{"id":151071,"date":"2025-09-18T02:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151071\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T02:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:13:23","slug":"mark-geyer-suggests-the-nrl-reconsider-old-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151071\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Geyer suggests the NRL \u2018reconsider\u2019 old tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A legendary figure of rugby league has urged the NRL to rethink how it stages its biggest day on the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The all-time great believes the Grand Final has drifted away from the tradition and atmosphere that once made it special.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Geyer\u2019s comments have sparked discussion among supporters who remember the game\u2019s classic showdowns of the past.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the NRL had a day-time Grand Final was in 2000 when the Brisbane Broncos played the Sydney Roosters, in which the Broncos would claim the premiership.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/shibasaki-reflects-costly-night-out-and-emotional-return\/b2bf19bda0d32934928aef24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gehamat Shibasaki reflects on costly night out and emotional finals return<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first time the NRL had a night-time Grand Final was when the Newcastle Knights played the Parramatta Eels in 2001 and upset the historic offensive outfit of the Blue and Gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s time for the NRL to get serious about getting back to a day-time Grand Final,\u201d Geyer said on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2gb.com\/what-the-nrl-should-seriously-reconsider-according-to-mark-geyer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2GB Wide World of Sports<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ratings are through the roof and I think footy is better in the day-time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A legendary figure of rugby league has urged the NRL to rethink how it stages its biggest day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-151071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}