Morrison said the team is hoping players will be allowed to train while in quarantine, a similar exemption which was granted to the Warriors when the New Zealand NRL club crossed the Tasman to join the NRL season restart last month.
"When the team goes, or anyone goes into Australia, you go into quarantine, so you've got two weeks of quarantine, pretty similar to here. The difference is that we're going there and we're asking for the players not to go into hotels, but to actually be able to train, so that required sign off by multiple government bodies – [the] NSW health department, the police, the border force. It has to go through a whole process.
"The A-League itself had put out a really, really detailed, 56 or 58 page manual in terms of working through isolation and quarantine, how [teams] would train, how they would maintain separation and so on, and we've also done our own protocols and you put all that together, the medical guys go through it, they sign off on it, the border force, they sign off on it, in terms of moving across borders, and then NSW Health have to sign off on it.
"It's a process, it takes a while to get through it, we're not the only people trying to get into Australia at the moment, sports teams aren't priorities, we've just got to go through it bit by bit by bit, no-one gets to jump the queue."
Morrison also confirmed Phoenix stars Gary Hooper and Ulises Dávila are on their way to Australia from the United Kingdom and Mexico respectively, and will undergo a 14-day quarantine away from the rest of the players and staff in Sydney before joining the team.
The Phoenix, who currently sit third on the A-League ladder with three games in hand on second-placed Melbourne City, will take on Sydney FC at Jubilee Stadium on July 17.
