{"id":676233,"date":"2026-05-17T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676233\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:40:09","slug":"nrl-fans-gather-like-medieval-peasants-to-watch-a-public-execution-of-the-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676233\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL Fans Gather Like Medieval Peasants To Watch A Public Execution Of The Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KEITH T. DENNETT |\u00a0New South\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/clancy@betootaadvocate.com\/?ref=betootaadvocate.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CONTACT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The clock tower bells of Brisbane are ringing this afternoon as the city prepares to gather for a vicious display of capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as several town criers were spotted walking along Caxton Street this morning, waking up Brisbanites with the news that the Dragons are likely to get executed by a margin of more than 50 points at the hands of the Penrith Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGather round! Gather round! Here yee good people of Brisbane!\u201d one was heard yelling from the balcony of the Lord Alfred Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeave thy chores unfinished and thy livestock unattended, all banana-fondlers are called to witness the execution of The Dragons at sunset\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a three day binge of Rugby League, it\u2019s believed the general consensus from most Queenslanders and travelling NRL fans is that tonight\u2019s 6:25pm finale will be one to be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, given the thirst of NRL fans is one that is rarely quenched, it\u2019s expected a few footy sickos will still dawdle into Suncorp Stadium to watch Penrith put the Dragons to the sword, instead of going home to their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, fck it, I\u2019ll still go!\u201d Toowoomba man Tate Miles told The Advocate, in between sticking his fingers into a $25 plate of beef brisket nachos from a food truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a three day pass, might as well get my money\u2019s worth. Even if the game resembles 80 minutes of touch footy, and the Dragons miss a few hundred tackles I\u2019ll get to see Casey Mclean audition for Origin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KEITH T. DENNETT |\u00a0New South\u00a0|\u00a0CONTACT The clock tower bells of Brisbane are ringing this afternoon as the city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-676233","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\/676233","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=676233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}