{"id":95073,"date":"2021-07-04T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T11:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=95073"},"modified":"2021-07-04T14:01:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T14:01:27","slug":"johns-proposes-think-tank-to-end-blowout-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=95073","title":{"rendered":"Johns proposes &#039;think tank&#039; to end blowout issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby league immortal Andrew Johns has urged the NRL to put together a think tank to combat the league&#x27;s talent disparity as blowout scorelines between the top and bottom teams continue to plague the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Following a Saturday fixture of NRL which saw a spate of blowouts, headlined by <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/canterbury-bankstown-bulldogs-v-manly-warringah-sea-eagles-nrl-telstra-premiership-2021\/321164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Manly&#x27;s 66-0 drubbing of the Bulldogs\">Manly&#x27;s 66-0 drubbing of the bottom-placed Bulldogs<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/wayne-bennett-clash-south-sydney-coach-on-new-rules-press-conference\/47bc53ea-72c3-42bd-8225-9fbb3d8e8f84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"conversation surrounding the NRL&#x27;s divide between top and bottoms\">conversation surrounding the NRL&#x27;s divide between top and bottoms<\/a> continued to gain more traction.<\/p>\n<p>The NRL&#x27;s new rules, namely the six-again ruling, have been blamed for the lopsided scorelines along with discussions involving <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/magic-round-crackdown-six-again-new-rules-blow-outs-peter-vlandys\/203a1faf-2232-4ae4-a275-3b024bda0070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"club and roster management issues\">club and roster management issues<\/a>, but Johns said he had &quot;absolutely no idea&quot; when he asked if he could pinpoint the root of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m thinking about it, I&#x27;m watching. I&#x27;m talking to people all the time and there are all different theories [on the league&#x27;s talent disparity],&quot; he told Wide World of Sports&#x27; <em>The Final Whistle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"c0564f65-0d0f-4f7f-bc58-5494cafe44c0\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c0564f65-0d0f-4f7f-bc58-5494cafe44c0\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#x27;t know, but It&#x27;s a real worry. The difference between the top and bottom, and not even that, but sometimes some games &#8211; we&#x27;re seeing massive blowouts.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Johns suggested the NRL needs to bring people from all walks of the game together to at the end of the season to form a &quot;think tank&quot; where the league&#x27;s image can be properly discussed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I would like to see at the end of the year a think tank, where we get people together from the game,&quot; Johns said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;People within the media, the coaches, some senior players and we talk about the direction of the game &#8211; where we want the game, and what do we want the game to look like.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Because at the moment, I think we&#x27;re making things up on the go.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6262285147001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/07\/367937\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"The Final Whistle: Covid Bubble Burst by the Dragons - Round 16\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckqp0ddud000z0hqhbvxn8jxq\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Newcastle Knights great made particular mention of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores-2021-brisbane-broncos-cronulla-sharks-wests-tigers-south-sydney-rabbitohs-start-time-results-news-round-16\/f23839f0-0eae-481e-9d3f-4161495803ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"South Sydney&#x27;s 38-22 victory over the Wests Tigers\">South Sydney&#x27;s 38-22 victory over the Wests Tigers<\/a> today, in which both teams were locked in &quot;second gear&quot; during the second half with the Rabbitohs well on top at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There are some games you look and it&#x27;s like touch footy,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The game tonight [between the Tigers and Rabbitohs], that second-half, both teams were in second gear.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know there were no crowds and the result was pretty much decided at half-time, but I think we need to get together and work out what we want the game to look like, how we think the game should be officiated and go forward from there.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Rugby league immortal Andrew Johns has urged the NRL to put together a think tank to combat the league&#x27;s talent disparity as blowout scorelines between <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=95073\" title=\"Johns proposes &#039;think tank&#039; to end blowout issue\">[&#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\/95073"}],"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=95073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95075,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95073\/revisions\/95075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}