The heavy downpour over the weekend in the city of Port Moresby disrupted a lot if things, including sporting activities at the Bisini Sports Precinct.
The 2023 Moni Plus Port Moresby Australian Football League (AFL) pre-season matches, among other sporting codes on the weekend, cancelled their season matches due to the heavy rains.
The Port Moresby AFL Association President, Mr. Douglas Lai, said they had to cancel the pre-season matches because the condition of the field was poor to hold matches on because it became really soggy.
Also the venue management of Bisini Sports Precinct had to make the call to close off all the sporting venues that were in a poor state to hold games on, including the Colts Oval.
Nevertheless, Mr. Lai said they have moved the pre-season to this weekend, but this will clash with the planned Easter Cup challenge also set for this weekend and this has now left the association to decide on how the two events will be squeezed into this weekend.
“We have two options, one is to just have the Easter Cup challenge on Saturday, while the other option is to have the pre- season matches squeezed in on Saturday and then have the Easter Cup challenge on Sunday,” said the president.
This he said, will have to be discussed further tomorrow with the clubs and the association so to come up with a final decision on how things should go this weekend.