{"id":50251,"date":"2021-03-27T04:11:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T05:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=50251"},"modified":"2021-03-27T07:02:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T07:02:33","slug":"nrl-in-covid-crisis-talks-over-broncos-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=50251","title":{"rendered":"NRL in COVID crisis talks over Broncos &#039;bubble&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Telegraph has reported that the NRL will hire a private charter flight for Broncos players to take them to Melbourne for next week&#x27;s clash against the Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane are set to go head-to-head with Canterbury at 5.30pm, in a match which will see one of them claim their first win of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/coronavirus-case-numbers-queensland-brisbane-case-outbreak-covid19\/bd75a8d0-912a-4d4b-a473-1a7c58273dc5\" target=\"\" title=\"With a couple of locally-acquired cases popping up in Brisbane in the past two days\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">With a couple of locally-acquired cases popping up in Brisbane in the past two days<\/a>, the governing body is taking extra steps to ensure that the game will go on.<\/p>\n<p>Broncos players have been instructed to only leave for their homes when absolutely necessary, while Bulldogs players have been told not to leave their hotel.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"f3b37893-1d43-4e2e-aa94-797caf3d7d9b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/f3b37893-1d43-4e2e-aa94-797caf3d7d9b\" alt=\"Kevin Walters will have a fight on his hands to turn around the fortunes of the Brisbane Broncos. (Getty)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both teams&#x27; sheds will be off-limits to everyone bar the playing group and other essential staff members.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#x27;s Brisbane&#x27;s clash against the Storm next week that has thrown a bigger spanner in the works. <\/p>\n<p>It is understood the league will charter a flight to ferry the Broncos in and out of Melbourne with minimal interaction and maintain some sense of a bubble. <\/p>\n<p>The Broncos are expected to land on Tuesday and undergo testing protocols in time for their match on Friday night. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1375613509346545668\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1375613509346545668<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Daily Telegraph has reported that the NRL will hire a private charter flight for Broncos players to take them to Melbourne for next week&#x27;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=50251\" title=\"NRL in COVID crisis talks over Broncos &#039;bubble&#039;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50253,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50251\/revisions\/50253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}