{"id":93677,"date":"2021-07-01T07:31:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=93677"},"modified":"2021-07-01T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T10:02:03","slug":"petty-dockers-roasted-for-covid-travel-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=93677","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Petty&#039; Dockers roasted for COVID travel drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFL great David King says he hopes the &quot;Karma bus&quot; knocks on Fremantle&#x27;s door after the Dockers&#x27; CEO urged the AFL to move the club&#x27;s game with Carlton this weekend to Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>The AFL today confirmed Fremantle will play Carlton on Saturday night at the MCG despite the fixture being the Dockers&#x27; home game.<\/p>\n<p>Fremantle, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/round-16-adelaide-crows-port-adelaide-power-fly-to-melbourne-covid19-outbreak\/bce3c6f0-41cf-4527-89c8-81f8659ab04c\" title=\"who like all non-Victorian clubs are currently in Melbourne hubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">who like all non-Victorian clubs are currently in Melbourne hubs<\/a> due to the COVID-19 clusters impacting the nation, had hoped to play their game with the Blues in Tasmania so that Carlton would be forced to travel.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Personally I like the potential to go down to Tasmania. We&#x27;re playing there the following weekend,&quot; Fremantle CEO Simon Garlick told <em>SEN <\/em>earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It might sound silly, but there&#x27;s something that sits uncomfortably with me with the Blues getting out of their beds and driving to the MCG or Marvel when it&#x27;s our home game.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d2227d6c-659b-455f-b857-1f800af7f54a\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d2227d6c-659b-455f-b857-1f800af7f54a\" alt=\"Fremantle\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Responding to the CEO&#x27;s comments today, King claims Garlick was out of line and said he hoped Carlton put a number of the Dockers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Do you think it really makes a difference for an AFL club to do a little bit of travel? To travel down to Tassie or travel down the highway?&quot; King told <em>SEN. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I find that so petty.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Do you believe in the karma bus? I think that Freo will get smacked this week. All the carry on, all the difficulties, Carlton will go bang.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Dockers-Blues clash is scheduled for 7.40pm AEST, and it will follow the Melbourne-Greater Western Sydney game at the MCG that&#x27;s scheduled to take place at 1.45pm AEST that same day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>AFL great David King says he hopes the &quot;Karma bus&quot; knocks on Fremantle&#x27;s door after the Dockers&#x27; CEO urged the AFL to move the club&#x27;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=93677\" title=\"&#039;Petty&#039; Dockers roasted for COVID travel drama\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93679,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93677\/revisions\/93679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}