Origin 1 at Melbourne Covid Ground

[simmo05]

With multiple new covid cases down here ( which again amazingly seem to coincide with large sports events and a looming long weekend, imagine that! ) the afl halting ticket sales for this round with potentially no crowds this weekend, mandatory masks now enforced in melbourne, what does the NRL do with regards to origin 1?

Do they change the grounds or stay the course with potentially no crowd? Only 2 weeks away and Melbourne, going by past history, is about to go into city wide lockdown...

 

[lockyno1]

That’s why you don’t take Origins out of NSW and QLD

 

[GreenMachine121]

No idea why they persist in having it there anyway ...

 

[Perth Red]

No idea why they persist in having it there anyway ...

Six million plus reasons!

 

[Canard]

My fault lads, I got my tickets last week.

 

[siv]

Play it at a empty venue

 

[azza29]

Will be very disappointed to see this pulled, missed out on the Adelaide Oval game last year so history repeats for a second year in a row, possibly another set of tickets refunded

Could always move it to the Sunshine Coast...

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

They cancelled SOO then held it here in Adelaide last year in November at 50% capacity... I went and it didn’t compare with a full house Origin (the game was a dud too).

I think the NRL will persist, but it will depend on what the Vic State Government comes up with in terms of any crowd restrictions...

If it’s a 50% limit or above I think it’s a go at the MCG. That’s still 50,000 people and so still a decent turnout/revenue etc.

If below 50%.. I think it’ll get canned and brought to Sydney or Brisbane.

But they won’t be going back to the MCG til at least 2024. 2022 is Perth, 2023 is Adelaide...

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Will be very disappointed to see this pulled, missed out on the Adelaide Oval game last year so history repeats for a second year in a row, possibly another set of tickets refunded

Could always move it to the Sunshine Coast...

Or Apex oval in Dubbo... take it to the bush!!

Come back to Adelaide in 2023 mate... I’ll see you there..

 

[BunniesMan]

Six million plus reasons!

Ridiculous logic. This made sense decades ago when rugby league was a foreign product. Now there is plenty of access. The Storm, tv, internet. We do not need to take 1 of 3 games away and take away the core element of tribalism that makes Origin what it is.

It is NSW v QLD. It will never matter to victorians as much. I would rather the grand final play down there instead of one more origin.

 

[Perth Red]

Ridiculous logic. This made sense decades ago when rugby league was a foreign product. Now there is plenty of access. The Storm, tv, internet. We do not need to take 1 of 3 games away and take away the core element of tribalism that makes Origin what it is.

It is NSW v QLD. It will never matter to victorians as much. I would rather the grand final play down there instead of one more origin.

you seem to not understand the point of origin! It’s a cash cow for nrl, nswrl and qrl. Where it can make most money is where it will be played. The six million was in relation to what nrl gets from the hosting state when it goes outside of nsw and qlnd, not the number of people in melbourne lol

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Refund the locally purchased tickets and move it to Perth. It isn't like it wouldn't sell out in minutes anyway, but with these rule changes strangling the game to death, maybe it wouldn't this time.

 

[some11]

Play it at a empty venue

Hope there's no crowd so the nrl admin gets what it deserves.

Watered down product with fake crowd noise piped in.

 

[Hartwood]

www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-state-of-origin-news-covid19-updates-melbourne-cricket-ground-game-1-venues/news-story/c8f3f6abc6deafd523b982eb78ed54b6

Canberra, perth, Adelaide are the alternate venues if Melbourne falls through. Can't imagine Adelaide or Perth would sellout if it's too late notice, unless they play at HBF or Hindmarsh

 

[Rugged Rigid Robust Roy]

Stupid decision to put it there in the first place

 

[Diesel]

I heard Canberra & Adelaide are in the mix for Origin

 

[t-ba]

Burn Victoria to the ground.

Salt the Earth.

Oh, there's covid there again? Shit.

 

[Perth Tiger]

www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-state-of-origin-news-covid19-updates-melbourne-cricket-ground-game-1-venues/news-story/c8f3f6abc6deafd523b982eb78ed54b6

Canberra, perth, Adelaide are the alternate venues if Melbourne falls through. Can't imagine Adelaide or Perth would sellout if it's too late notice, unless they play at HBF or Hindmarsh

Perth would easily sell out so long as the NRL didn't price gouge on the tickets

 

[LineBall]

Play in the afternoon at Eden Park in Auckland. Makes as much sense as playing it in Melbourne.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Call it off, half the players will be out suspended anyway haha