{"id":668202,"date":"2026-05-13T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:41:12","slug":"nrl-2026-andrew-johns-calls-for-magic-round-to-stay-in-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668202\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026 | Andrew Johns calls for Magic Round to stay in Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Gould returns with one of the great podcast openers after revealing a heart monitor scare that led to the line: \u201cI\u2019ve been dead for 3 days.\u201d<br \/>\nFrom there, it\u2019s straight into Magic Round chaos and the biggest Origin talking points heading into team selections. Gus breaks down the Reece Walsh v Kalyn Ponga fullback debate, the Warriors\u2019 decision to release Luke Metcalf, and why modern rugby league has become \u201ca game of fatigue.\u201d<br \/>\nThere\u2019s also Ask Gus from Switzerland, Perth expansion discussion, Women\u2019s Origin preview, and a full Round 11 Magic Round breakdown thanks to TAB.<\/p>\n<p>4 hours ago01:12:42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Gould returns with one of the great podcast openers after revealing a heart monitor scare that led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-668202","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668202","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=668202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}