{"id":80774,"date":"2021-06-05T04:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T04:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=80774"},"modified":"2021-06-05T06:59:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T06:59:59","slug":"legend-calls-for-scrapping-of-revived-origin-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=80774","title":{"rendered":"Legend calls for scrapping of revived Origin test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns<\/a> has called for State of Origin<\/a> to only be played on Wednesday nights, underlining the importance of "tradition".<\/p>\n

After playing all three games on a Wednesday night in 2020, the ARL Commission has in 2021 renewed its experiment with Sunday night Origin. Game I will be played on a Wednesday, Game II a Sunday and the final match a Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The ARL Commission followed the Wednesday-Sunday-Wednesday format in 2019 and 2018, after it used the all-Wednesday framework for every edition dating back 10 years, to 2012.<\/p>\n

"Sunday night is probably the highest-rating time on TV," Johns said on Wide World of Sports' Immortal Behaviour<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"Sunday night everyone's in, recovering from a weekend maybe, everyone sort of kicks back on a Sunday night, everyone's got school or work the next day. So I can understand that point of view.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

"But tradition is it's Wednesday. We've tried all the other days; we've tried Monday and Tuesday and Thursday. Wednesday is Origin. Keep it that way."<\/p>\n

\"Immortal<\/p>\n

The MCG had been locked in to host the opening game of this year's series until Melbourne's COVID-19 outbreak forced the ARL Commission into relocating the match<\/a> to Townsville's Queensland Country Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n

Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium will host Game II and Homebush's Stadium Australia the final match.<\/p>\n

Blues coach Brad Fittler revealed that the NSW government had made a bid to host the series-opener at Parramatta's Bankwest Stadium<\/a>, while Canberra Stadium was also among the contenders.<\/p>\n

But Johns said he would have preferred to play an Origin match in Townsville over the ACT.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

"A lot of people are making a lot about playing the game in Townsville, but as a New South Welshman I would have rather played in Townsville because of the warm weather, no dew, a fast surface, compared to playing in Canberra where it's freezing and slippery.<\/p>\n

"Once you get on the field you don't even hear the crowd."<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

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