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Offline pmac21

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Player tests positive / AFL bans large group contact training for 4 weeks
« on: June 20, 2020, 03:41:55 PM »
Looks like the season is in doubt again as a player tests positive to corona. 
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Re: Player tests positive
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2020, 03:44:24 PM »
Given our form the end of the season now would be a blessing
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Re: Player tests positive
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2020, 03:48:56 PM »
Essendon player Connor McKenzie McKenna

I can see the irony here

Essendon

Gil doing a presser at 4pm
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Re: Player tests positive
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2020, 03:53:19 PM »
Pee'd off to Ireland and only came back recently - anyone know if he has been in isolation. If not that its for this season.
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Re: Player tests positive
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2020, 04:29:43 PM »
Gil confirmed it's Connor McKenna. He had 5 negative tests since returning from Ireland before the latest positive tests.

Gil also said as a result the Essendon vs Melbourne game has been postponed.

McKenna is asymptomatic so without the testing the AFL is doing he would've gone under the radar. No other player is positive. So it's assumed he caught it after returning to Oz and from an outside source.

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Re: Player tests positive
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2020, 04:56:43 PM »
McLachlan said the AFL fixture team would now work through when the game would be rescheduled.

“Whether we compress the season or have a bye, we are working through that,” he said.

“That’s why we had a rolling four-week fixture, shorter quarters.

“We have the flexibility.”

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2020-covid19-coronavirus-updates-essendon-conor-mckenna-covid19-test-player/news-story/effa64ddb45240bf6f8450d0f76d1085
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AFL bans contact training for large groups for next 4 weeks (Age)
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2020, 03:18:27 PM »
AFL bans contact training for large groups

By Jake Niall
The Age
June 22, 2020 — 2.32pm

The AFL has banned contact training in large groups for the next four weeks in the wake of the positive COVID-19 test to Essendon's Conor McKenna.

The league on Monday decided to bar contact training in sessions where the whole list is involved. However, clubs will be allowed to hold contact training with small groups of up to nine players.

The entire list can still train together with ball movement, but no contact is allowed.

The limits on contact training will be reviewed on July 20.

Club football bosses were told at a meeting with the AFL early on Monday afternoon.

The ban is an indication of the compromises the AFL has to make during the pandemic in order to keep playing and fulfil its broadcast obligations.

The AFL has reminded clubs to be strategic in the way they divide their players into smaller training groups, to ensure they do not lose all of their best defenders, forward or midfielders should one small group have to be isolated.

The league also reiterated to clubs that games would likely go ahead even if clubs lost several players, effectively placing the onus on clubs to keep their players COVID-free by following protocols.

Essendon have forwarded records of McKenna's close contacts to the Department of Health and Human Services and given DHHS very comprehensive records of his movements and contacts within the football department.

MORE TO COME

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-bans-contact-training-for-large-groups-20200622-p55501.html
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Re: Player tests positive / AFL bans large group contact training for 4 weeks
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2020, 04:39:46 PM »
Had already lost a lot of interest in this season, and the little I have left is going fast.
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Re: Player tests positive / AFL bans large group contact training for 4 weeks
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2020, 05:21:05 PM »
Shows the hypocrisy at Afl house player tested positive yet cant go this and that at training yet in a game it's perfectly normal bunch of clowns running this game all about $$$$ and image.


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Re: Player tests positive / AFL bans large group contact training for 4 weeks
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2020, 09:24:53 PM »
I’ve already heard some stuff with what the players are really getting up to from sources at the scene.

Looks like not all of the young blokes have taken this COVID isolation thing seriously.

Maybe the AFL should just put in a rule that any player that tests positive for not following the rules then that team forfeits the four points. You’d think that will make all the players take it more seriously.

....simples.
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Re: Player tests positive / AFL bans large group contact training for 4 weeks
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2020, 02:57:52 AM »
Speaking on Footy Classified, Caroline Wilson revealed that up to five of McKenna's teammates could be forced to quarantine for a two-week period, with the players to be officially named on Tuesday morning.

Wilson also added that McKenna is only likely to receive a minor suspension for breaching the AFL's COVID-19 protocols.

https://wwos.nine.com.au/afl/essendon-vs-carlton-round-4-clash-set-to-go-ahead-despite-conor-mckenna-coronavirus-quarantine/07b4db74-68ad-47e1-be34-d22bf5ec940e
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Re: Player tests positive / AFL bans large group contact training for 4 weeks
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2020, 11:05:36 AM »
They should rub him out for the season. Its always bloody essendon bringing the game into disrepute.
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Re: Player tests positive / AFL bans large group contact training for 4 weeks
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Re: Player tests positive / AFL bans large group contact training for 4 weeks
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2020, 02:27:40 PM »
Quote from: one-eyed on June 23, 2020, 12:47:33 PM
James Stewart is only other Bomber considered to be a close contact to McKenna.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/afl/only-one-other-bomber-deemed-close-contact-of-mckenna-players-told-20200623-p55580.html

So all those players that touched the same balls and used the same gym equipment are not?  How the f does the Health department expect anyone to take isolation seriously when they turn a blind eye to this at the AFL's request?







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Re: Player tests positive / AFL bans large group contact training for 4 weeks
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