Corona impact on NRL...?

[GNR4LIFE]

I just hope any games that are called off are postponed and not cancelled altogether. GF in November/December anybody?

 

[OzLuke]

NRL without audience cheering is boring so I hope they would add in artificial cheering sound effects to TV if so lol. Seriously it's not as exciting. If they do cancel NRL for one week, they might as well cancel the season. Because it's not going away in one week or one month. Maybe 6 months one year.

hopefully they add a wilhelm scream every time a player gets tackled or drops the ball......

 

[WT2K]

https://twitter.com/brentread_7/status/1238289164669345792?s=19
Skyfire canceled in Canberra tomorrow night. Stay tuned for news on Raiders game. Closed door now looking more and more likely

 

[Cairnstigers]

CRICKET AUSTRALIA have announced that today's AUST v NZ will be played behind closed doors.

OVER REACTION ???????

That's so we can't see our Aussies get flogged

 

[WT2K]

BREAKING: Government has given advice to ban gatherings of more than 500 people. Story from @CUhlmann @NRLonNine @9NewsSyd

 

[TSupps05]

The problem with postponing the season is that the virus will be getting worse in time due to amount of people with it. IF we are cancelling games with only 100 odd people in AUS with it right now we won't see a season

 

[hammertime]

BREAKING: Government has given advice to ban gatherings of more than 500 people. Story from @CUhlmann @NRLonNine @9NewsSyd

Umm.... Like a school or workplace?

 

[mike]

The problem with postponing the season is that the virus will be getting worse in time due to amount of people with it. IF we are cancelling games with only 100 odd people in AUS with it right now we won't see a season

This idea of locking everything down for a period of time will fail. They may as well cancel everything until a vaccine is developed because until then it’s not going to go away. It is in the general population and there will be people walking around now who have the virus but don’t show any symptoms.

 

[jirskyr]

BREAKING: Government has given advice to ban gatherings of more than 500 people. Story from @CUhlmann @NRLonNine @9NewsSyd

Umm.... Like a school or workplace?

It's fairly ridiculous. I understand trying to stop spread, but that should be down to the individual self-isolating and not forcing things to close down.

For example, if they were to cancel a football match, you are talking around 20K people within approx 0.5 square kilometre of each other. Individually you'd come into close contact with perhaps a few hundred people as you walk into and out of the ground, get a beer, use the toilet. I can't cough onto the young family in the boxes or behind the tryline. So they would cancel this.

But you are free to catch a train right now into town at peak hour, when you would be automatically sharing a enclosed cabin with about 50-100 people, on a platform with 1000 people, touching railings of several thousands of people have already touched it that day, going to a place where 10s of thousands of people are working and milling about.

Tonight alone tens of thousands of people will probably be out and about, drinking and eating, getting less and less careful with their bodily selves as the beers pile up.

But of course you need to think about banning football? Don't get it.

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

CV should let run its course the sick elderly and frail should be quarantine and everybody else go about life as normal if you catch CV I believe its like a bad cold 14 days bed rest and whatever treatment is advised and it should be over.People should be advised not to attend mass gatherings if they are not well or immune deficient everyone else get on with life

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Caulfied races in melbourne saturday has been closed to spectators
Rosehill still open ar this stage V'Landys has not cancelled races yet either

 

[happy_tiger]

BREAKING: Government has given advice to ban gatherings of more than 500 people. Story from @CUhlmann @NRLonNine @9NewsSyd

Umm.... Like a school or workplace?

Well I asked that ...schools ......

Was a few rumours floating around they might start school holidays two weeks early ..which would be the end of next week up here

 

[JD Tiger]

Skyfire in Canberra is cancelled (edit: postponed sorry), and a personality on the radio station promoting it has now said that the Raiders Titans game tonight will be closed to spectators. Nothing official yet, but for a 6 o'clock kickoff, I'm expecting it at any second.

 

[InBenjiWeTrust]

BREAKING: Government has given advice to ban gatherings of more than 500 people. Story from @CUhlmann @NRLonNine @9NewsSyd

Umm.... Like a school or workplace?

It's fairly ridiculous. I understand trying to stop spread, but that should be down to the individual self-isolating and not forcing things to close down.

For example, if they were to cancel a football match, you are talking around 20K people within approx 0.5 square kilometre of each other. Individually you'd come into close contact with perhaps a few hundred people as you walk into and out of the ground, get a beer, use the toilet. I can't cough onto the young family in the boxes or behind the tryline. So they would cancel this.

But you are free to catch a train right now into town at peak hour, when you would be automatically sharing a enclosed cabin with about 50-100 people, on a platform with 1000 people, touching railings of several thousands of people have already touched it that day, going to a place where 10s of thousands of people are working and milling about.

Tonight alone tens of thousands of people will probably be out and about, drinking and eating, getting less and less careful with their bodily selves as the beers pile up.

But of course you need to think about banning football? Don't get it.

correct, they just play 'cover my a* ', and this would be their 'due diligence':rage:

 

[rustycage]

BREAKING: Government has given advice to ban gatherings of more than 500 people. Story from @CUhlmann @NRLonNine @9NewsSyd

Umm.... Like a school or workplace?

It's fairly ridiculous. I understand trying to stop spread, but that should be down to the individual self-isolating and not forcing things to close down.

For example, if they were to cancel a football match, you are talking around 20K people within approx 0.5 square kilometre of each other. Individually you'd come into close contact with perhaps a few hundred people as you walk into and out of the ground, get a beer, use the toilet. I can't cough onto the young family in the boxes or behind the tryline. So they would cancel this.

But you are free to catch a train right now into town at peak hour, when you would be automatically sharing a enclosed cabin with about 50-100 people, on a platform with 1000 people, touching railings of several thousands of people have already touched it that day, going to a place where 10s of thousands of people are working and milling about.

Tonight alone tens of thousands of people will probably be out and about, drinking and eating, getting less and less careful with their bodily selves as the beers pile up.

But of course you need to think about banning football? Don't get it.

You're a clever guy. You should get it. My take is this. The population will predominantly be guided by their peers. As more and more are educated, more and more will follow. I notice the whole argument of it being a media driven mass hysteria have diminished somewhat. My understanding is that as we as a whole remain apart more, the infection rate will decrease but remain for a longer period which is better than a mass disease contraction. I'm not here trying to preach to you as I've read your line of work, but your above response surprises me. Maybe I'm completely off the mark here, but just my understanding from what I've been absorbing of late. This thing isn't a joke and I think people are getting used to that idea. I reckon the season will be knocked on the head pretty early on. Maybe we'll be back on for Origin if we're lucky so the Blues can smash those toads again.

 

[Tigerboy]

BREAKING: Government has given advice to ban gatherings of more than 500 people. Story from @CUhlmann @NRLonNine @9NewsSyd

Umm.... Like a school or workplace?

It's fairly ridiculous. I understand trying to stop spread, but that should be down to the individual self-isolating and not forcing things to close down.

For example, if they were to cancel a football match, you are talking around 20K people within approx 0.5 square kilometre of each other. Individually you'd come into close contact with perhaps a few hundred people as you walk into and out of the ground, get a beer, use the toilet. I can't cough onto the young family in the boxes or behind the tryline. So they would cancel this.

But you are free to catch a train right now into town at peak hour, when you would be automatically sharing a enclosed cabin with about 50-100 people, on a platform with 1000 people, touching railings of several thousands of people have already touched it that day, going to a place where 10s of thousands of people are working and milling about.

Tonight alone tens of thousands of people will probably be out and about, drinking and eating, getting less and less careful with their bodily selves as the beers pile up.

But of course you need to think about banning football? Don't get it.


You're a clever guy. You should get it. My take is this. The population will predominantly be guided by their peers. As more and more are educated, more and more will follow. I notice the whole argument of it being a media driven mass hysteria have diminished somewhat. My understanding is that as we as a whole remain apart more, the infection rate will decrease but remain for a longer period which is better than a mass disease contraction. I'm not here trying to preach to you as I've read your line of work, but your above response surprises me. Maybe I'm completely off the mark here, but just my understanding from what I've been absorbing of late. This thing isn't a joke and I think people are getting used to that idea. I reckon the season will be knocked on the head pretty early on. Maybe we'll be back on for Origin if we're lucky so the Blues can smash those toads again.

Right, so he’s wrong but at the same time you’re advocating for the season ‘knocked’ on its head

 

[rustycage]

When will the NRL:
1) play in empty stadiums
2) suspend the season

??

COVID19 thread over there ---->

Cancel the season.
I've seen enough.

Not yet otherwise the slime are premiers.

As morally bankrupt as the eels are, they aren't Souths. Only souths would try to pull a stunt like claiming a title in a manner such as that.

 

[JD Tiger]

Skyfire in Canberra is cancelled (edit: postponed sorry), and a personality on the radio station promoting it has now said that the Raiders Titans game tonight will be closed to spectators. Nothing official yet, but for a 6 o'clock kickoff, I'm expecting it at any second.

Still a rumour at this point, on Kristen Davidson Facebook page.

 

[voice_of_reason]

It's fairly ridiculous. I understand trying to stop spread, but that should be down to the individual self-isolating and not forcing things to close down.

Self isolation doesn't work in the general population - too many irresponsible people in the world to rely on their own judgement. You get some fool who says "Hey, I've got it and I'm not that sick" who walks into a nursing home and kills half the patients.

I see little personal risk in going to a football game, but the risk of spread is enormous and can't be ignored. If 20% of the population get it (as is being conservatively estimated) that's around 1.5 million cases in NSW alone. Statistically 20% of those (310,000) will need treatment in hospital (there's only 140,000 beds in Australia) and around 3% (45,000) will die. Our health system will collapse if the spread isn't contained. Imagine trying to get treated for a stroke or heart attack when the system is so overwhelmed. 4 hours waits in AED become 3 week waits.

It may not seem that serious, but in Italy they simply won't treat people over 60 who have other medical conditions. The Drs are basically making decisions on who they let die.

 

[rustycage]

BREAKING: Government has given advice to ban gatherings of more than 500 people. Story from @CUhlmann @NRLonNine @9NewsSyd

Umm.... Like a school or workplace?

It's fairly ridiculous. I understand trying to stop spread, but that should be down to the individual self-isolating and not forcing things to close down.

For example, if they were to cancel a football match, you are talking around 20K people within approx 0.5 square kilometre of each other. Individually you'd come into close contact with perhaps a few hundred people as you walk into and out of the ground, get a beer, use the toilet. I can't cough onto the young family in the boxes or behind the tryline. So they would cancel this.

But you are free to catch a train right now into town at peak hour, when you would be automatically sharing a enclosed cabin with about 50-100 people, on a platform with 1000 people, touching railings of several thousands of people have already touched it that day, going to a place where 10s of thousands of people are working and milling about.

Tonight alone tens of thousands of people will probably be out and about, drinking and eating, getting less and less careful with their bodily selves as the beers pile up.

But of course you need to think about banning football? Don't get it.


You're a clever guy. You should get it. My take is this. The population will predominantly be guided by their peers. As more and more are educated, more and more will follow. I notice the whole argument of it being a media driven mass hysteria have diminished somewhat. My understanding is that as we as a whole remain apart more, the infection rate will decrease but remain for a longer period which is better than a mass disease contraction. I'm not here trying to preach to you as I've read your line of work, but your above response surprises me. Maybe I'm completely off the mark here, but just my understanding from what I've been absorbing of late. This thing isn't a joke and I think people are getting used to that idea. I reckon the season will be knocked on the head pretty early on. Maybe we'll be back on for Origin if we're lucky so the Blues can smash those toads again.

Right, so he’s wrong but at the same time you’re advocating for the season ‘knocked’ on its head

Unfortunately I think it will be. I can't really see the NRL playing to empty stadiums. Gathering large numbers of people in times like these not only is likely risky for those in attendance, but in these times, probably opens them up for litigation.