What a comeback win by Adelaide against St Kilda in Cairns last night, considering the Crows did not make their first score until the middle of the second quarter. It’s the first time since September 2020 (West Coast d North Melbourne) that a team was held scoreless in the first quarter and went on to win the match.
That’s not that long ago.
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There can’t have been many wins by a team more than 36 points behind and yet to score themselves?
WHAT A WIN 
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Super, super close 
Neale Daniher, Michael Long, Erin Phillips and Bec Goddard were recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours list, with Neale elevated from OAM to AO.
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North Melbourne v Brisbane and Hawthorn v Essendon have been moved to Tasmania, Mark Stevens and Tom Morris reports.
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Might solve the “which team moves” dilemma in the long run: move the Roos to Launceston and the Hawks to Hobart.
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It is a pity no crowd is permitted in Geelong where there are no active cases and no restrictions.
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Interesting that Geelong would prefer to play at home but with no spectators, than somewhere with spectators.
Hopefully restriction ease further even with a 25% cap. Its ridiculous that they can’t allow 25% considering they are allowing people into restaurants, shopping centre etc.
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Not really, as much as the home crowd advantage is huge, so is the shape of Kardinia Park, which gives a bit of an edge, similar to that extra bit gained by how much the Dogs play well at Docklands.
I wonder if there’s a potential for a very late change of mind on this, based on how the restriction lifting occurs?
I suppose the problem might be that the idea was that the Melbourne/regional ‘border’ would come down this week, and they wouldn’t want people going to the footy down in Geelong being the first big test of that?
I guess capping it at 25% would help that a little though. If regional victoria is opened then there is no real logical reason to stop attendances. All tickets need to have a mobile phone number that is given to DHHS and if they have the QR system in place it is probably the safest, most covid friendly environment for spectators.
Obviously, there would be issues if Regional isn’t open.
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Bulldogs playing though from Melbourne
Yeah but tassie want their own team yet only 3,000 are willing to turn up on a Sunday arvo!
Norf and GWS don’t exactly draw a crowd
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Hawthorn v Essendon will be a much better test of actual support down there - actually getting a big Melbourne side as the opposition for once
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It’s decisions like this one that makes the Victorian Government’s overly cautious approach to lifting restrictions really frustrating to follow/understand.
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Now confirmed.
I am also disappointed that the Cats-Dogs clash won’t have spectators. What does the Victorian Government fear of?
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An outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) at a guess.
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