I’ve been missing for awhile. With everything that’s happened over the last months, footy hasn’t really seemed that important to me.
This is an issue that has riled me up enough to comment again.
The AFL is an absolutely hypocritical and disgraceful organisation, that is clearly and unequivocally Victorian. I’ve had a gut full of them.
The fact that they can move so quickly, to introduce a rule to limit training to two people, because of sooky, whiney, bitchy privileged power Victorian clubs is ridiculous. This is a circumstance no individual, club or organisation has control over, it is predicated by government.
Then within a few days turn around and propose a competition in which, clubs are unable to participate in, without moving to another state. These same people now fail to see this as an unfair disadvantage to those clubs.
They are now going to investigate Adelaide for breaking this rule.
WA Players will now have to spend an extended period away from their homes, family and friends.
Two weeks ago this was way too much to impose on Vic players when a hub system was proposed. The only hub even worth contemplating involved Victoria.
All of this in spite of the fact, at this point in time WA, SA and the NT may be lucky enough to have eliminated the virus.
Why in God’s name would you begin a program in the state, with what appears to have the, lowest probability of being able to contain the spread of this bloody thing.
Who in the AFL can guarantee WA will even be willing to open its state border during this proposed season. How can they guarantee that clubs coming to WA won’t have to quarantine for two weeks before each game. They can’t even promise the WA will get their return home games.
With the current situation in WA, with the right testing, who knows maybe before the end of a season we could even be in a position to play in front of fans.
I love footy and The Fremantle Dockers but I love my state more. There is no way I want to sacrifice the safety, security and prosperity of WA for football. I want even less to sacrifice this for a self absorbed and self important organisation like the AFL.
