2018 Draw

[King Ben]

So we know Round 1 is Cowboys in Townsville. Round 2 is Dragons.. on a Thursday.

The NRL has scheduled two Sunday afternoon games in Sydney on six weekends over the season.

Not that the Cronulla Sharks are happy with the Thursday night placement of their blockbuster local derby against St George Illawarra in round two.

The derby is their biggest drawing game of the season and a match that is always a near full house on a Saturday night or Sunday afternoon.

The Sharks believe the decision to play on a school night will cost them up to 7000 fans and around $100,000 in gate takings.

2016 Grand Final rematch is Good Friday at home. Round 14 against the Tigers. Full draw released tomorrow morning.

 

[M2D2]

We are going to get f**ked if those early games to base anything off. for f**ks sake.

 

[2012....Sharks Year]

Feels like we always draw Monday and now Thursday timeslots v's the putrid Goons......as long as we get our share of Sunday arvo footy I'll be happy. Think we only had two last year which was pretty faarrked.

 

[King Ben]

Chief executive Todd Greenberg said the NRL had delivered the first preference request of every club in the 2018 draw.

I'd love to know what our first preference was, I thought we asked for a Sunday Dragons home game every year as #1 priority.

 

[Card Shark]

Someone has to play in those time slots - it’s normally an “honour” to get a FTA game.

I don’t see too much changing in the draw although the NRL will bang on about it being better.

The big indicator will be how many Thursday & Friday nights (7 day turnaround/ weekend off) the Broncos get!

 

[carcharias]

Bent over once again
Our biggest drawing game cops a Thursday night
What merkins

 

[sharkman73]

Bent over once again
Our biggest drawing game cops a Thursday night
What merkins

It's complete bullshit alright, especially when you look at when we played them this year.

No idea.

 

[Quigs]

And they wonder why the game is dying ???

 

[Quigs]

Lyall and the crew should be howling this down from the top of every mountain. Its an annual event and it should be an annual shit fight until they get it right

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

flanno spray
away cows
home derby in the worst crowd timeslot

Tin
Foil
Hat
Time

 

[King Ben]

 

[shaggs]

I’m back from an enforced holiday.

I don’t really care where and when we play teams, but having the drags and the eagles on a Sunday, ensure a full house.

It doesn’t make sense to play any local derbies on a Thursday. The only reason would be to try and prop up attendance on the Thursday nights.

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

Quick analysis

12 games vs top 8 teams 12 games vs bottom 8. even split. We play both Grand finalists twice.
We play the Roosters and Manly only once both at home which is good.

We play Souths and the \Warriors and Titans once away
We play Wests once at shark park.
Newcastle twice

we have a staggering 11 channel 9 fixtures

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

further analysis

Away days

Canberra
Newcastle
Melbourne
Brisbane
NQ
Goldcoast
NZ

That's a fair lot of travel
we also play sy George and the eLLs twice in the first 10 weeks.

 

[glenmoresharkie]

And not one Saturday 2pm kick off, strange how that works out. Nice to see nothing has changed with Brisbane getting 22 Thursday/Friday night games. Absolutely ridiculous that this hasn't changed despite the NRL having full control of the draw this season. One of your best works Greenberg you pelican.

On the other hand our draw features so many FTA games - we'd better pull our fingers out and impress to warrant them. And no dreaded trip away to Brookvale for the second year in a row. Local derby on a Thursday night is an absolute gee up. Apart from that we can't really complain.

 

[Feej]

flanno spray
away cows
home derby in the worst crowd timeslot

Tin
Foil
Hat
Time

Really? f**k! I sent all the child workers I had off to Foxconn to make iPhone 8's and 10's! Now you're telling me I need to go back into production again?

 

[roboshark]

Tough start. Dragons twice in first 6 weeks. That's ridiculous

 

[sharkman73]

Nice to see nothing has changed with Brisbane getting 22 Thursday/Friday night games. Absolutely ridiculous that this hasn't changed despite the NRL having full control of the draw this season. One of your best works Greenberg you pelican.

No they don't. Try 13.

 

[glenmoresharkie]

No they don't. Try 13.

You're right, the link I clicked on I think took me to the wrong draw, just re-checked next years one. Apologies.

 

[sharkman73]

You're right, the link I clicked on I think took me to the wrong draw, just re-checked next years one. Apologies.

You had me worried when you said 22! You get a bit sick of watching them after work on a Thursday/Friday night.