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28-03-2024, 11:57 AM
#331
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
hujsh
I'll be more clear. No one wants to go be and talk about Covid stuff. We've all moved on. This is not the place to relitigate it if you are determined to do so.
I'm happy to have made the relevant point (specific to these latest Melbourne whistle-blower allegations) that doctor/patient confidentiality and individual patient health and welfare is suddenly once again very much back in vogue, because it most certainly wasn't a short time ago (to our collective shame, mine included) - that is a most welcome development as far as I'm concerned, and one that I hope never is under threat ever again. If you don't learn from history you are destined to repeat it. Move on by all means, but heed the lessons.
"Look at me mate. Look at me. I'm flyin'"
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28-03-2024, 12:54 PM
#332
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
jeemak
I get it BAD but nobody can detail an alternative that effectively maintains confidentiality.
Well I think this is exactly what we need to work on and figure out.
Every player who is now injured or a late withdrawal is now viewed as a possible positive test. Who missed last week for Footscray? Scott and Busslinger? Are they now tarred with that brush?
And surely the coaches and high performance must have some idea when players are withdrawn by the doctor. What is the player's rehab plan if they have a "tight hammy" when it's actually a positive test?
"I'll give him a hug before the first bounce and then I'll run into my pack and give them orders to rip him apart."
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28-03-2024, 12:57 PM
#333
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
SquirrelGrip
Well I think this is exactly what we need to work on and figure out.
Every player who is now injured or a late withdrawal is now viewed as a possible positive test. Who missed last week for Footscray? Scott and Busslinger? Are they now tarred with that brush?
And surely the coaches and high performance must have some idea when players are withdrawn by the doctor. What is the player's rehab plan if they have a "tight hammy" when it's actually a positive test?
JHF and Steele Sidebottom this week "managed".
They've placed everyone under suspicion with this crazy lying idea.
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28-03-2024, 01:15 PM
#334
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Again, if this is so crazy what?s the alternative?
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28-03-2024, 01:15 PM
#335
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
jeemak
Again, if this is so crazy what?s the alternative?
Free coke for all?
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28-03-2024, 01:16 PM
#336
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
JHF and Steele Sidebottom this week "managed".
They've placed everyone under suspicion with this crazy lying idea.
They should have just said omitted for Sidebottom, he was awful last week.
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28-03-2024, 01:19 PM
#337
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
jeemak
Again, if this is so crazy what?s the alternative?
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28-03-2024, 01:34 PM
#338
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
jeemak
Again, if this is so crazy what?s the alternative?
Not lying? That's the bit, as in they had a hammy when they didn't.
Just say unavailable or personal reasons.
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28-03-2024, 01:35 PM
#339
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
EasternWest
Free coke for all?
I'm so conservative i want to go back to when coca cola had cocaine.
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28-03-2024, 01:37 PM
#340
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
Not lying? That's the bit, as in they had a hammy when they didn't.
Just say unavailable or personal reasons.
But that makes me think they?re on drugs.
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28-03-2024, 01:50 PM
#341
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
Sedat
I'm happy to have made the relevant point (specific to these latest Melbourne whistle-blower allegations) that doctor/patient confidentiality and individual patient health and welfare is suddenly once again very much back in vogue, because it most certainly wasn't a short time ago (to our collective shame, mine included) - that is a most welcome development as far as I'm concerned, and one that I hope never is under threat ever again. If you don't learn from history you are destined to repeat it. Move on by all means, but heed the lessons.
It's not relevant at all. I find it a bit rich lecturing someone else to learn the lessons of history given a different conversation in another thread, but that's an even further derailment.
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28-03-2024, 01:52 PM
#342
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
jeemak
Again, if this is so crazy what?s the alternative?
Remove the existing policy and otherwise continue as is. You can't have the '3 strikes' BS and also be testing players positive so they can avoid gameday positive tests.
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28-03-2024, 01:58 PM
#343
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
jeemak
But that makes me think they?re on drugs.
Haha gold.
That's the issue isnt it.
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28-03-2024, 02:14 PM
#344
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
If the policy simply alters the definition of "on game day" to cover the whole AFEL season, that takes away any nefarious secrecy accusations and preserves the individual player health and welfare aspect of the policy.
I'm more concerned (but utterly unsurprised) that one sole politician from one specific electorate, who has a personal beef with the AFEL, has used parliamentary privilege to create division within the community purely to benefit his own political objectives. That's about the only thing that politicians are especially good at doing (apart from spending other people's money of course).
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28-03-2024, 02:25 PM
#345
Re: Melbourne Watch 2023/24
Originally Posted by
hujsh
Remove the existing policy and otherwise continue as is. You can't have the '3 strikes' BS and also be testing players positive so they can avoid gameday positive tests.
This is pertinent.
Just get rid of the three strikes policy and worry about game day.
If they withdraw players who would test positive I don't see an issue.
Where there is criminal conduct it is a police matter. Sport just requires competitors to be clean for competition.
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