The AFL grand final will be on a slippery Gabba night, but are the Queensland conditions actually making a difference?

The AFL on Wednesday announced that the 2020 Toyota AFL Grand Final are going to be played in Queensland. The match are going to be held at the GABBA on Saturday United Nations Day . it'll be a scheduled outdoor game with the beginning time to be confirmed within the coming weeks.Sep 1, 2020.

If you are the AFL Grand Final Live kind of one that is taking outing of your day to read this, then you've probably watched a good little bit of footy in 2020. And if you've watched a good little bit of footy in 2020, you've almost certainly seen quite few games played in south-east Queensland, several of them in the dark , under the floodlights.

And if you tick all of these boxes, at some point during a minimum of one among those games at the Gabba or Carrara Stadium, you've probably noticed the added humidity therein a part of the planet results in more dewy conditions, which makes the ball more slippery and harder for players to handle.

The awarding of the grand final to Brisbane, and therefore the subsequent decision to play it in the dark for the primary time, has brought concerns about this phenomenon to the forefront, with the likes of Kane Cornes and Mark Ricciuto warning of a low-scoring and aesthetically inferior decider. On Friday, Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles confirmed there would be 30,000 people at the Gabba on Saturday, United Nations Day .

After the successful trial of 75 per cent density in our stadiums, the AFL grand final is sweet to travel at the Gabba at 75 per cent,” he said. Queensland won hosting rights to the game’s showpiece after a coronavirus-sparked lockdown in Victoria ruled out the grand final’s traditional venue, the MCG. The state beat bids from Western Australia , South Australia and NSW to host the 2020 decider.

Queensland has just six active COVID-19 cases, with two confirmed on Friday in maritime crew who tested positive in quarantine.The SANFL has reportedly launched an investigation after a team was found to possess too many players on the sector during a cutthroat juniors final.

Leading by two goals within the final quarter, the Eagles were found to possess an additional player on the sector , with the umpire gesturing for the player to be sent off before a centre bounce.The result might be mentioned a Tribunal where, if it’s found the additional Eagles player contributed to the result, the sport might be overturned and therefore the club might be sanctioned.

Remarkably the incident comes just two years after the Eagles were the victim of a too-many-players incident during a SANFL final, this point at senior level against North Adelaide.Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy says his gun centre Justin Olam should be considered among the NRL’s absolute best .

And that’s in stark contrast to the opinion the supercoach held only a few of years ago when he figured Olam would never even make it as a primary grader. The Papua New Guinea star was electric in Melbourne’s 36-24 finals victory over Parramatta at Suncorp Stadium on Friday night.