The GABBA has been plunged into darkness and a light-tower burst into flames in a weird finish to Brisbane’s heavyweight conflict with Melbourne.
The Lions led by 40 factors with simply 12 minutes to play within the Friday evening blockbuster when lights, together with a financial institution of floodlights went out.
Commentators reported listening to a bang earlier than the sudden outage, with one other heard after a couple of minutes.
One globe on an affected tower then burst into flames
AFL officers scrambled to repair the state of affairs within the darkened heart sq., whereas groups met briefly in the course of the bottom, earlier than heading to the rooms.
Gamers will sit out a minimal 20-minute break. If the bottom is just not playable in 60 minutes, the rating will stand.
One-by-one, globes on the tower turned again on.
AFL guidelines stipulate if the sport is just not resumed inside half-an-hour, the outcome will stand — given the match had handed half-time.
Melbourne, who had been smashed by a Lions clearance masterclass, continued to run rotations throughout the break.
The outage has shades of an identical incident in 1996, the place St Kilda and Essendon had been pressured to proceed a postponed two days later.
On that evening at Waverley, followers stormed the sphere and lit fires throughout the delay.
