2018 Draw

[Hoofhearted]

Seriously?

Why wouldnt it be, Souths v Warriors have had 3 sell outs in Perth over recent years so its the obvious choice. Souths crowds in Perth have dropped a bit since they stopped playing the Warriors.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

So it's scheduled for release in late October? Then I look forward to seeing it in mid December.

I dunno.

In the past, it was the squabbling with 9 and FOX that delayed the schedules release. If the NRL genuinely has control over the schedule, the stations wont have much chance to stall the release.

So Brisbane will still get over 50% of their games on a Thursday/Friday. You'd bet that's all their home fixtures plus a Cowboys away game.

The good thing about 9s Brisbane fetish is that the NRL can use it to give teams who never get on 9 some exposure...

Newcastle, Storm, Warriors, Raiders, etc. against Brissy will still rate well and these clubs will finally get some good coverage.

 

[Perth Red]

Tickets are on sale for the Perth Double Header.
Price range $20-$90 Adults
$12 kids (which is significantly cheaper than games at nib)
Some interesting packages available as well

http://tickets.nrl.com/double-header/perth-2018

 

[Perth Red]

Why wouldnt it be, Souths v Warriors have had 3 sell outs in Perth over recent years so its the obvious choice. Souths crowds in Perth have dropped a bit since they stopped playing the Warriors.

Ideally for crowd appeal it would be Souths v Warriors & Bulldogs v Broncos or Storm

You can get reasonably priced cheap seats so I expect plenty of non RL fans will buy those just to come and see the stadium in action.

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

Seriously?

yip
straight from the club

 

[Diesel]

Why wouldnt it be, Souths v Warriors have had 3 sell outs in Perth over recent years so its the obvious choice. Souths crowds in Perth have dropped a bit since they stopped playing the Warriors.

Probably because they have to cross over 4 time zones, travelling distance and they are forced to go each year. Perhaps the Tigers should play in Perth instead?

 

[Raiderdave]

the Perth Double header would obviously be on the Saturday & im assuming at 7.30pm & 9.30pm eastern times .. 5.30pm & 7.30pm WA times
Bulldogs V Broncos & Souths V Warriors hopefully
so I think a perfect round one would be

Thurs: 8pm Titans V Cowboys ( 7pm QLD time kickoff ) 15,000
Friday: 6pm Roosters V Manly 15,000
Friday: 8pm Raiders V Penrith 15,000
Sat : 5.30pm Melb V Parramatta 20,000
Sat: 7.30pm Souths V Warriors 60,000
Sat: 9.30pm Bulldogs V Broncos
Sun: 4pm Tigers V Sharks Leichardt 15,000
Sun: 6pm Newcastle V Dragons 20,000

 

[AlwaysGreen]

It seems like the bad attitude and excuses are creeping into warriors fans psyches as well.

To win the nrl you have to travel. Cowboys learned how to do it. Melbourne too. If the warriors can't manage to fly to Perth and back, in round 1 ffs, than there's no hope for them ever.

 

[Nuke]

I've heard the away teams for the Perth Round 1 double-header are indeed NZ Warriors and Melbourne Storm (just waiting on confirmation). The games are indeed on the Saturday, but keep in mind daylight savings will still be in action, which WA doesn't have (because, basically, the majority of the locals are morons ... trust me, I live here!), so that will most likely put the games at about 2:30pm and 4:30pm WA time (5:30pm and 7:30pm EDST).

 

[Perth Red]

I've heard the away teams for the Perth Round 1 double-header are indeed NZ Warriors and Melbourne Storm (just waiting on confirmation). The games are indeed on the Saturday, but keep in mind daylight savings will still be in action, which WA doesn't have (because, basically, the majority of the locals are morons ... trust me, I live here!), so that will most likely put the games at about 2:30pm and 4:30pm WA time (5:30pm and 7:30pm EDST).

Could be a bit toasty at that time of day in March!

 

[Diesel]

I'd assume the roof will be closed?

 

[seanoff]

I'd assume the roof will be closed?

Its not that kind of roof.

 

[LineBall]

Can someone clarify what it means when they say the NRL has “control of the scheduling”? From what I understand, they choose who plays who, but the match times are still determined by the broadcasters. If so, it sounds like it’s just going to be like putting lipstick on a pig as far as improvements go.

 

[Pommy]

Can someone clarify what it means when they say the NRL has “control of the scheduling”? From what I understand, they choose who plays who, but the match times are still determined by the broadcasters. If so, it sounds like it’s just going to be like putting lipstick on a pig as far as improvements go.

Time lots are not going to change. The broadcasters have paid for 8 games a week.
Those games need to be on in 8 different time slots. Even if they were to change they wouldn’t be slots much better than what we have now.
What shouldn’t happen is stupid selection of games like Souths Vs Roosters or Dogs vs Eels on a Thursday night. That is still a big improvement in my book.

 

[beave]

For the love of Scott Minto, please don’t schedule the NQ/Bris derby game on a Thursday in NQ.

Or give us any 6pm Friday games.

Love

Cowbs fans.

 

[Tigers1986]

I think the NRL gets to dictate to the networks who is playing on what days, thus preventing the Brisbane monotiny of Friday night games and 7-day turnarounds.

 

[cleary89]

Dragons and Tigers having 4 venues is just f**ked. I applauded them for taking games to new venues but how can a fans commit when a club won't. Especially the Tigers where they have Leichhardt on one side of Sydney and Campbelltown on the other, just goes to show how not to merge two clubs into one

Footy needs to be an every second week type thing. Make it a routine with your family/mates. Not once every 6 weeks.

Anyone else see this from the nrl? http://tickets.nrl.com/2018/

Wonder what is going to change.

 

[Timmah]

Whole new website. https://beta-test.nrl.digital/

 

[Perth Red]

I think the NRL gets to dictate to the networks who is playing on what days, thus preventing the Brisbane monotiny of Friday night games and 7-day turnarounds.

Yes and no. Nine still gets to pick from an nrl nominated 95 premium games. Nine can then schedule them in its three slots as it sees fit. Be interesting to see how big the nrl's balls are in what it puts up as premium games. In theory we could still see Brisbane most Friday nights and games like Sth smith v Bulldogs on a Thursday night. Hopefully this year has been a big enough kick in the backside that neither party wants that but this is ch nine!

Not sure how much control fox will have, hopefully none and nrl give it every warriors home game and every nz on the road game for the Friday 6pm. Compensate warriors for it and help them build a Friday night crowd.

 

[Perth Red]

Whole new website. https://beta-test.nrl.digital/

It would be nice to see recognition and links to all the nrl states and territories!