No point really, won't care either way to be honest feel for the players really.

Making the call 4 hours before the game is about to start.

Wow NBL.

Surely they would have Game 3 over here on Sunday to reduce travel and risk if infection, then if required have 4 and 5 back in Sydney next weekend??

Will the Wildcats still have their courtisde MC at the game..

"LETS GO WILDCATS LETS GO!!!"
"I CANT HEAR YOU!!!!"
"AAAAHHH LETS GO WILDCATS LETS GO!"

LoveBroker you can hardly blame the NBL seriously

Of course you can, it should have been called off days ago.

Considering the timing of the announcement from the government today not sure we can blame the NBL. No crowd and players minds are probably not going to be 100% on the task either I don't think. Tempted to say they should've just called it. Give Perth the crown or whatever, if I'm being asked to stay home from work not sure it's fair to expect players to show up to their office, even with no crowds.

The government could have said "everything is fine, go ahead" and the NBL still should have locked it down.

Just call the whole thing off an declare the Wildcats the Champions.

But still make the entire Kings team watch Wagstaff cut the nets down @ Kudos.

I'm surprised they didn't play this one as normal and then go fan-free from here given how many entities until today were carrying on as normal. It's definitely late notice for Perth fans.

"Making the call 4 hours before the game is about to start.

Wow NBL."

As opposed to before the extent of the pandemic was understood? Or well after so the situation can potentially worsen? SMH

Formula 1, by comparison, announced the event would not go ahead 1 hour AFTER the event began, from what I'm told.

It was pretty well understood yesterday and for several hours this morning, even to the general public.

The time to act was weeks ago. Notice that the SARS-affected countries aren't having the issues the rest of the world is having, because they learned from their mistakes and have procedures in place.

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"Making the call 4 hours before the game is about to start.

Wow NBL."

As opposed to before the extent of the pandemic was understood? Or well after so the situation can potentially worsen? SMH

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I think he means, as opposed to last night, or the day before. Concerts I was attending got cancelled days ago, and their numbers were marginal in comparison.

4 Hours before is a little late in the decision process.

NBL a complete joke
4 hrs before game. 2 days before government advice ban.
Ffs, give fans the opportunity to go if they want to,
If you were that concerned about virus you would cancel competition now.

Sweet will be able to hear Gleeson's squealing unencumbered now.

Silver lining:

Provides an opportunity to observe/gather empirical evidence on how a home stadium crowd might influence decisions made by game referees/officials.

Plus we don't have to endure seeing the likes of Senator11, Cats for life, Timberball and Train's toothless grins :-)

Only joking, I feel your frustration, I would be pissed if I had tickets only to get this news hours before tip-off.

This will be a very interesting series, no home crowd advantage, all three refs and the players having perfect clarity in hearing the rants from the coaches from anywhere on the court,
Refs not having the unconscious and unavoidable influence of 10K people all sighing "no" at once.

fantastic , since I don't have tickets to either game

I feel your frustration, I would be pissed if I had tickets only to get this news hours before tip-off.

I don't actually care too much about the game.
BUT it highlights the ridiculous different standards

The virus is still spreading in Australia, BECAUSE we keep flying people back from China (via Hong Kong) and not imposing any sort of quarantine.

There are bullshit claims that you can only catch the virus from people in the same row as you. On a 6 hour flight, the whole plane is at risk.

My chances of catching anything by going to a NBL game are slim. But what about the people who have to catch public transport every day, especially coming up to winter. At the best of times, Perth trains are wall-to-wall flying mucous.

As usual, the government picks on SOFT targets, rather than actually making hard calls.

ALL flights out of SE Asia should be cancelled, except for medivac flights going straight to quarantine.
Anybody using public transport should be wearing masks, as should anybody serving the public.

Four hours notice is better than even four people catching this virus.

Will the players still be introduced onto the court with Requiem of a Dream or Alan Parsons Project or just the Clap of Towel boys?

"and still not at the game because attending would be moronic"

I understand that statement does make sense as an explanation and justification for almost everyone else on this forum ... But ....????.

:))))

The courtside mics could be the stepping stones to Trevs record contract. He won't be worrying about the game, just hitting the right notes.

It was well understood by those who have the capacity and willingness to understand it.

Finally, now they can play the rest of the games in the Melbourne studio.

It will be interesting to see which Club is advantaged / disadvantaged in this series due to the Federal Government's "crowd ban".

We will have to wait and see how the series pans out.

At the very least, this is a real let down for Perth and Sydney fans having waited an entire season only to see the final curtains drawn with no one on stage.

We are in Clown world now.

This is the apparent reality of our new world order.

I agree.
Play games 2 & 3 in Perth, then 4 & 5 in Sydney if needed.

And no, that doesn't advantage Perth. Sydney must now win at least one game in Perth to win. Doesn't matter if that is game 3, 4, or 5.

Otherwise, they might as well play tonight since everyone is here, but after that should just call it off.
If Perth wins two, give it to Perth, otherwise award it to both and send everyone home.

Whichever way it goes, this ship will always have an * next to it.

AFL & NRL seasons are looking fucked as

LK on the mic!

He said if any GF player comes down with corona virus the series will be suspended.

Because it's different people making the decisions. And the NRL are idiots.

Wouldn't it be significantly cheaper to play at some small venue than renting a major venture for nobody to go to haha

Now that it's 1-1 I'd be suggesting to both teams that we play game 3 for all the marbles while there is still a relatively fair way to decide a champion.

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I reckon play game 3 in Perth (Bendat) and if Sydney win, call the series 2-1.

If Perth wins, then I think you have to charter a plane and fly both teams to Sydney for games 4 & 5.

Cancel it.

Can't risk a Kings win now that the series is tied 1-1.

A question for the NBL powers to be Larry and co . You wouldn't let Perth fans attend the game last night due to the Coronavirus and health concerns for players however it doesn’t seem to matter that they have to fly to Sydney . No restrictions there it seems . And also the government rule regarding crowds of 500 people doesn’t come in till Monday. Sounds like a stitch up to me !

Is their flight going to have 13,000 people on it Lee?

Only takes 1 greggo