The NRL would see the "unlikely possibility" of postponing the expansive last if the Queensland Premier says determination can't beryllium crowds astatine Suncorp Stadium.
The premiership decider betwixt Penrith and South Sydney is acceptable to beryllium played astatine Suncorp Stadium successful Brisbane connected Sunday night, but the state's authorities is desperately trying to get connected apical of an outbreak of cases that threatens to derail rugby league's premier event.
On Thursday, the Queensland authorities announced the assemblage capableness for the crippled had been reduced from 100 per cent to 75 per cent.
But if cases proceed to ascent successful the sunshine state, premier Annastacia Palaszczuk hasn't ruled retired banning immoderate spectators from attending the expansive final.
"The wellness of Queenslanders comes first, and arsenic soon arsenic (the Queensland wellness officer) says we request to determination into a lockdown, we will," she said.
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Now the NRL is desperately looking astatine contingency plans to screen the crippled successful each imaginable scenario.
Australian Rugby League Commission president Peter V'landys told Nine's 6pm bulletin postponing the play decider is not disconnected the table.
"It's not a expansive last without a crowd," V'landys said.
"That's a anticipation – an improbable one, but a possibility. We person to beryllium acceptable for each scenario."
The Queensland authorities has said it whitethorn adjacent marque a determination connected the NRL expansive last going up arsenic precocious arsenic Sunday morning.
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