{"id":89030,"date":"2021-06-22T07:26:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89030"},"modified":"2021-06-22T07:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:57:12","slug":"swans-giants-thrown-into-covid-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89030","title":{"rendered":"Swans, Giants thrown into COVID drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Swans and GWS Giants will both jump on a plane tonight bound for Victoria amid the COVID-19 cluster in NSW.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced today the NSW outbreak, which has centred around the Sydney suburb of Bondi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/coronavirus-nsw-update-new-local-covid19-cases-latest-numbers-bondi-cluster-restrictions-set-to-be-extended\/66c4b212-cf14-4f6d-bc24-62b6160ca968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"had grown to 21\">had grown to 21<\/a>, with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian revealing the number would continue to swell as more household contacts of cases test positive in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/sport\/afl\/swans-giants-on-the-move-as-hybrid-crowd-limit-looms-in-melbourne-20210622-p58334.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The Age\">The Age<\/a>, the decision to move both teams was made amid fears the Victorian government will tighten its border with NSW.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans are currently scheduled to face Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval on Saturday night, while GWS were pencilled in to host Hawthorn at GIANTS Stadium that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Swans coach John Longmire said earlier today his side would have no problems taking on a quick lockdown period if required.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"36899fe7-4641-4fe1-a555-3b7f51ee51f3\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/36899fe7-4641-4fe1-a555-3b7f51ee51f3\" alt=\"Dean Cox and John Longmire\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;It can be done,&quot; Longmire said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s obviously a different preparation.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We had some experience of that last year &#8211; not quite to the extent that those teams had (in regards to) the hours that you spend at the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But we had some experience of it last year, it&#x27;s not completely foreign.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In the end, you&#x27;ve just got to roll the sleeves up and get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We know that&#x27;s not going to be easy, but whatever is thrown up at us you&#x27;ve got to get over those hurdles and get on with the job at hand.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Sydney Swans and GWS Giants will both jump on a plane tonight bound for Victoria amid the COVID-19 cluster in NSW. It was announced <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89030\" title=\"Swans, Giants thrown into COVID drama\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89032,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89030\/revisions\/89032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}