The AFL has changed the time of Port Adelaide’s Round 11 clash with Fremantle.
The Power’s home game at Adelaide Oval on Sunday 30 May was scheduled to have started at 4.10pm ACST but has been pushed back 40 minutes to 4:50pm ACST.
The delay in game time is to allow umpires to travel from Western Australia to South Australia to officiate the game.
Two other Round 11 matches have been transferred to Sydney venues and the Western Bulldogs-Melbourne, top-of-ladder blockbuster will stay scheduled in the Friday night slot at Marvel Stadium, pending negative COVID-19 tests from Demons players.
The changes were announced by AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan on Thursday afternoon after the Victorian government again placed the state into a seven-day lockdown after a surge in coronavirus infections.
Sunday's Richmond-Adelaide match, initially scheduled for the MCG, has been moved to Giants Stadium on the same day, beginning 2.10pm. This is to allow ease of access for Crows players back to South Australia, after that state cracked down on border controls with Victoria.
Saturday night's Gold Coast-Hawthorn game, to have been played in Alice Springs as a key feature of Sir Doug Nicholls Round, has been transferred to the SCG with a 7.40pm start time.
No crowds will be allowed to attend the three Melbourne matches in round 11 – Dogs v Demons, Collingwood versus Geelong at the MCG on Saturday, and St Kilda versus North Melbourne on Saturday twilight at Marvel Stadium.
