Joey's radical idea to avoid awkward problem

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Rugby league fable Andrew Johns says the NRL indispensable see a interruption betwixt the preliminary last and the expansive last to accommodate the recently introduced concussion protocols, contempt the information that elder figures astatine the NRL person already ruled it out.

The league has introduced a mandatory 11-day stand-down play for immoderate subordinate diagnosed with a class 1 concussion, either during a crippled oregon astatine training.

The mandatory play takes the powerfulness distant from nine doctors to find if a subordinate tin enactment up the pursuing week aft suffering a atrocious concussion.

And portion Johns has nary qualms with the caller rule, helium is acrophobic it has the imaginable to regularisation players retired of large games, similar finals oregon State of Origins.

Speaking to Wide World of Sports' Immortal Behaviour, the Knights fable said determination had to beryllium a mode to debar specified a conundrum.

"What we person to do, without a doubt, is person a week disconnected earlier the expansive final," Johns said.

"If the Roosters and the Rabbitohs are playing successful the expansive final, and deity forbid Latrell Mitchell gets (concussed) successful the (preliminary final) and helium can't play successful the expansive final, tin you ideate the fto down?

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"Have the play off, person a two-week build-up for the game, past the stars tin each play.

"Also that mode if idiosyncratic gets a niggle, sprains an ankle, you springiness them 14 days to recover.

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"I deliberation it's thing we request to speech about."

Yet, adjacent earlier that treatment has had clip to physique momentum it has reportedly been squashed astatine caput office, wherever News Corp reports determination is nary appetite for a two-week build-up to the large dance.

This presumption has been taken contempt the information that different nonrecreational competitions astir the satellite person been palmy successful introducing breaks starring up to large events.

The NFL successful America has 2 weeks between the league finals and the Super Bowl, portion the AFL has a wide bye betwixt the past circular of the regular play and the archetypal week of the finals series.

"I deliberation we decidedly person to person the speech astir a week off," Johns continued.

"Big games, expansive finals, we request each the superstars."

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