The biggest collisions of the Australian football season could come after the coronavirus pandemic has passed.
And the heaviest impacts could be sports competing for space. There are only so many marquee venues in the sports-mad nation of 25 million.
The 100,000-seat Melbourne Cricket Ground is the premier venue for Australia's national summer sport.
The main tenant in the winter is the Australian Football League, which runs the home-grown brand of football called Australian rules. In terms of TV audience and crowd attendance, it is the most popular sport Down Under.
The G, as the Aussie rules followers call it, has hosted the Grand Final of the top-flight football competition in September in all but five years since 1902.
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan and Cricket Australia chief executive Kevin Roberts have said they'll work together for both sports to co-exist if there's overlapping seasons. But with so much uncertainty over how and when the winter sports leagues can recommence, something will have to give.
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McLachlan has said a relaunched AFL season could run until December, three month later than usual. The problem is, the MCG is one of seven stadiums booked out for cricket's Twenty20 World Cup, which runs Oct. 18-Nov. 15, and then will need to be prepared for the annual Boxing Day test that starts each year on Dec. 26, It is usually the most-heavily attended cricket match of the year.
Docklands Stadium in Melbourne is a regular AFL ground but also a key venue for cricket's Twenty20 Big Bash League over the summer.
In other state capitals such as Adelaide, Brisbane, and Perth, the main cricket stadium doubles also as the major AFL venue.
Eddie McGuire, president of the Collingwood Football Club, which has one of the biggest supporter bases in Australia, liked the idea of going back to the suburban stadiums long overlooked for elite games to alleviate any potential congestion.
"There's a real opportunity to do that and that could be something that comes up again with the dramas that have been going on about whether (Docklands) would be available because of cricket," McGuire told radio network Triple M on Wednesday.
"But there's plenty of opportunity. I think that these venues are going to play a far bigger role."