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Reports out of Claremont is that up to 20 league players have been hit by Covid,  This weeks game may not go ahead if the WAFC deem that they haven't got enough players to field a team.

Isn't that why you have a reserves team? Use them or forfeit. Pretty simple. 

They wont be fielding a reserves team this week.

Dazzler wrote:

Isn't that why you have a reserves team? Use them or forfeit. Pretty simple. 

The Reserves will fill the void in the League team and the Reserves will forfeit.
 

Roman wrote:

Dazzler wrote:

Isn't that why you have a reserves team? Use them or forfeit. Pretty simple. 

The Reserves will fill the void in the League team and the Reserves will forfeit.

 

Yep, problem solvered 

Pretty sure Cl will cope, especially with their history of playing finals footy year in and year out across all 3 grades......

Welcome to Subi's world Claremont, we had to deal with 23 players unavailable off the list and managed to field 3 teams. Our Colts won, our reserves got absolutely flogged and the league, with 8 debutants and a bunch of reserves players covering for the 11 or so missing from last years GF team lost a close one to Souths, so suck it up princesses and get on with it.
The fact that the Su v SF had to proceed whatever, has set the precedent, so if the WAFC allow the CFC to postpone the fixture there should be an enquiry into why they get special treatment. If numbers get that short, they can forfeit the ressies to make up the league numbers. This is likely to happen to all teams, so any club that doesn't have a contingency plan in place deserves no special treatment.

Senior Seagull wrote:

Welcome to Subi's world Claremont, we had to deal with 23 players unavailable off the list and managed to field 3 teams. Our Colts won, our reserves got absolutely flogged and the league, with 8 debutants and a bunch of reserves players covering for the 11 or so missing from last years GF team lost a close one to Souths, so suck it up princesses and get on with it.
The fact that the Su v SF had to proceed whatever, has set the precedent, so if the WAFC allow the CFC to postpone the fixture there should be an enquiry into why they get special treatment. If numbers get that short, they can forfeit the ressies to make up the league numbers. This is likely to happen to all teams, so any club that doesn't have a contingency plan in place deserves no special treatment.

Agree SS the show must go on.
 

I’m taking a different view. If C genuinely can’t field 2 senior teams, the game should be postponed. It can be played on a bye week. However, if they have enough players overall, but are concerned about being competitive, then too bad, the game goes ahead.,

Last season Perth had up to 12 first 22 unavailable due to injury on several occasions. We did not complain. We just sucked it up and got on with playing.