As a rookie coach respectful of keeping his nose out of NRL controversies for now, Anthony Griffin has done a great job winning football games for the Brisbane Broncos.

But as the coach of a club who handed over six players to this year's State of Origin series he also feels he has a vested interest and an obligation to back any moves to make the game's showpiece a stand alone game - and help ease the burden on his star players.

Griffin, who's done an excellent job of getting his representative players, including retiring captain Darren Lockyer, through the testing Origin period, supports plans to trial one of the Origin games in the 2013 series as a stand alone match.

It would mean extending the NRL season from 26 to 27 weeks with a blockbuster round staged early in the year.

The additional round would feature a double-header at New Zealand's Eden Park or Newcastle's Ausgrid Stadium on Friday night, a triple-header in Brisbane on Saturday and another triple-header at Homebush on the Sunday.

The clubs would split the proceeds evenly from the three sold out venues.

"The more of them (stand alone Origins) we can have the better," said Griffin.

"We don't need to clutter up showcase games like Origins and Test match games in between (NRL) fixture games.

"We don't need to clutter up when we play the Storm or the Dragons in between rep games.

"They've all got a great place in the game and they all need to be respected as one-off matches whether they're a marquee club game or a an event like an Origin or a Test match."

Wayne Bennett's successor said Origin and the NRL both lost out along with fans when they clashed.

"I think it compromised both games. I'm a fan myself and I'd love to sit there and enjoy a weekend of Origin or Test matches and not know someone has got to play a day or two later.

"When you go to a club match and a player is rested or you know he's played the night before there's a grey area there about how good the contest is going to be.

"The more you separate that, the better."

A number of high profile coaches led by Wayne Bennett and Craig Bellamy have been calling on administrators to introduce stand alone Origins which have the full support of the game's leading players who believe they are being asked to play too much football.

It is one of several big issues the newly named commission will look into along with a new TV rights deal, salary cap and expansion.

Meanwhile Brisbane announced on Thursday it had added North Queensland under-20s coach Kristian Woolf to its senior coaching staff in 2012.

Griffin said he'd been a fan of Woolf, 35, for some time.

"He's a young coach who'll fill a vital role for us," said Griffin.

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