The Brisbane Lions have raised the possibility that the opening match of AFL the season against Geelong could be postponed until round three, when the Lions and Cats have a scheduled bye, because of tropical cyclone Alfred.
However, the AFL told this masthead Thursday night’s match would go ahead as planned at the ’Gabba unless the Queensland government advised the league to call off the match over safety concerns, and it was continuing to monitor the situation.
A spokesman for the AFL said it had received no such safety advice from the government at this stage, and that the Lions had not formally requested that the match be postponed.
Two club sources, not authorised to speak about contingency conversations, said the Lions were concerned that even if it was safe for the match to go ahead on Thursday night, the wild weather was likely to hit crowd numbers.
