Torrential rain drenched Metricon Stadium on the Gold Coast just hours before the home team were due to host the Sydney Swans.
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The AFL has said the game will go ahead regardless of weather, but the second quarter of an NEAFL game between the Suns and Swans was shortened with the hope that the worst of the rain and wind would pass.
A girls' under-18 representative curtain raiser between the Gold Coast and Brisbane, which was to have started at 5.05pm, will not go ahead, a decision likely made to try to preserve the ground.
Gold Coast assistant coach Dean Solomon posted footage of the reserves game, saying he had never before seen Metricon Stadium in those conditions.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning for a large portion of the Queensland south coast this weekend, telling people to brace for damaging winds and heavy rainfall.
