Trader wrote:The Dark Knight wrote:Not quite sure where to put this but I'm confused and annoyed about it.
So it's cricket season now (you beauty) and like anything we do in these unprecedented times we need COVID plans in place. Our association the ASCA has put their COVID plan and we must follow it if we want to play, I'm assuming all associations will have a similar if not the same COVID plan.
Fair enough but why can I play football this season, a contact sport for and play against, have physical contact with, tackle, brush up along side, handle the same footballs as fellow males from 10 different amateur league clubs most of which I've never met/seen and will never see again aswell as have umpires that handle the same footballs yet for cricket we are discouraged from shaking hands with the opposition, discouraged from celebrating wickets with my team mates, not allowed to have any contact with umpires and have them not my hat while I'm bowling. Also our teamsheets cannot be exchanged by the captains at the coin toss like usual instead be placed somewhere where a photo can be taken of them by the opposition captain yet as far as I'm aware during football teamsheets were still exchanged by team mangers as per usual.
No afternoon tea either which NH usually does yet clubs could still sell food during football season and have people eat together.
I can understand the saliva part thats a bit more serious but f**k it's going to be bloody hard not to be able to just automatically shine the ball because I'm one to try and keep the ball as 'new' as possible.
Drink bottles aren't are problem for me because everyone at my club brings their own drinks for cricket anyway.
I can understand and appreciate having these COVID plans but when I look at the two sports I'm heavily involved in I see a whole lot of double standards which makes me just shake my head in disbelief.
The difference is the blokes in charge.
SACA are a bunch of old school wet noodle types, where as Kernahs and the SAAFL are more willing to push for what makes sense.
Interestingly that ATCA didn't follow the model put forward by SACA and now SACA are looking to roll back some of their requirements after realising how silly they were.
I thought this may have something to do with it. From my experience the AdFL made our 2020 season are 'normal' as possible given the circumstances and it remained pretty much the same as previous year with no ridiculous rules or advise that our Cricket COVID safe plans have.