Is the team and supporters stuck in Sydney?

[one-eyed]

No flights into and out of Melbourne. Maybe a couple of Melbourne-based OERites are stuck in Sydney too.


UPDATE 8.50pm: FLIGHTS to and from Melbourne, Tasmania and New Zealand have come to a halt as Australian airlines take no chances after a plume of volcanic ash from South America was detected in their airspace.

Up to 30,000 passengers around Australia and New Zealand are stranded tonight and have no choice but to either bunk down at the airport or look for other accommodation.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/volcanic-ash-triggers-aussie-air-travel-chaos-as-fog-delays-melbourne-flights/story-e6frf7jo-1226073721810

[harry bosch]

i read on another forum that we may be catching a 08:00 bus

of course brisbane played in melb today

[mightytiges]

i read on another forum that we may be catching a 08:00 bus

Geez that will be a fun 10 hour trip home - not! 

[Smokey]

i read on another forum that we may be catching a 08:00 bus

Geez that will be a fun 10 hour trip home - not! 

May as well turn right at the lights and come north in prep for next Sat.   

[harry bosch]

knowing our luck the bus will break down somewhere..

[Ox]

Bus trip would be because the club is too tight to fork out for accom.
Bzzzzzz - Bad Call if true

[Jackstar is back again]

Bus trip would be because the club is too tight to fork out for accom.
Bzzzzzz - Bad Call if true

Its true.
If we were Carlton, there would be a private jet to the rescue

[Penelope]

yeah...and if GWS was stuck in melbourne Sheeds would call his aliens to pick them up in their spaceship, which unlike caltons private jet, would be able to fly through the ash clouds.

[Loui Tufga]

Bus trip would be because the club is too tight to fork out for accom.
Bzzzzzz - Bad Call if true

Its true.
If we were Carlton, there would be a private jet to the rescue

And where would it land dipstick???

[Ox]

Well in that case jak,i wanna see them bonding within and inch of each others nacker sacks.

[mightytiges]

I like your thinking smokey  

knowing our luck the bus will break down somewhere..

If it's anywhere near Nimbin then the Herald-Sun will have its next headline - "Tigers have gone to pot"

[Jackstar is back again]

Bus trip would be because the club is too tight to fork out for accom.
Bzzzzzz - Bad Call if true

Its true.
If we were Carlton, there would be a private jet to the rescue

And where would it land dipstick???

Can fly at lower level and land at Essendon dippy

[Dubstep Dookie]

Nothing wrong with team bonding, throw in a bit of a slap or a tickle. Maybe even a few games of push me pull you

[Ox]

Terrible for recovery - poor Astbury.......

[one-eyed]

AFL teams Brisbane, Richmond and Essendon cannot fly home because of volcano ash

    Mark Stevens
    From: Herald Sun
    June 13, 2011

THREE AFL teams were bedded down for unexpected nights interstate after returns to their home state were thrown into disarray by ash from a Chilean volcano.

Virgin joined Qantas in suspending all domestic and international flights in and out of Melbourne as a plume of volcanic ash drifted across from the Puyehue volcano.

The Tigers returned to the team hotel after the loss to Sydney, knowing all flights into Melbourne were on hold.

It was the same scenario for the Brisbane Lions, stranded in Melbourne overnight after their loss to Carlton at Etihad, and Essendon after its loss to Fremantle in Perth. Essendon coach James Hird was resigned to a late departure.