{"id":90674,"date":"2021-06-25T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T08:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=90674"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:57:12","slug":"nrl-clubs-bracing-for-fixture-changes-revenue-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=90674","title":{"rendered":"NRL clubs bracing for fixture changes, revenue loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NRL teams have been told to prepare for games to be moved amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/coronavirus-nsw-lockdown-restrictions-update-full-list-everything-you-can-cant-do-reasons-to-leave-home-sydney-explainer\/1a76ae42-c0c6-4d39-862f-e8a68cf627b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"COVID-19 cluster in New South Wales\">COVID-19 cluster in New South Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nine&#x27;s NRL reporter Danny Weidler, NRL CEO Andrew Abdo informed club CEOs to have a &quot;whatever it takes attitude&quot;, with games likely to move as revenue and home ground advantages become impacted.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;NRL CEOs have been addressed by Andrew Abdo,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1408334256875532288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Weidler tweeted\">Weidler tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Told that they need to have a whatever it takes attitude when it comes to the current COVID outbreak &#8211; teams told to prepare for games to be moved, home ground advantages and revenue will be lost.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a10cf8c9-411d-49e7-a019-710934f0c273\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a10cf8c9-411d-49e7-a019-710934f0c273\" alt=\"Australian Rugby League Commission Chairman Peter V&#x27;landys and National Rugby League Chief Executive Andrew Abdo\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News of Abdo&#x27;s message to club bosses comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/bulldogs-players-isolating-after-being-caught-in-sydney-covid-scare\/742ceb03-6929-4723-aa30-4acb4d2f8514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Last night it was revealed three Bulldogs players\">three Bulldogs players<\/a> were placed into isolation and ordered to get a COVID-19 test on Thursday, after visiting an exposure site in Sydney&#x27;s eastern suburbs, despite being told to avoid the area three days earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/dylan-napa\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dylan Napa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dylan Napa<\/a>, Brandon Wakeham and Aaron Schoupp were at the Royal Hotel in Bondi on June 20, which was also attended by a person who has since tested positive to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The NSW government announced on Friday that four Sydney local government areas will plunge into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/coronavirus-nsw-update-new-cases-sydney-restrictions-lockdown-more-exposure-sites\/1a0c2570-f443-48ee-84b2-42922815aa36\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"seven-day lockdown\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seven-day lockdown<\/a> from 11.59pm on Friday in a bid to stamp out the state&#x27;s escalating coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The four council areas are: City of Sydney, Waverley, Randwick, and Woollahra. The stay-at-home orders will be in place until at least 11.59pm on Friday, July 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NRL teams have been told to prepare for games to be moved amid the COVID-19 cluster in New South Wales. According to Nine&#x27;s NRL reporter <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=90674\" title=\"NRL clubs bracing for fixture changes, revenue loss\">[&#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\/90674"}],"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=90674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90676,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90674\/revisions\/90676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}