Carlton FC is currently in a scramble to sort out how to get a young member of the team back to Victoria before training begins on Wednesday.
One of the young footballers elected to stay in NSW with his family, when Victoria shut their borders to the state on Friday night.
The initial belief was Victorians who returned after the midnight Friday cut-off would still be able to get back in, but would have to serve hotel quarantine, however, Department of Health COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar has since confirmed that only special exemptions will be made.
"If you seek to cross the border after midnight tonight you will be turned back," Weimar said on Friday.
"We are not running a hotel quarantine scheme for convenience.
"We have been very clear for a number of weeks now around the risks of travelling to NSW."
Other teams whom had players in the COVID-hit state were Melbourne, North Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda, Gold Coast and GWS.
Greater Western Sydney have congregated in Albury for the time-being, but are effectively stranded in NSW awaiting further advice.
There are also dramas with the Fremantle Dockers who confirmed to News Corp on Friday the last of their players returned from Melbourne to Perth before the new year was rung in, just in time to satisfy the WA border closure.
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