Pre Game Permutations: AFL 2020 R1 Carlton vs Richmond

[WASurfer]

Agree townsend...inevitable the season openers will be postponed. The duty of care aspect will simply outweigh the financial implications.

[LP]

They don't and have never stopped for Influenza, why is this different?

Were any events cancelled for SARS, H1N1, H1N5, Swine Flu, Bird Flu or any of the others? As far as I know there is still no immunization for most of these things and yet they ran Olympics in Bejing after SARS, hypocrisy or politics?

They don't even cancel professional sport in countries rife with Ebola, Hendra or terrorism!

Up in Brisbane Fruit-bats fly over the crowd nearly every night game, just a micro-droplet of Hendra virus kills. Fruit-bats probably fly over The MCG crowd as well!

[Jack Burton]

CMO just advised federal and state governments to ban all events with a gathering of more than 500 people, effective immediately. If Thursday night's game goes ahead, it will be in front of an empty stadium

[laj]

https://7news.com.au/sport/afl/d-day-arr...vqJe_9pnyo

[LP]

The worst thing they can do is lock up all the nutters in a box with no entertainment, things won't end well!

Let the Feds ban crowds, and play the game in empty stadiums free of litigation, the nutters and everybody else can stay home in isolation and be entertained!

[ElwoodBlues1]

They don't and have never stopped for Influenza, why is this different?

Were any events cancelled for SARS, H1N1, H1N5, Swine Flu, Bird Flu or any of the others? As far as I know there is still no immunization for most of these things and yet they ran Olympics in Bejing after SARS, hypocrisy or politics?

They don't even cancel professional sport in countries rife with Ebola, Hendra or terrorism!

Up in Brisbane Fruit-bats fly over the crowd nearly every night game, just a micro-droplet of Hendra virus kills. Fruit-bats probably fly over The MCG crowd as well!

Its the spread rate...1:4 compared to 1:1.3 for normal flu strains...thats why you have to ban public gatherings and any other decent size gatherings.

[ElwoodBlues1]

CMO just advised federal and state governments to ban all events with a gathering of more than 500 people, effective immediately. If Thursday night's game goes ahead, it will be in front of an empty stadium

Its the spread rate...1:4 compared to 1:1.3 for normal flu strains...thats why you have to ban public gatherings and any other decent size gatherings. IMHO even 100-500 is too generous.....

[kruddler]

Agree townsend...inevitable the season openers will be postponed. The duty of care aspect will simply outweigh the financial implications.

They've said no spectators at AFLW matches, from tomorrow - tonights is open for spectators.

So if they've done that for AFLW, no chance in hell AFL will go ahead without the same.

[laj]

On Ch.7 they said the AFL have decided to start the season on time. just they will be 90,000 people less than anticipated. We'll be playing in front of empty stadiums for a while i'd say.

[kruddler]

On Ch.7 they said the AFL have decided to start the season on time. just they will be 90,000 people less than anticipated. We'll be playing in front of empty stadiums for a while i'd say.

....unless they get advice suggesting otherwise in the next week.

They AFL have said there are a number of scenarios they can run with. Most of those will be factored in AFTER round 1 depending on how everything is going with corona and no doubt the AFL community as a whole.

They have already canvassed the players and said that a more compact season is possible.
They have stated there is 4 weeks available for rescheduled matches (mid season bye, finals bye and 2 weeks after the grand final before cricket takes over) which can be used to make up the games.
They may look at shortening games in order to get more games in a short space of time......without elaborating on that, to me it seemed like they may do an AFLW type length game, and do say 5 day breaks between them, so that you could get 4 weeks of game in 3 weeks of time kinda scenarios.

No matter what happens, statistically, this AFL season will be an anomaly for all time.