It's not that good of a draw system.
One way and another it is flawed if teams play each other after only a few weeks between as has happened.
The Draw is terrible. No argument for how the draw works has ever given that is satisfactory.
The argument of old time rivals must play at certain time’s doesn’t answer the question of why there isn’t a complete draw where everyone plays each other once before playing teams go a second time.
At the end of each season. The draw to who plays each other twice the next season should be determined by two groups. Odds all play each other twice and Evens get to play each other twice.
That leaves a couple of extra rounds to add to the calendar and fill the amount of rounds.
These can be filled with any special requests for certain games to be played if they miss playing each other twice the way the draw works.
The clowns who say this cannot happen because the traditional games like the Roosters v Dragons on Anzac Day. (Tradition that is only 20 years old mind you) Bulldogs v Rabbits on Easter etc. need to be specifically fitted in. What is to stop these game’s getting allocated as the weekend those teams play.
Why the hell all teams cannot play a full round of games where everyone plays each other once before starting a second round. The tradition can go so far. We need to live in the present and play what is fair and reasonable in the current year.
