The coronavirus crisis has claimed yet another victim this week with the usual customary front page headlines of NRL players drunkenly running around the streets of Sydney naked, pissing in pot plants or dressing up as US President Donald Trump as is the norm on the end of season “Mad Monday” however with the NRL banning Mad Monday this year, journos and photographers have been left confronted with the realisation that their usual front page headlines of players behaving badly won’t be a thing due to coronavirus and ARL Commission chairman Peter V’Landys and they may have to spend their time writing about the NRL Finals which start this weekend
One journalist was reported to have complained to his bosses
about writer’s block as he trawled Twitter looking for any potential stories as
he was unable to access Microsoft Office 365 due to an outage today.
An unnamed source said “The journos are doing it tough right
now, there’s just nothing in the way of player misbehaviour that would garner
front page headlines and generate clicks on the website. There’s some
realisation that we may need to write about the actual rugby league that’s
coming up on the weekend”
Another source claimed that journalists would have to resort
to juicy Brisbane Broncos coaching innuendo and opinions just to garner any
attention away from the finals. “We’re just going to have use our favourite
rugby league punching bags right now…Broncos, Bulldogs and Tigers to draw
readers attention away from NRL finals somehow. I guess we have got a few
referees or bunker in crisis stories somewhere ready to go but that stuff doesn’t
get front pages like players pissing in pot plants does”
The NRL finals begin on Friday night with Penrith Panthers v
Sydney Roosters.
