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Who is being U, Australia or Novak Djokovic?

999 replies

inheritancetrack · 06/01/2022 08:06

Me, I'm in the you can't have your cake and eat it Novak, camp!

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honeyrider · 06/01/2022 14:47

Novax is being unreasonable.

StCharlotte · 06/01/2022 14:49

I'm very much looking forward to this particular episode of Nothing to Declare.

SirChenjins · 06/01/2022 14:54

@StCharlotte

I'm very much looking forward to this particular episode of Nothing to Declare.
GrinGrin
RockinHorseShit · 06/01/2022 14:58

It’s amusing me that his name is No-vak. Talk about living up to your name.

I'd missed that, thanks 😂😂😂

AlexaShutUp · 06/01/2022 15:03

@RockinHorseShit

It’s amusing me that his name is No-vak. Talk about living up to your name.

I'd missed that, thanks 😂😂😂

Me too, that's brilliant!Grin
BendicksBittermints4Breakfast · 06/01/2022 15:06

@whynotwhatknot

I like him at the start of his career but he became arrogant then couldnt understand why he was being booed or silence at his matches-hes just not likeable
I've disliked him ever since his disqualification from the US Open for slamming a ball at a line judge, his apologies had all the sincerety of a school child's So-reeeee.
HappySonHappyMum · 06/01/2022 15:14

I am Team Australia - there is no reason at all why the rules should be bent for him. He is entitled to choose not to have the vaccine (even though I don't agree with his choice) but Australia are equally allowed to choose not to let him in because of his choice. The medical exemption excuse does him no favours and hurts people who are actually medically exempt. I hope Australia do not back track on Monday and stick to their guns. If he is let in I should imagine his welcome will not be warm on the courts!

sweetbellyhigh · 06/01/2022 16:27

@HikingforScenery

Who gave him the visa he presented, which was then cancelled after uproar from the public? I’m guessing it was the Australian government? It’s so ridiculous. Why didn’t they just refuse the visa in the first place?
You could read the thread or one of the million articles 🙄
sweetbellyhigh · 06/01/2022 16:30

@Fairyliz

Sounds like they are all as dim as each other. Him for not getting vaccinated and checking the rules properly; the Australian for having conflicting rules. It’s not like Covid has only just started.
Sorry but it's you who is coming across a dim here. Why do people post such ignorant crap 😂
catsareme14 · 06/01/2022 17:34

His mother is bonkers too , claiming her son is being kept prisoner!

dramaqueen80 · 06/01/2022 17:45

Have been waiting 2 years to get 'home' and can't yet as daughter not twice vaccinated so... no sympathy for Novak. Just get vaccinated you utter w@?(;:

Stellaris22 · 06/01/2022 18:10

Oh wow, now his father is claiming this is a political attack against Serbia. It's just embarrassing but I'm obsessed.

Chely · 06/01/2022 18:15

Australia are pathetic about the who covid thing in general

longwayoff · 06/01/2022 18:17

Entitled tosser.

Anonymouseposter · 06/01/2022 18:20

Djocovic is being unreasonable

Clymene · 06/01/2022 18:21

Having listened to his parents being interviewed, particularly his dad, I now know why Djokovic is such an arsehole.

DerAlteMann · 06/01/2022 18:23

Advance Australia Fair! Just 'cos he's proficient at the world's most boring game does not exclude him from obeying the rules.

BeaLola · 06/01/2022 18:27

@HappySonHappyMum

I am Team Australia - there is no reason at all why the rules should be bent for him. He is entitled to choose not to have the vaccine (even though I don't agree with his choice) but Australia are equally allowed to choose not to let him in because of his choice. The medical exemption excuse does him no favours and hurts people who are actually medically exempt. I hope Australia do not back track on Monday and stick to their guns. If he is let in I should imagine his welcome will not be warm on the courts!
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I also think that the other "handful of players "who were given medical exemptions should be upfront about how they are exempt

Also it should apply to all coaches, team advisors etc - I may have misread an article over the last few days but it was saying his coach was also unvaccinated

I feel very sorry for Australian Nationals stranded outside of Oz it who are there but due to tough lockdown rules cannot visit dying relatives and then a tennis player gets to gone in until the "visa" error was discovered

What about Stef Tsitipas - has he been vaccinated yet ?

It's not like there wasn't a choice for No-Vacc - he could comply with rules and be vaccinated or choose not to be vaccinated and stay home and forgo taking part

And his Father needs to get a grip - the world does not revolve around his son - I am a huge tennis fan but at the end of the day it's a sport and it's not life or death

dinahsdishes · 06/01/2022 18:30

Novax Is completely in the wrong. I suspect if he hadn't mentioned it on social media, it wouldn't have blown up like it has. It would be interesting to know what his medical exemption is TennisTennisTennis

ilovesooty · 06/01/2022 18:31

His parents are entitled nobs and the apple evidently didn't fall far from the tree. Send him back.

whumpthereitis · 06/01/2022 18:33

Team Australia all the way. The rules apply to him, same as everyone else.

As an aside, I’m Serbian, and it’s embarrassing that our most notable people in recent years have been war criminals and an anti vaxxer 🥴

Shieldmaiden01 · 06/01/2022 18:36

Team Nole

twocatsandtwokids · 06/01/2022 18:45

Djokovic!! Why should he get an exemption when thousands of “ordinary people” can’t get in to see their families?!!

twocatsandtwokids · 06/01/2022 18:47

…and why should he be entitled to different conditions in the detention centre to everybody else?!

llansannan11 · 06/01/2022 18:49

I am on the side of the Australian government.

If only we had a government that did not have one rule for many, another rule for government ministers and VIPs.