Nrl's 'project Apollo' Aims To Provide Smooth Landing In Oz

It has been dubbed the Project Apollo, a think tank tasked with giving Australia’s National Rugby League a smooth landing when the season resumes following a shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s not a lunar mission, but it has already generated some out there ideas for getting the players onto the field. Some suggestions involve confining all teams and officials in a kind of bubble or capsule, like a reality TV program, in a secluded island location for a period of quarantine to avoid COVID-19 infection, and then keeping them there for several months to churn through enough rounds to make the competition viable. A day after coming to terms with the players' union on a 71 percent pay cut for the remainder of 2020 to counter the economic fallout of the pandemic, NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg said there was “no bad ideas" when it it came to pitches to the sport's recently formed Innovation Committee.Read more on NewsOK.com

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