Despite warnings about social distancing at Sunday night's western derby, AFL fans crowded onto the first few trains departing Perth Stadium after the match, according to the Public Transport Authority .
"If people can just keep that in mind, a bit of patience, a bit of respect and everything runs smoothly."Despite capacity at Perth Stadium being capped at roughly 30,000, not all ticket holders went to the game and the final attendance was recorded at 25,306.The president of the AMA's WA branch, Andrew Miller, said he understood why the 50 per cent capacity rule for stadiums was introduced when it was several weeks ago.
Dr Miller said for the number of people who were able to enjoy attending the game, far more had been potentially placed at risk by it. "So, we have to, as a community, have a serious conversation about, 'Is it acceptable to continue doing that?' Because a lot of us like phase four and we could probably get by without needing such a huge crowd to be at an event."While a number of people did wear masks at the game, the vast majority did not.
who holds major sporting events with crowds? priorities people!! we are only one infection away from Victoria
What are they thinking allowing spectators - just asking for problems
And what did they expect them to do. 20 to a carriage. There is not a lot of options from that ground. This is not people being silly. This is AFL being silly and putting the games on in the first place. Fuck everyone’s health. As long as sport continues hey.
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This is not journalism
This is the third news tweet today sneering at the working classes. It's as if the media class think they know what's best for us...
These people are weak. In Shanghai the local bus network is packed sideways with fans heading to local AFL games
When it’s basically the only way to and from the stadium, what did they expect?!
Well done AFL fans, intelligent enough not to follow rubbish rules not supported by science. 🖕🖕 Common sense 1 Rubbish SD rules 0
No one has Covid in WA defundtheabc
If only there were some way sporting events could be transmitted into homes, to reduce the need for travel...
What did they think was going to happen