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News Coronavirus and NRL

Perth Red

Perth Red

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shear_joy9 said:
While I would love the season to continue it seems the nrl are thinking more about their bottom line than the safety of the players, their families and communities
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what tosh. Do you think the players are all going to go home and lock themselves away, no theyll be out and about at cafes bars and pokie dens and just as much at risk of catching it as if they were at training and playing. People are not not going to work just in case.
 
bileduct

bileduct

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Best thing to do might be to take a four to six week hiatus and just deliberately expose all players to the virus and put them in isolation until they recover. Symptoms for people at the players age is said to be mild to non-existent and the death rate is extremely low - and I would assume even lower than that for professional athletes at peak fitness. There's no conclusive evidence that people can be reinfected, so best to just get it out of the way instead of the inevitable scares every time someone does get infected.

It is inevitable that players are going to get this, and they will pass it on to others before they're even aware they have it. Just f**king get it over and done with.

By that stage New Zealand may have relaxed its isolation rules.
 
Misanthrope

Misanthrope

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Sucks for the families of Warriors' players, but could they not play games out of Darwin? I saw Townsville being floated, but might be a blessing in disguise if we can get a presence (however temporary) in Darwin and also keep the comp going.

Not that anybody in Darwin could attend games, so I guess it's a moot point as to where they play from...

Assuming we don't also institute the same travel ban in the immediate future, I imagine many of their families could also come across for the time being.
 
The Great Dane

The Great Dane

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Instead of suspending the season or forcing players that don't want to play to participate, what if we continued the season but only with players that are willing to participate.

So let's say that a bunch of the Warriors players want to go home, let them then call up the next best willing player in their position to take their spot.

It'll effect the standard of the competition, but it's only for a little while, and I reckon that most players will want to play on anyway. Besides that no matter what happens the competition is going to have somewhat of an asterisk next to it this year, so it may as well continue with an asterisk next to it.

It'd also give dozens of guys the opportunity to play in the NRL and prove themselves. Many of them may never have got the opportunity to play otherwise, and the ones that will go on to have NRL careers just got some invaluable experience for when they do make it to the NRL proper.

It seems like a win-win to me; the competition goes on as normal, those that want to be with their families can be, those that want to play on can, and a bunch of guys get what might be a once in a lifetime opportunity to play in the NRL.

Anyway, it's just a thought.
 
Hello, I'm The Doctor

Hello, I'm The Doctor

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If the ARLC are clever about this, they will use this as an opportunity to take proper control of the clubs....

The clubs will start struggling for cash once they close their door. If they ask the ARLC for cash, the ARLC should be thinking very carefully about what they ask for in return
 
Canard

Canard

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The Great Dane said:
Instead of suspending the season or forcing players that don't want to play to participate, what if we continued the season but only with players that are willing to participate.

So let's say that a bunch of the Warriors players want to go home, let them then call up the next best willing player in their position to take their spot.

It'll effect the standard of the competition, but it's only for a little while, and I reckon that most players will want to play on anyway. Besides that no matter what happens the competition is going to have somewhat of an asterisk next to it this year, so it may as well continue with an asterisk next to it.

It'd also give dozens of guys the opportunity to play in the NRL and prove themselves. Many of them may never have got the opportunity to play otherwise, and the ones that will go on to have NRL careers just got some invaluable experience for when they do make it to the NRL proper.

It seems like a win-win to me; the competition goes on as normal, those that want to be with their families can be, those that want to play on can, and a bunch of guys get what might be a once in a lifetime opportunity to play in the NRL.

Anyway, it's just a thought.
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Hello said:
If the ARLC are clever about this, they will use this as an opportunity to take proper control of the clubs....

The clubs will start struggling for cash once they close their door. If they ask the ARLC for cash, the ARLC should be thinking very carefully about what they ask for in return
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Jesus Christ, you pair make Kim Jung-Un look benevolent.

This isn't an opportunity to take financial or other advantage of the club's and players.
 
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Eelectrica

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Seems like they're going to try to soldier on.
Keeping these players locked up in camp for a week is one thing, to do it for weeks on end is something else entirely.
 
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Jackie Treehorn

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bileduct said:
Best thing to do might be to take a four to six week hiatus and just deliberately expose all players to the virus and put them in isolation until they recover. Symptoms for people at the players age is said to be mild to non-existent and the death rate is extremely low - and I would assume even lower than that for professional athletes at peak fitness. There's no conclusive evidence that people can be reinfected, so best to just get it out of the way instead of the inevitable scares every time someone does get infected.

It is inevitable that players are going to get this, and they will pass it on to others before they're even aware they have it. Just f**king get it over and done with.

By that stage New Zealand may have relaxed its isolation rules.
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No way that is going to happen. Symptoms for young healthy people are generally mild but not always. Deliberately exposing people to it it not the way to go.
 
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