Corona impact on NRL...?

[GNR4LIFE]

Warriors are screwed

 

[Strider]

Yeah, it seems like a certainty season to cancel after the NZ news. Unless NZ stay in Aus lol bit of a stretch. Shame. Only option is to 'suspend' but as the virus is only to grow in 30 days not diminish I'd say suspending the season is same as cancelled.

 

[Tiger_Steve]

Warriors can do what Wolfpack are doing. They will stay in Australia. Warriors home games would need to be diverted to available grounds

Edit: just read on Twitter from Weidler that this is the plan NRL hoping to adopt

 

[jirskyr]

So with new restrictions in place for NZ it looks like this afternoon may be the last game for the warriors for a while. Not sure how the comp can continue fairly with one team unable to play.

Just means you have to arrive 2 weeks early! You have to self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival.

Warriors can keep playing, they'd just have to stay in Australia or play bulk games in NZ. Note that NZ are not restricting travel from the Pacific, but I believe they are including Australia.

 

[Geo]

What exactly are people calling “panic”. The only thing I see is the individuals buying too much toilet paper.

Yes panic buying. Getting upset and violent over stock. It's not everyone and the violence is especially contained to a small amount of people, but it has a larger societal / cultural impact when some folks are willing to start fights over toilet paper. It when from being laughable to semi-serious.

Even less about the toilet paper, more about the food hoarding - flour, pasta, rice. Some people think this acceptable and appropriate, to be prepared for - for what I don't know, for the apparent lack of absence of food in shops, or inability to get to shops or receive supplies. I said before, it's not a flood or bushfire, there's nothing physical stopping you right now from driving down to the shops, just in some food stocks they are without.

And my main concern is the escalation, first toilet paper, then pasta and rice... it doesn't take much more of a step for people to ramp up the panic, given that panic begets panic, and next there's no canned foods, no cereal, no biscuits. Maybe all this calms down of its own, or maybe people choose the "next thing" to panic-purchase. E.g. first toilet paper was hard to come by, then by close proximity, tissues and paper towels.

The escalation should not have gone as far as toilet paper or rice in the first place, if everyone kept their heads. You should not have to visit 5 stores to get some paper, or a packet of pasta. Under normal circumstances, you could buy toilet paper or pasta at any shop in Australia, under average consumption, but there is hardly any to be had. That part of people's reactions is serious, more serious than being asked to consider staying home more often than you normally would.

Pies...?

 

[Chicken_Faced_Killa]

You can’t reasonably expect the warriors to stay in Australia. The Wolfpack players know that’s the deal, how can you ask young men to stay in another country away from their families? Even if they go to NZ they have to stay at home for two weeks and can’t train.

 

[Strider]

They should keep all teams camped in one small stadium never leave no one come and go and film all games there, then the season can happen! 😂😂

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Warriors can do what Wolfpack are doing. They will stay in Australia. Warriors home games would need to be diverted to available grounds

Edit: just read on Twitter from Weidler that this is the plan NRL hoping to adopt

Its gonna be rough for them living here indefinitely on two days worth of clothes lol.

 

[Strider]

They would have to give Warriors players and staff a huge pay rise to stay away so long. Seasons over. Not because of NZ, that's the beginning. Sucks I was heaps pumped and Benji's last season but I can't see it happening.

 

[hobbo1]

You can’t reasonably expect the warriors to stay in Australia. The Wolfpack players know that’s the deal, how can you ask young men to stay in another country away from their families? Even if they go to NZ they have to stay at home for two weeks and can’t train.

Kick em out

 

[Strider]

What abour a 1 week knockout tournament next week and that will be season 2020. Haha just trying to think of something better than nothing.

 

[Fade.To.Black]

You can’t reasonably expect the warriors to stay in Australia. The Wolfpack players know that’s the deal, how can you ask young men to stay in another country away from their families? Even if they go to NZ they have to stay at home for two weeks and can’t train.

Kick em out

Yep. Easy. Just give every team scheduled to play them 2 points and a bye. It is practically that way physically playing them anyhow.

 

[Geo]

Jacinta is a Warriors fan obliviously watched the 1st half..doesn't want em back.. ..

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Imagine how ravouness we’d be for footy by round 1 next year if the season was cancelled.

 

[swag_tiger]

The Warriors as a club want to remain in Australia and play the rest of the competition.

 

[Strider]

Wow they are actually considering my thought of all teams at one venue hah https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/03/14/greenberg-games-at-one-location-an-option/

 

[Deleted member 3518]

If we lost say 8 rounds , couldn’t we just renew the season ? There’s 25 rounds . That’s a lot of footy . You could have a competitive seasons with 16 or 17

 

[Geo]

Wow they are actually considering my thought of all teams at one venue hah https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/03/14/greenberg-games-at-one-location-an-option/

From that article..

"I think if you miss too many games – if you miss a Titans game or a team lower on the ladder and then you get a Roosters game that you have to verse twice in a year – I just don't think it's fair," Moses told Triple M.

Sums up the slimey little fart.....

 

[Fade.To.Black]

The Warriors as a club want to remain in Australia and play the rest of the competition.

Good on them if true. Hope so.

 

[cochise]

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

Should be compulsory reading but too many believe they know better and there's nothing to worry about.

This virus is already changing the world and it will get a lot worse before it gets better. People have to decide whether they want to be part of the problem or part of the solution. Frankly I don't think the response has been strong or fast enough.

Think the bloke that wrote that article has been watching too many end-of-the-world movies IMO. Healthcare workers will collapse and die from exhaustion?
We will see. Sounds like that bloke should maroon himself on an island for a few years to sit Armageddon out.

Re health care workers; I watched an interview recently where it was reported that in Milan health care staff, working in the corona virus wards were not being monitored and had too keep working even if they had the virus.

The source of that very comment was an unverified email that had passed through the hands of at least 4 people!