Football
AFL club membership figures will be audited from Monday, and the race to be South Australia’s Number One club is as fierce as a Showdown. Michelangelo Rucci reports.
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SA Health has given permission for the Sydney Swans AFL club to fly into Adelaide for their weekend clash with Port Adelaide, while the state considers further border restrictions with New South Wales as a COVID cluster in Sydney’s east grew by 16 cases today.
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Port Adelaide cheer squad members, fans and all players and staff who attended Sunday’s MCG match against Collingwood are being told to test and isolate after confirmation that a positive COVID-19 case attended the game, as Victoria scrambles to get on top of a cluster which has grown to 15 cases.
A gritty Port Adelaide victory could help set up their AFL premiership tilt, Power coach Ken Hinkley says.
The SANFL has its own rules and a fierce independent streak. Michelangelo Rucci asks how long second-tier football competitions can hold out against the AFL and a national reserves league push.
Adelaide Oval’s capacity will be increased to 100 per cent in time for the Showdown, with the decision announced as the state records nine new COVID-19 cases in hotel quarantine and chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier admits she is “on edge”.
