{"id":554772,"date":"2026-03-21T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554772\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:46:12","slug":"people-deserve-excellence-why-the-nrl-needs-to-centralise-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554772\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;People deserve excellence&#8217; Why the NRL needs to Centralise the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things got a little heated in this debate.<\/p>\n<p>The NRL is becoming a world class sport, but still has games hosted in traditional suburban venues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople deserve excellence\u2026 we should take more games to a centralised location.\u201d Paul Gallen told the Continuous Call Team.<\/p>\n<p>But Mark Levy objects, saying \u201cWe can\u2019t take football rugby league away from the traditional heartland of their clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the FULL Debate now<\/p>\n<p>(Photo by Mark Metcalfe\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things got a little heated in this debate. The NRL is becoming a world class sport, but still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,47157,85],"class_list":["post-554772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-rugby-league-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554772","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=554772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}