Dragons might go into out of town conference

[TruSaint]

Originally read this as a 'fisting permit'....

Hope this isolation doesn't last too much longer....

 

[Dragsters]

Besides there actually being games to finally watch the other positive could be with us being classified as an out of city team if they decide that there are too many city teams & some need to go, we should be safe. That's my strange take on it & I'm clinging to it.

Indeed.

They can't have it both ways...

 

[Gareth67]

Doesn’t matter which Comp we would be in.
Either will see us down near the bowels somewhere.

Gawd that stinks !

 

[Willow]

Originally read this as a 'fisting permit'....

Hope this isolation doesn't last too much longer....

No, Father Ted got it right. Hard to say who's doing the fishing though.

 

[jak]

Doesn’t matter which Comp we would be in.
Either will see us down near the bowels somewhere.

we wont get that high

 

[YoHadrian]

Originally read this as a 'fisting permit'....

Hope this isolation doesn't last too much longer....

Yes I've found it's always best to ask before I partake in such an activity.

Are we still talking about fishing?

 

[Father Ted]

Originally read this as a 'fisting permit'....

Hope this isolation doesn't last too much longer....

Isn't it enough that we kill and eat the poor fish?

 

[slippery5]

Does being in a 2 tier comp mean we should make the top 8 ???

 

[Forbes Creek Dragons]

I will be happy for any footy back tbh, at least it gives Mary a chance to get sacked and some players a few games under their belts and some with a chance to show they don't have what it takes.

 

[blacksafake]

Does being in a 2 tier comp mean we should make the top 8 ???

We may scrape in.

 

[Old Kogarah Boy 1]

I think if this scenario was to go ahead, the games would be played without spectators at the grounds because social distancing would still be part of life for quite some time, otherwise why would the players be isolated. I will have to get the sports package back on Foxsports which I recently cancelled.

My wife and l have been practicing 'social distancing' from one another for years ..........
l can tell you it works!

Sorry, as you were.

 

[Father Ted]

NRL conference plan 'not fair': Tallis

Matt Encarnacion

© Gordon Tallis Gordon Tallis
Splitting the NRL competition into two conferences would be unfair for some teams, according to former Kangaroos star Gorden Tallis.

A radical proposal to isolate two 'bubbles' of teams, in NSW and Queensland, for a 14-week regular season is believed to be gathering steam at league central.

One conference would include eight Sydney-based teams, while the remaining eight sides would be quarantined in the sunshine state.

There are suggestions points earned from the two rounds of games completed before the coronavirus-enforced shutdown could be scrapped.

St George Illawarra, based one hour south of Sydney in Wollongong, could be asked to cross the border along with Newcastle Knights.

Each team would face each other twice before a four-week finals series, taking the entire season to 18 weeks, not including State of Origin.

The idea is understood to be one of a handful of scenarios the innovation committee will consider when it meets on Thursday.

Only two of the six teams who won their opening two games of the season come out of Sydney: Parramatta and Penrith.

The other four are Newcastle, Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne, all four of whom would be allocated to the non-Sydney conference.

Tallis, who played 16 Tests for Australia, is not convinced by the two-conference plan.

"I don't believe in two conferences. I really don't," he said on Fox League Live.

"If you're a Queenslander, and you're going to go to Sydney and play in front of an empty stadium, then you've got to go.

"Everybody's got to play each other once, but there can't be two conferences.

"I don't think it's fair on some teams that would be in the conferences, because one conference will be weaker than the other. There's no doubt about that."

Tallis also dismissed the notion of resuming the season with State of Origin, saying that after a long lay-off it would dilute the standard of the rivalry.

"What makes Origin so special is the standard that it's played at, what the players put their body through," he said.

"And it's the best product that we can get on our television set. So you don't want to dilute that by not having everybody fit, fighting and raring to go."
https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/rug...lan-not-fair-tallis/ar-BB12evlN?ocid=msedgntp

 

[Father Ted]

"St George Illawarra, based one hour south of Sydney in Wollongong"?

 

[kit66]

Why do you people read the DT, why ?

 

[possm]

Why do you people read the DT, why ?

Kogarah is in Sydney. Sydney conference less time travelling and lest cost travelling.

I say promote/expand to 20 teams, 10 in each conference. Include SGI and Canberra in the Sydney conference. Include a second Brisbane team, a Sunshine coast team, a NZ south island team and a Perth team in the other conference.

 

[Walpole]

I don't know - if we end up in an out-of-Sydney conference we'll get to play the Gold Coast and NZ. There's the potential we finish 6th (out of 8 I know).

6th place! Sounds like an extension coming for you know who...

 

[redv13]

Kogarah is in Sydney. Sydney conference less time travelling and lest cost travelling.

I say promote/expand to 20 teams, 10 in each conference. Include SGI and Canberra in the Sydney conference. Include a second Brisbane team, a Sunshine coast team, a NZ south island team and a Perth team in the other conference.

For this year??

 

[Father Ted]

Why do you people read the DT, why ?

Because I was struck by the notion that Tallas apparently had a thought ,Who knew?

 

[jak]

My wife and l have been practicing 'social distancing' from one another for years ..........
l can tell you it works!

Sorry, as you were.

don't blame the girl

 

[SBD82]

"St George Illawarra, based one hour south of Sydney in Wollongong"?

What’s your question with this statement? It’s true.