{"id":41703,"date":"2020-05-22T07:28:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T21:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=41703"},"modified":"2020-05-22T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:13:52","slug":"a-showdown-in-round-2-now-looks-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/a-showdown-in-round-2-now-looks-in-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"A Showdown In Round 2 Now Looks In Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UPDATE, 1:42pm:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/a-deal-is-reportedly-done-to-secure-a-rd-2-showdown-in-adelaide\/\">A Deal Is Reportedly Done To Secure A Rd 2 Showdown In Adelaide<\/a><br><br>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An anticipated Crows vs Port Adelaide Showdown in round two of the rebooted AFL season is now under a cloud as the league struggles to find umpires to officiate the game.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to FIVEAA and Channel 9\u2019s Tom Rehn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe AFL is again having to negotiate with state government officials as to how to bring in the umpires and the broadcast team to help televise the match.<\/p><p>\u201cThere aren\u2019t enough AFL umpires who live in South Australia to officiate the match. You might think the AFL would consider using SANFL umpires for the game. I can tell you that definitely will not happen\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cIf these problems can\u2019t be solved the fixture will be rejigged again and the Showdown will be moved to later in the year in the hope that it can still be played in Adelaide. That would mean both the Crows and the Power would have to go to their QLD hub a week earlier than they hoped.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: The proposed Round Two Showdown is back in jeopardy. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomrehn9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tomrehn9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/9News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#9News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zsGVdiUm7G\">pic.twitter.com\/zsGVdiUm7G<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 9News Adelaide (@9NewsAdel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9NewsAdel\/status\/1263400250133352450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE, 1:42pm: A Deal Is Reportedly Done To Secure A Rd 2 Showdown In Adelaide* An anticipated Crows vs Port Adelaide Showdown in round two of the rebooted AFL season is now under a cloud as the league struggles to find umpires to officiate the game. According to FIVEAA and Channel 9\u2019s Tom Rehn: \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-41703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Showdown In Round 2 Now Looks In Doubt - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/a-showdown-in-round-2-now-looks-in-doubt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Showdown In Round 2 Now Looks In Doubt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UPDATE, 1:42pm: A Deal Is Reportedly Done To Secure A Rd 2 Showdown In Adelaide* An anticipated Crows vs Port Adelaide Showdown in round two of the rebooted AFL season is now under a cloud as the league struggles to find umpires to officiate the game. 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