This is getting ridiculous.
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We're well and truly into coronavirus recovery mode now, with restrictions slowly lifting across the country.
Businesses across the country are being given timelines on when they can reopen and resume trading, but for community sport organisations there's been hardly a peep out of the government.
Tuesday's announcement by Acting Sport Minister Geoff Lee gave a concrete start date for junior sport, which was great news.
There'll be some details to be hashed out around crowds and start times; there'll be some teething issues around change rooms and training in smaller groups; they'll be things to overcome, but they have a start date. They're set. They can work around everything else.
As for senior sport? Zip. Nada. Not a damn thing.
Just more delays and excuses - it's all too hard, it seems.
And you know what? It's allowed to be too hard. Just come out and admit it, scrap the winter season for senior leagues and aim to start again next year.
If it's not safe, then we won't play. It's simple. Sure, people won't love it, but we're in the middle of a pandemic. It happens.
But give us some clarity, or local leagues and clubs - the backbones of regional communities - will pay the price.
It's absurd we haven't got that clarity when shopping centres are full and plans are obviously being made.
For community sports like rugby union, Australian rules, netball, hockey and the like - where there are no player payments involved across most of the state - there's still hope they might get on.
Vain hope, but still hope. There shouldn't be.
Community sports are run by volunteers who already put an immense amount of work and time into running clubs and competitions across the country.
Some teams - from juniors all the way through to seniors - can't find coaches or team managers, let alone a volunteer willing to take on the responsibility of reducing the spread of a deadly virus.
Can you expect volunteers at any level to be responsibly for monitoring crowd numbers? For telling fans to stand apart? For looking grandpa or grandma in the eye and telling them they can't come watch their daughter run around on the field despite them driving two hours one way for a junior sport game?
Can you do the same for seniors?
As has been discussed over and over, money is a huge issue for clubs in 2020. Most sponsors are hospitality businesses, which have not only been closed for the last few months but also won't be able to host post-game functions unless restrictions are lifted.
But clubs still don't know how many games they'll be playing.
If the sport on the court or pitch or field or meadow or whatever you want to call it looks and feels rubbish on the field and you're not allowed to go back to the pub afterwards, what's the point?
The Orange District Football Association said it still didn't know what its fees would be this season because they don't have a start date, hence they don't know how long their season will be.
Group 10 clubs need to know how many games they'll play so they can budget not just player payments but the million other things which come from running football clubs.
There's been absolutely no word on when things might begin. Absolutely nothing from the government.
Federal, state and local governments have rightly focused their energy on curtailing the pandemic, but there are whole wings of governments dedicated to sport.
The lack of leadership coming from government on community sport is not just frustrating, it's disappointing. Governments can - and need to - focus on several things at once.
This week was the deadline. Competitions want July starts and finals in October, and clubs need as much time as possible to prepare. Without that time, they'll fold.
Dozens of major leagues around the country, especially Australian rules and netball leagues in Victoria and on the border, are already pulling the pin. No-one's ready to go from a standing start to on the field in four weeks. No-one can.
Players are underdone. Group 10 skippers are admitting their charges haven't got the miles in the legs or the physical fitness - let alone the match fitness - to take hits for a full 80 minutes.
There's been no team skills, no strategy sessions and because of it the footy will probably look awful.
That's any footy - league, union, football, Australian rules - and if the sport on the court or pitch or field or meadow or whatever you want to call it looks and feels rubbish on the field and you're not allowed to go back to the pub afterwards, what's the point?
As someone who's fallen off the face of a fitness cliff (please don't tell Orange Tigers coach Tim Barry) I can tell you my body is absolutely not ready for contact sport, and I'd be shocked if there was a club of any sport across the region which could field a full side which is.
Some clubs - especially in Group 10 - will face severe financial stress if they're forced to take the field in 2020. Some won't survive, and those on the brink need every day possible to prepare and scrape together every dollar they can find.
Every day we're forced to spend in limbo is another day closer to clubs and competitions folding. If we pull the pin now, those clubs head back into hibernation and will re-emerge in 2021.
If we force them to wake up in the dead of winter, they might not survive. If they get a warning now - like, in the next few days now, not next week, not in July: now.
If the government doesn't know if local sport can get up, tell leagues to shut it down and come back next year.
One way or another, just give us an answer.
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