(04-29-2020, 11:41 PM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:You can't have a proper season with big name players missing. The big name players get paid regardless, Collingwood for example have several stars who have told Eddie they won't be playing in the hub format as it is now which means the pies chances of success would be limited so now you have both Mcguire and Buckley negative on the idea. Gilmac will need to improve the hub format idea and allow players access to their families and more time off or he will be playing with C grade teams missing big names.I doubt you can put 700 players, WAGS and children, coaches, trainers, medicos and umpires, in the same concentrated location and expect them to adhere to quarantine regulations, it's unrealistic.
With that many people involved, even if there are two or three hubs, very soon within the first few days someone's mum, dad, brother or sister will fall ill and the thing will turn to shizen!
FMD, any of our navy friends can testify to just how many people move on or off a frigate, and that is about as isolated as you can get short of being submerged, wartime rules with a tenth of the people and yet people still get shipped off here and there! And these are people used to no communications, secrecy and little privacy, not some pleb earning a quid from social media blogging out of their bathroom or balcony, who can lock themselves away in their bedroom when some asswipe posts they are too fat!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"