Has anyone thought of the health implications that could affect our community because of this?

We have excellent health facilities at both Wodonga and Albury which has supported us well throughout the coronavirus threat, our community has submitted to regular testing and as a result our disease numbers have been really low, most affected had returned from overseas travel and most of the patients have now recovered.

Why would anyone contemplate bringing the whole team to our area?

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This will also engender fans coming to watch from both NSW (possibly Sydney) as well as from Victoria (Melbourne).

In this area we certainly don't have closed borders and it would likely just to be too tempting for fans and family to visit.

What happens if spread occurs? Our health facilities are limited and are designed for local residents not all and sundry who may tempted to stay.

All residents of this area should be included in a decision of this magnitude. We have a mixed population of the very elderly right down to the very young.

Surely the safety and health of our community should be paramount and not left to the whims of big sporting clubs desperate to increase their finances.

Who is running this state? Is it the politicians who we elect to make the decisions, or are they too frightened to overrule the bureaucracy i.e. those who are supposed to be the paid servants?

The decision by the NSW Water bureaucrats to deny food producers in the NSW Murray any water allocation is beyond belief. My personal view is that they should all be sacked and we should start again.

The ongoing zero allocation in NSW Murray is crippling farm businesses and hurting the communities that rely on them. It is damaging our food security and limiting production when we need everyone pulling their weight to get our nation moving again.

But most of all, it is a bad and unnecessary decision. The Deputy Premier John Barilaro and NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey need to step in and let the water bureaucrats know that their stance on NSW Murray allocations is unacceptable.

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They only have to listen to their federal Nationals colleague, Senator Perin Davey, who I suspect has more experience in water management than the entire NSW department. As she stated only two weeks ago, NSW Water has decided to hold back more water for high priority needs next year than they have reserved in the previous two years.

So, with record April rains and more forecast, they are keeping even more water in reserve instead of helping people and communities in their state.

Barilaro and Pavey need to do the right thing by regional NSW, who they are supposed to be representing, and demand some common-sense. They must demand an opening allocation for NSW Murray general security irrigators on the next announcement date, May 15. Our Nationals representatives and the bureaucrats who control them need to understand that we are conservative, patient people. But you are very close to pushing us past breaking point.