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Originally Posted by Oldtony
If the calendar dates Joe Saward predicts are true Albert Park will be in April, following Bahrain & Saudi rather than its normal march date.
The tennis is normally end Jan early Feb. That provides a significant difference in the timing to get things up and running.
NSW and Vic are getting a pretty rapid roll out of the vaccine going now and targets to open up those States early December are looking to be achievable, and given that April is another 4 months down the track that is probably achievable to get things open in those States.
The political problem is the Feds who will be running in election mode and carrying a lot of baggage over quarantine failures and missed vaccine targets and their flip flop attitude to shut downs.
They have just rolled out the nuclear option on the submarine fleet so they will be pretty desperate not to look like they are risking a significant ramp up of cases in the community.
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I agree with all of this.The issue won’t be vaccination rates but the approval of quarantine free entry for tennis players and F1 teams.Although the GP is nearly 3 months later than when the tennis starts if they can’t work out something for the tennis they won’t for the GP as those political fundamentals you mentioned wouldn’t have changed.I’m guessing early November is the deadline for the tennis.The ECB have already put announcement of the Ashes squad back from when it is normally done after the last Test of the home season until late October as they face the entire team and coaching staff withdrawing after talks this week,