METRICON Stadium will host Port Adelaide's round eight game with Gold Coast if the escalating tensions between the US and North Korea force the match to be moved from China.
The Power is set to play the Suns in Shanghai at Jiangwan Sports Stadium on Sunday, May 14 in the first game for premiership points outside Australia or New Zealand.
But Port Adelaide chief executive Keith Thomas said that could change if the club received advice from the Australian government that it would be unsafe to travel to China in light of recent developments.
"We'll take the best advice possible on it," Thomas said on Tuesday.
"Clearly you can't ignore the circumstances that prevail in the world today and they're in a region that's sensitive to China and where we will be.
"Right now, we have had no advice to suggest that the game is at risk or we shouldn't be going, and we'll just keep bowling along until we're told otherwise."
The match is listed as a Suns home game, but the Power bought the fixture off them so it could still fulfill its contractual obligation to have 11 games per season at Adelaide Oval.
In round eight, Adelaide Oval will be used on Saturday night, May 13 when Adelaide hosts Melbourne.
"The AFL have said if the game doesn't happen in Shanghai, they said this 12 months ago, it will happen at Metricon," Thomas said.
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