Covid 19 and footy - season (suspended) now resumed

[707]

Yep. The whole thing feels cheap, fake and amateur.

What, the AFL or the crowd enhancements?

[Mel_C]

During our round 1 game I didn't notice that there was no crowd until Papley kicked that goal and did the high 5 with the non crowd ????.

[MattW]

During our round 1 game I didn't notice that there was no crowd until Papley kicked that goal and did the high 5 with the non crowd ????.

And I loved the yahoos of team-mates as the ball curled through for a goal. Hayward's bombed banana comes to mind.

[dejavoodoo44]

And I loved the yahoos of team-mates as the ball curled through for a goal. Hayward's bombed banana comes to mind.

Yes, I didn't mind the absence of crowd noise in round one. I found it interesting, being able to pick up some of the calls and comments, of the players and coaches. I was also surprised by how much noise there actually was.

[stevoswan]

Sorry to be a curmudgeon, but I hate the crowd sounds. Tinny, unrealistic, instrusive, distracting. The cardboard cut outs are silly too. These things remind us of the circumstances and just seem fake and cheap. I had no issue with the sounds of the players and umpires soundtracking the game in rd 1. It's real, factual. Do we really need to be coddled with artifice?

I hated the quietness of round one! I would take artifice any day over boring silence.
The cutouts earn the club some money which is better than no revenue at all.
It's all temporary anyway....reality and atmosphere shall return soon enough.?

[Mel_C]

I'm not a fan of the crowd noise used by channel 7. The cheering was random and it did not match the vision.

Fox Footy has used a more subtle crowd noise and it ramps up during an appropriate passage of play as well as after a goal has been scored.

[MattW]

Yes; please! https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/...13-p5529p.html

[stevoswan]

Port v Crows was better with actual fans and appropriate barracking to be heard.
Also, Suns thrash WC.....interesting. Rowell 25 disposals, 7 tackles, 2 goals and 158 Supercoach points.....a star is born.

[barry]

I have a feeling the hub concept will get revisited soon. To keep the AFL season going continuously, the teams need to be located in the regions where there is the least chance of infection. At the moment that is QLD, WA and SA. And not NSW or Victoria.

Could it be that both SA teams move back to SA, WA teams back to WA, and then NSW and Vic teams temporarily hub in each of those place for a couple of weeks.
It breaks Australia into two zones (risky = VIC+NSW, Safe = QLD, SA, WA). You can move inside a zone ok, but must quaranteen when moving from risky to safe zone.

How with would play out (for Swans).

Swans can play Giants, and vic teams and travel to and from Melbourne as they do now.
When they go on there "safe" road trip, they need to move to (say) QLD straight after their last risky game and quarantine. Then miss the next round, then play both QLD teams, then move to SA and play both SA teams, then move to WA and play both WA teams, then come back.

States can move in and out of safe/risky zone as cases develop.

[aguy]

In reality Victoria is the only high risk state at the moment.

NSW having 5-10 cases per day which are almost ALL in returned overseas travellers in hotel quarantine. Whereas majority of Victoria’s 30 odd cases per day are community based transmission.

That can obviously change very quickly.

[Mel_C]

At this stage the only hub will be in WA. There is going to be a rotation of 2 Victorian teams going into the hub...could be a total of up to 6 teams depending on when the WA borders open. Earlier in the week the Sydney teams were mentioned but now it seems like it will only be Victorian teams.

[Mel_C]

Victorians aren't allowed to go to the SCG next weekend due to the COVID spike in Vic. The crowd of 10,000 is only for NSW residents.

[Nico]

Victorians aren't allowed to go to the SCG next weekend due to the COVID spike in Vic. The crowd of 10,000 is only for NSW residents.

Discrimination! Should take it to the High Court.

[707]

Discrimination! Should take it to the High Court.

Maybe some people in Melbourne should do the right thing, take it seriously and not muck it up for everyone else.

Really enjoying the footy at present, our performance excepted. So good to see Gold Coast finally getting it together, loving watching them play. Pies getting beat narrowly and particularly liked seeing the Injectors go down by the barest of margins.

Next week has some juicy match ups. Battle for the wooden spoon next week, Crows versus a Fyfe less Dockers.

Really difficult to say who the contenders are and who will make up the bottom four, other than the Crows!

[Ruck'n'Roll]

I'm not liking the shorter quarters. I hope this change isn't permanent.