AFL players land on the Gold Coast ready for hub life
AUSTRALIA’S best AFL stars have touched down on the Gold Coast as the city becomes the new “home of the AFL”.
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AUSTRALIA’S best AFL stars have touched down on the Gold Coast as the city becomes the new “home of the AFL”.
Players from the Western Bulldogs and Richmond arrived at the Gold Coast Airport shortly before 4pm yesterday, many with families in tow.
The players, supporters, partners and children filled two planes and left the Gold Coast Airport on six buses.
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Baggage was piled into three rental trucks.
The Essendon and North Melbourne teams also arrived on the Gold Coast earlier in the day.
The four clubs make up six – along with St Kilda and Carlton – who will set up base in Queensland for the rest of the season, basing themselves on the Gold and Sunshine coasts.
GOLD Coast’s Metricon Stadium is set to become the home of the AFL with half the competition’s clubs to be represented in the city in the coming weeks.
The AFL is scrambling to get teams out of Victoria and into hubs across the country in order to keep the competition going due to tightening border restrictions.
The success of the current Gold Coast hub, that has made the city home for South Australian sides Port Adelaide and West Coast as well as West Australian teams West Coast and Fremantle, has prompted the governing body to continue using the region.
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