{"id":372084,"date":"2024-03-02T02:15:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T03:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=372084"},"modified":"2024-03-02T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T05:04:10","slug":"makes-no-difference-freddy-shuts-down-vegas-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=372084","title":{"rendered":"'Makes no difference': Freddy shuts down Vegas concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

B\ufeffrad Fittler<\/a> has shut down concerns over the size of the field in Las Vegas, urging NRL<\/a> clubs to 'stop thinking about it' ahead of the season opener.<\/p>\n

Allegiant Stadium will host a double-header on Sunday (AEDT), but the dimensions of the field will be smaller than the regulation fields used in Australia.<\/p>\n

The width will be 63 metres as opposed to 68 metres, while the length of the field has also been reduced to 95 metres.<\/p>\n

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But according to the Roosters legend, the four teams in action shouldn't be concerned and pointed out Penrith's struggles in their recent World Club Challenge loss in England.<\/p>\n

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"Every team I understand have trained on those dimensions \u2026 every club has done their due diligence," Fittler said on Wide World Of Sports' Freddy and The Eighth<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

"You can't think about it too much – I think Penrith went into that game over there [in England] thinking about those in-goals too much and they kept running the ball on tackle five and they ended up scoring their try by kicking the ball.<\/p>\n

"Stop thinking about it – the game is what it is, it will be shorter. At the end of the day, I don't think it makes a difference to the result at all."<\/p>\n

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Andrew Johns<\/a> also expects the players to adapt quickly to the new conditions.<\/p>\n

"When you play in England on the soccer fields over there, they are a bit shorter and you just adapt, you get through it," he said.<\/p>\n

"The in-goals for kickers, the difference is you don't kick for the in-goal, you kick for the tryline. The width is gonna be a little bit [of an issue], but they will adapt.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

South Sydney and Manly will square off in the first game, before premiership heavyweights the Broncos and Roosters \ufeffplay each other immediately after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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