Merge the premier league and the Jim Beam Cup

[paulmac]

THE TEAMS/ NRL AFFILIATE
1.Guildford Owls/ Parramatta Eels
2.St Marys Cougars/ Penrith Panthers
3.Sydney Bulls/ Canterbury Bulldogs
4.Balmain Tigers/ Wests Tigers
5.Souths Juniors/ South Sydney Rabbitohs
6.Wests Magpies/ Wests Tigers
7.Manly SeaEagles/ Manly Sea Eagles
8.Cronulla Sharks/ Cronulla Sharks
9.Newcastle Knights/ Newcastle Knights
10.St George-Illawarra/ St George-Illawarra
11.Eastern Suburbs/ Sydney Roosters
12.Canberra Raiders/ Canberra Raiders
13.North Sydney Bears/ INDEPENDANT
14.Newtown Jets/ " "
15.Ryde Eastwood Hawks/ " "
16.Wentworthville Magpies/ " "
17.Windsor Wolves/ " "
18.Cabramatta Devils/ " "

THE DRAW
The new Jim Beam Cup would be run over 22 rounds with a top 8 finals sreies.Each team will play each other once(17 rounds)and teams in your group twice for another five games.The 18 teams would be split into 3 groups of 6.To compensate for having no NRL players to call upon the 6 independant clubs would play in one of these groups meaning a side such as Windsor would be atleast competitve in 10 games.

 

[izzo]

that will never happen we need to keep Jim Beam Cup as the 3rd Grade Comp and First Division/Premier Leage/Under 21's/Presidents cup/Second Grade or wat eva they call it now as the 2nd Grade Comp

 

[metroman]

There is a fair bit of interchanging of players between premier laegue and Jim Beam. Last week Souths Juniors had 7 players in their Jim Beam team that were playing for Souths in Premier League in the run up to the finals.

How did these Premier League players handle a Jim Beam semi? They got flogged 46-8 by Sydney Bulls.