THE region's weekend sporting calendar is well and truly in disarray after the AFL South Coast also decided to cancel or postpone its round four fixtures for all senior grades.
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Similarly to Group Seven Rugby League, AFLSC was forced to call off Saturday's senior grade matches due to the ground closures across the South Coast.
At this stage, the plan is for the three premier men's and three premier women's fixtures to be postponed until the competition's spare wet weather weekend in round 15.
This means the men's fixtures between Figtree and Shellharbour, Northern Districts and Wollongong Lions and Wollongong Bulldogs and Kiama Power, as well as the women's games between Saints and Bomaderry, Norths and Lions and Dogs and Power, will be played on Saturday, August 14 - at their same respective grounds.
This will be followed by the final round of the home and away season - with the three-week finals series still scheduled to tip-off on August 28, ahead of the grand final day at North Dalton Park on September 11.
Only matches in the two premier division will be postponed, with the men's division one and two and women's division one already having games scheduled for August 14 - meaning this weekend's fixtures for those grades are effectively cancelled.
The weekend's AFLSC Illawarra junior round three games have also been cancelled, while Sunday's Shoalhaven junior fixtures are going ahead as planned.
Elsewhere, the Shoalhaven District Football Association will go ahead with Saturday's round five fixtures, while Baseball Illawarra has called off all its Saturday matches - with a decision still to be made on Sunday's games.