NTFA: George Town's historic day made to wait as games move

The Saints had originally planned to feature all four of its sides - under-18s, reserves, seniors and women - at home for the first time ever, but the municipality's council closed its ground.

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The news was announced by the NTFA via Facebook at 3.10pm on Friday afternoon.

"The NTFA wish to advise that there have been changes to the George Town v Longford matches scheduled for Saturday, 26th June at George Town," the post read.

"The George Town Council have closed the ground due to the conditions created by the recent rain.

"The men's matches will now be held at the Longford Football Ground, with the same start times of under-18s 9.55am, reserves 11.50am and seniors at 1.45pm.

"The women's match will be rescheduled to Friday, 16th July at George Town."

Both Longford and George Town's women's sides were scheduled to have the bye on the weekend of July 16-17, making the change of fixture an easy one.

George Town will now have gone a month without action after two weeks off for the representative series and a bye next week.

The change also brings another standalone Friday night game to Blue Gum Park, a fixture which has been successful so far this season by bringing the community into the football club.