St Kilda and GWS players have been sent back into the rooms just minutes from the scheduled first bounce of their clash at ENGIE Stadium.<\/p>\n
Another lightning strike just before 4.30pm means the clash won\u2019t begin until nearly an hour after the scheduled start time. <\/p>\n
Both clubs were in the middle of their final warm-ups in the middle of the field before officials told them to leave the field. <\/p>\n
It was the second time players had been forced from the field in the last hour, with lightning striking twice at ENGIE Stadium.<\/p>\n
Play will stop for a minimum of 30 minutes, with the timer resetting if more lightning is recorded with 10km of the ground. <\/p>\n
Players will return for an eight minute warm-up when safe. <\/p>\n
GWS forward Jesse Hogan said they weren\u2019t allowed onto the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cI normally go out an hour before (the start) but was told we weren\u2019t allowed to, I think this is our second warning,\u201d he said on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to stay hyped for the next half an hour and take it from there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a bit of an eyrie game so hopefully we get out there.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kilda and GWS players have been sent back into the rooms just minutes from the scheduled first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[273937,638,64,63,689,55,639,273935,4517,12181,25049,209787,673,677,29987,273934,85,1122,670,273936,660],"class_list":["post-554386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-matchidafl20260204","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-eyrie-game","tag-hamstring-injury","tag-jesse-hogan","tag-kilda-saints","tag-lightning-strikes","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-phil-hillyard","tag-saints-clash","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-sydney","tag-time-players","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}