An AFLW match between Larger Western Sydney and Richmond in Blacktown was delayed after a snake was noticed sunning itself within the grass.
The red-bellied black snake seemed to be profiting from the new climate that components of Australia’s south-east have been experiencing.
The Giants and the Tigers’ spherical three match was pushed again by about half-hour whereas officers waited for a snake handler to reach at Blacktown Worldwide Sportspark.
When the snake handler did arrive on the scene the snake was recognized as a small red-bellied black snake – a venomous species discovered throughout jap Australia.
The pinnacle of ladies’s soccer at GWS, Briana Harvey, mentioned the snake was in one of many far pockets.
“There’s a little red-bellied black snake on the ground at the moment, just in one of the far pockets … obviously for the safety of everyone here we need just to halt the game for the moment,” she instructed Fox Footy.
“It is 34 degrees here and we are surrounded by bushland, so I guess it’s not that surprising.”
The AFLW sport began at 1.35pm, after the snake was caught.
The Giants had been on the lookout for their first win of the season, whereas the Tigers have received one in every of their two video games to date.
Followers and media had been bemused by the very Australian incidence, and it’s not the one uncommon scene involving native wildlife to have unfolded on the venue.
In October final yr throughout a WBBL match Sydney Thunder and Hobart Hurricanes gamers had been despatched ducking for canopy because the native spur-winged plovers swooped them.
The birds had been believed to have laid their nest in the course of the bottom and had been fiercely defending their chicks.
