The NRL season just became a lottery

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It appears that if the NRL season was to resume, then it will be split into 2 conferences of 8.

The season will be 7 weeks long, 3 weeks of semis and a GF.

This all of a sudden turned the comp into a genuine lottery.

Any team including us (just look at the back end of last season) can catch fire and go on a run. We look a different team with Foran and he will be back.

Apparently the first 2 weeks are going to be wiped out, teams like the Raiders and Storm are spewing. Well, suck it.

What are everyone's thoughts?
 

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any team excluding us, gold coast and warriors can catch fire and go on a run
 

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Just like super league the season is rooted come back in 21
 

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Sounds more like a money maker than a comp.
 

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Starting from scratch won't happen, because that would disadvantage The Roosters. The big ticket items for the NRL are the three State of Origin games - how would they fit into the comp?
 

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Starting from scratch won't happen, because that would disadvantage The Roosters.
Hang on, the Chooks lost the first 2 games, so starting from scratch would advantage them.

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It appears that if the NRL season was to resume, then it will be split into 2 conferences of 8.

The season will be 7 weeks long, 3 weeks of semis and a GF.

This all of a sudden turned the comp into a genuine lottery.

Any team including us (just look at the back end of last season) can catch fire and go on a run. We look a different team with Foran and he will be back.

Apparently the first 2 weeks are going to be wiped out, teams like the Raiders and Storm are spewing. Well, suck it.

What are everyone's thoughts?
What a farce if something like this happens. It should just be cancelled entirely. The only reason we are even talking about dumb shit like this is because Greenturd gave away all of the games savings to the clubs as some kinda political thing.
 

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We lost them but I’m OK with including the first 2 rounds. I don’t think they can simply ignore them like they didn’t happen. Just incorporate them when making up the rest of the draw, we have already played Parramatta and the Cowboys so if the draw ends up everyone plays everyone else once then that’s 2 done.

Not a fan of 2 conferences, no matter how they are juggled there will never be equality, especially if it’s a Qld and NSW basis. For a starter it gives the 4 Qld teams (Melbourne is really a Qld team) an advantage over the 4 non Qld teams that would be forced to join that conference. Even more so if/when fans are allowed to attend.

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It appears that if the NRL season was to resume, then it will be split into 2 conferences of 8.

The season will be 7 weeks long, 3 weeks of semis and a GF.
7 + 3 + 1 = 11 weeks. So if the comp starts on, say, the first weekend in June (that’s 8 weeks from now) the Grand Final will be mid August, that’s a lot early. Even if we add 3 weeks off for SOO that’s still early September, still a fair bit early.

Having already played 2 rounds, starting first weekend in June and playing every team once means 13 weeks. Plus the usual 4 weeks of finals and 2 weeks for SOO means Grand Final mid October. That seems a much more logical timing.

A 15 round normal competition (plus finals) is much more representative of a normal season than a pissy 7 week competition.

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If you split the comp in 2 shouldn’t you play each other twice? Say a conference of 8 each. Gives you 14 games. Then do you cross conference? And say it’s a top 4 so 1st from one conference vs 4th from the other? And it’s all sudden death. No second chances.

that would mean 2 games to start the season. 14 conference games and 3 finals. Meaning 19 game season.

if they can scrape that together it will be a decent season considering what has gone on in the world and in Australia.
 

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It's a write off if it comes back this year just use it to get game time into youngsters that are going to make a difference in the long term.
 
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7 + 3 + 1 = 11 weeks. So if the comp starts on, say, the first weekend in June (that’s 8 weeks from now) the Grand Final will be mid August, that’s a lot early. Even if we add 3 weeks off for SOO that’s still early September, still a fair bit early.

Having already played 2 rounds, starting first weekend in June and playing every team once means 13 weeks. Plus the usual 4 weeks of finals and 2 weeks for SOO means Grand Final mid October. That seems a much more logical timing.

A 15 round normal competition (plus finals) is much more representative of a normal season than a pissy 7 week competition.

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The reason it is so short is because of the toll it will be on players being away from family for so long.
 

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What a farce if something like this happens. It should just be cancelled entirely. The only reason we are even talking about dumb shit like this is because Greenturd gave away all of the games savings to the clubs as some kinda political thing.
That means no footy. And seriously, our young players need games. Don't care if we can't win it. Just need guys playing and improving. Hopefully Pay just ensures guys like Harper get starting spots so we can get some potential game breakers some experience.
 

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That means no footy. And seriously, our young players need games. Don't care if we can't win it. Just need guys playing and improving. Hopefully Pay just ensures guys like Harper get starting spots so we can get some potential game breakers some experience.
The current global situation means there shouldn't be any footy tbh. Not until we are in a much better position anyway, but that probably means bugger all time left. Why have a farcical season just to have some footy?
 

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The current global situation means there shouldn't be any footy tbh. Not until we are in a much better position anyway, but that probably means bugger all time left. Why have a farcical season just to have some footy?
It’s purely being put on to appease Fox and Nine to give them content to receive the contract money.
 

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stop complaining ppl, we all know its gonna be a shit show no matter what

I would just be glad to see some live footy again....
 

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Get the footy back I don't care how they do it, just get it done.
 

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Don't mind the shakeup. We had no chance under the former schedule, if they throw a few things around it might just give us a chance.. e.g. we get a good conference, a couple of teams don't adapt to well etc.

When there is chaos there is also opportunity - Sun Tzu.
 

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Who knows what they will end up doing. Every day we see some new idea of what it would look like.
 
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