# postpone the season (until Dustys kidney grows back together)

[eZyT]

So Port and Crows fleeing SA Covid, into Vic Covid, and the plane turns left, into Queensland Covid.

I only see 3 realistic options for The AFL, and 1 isn't realistic, because it produces $0

1. hand Dees the flag ($0, won't happen)

2. Relocate all club into a mega bubble in Darwin or Hobart (Tassie preferable with more suitable stadiums), pretty much by tomorrow.

3. Postpone the season (until Dustys kidney grows back together)

Unlike 2020, where I think there was 1 player who had a Covid scare and 1 state in lockdown (and Tigers were favourites) this time we're at about a dozen this week, and the eastern Seaboard is on a knife edge, and the Western Seaboard are hillbilly *smile* (and Tigers are 15-1 rank outsiders)

Surely, Gil and the Scott Bros are having a meeting right now, discussing how its untenable, but exploring how they can play a lightening premiership, involving Geelong, over Zoom?

its a pretty small corner they're painting themselves into with fixturing.

save the angst, Gil, take option 3.

 

[22nd Man]

That is an "enlightning" point of view ezyT

 

[CarnTheTiges]

So Port and Crows fleeing SA Covid, into Vic Covid, and the plane turns left, into Queensland Covid.

I only see 3 realistic options for The AFL, and 1 isn't realistic, because it produces $0

1. hand Dees the flag ($0, won't happen)

2. Relocate all club into a mega bubble in Darwin or Hobart (Tassie preferable with more suitable stadiums), pretty much by tomorrow.

3. Postpone the season (until Dustys kidney grows back together)

Unlike 2020, where I think there was 1 player who had a Covid scare and 1 state in lockdown, this time we're at about a dozen this week, and the eastern Seaboard is on a knife edge, and the Western Seaboard are hillbilly *smile*

Surely, Gil and the Scott Bros are having a meeting right now, discussing how its untenable, but exploring how they can play a lightening premiership, involving Geelong, over Zoom?

Postpone it for a couple of weeks. That’s all it will take to get things back on track everywhere except NSW. 7 won’t care. Makes it easier for them with their Olympics coverage. And yes, it will give a few of our blokes extra time to get fit.

 

[eZyT]

Postpone it for a couple of weeks. That’s all it will take to get things back on track everywhere except NSW. 7 won’t care. Makes it easier for them with their Olympics coverage. And yes, it will give a few of our blokes extra time to get fit.

hadn't thought of the Olympics/Channel 7 angle.

yeah.

is a fortnight enough for Dustys 4th Norm Smith?

 

[eZyT]

At the very least, they need to suspend betting on games,

while

1. its a game of Covid roulette in terms of venues and personnel, and

2. Im in front.

FWIW, with almost every state closed to each other, I reckon Round 19 will be played in late August

 

[Ian4]

all jokes aside, why is the AFL so insistent on playing this week? it makes no sense with 3 cities locked down. just move the bye week forward and reset for next week… or just simply extend the season by 1-2 weeks. 1-2 weeks will won’t kill anyone.

 

[CarnTheTiges]

all jokes aside, why is the AFL so insistent on playing this week? it makes no sense with 3 cities locked down. just move the bye week forward and reset for next week… or just simply extend the season by 1-2 weeks. 1-2 weeks will won’t kill anyone.

Exactly. Trying to run the games at present compromises the integrity of the whole season. 2 weeks gives everyone a chance to reset. Scrap the pre finals bye and you save a week.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Joining the covid queue, the Saints have now lost Marshall to quarantine.
The season is now heavily compromised.

 

[eZyT]

all jokes aside,

what jokes?

 

[Tony Braxton-Hicks]

SA and Vic in lockdown. SA teams on their way here. AFL running out of options.

And the timing couldn't be better. Ch7 won't mind a 2 week delay in the season so they can focus on the Olympics.

And two more weeks might make this year's Norm Smith medal legitimate.

Already covered, @eZyT, but we're all thinking too small.

Right now there's a race between all the billionaires to get into space. How much would they pay to hold the first professional sport in space? A few advantages:

1. Space is COVID-free.
2. There's no congestion in space.
3. The stand rule becomes not just unnecessary but impossible.
4. In space, no one can hear you scream at the umpires.
5. No one has ever injured a kidney while wearing a space suit.

 

[Dont Argue]

Already covered, @eZyT, but we're all thinking too small.

Right now there's a race between all the billionaires to get into space. How much would they pay to hold the first professional sport in space? A few advantages:

1. Space is COVID-free.
2. There's no congestion in space.
3. The stand rule becomes not just unnecessary but impossible.
4. In space, no one can hear you scream at the umpires.
5. No one has ever injured a kidney while wearing a space suit.

6. We have an umpire up there. Bezos looks like Razor Ray but is a little less important .

 

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[Tigerfan]

If we win our first final I’m calling for dusty to get an update scan

 

[WildStyle]

Ok, but only if Stack is running laps the whole time.

 

[Tony Braxton-Hicks]

If we win our first final I’m calling for dusty to get an update scan

3 months without contact clears him to win the Norm if the season is postoned by 3 weeks.

 

[tigerman]

Postponing the season might allow my liver to repair itself.