{"id":590341,"date":"2026-04-07T02:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590341\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:17:07","slug":"rugby-league-gods-just-having-a-laugh-until-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590341\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby League Gods Just Having A Laugh Until Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WENDELL HUSSEY\u00a0|\u00a0Cadet\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.betootaadvocate.com\/rugby-l-gods-just-having-a-laugh-until-origin\/mailto:wendell@betootaadvocate.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CONTACT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mystery figures known as the Rugby League gods have today confirmed that they are really enjoying the year 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking through their disciple Phil &#8216;Gus&#8217; Gould to The Advocate this morning, the Gods explained that they thought they&#8217;d mix things up a bit this year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah look, there&#8217;s a lot of shit going on in the world, and we thought this might be the year to fuck around and let everyone just have a bit of fun,&#8221; said Gould, with his eyes rolling back in his head. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obvs we didn&#8217;t go as far as the years when we decided to make St George the May Premiers, but we figure some downtrodden fan bases could do with a bit of a boost.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The comments come as the Tigers and Knights occupy the 2nd and 3rd on the NRL ladder, with last year&#8217;s Minor Premier&#8217;s down in second last, and the perennial high achievers the Melbourne Storm sitting outside the 8. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, we thought we&#8217;d muck around with it a bit,&#8221; continued a possessed Phil Gould. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one needs to see Roosters, Storm, Panthers and Broncos in the top 4 right now.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Panthers are playing up a bit, but given how many changes they&#8217;ve had to their team, we&#8217;ll Low it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So for anyone worried about what&#8217;s going on, don&#8217;t stress, just enjoy the ride.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>More to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WENDELL HUSSEY\u00a0|\u00a0Cadet\u00a0|\u00a0CONTACT The mystery figures known as the Rugby League gods have today confirmed that they are really&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-590341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590341","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=590341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}