A lot has changed in football since Cudgewa coach Brayden Carey departed the country to celebrate a wedding in Thailand.
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The Blues' mentor returned home this week to news sport in Australia had been thrown into chaos, including all football outside of the AFL being postponed until May 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carey and his family must now complete the mandatory two-week isolation period enforced by the government.
He admitted it was a strange experience making his way back to Australia.
"We could watch a fair bit of it over there (in Thailand) and you get back here and it's not nice," Carey said.
"It was kind of weird over there. There wasn't too much concern and we get back home and it's full on.
"It was pretty full on coming home. We had to fly to Singapore.
"It was strange because we got tested every 50 metres at the Thai and Singapore airports and we got to Australia and didn't get tested once.
"I think they're waiting for it to get around and then they might do something about it.
"Hopefully they do something about it very soon because it will get out of hand."
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The danger for opposition coaches is Carey will have plenty of time on his hands to come up with a plan for premiership redemption.
Cudgewa dropped just two games for the entire 2019 season, the problem was one of them was the grand final against Bullioh.
He expects the Bulldogs to once again be the main threat for the flag.
"We'll press on and hopefully we'll go one better this year," Carey said.
"I played 10-15 minutes of it (the grand final) with an (injured) ankle and everyone had a bit of a bad day.
"They were better than us, but there's no point complaining about it, we'll just get on with it."
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Carey has been blown away by the support around the football club since the devastating bushfires that tore through the Upper Murray in January.
"Two weeks after the fires, it (the ground) looked good, but obviously when you walked over it, it was patchy, but the green roots that were coming up were unbelievable," Carey added.
The Upper Murray season was scheduled to start on April 18, but the May 31 postponement will see it lose seven of its 15 rounds as it currently stands.
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Beau Greenway
I like to tell the stories of great people in our communities. Email: beau.greenway@austcommunitymedia.com.au
I like to tell the stories of great people in our communities. Email: beau.greenway@austcommunitymedia.com.au
