Lightning skipper questions isolation

ADELAIDE captain Steph Talbot has questioned why the Lightning were forced into quarantine in Townsville but has revealed how team fitness sessions and Facetime calls are keeping the side sane as they plot a return to the competition.

The already jam-packed WNBL season was thrown into chaos when the Lightning were ordered to isolate in the North Queensland hub until Monday following Adelaide’s COVID-19 outbreak.

A Tuesday night against Southside Flyers had to be cancelled, and officials will have to reschedule three games.

The Lightning received a boost yesterday when the team’s COVID-19 tests came back negative as the players looked to return to training.

Talbot declared the clean tests were a boost, but she remains perplexed as to why the side had to isolate.

The Lightning team has been confined to their accommodation since Monday afternoon when the Queensland government advised that anyone who had entered the state from South Australia on or after Monday, November 9 must self-isolate until they had been tested for COVID-19.

The Lightning travelling party departed Adelaide at 6.10am (local) on Monday, November 9 on a direct flight to Brisbane.

“We were at the airport at 5am on that Monday morning, so we hadn’t come into contact with anyone,” Talbot said.

“We slept all night and went straight to the airport, but we just missed the cut-off.

“It just doesn’t really make a lot of sense the way that they are doing it.” clash