yet to really run the race with this particularly virus (plausible).
The major issue I see with this is we still have a number of new cases on a daily basis which indicates the virus is still not fully contained, and most people will not have built any sort of immunity to it.
As far as I am concerned all we have done with this virus is kick the can down the road, and prepared the health services for an onslaught that may or may not arise, but the concensus (around where I work anyway) is generally that our peak is still going to be in June.
For anyone who wants to know, the statistics on Influenza nationally for april of 2019 (confirmed positive tests 18370). For 2020, April saw a little over 100 (99 at last measure early last week). If our distancing has that sort of affect on Influenza, and we still saw 6000+ positive Corona cases, we might still see a lot worse than anyone is expecting unless the virus is eradicated, and its worth noting that we have a Flu Vaccine.
Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED - flyboy77 - 05-05-2020
Not so.
These things follow well established pathways.
Then there's recent research like this - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20078717v1
You do understand that the lock down we have experienced is not the way these pandemics are normally dealt with?
Normally, you quarantine the infected and those who will be in deep poo poo if they catch it (the old and immuno compromised).
Our kids and we folk should be getting the f... on with it.
It really is not rocket science.
Dan Andrews is just pulling his pud now.
The testing (which isn't even the antibody test i gather) is a total waste of space and money ($200 a pop I've heard). It proves/shows nothing relevant.
Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED - flyboy77 - 05-05-2020
ps it does show whether you presently have the bug!