Penrith's premiership hopes have been given a huge boost with the title favourites granted permission to play at Panthers Stadium in the opening week of the NRL finals | app85 SMHsport
But the ARL Commission won't change a policy adopted last year which allowed clubs to return to suburban venues to start the finals for the first time in a decade.
Sources familiar with the situation said the NRL is yet to finalise where they will play matches in the second and third week of the finals.NRL officials are sweating on NSW's COVID-19 infection rate to fall in a bid to increase crowd numbers at finals matches, which are currently capped at 25 per cent of a venue's capacity or a maximum of 10,000.
"We've been fighting for the last decade to get a semi-final at home," Panthers chief executive Brian Fletcher told the"You strive all season to get that home final and finish as high up as you can on the ladder to get that advantage, so if we get the chance to play a home final we know where we want to play it.
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