Confusion as season stalls out
LAST month in a one-on-one interview with the Geelong Advertiser, Chris Scott acknowledged his team had little room for error in 2020.
It was as clear an indication the Cats coach could have given that it won’t take much for things to turn pear-shaped this year should a few things go against them.
“I don’t think we have got a lot of room for error,” Scott said at the time.
“That would be my assessment, that if a few things go wrong for us it could get really difficult really quickly.”
That was on Thursday, February 27. A little more than three weeks later, the world is a vastly different place.
In a move that will have major ramifications on life as we know it, the AFL has postponed the competition until at least May 31.
The word ‘ unprecedented’ has been thrown about more times in the past fortnight than the number of fans who would otherwise have attended matches on the weekend, but it is utterly apt in this instance.
In a best-case scenario teams will play just 17 games, potentially still in front of empty stadiums.
But that remains an unknown given the drastic measures both state and national governments have put in place in the past 48 hours and the uncertainty of where we will be in relation to COVID-19 in another 10 weeks.
The AFLW competition has been cancelled, with no premiership to be awarded.
It is gut-wrenching for those women who were so close to seeing out their season.
It is bitterly disappointing too for the men who have trained all summer only to