Half-way through the regular week-night football training session, a local nurse shows up and whisks two players off to the local clinic to get their second COVID-19 vaccine doses.
They are still wearing footy boots.
Within half an hour they are back on the field and training again.
Arnhem Crows president Helen Lee has been pushing for all her club members to get vaccinated, with great success so far.
She said nearly everyone at the training session attended by the ABC had already had at least one shot, with the men's side also having a good take up.
A handful of games in the Big Rivers league were cancelled this year – the result of lockdowns and COVID restrictions in Greater Katherine and Darwin.
"We just can't afford to do that, you know, the ladies just fiddling their thumbs, the men fiddling their thumbs," she said.
"If we get everyone vaccinated, we'll be able to play footy."
Getting the jab together at footy training
The club's idea was simple: offer the team to get vaccinated together, and they might be more likely to go.
Based in Barunga, the club also takes in players from surrounding communities including Ngukurr, Beswick and Darwin.
Assistant Coach Lana Broome said the team members all went to the Barunga clinic together during one training session.
"We got them done at one training night, willingly they came along," she said.
She said the coaches were now making sure everyone got their second dose
"I suppose playing together as a team and sticking together and doing it [the vaccine] all as a team has worked for them," she said.
The team's coach, Malcolm Hales, is also the principal at the local school, said the model had been a great success.
"We thought if they all go together they'd most likely be more confident to have the jab, than if they were expected to go on their own one at a time," he said.
He said the message would get back to their families, too.
Players proud to lead
It is Rebecca Dennis' first year playing footy for the Arnhem Crows, but she has already been crowned the leading goal kicker, with 20 goals this season.
The 26-year-old said as a former teenage mum with three kids now aged between three and seven, playing local footy made her feel proud.
She said she had received her second COVID-19 vaccine dose.
After getting her second dose and running back out onto the field, 37-year-old Trephina Bush said she was happy to get her shot.
"Feeling OK, feeling good, yep!" she said.
With vaccines out of the way, there is footy to focus on.
The Arnhem Crows Senior Women's team will go head- to-head with the Eastside Senior Women in the Big Rivers Preliminary final in Katherine later on Saturday.
The team finished top of the ladder but lost last weekend in the semi.
President Helen Lee was hopeful.
"We're crossing our fingers we'll do back-to-back, ay, and hopefully our club will," she said.
Assistant coach Broome was more definitive.
"Yes we are gonna win," she laughs.
"Gotta be positive."
