2018 Draw

[Buzzard Breath]

The draw for 2018 should be out this week.
According to the Tele,

ROUND 1

Thursday - Dragons v Broncos @ Kogarah

Friday - Knights v Manly @ McDonald Jones (6pm)
Cowboys v Sharks @ 1300SMILES (7:40pm AEDT)

Saturday - Tigers v Roosters @ ANZ, 4pm
Rabbitohs v Warriors (6pm) @ Perth
Bulldogs v Storm (8pm) @ Perth

Sunday - Panthers v Eels @ Penrith (4pm)
Gold Coast v Raiders @ Cbus (6:30pm)

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...s/news-story/146af593c67fd66b22129a51f137e03c

I like opening the year at home against Parra. We should get a bumper crowd.

 

[Black Magik]

Home game, against Parra and on a Sunday afternoon. I agree. Has to be a sell out.

 

[umina panther]

Nice easy start for the year 13+ / Moylan motm

 

[Fangs]

Would prefer that clash later in the year when the teams are playing better football.

 

[roofromoz]

Can't wait for Penrith to be gifted yet another soft draw.

 

[OldPanther]

The draw for 2018 should be out this week.
According to the Tele,

ROUND 1

Thursday - Dragons v Broncos @ Kogarah

Friday - Knights v Manly @ McDonald Jones (6pm)
Cowboys v Sharks @ 1300SMILES (7:40pm AEDT)

Saturday - Tigers v Roosters @ ANZ, 4pm
Rabbitohs v Warriors (6pm) @ Perth
Bulldogs v Storm (8pm) @ Perth

Sunday - Panthers v Eels @ Penrith (4pm)
Gold Coast v Raiders @ Cbus (6:30pm)

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...s/news-story/146af593c67fd66b22129a51f137e03c

I like opening the year at home against Parra. We should get a bumper crowd.

Everyone except me will be happy about the Sunday at 4 time slot. I finish work at 4 on sundays good to see they aren't ignoring the rivalry.

 

[TheFrog]

Everyone except me will be happy about the Sunday at 4 time slot. I finish work at 4 on sundays good to see they aren't ignoring the rivalry.

Unless they change it, like they did last year.

 

[OldPanther]

Unless they change it, like they did last year.

Typical NRL. I hope they don't though. It is a good time slot in general.

 

[franklin2323]

Can't wait for Penrith to be gifted yet another soft draw.

Even better is when we get a relatively hard draw and people later say it is easy... Fun times ahead

 

[umina panther]

Even better is when we get a relatively hard draw and people later say it is easy... Fun times ahead

Are you trying to argue our 2017 draw was hard?

 

[franklin2323]

Are you trying to argue our 2017 draw was hard?

When it was 1st announced it was difficult we had every out of Sydney team away except GC. Canberra made the Prelim Final. Bulldogs we SF for the previous 5 years and NZ had the test spine. All should of made the draw tougher then it turned out to be.

It became easy once Bulldogs, Canberra and NZ sucked. We still had more travel then any other Sydney team though

This years finishing position will determine the draw. IMO Manly and Eels over achieved so we will play every team once. And atleast 3 other top 8 teams twice if those 3 teams don't make the 8. We will get this same BS that it was an easy draw

 

[OldPanther]

When it was 1st announced it was difficult we had every out of Sydney team away except GC. Canberra made the Prelim Final. Bulldogs we SF for the previous 5 years and NZ had the test spine. All should of made the draw tougher then it turned out to be.

It became easy once Bulldogs, Canberra and NZ sucked. We still had more travel then any other Sydney team though

This years finishing position will determine the draw. IMO Manly and Eels over achieved so we will play every team once. And atleast 3 other top 8 teams twice if those 3 teams don't make the 8. We will get this same BS that it was an easy draw

Only if it turns out that way like this year. None of us can control whether or not some teams will shit the bed and make things easy for Panthers.

 

[franklin2323]

Only if it turns out that way like this year. None of us can control whether or not some teams will shit the bed and make things easy for Panthers.

But it's not an easy draw though we will still get atleast 10 games against 2017 Finalists. Some will get more because they have to play 8 not 7 semi final teams. To say an easy draw says we were given favours and is far from the truth.

 

[billypilgrimnz]

. To say an easy draw says we were given favours....

No it doesn't. That is your imagination.

 

[OldPanther]

But it's not an easy draw though we will still get atleast 10 games against 2017 Finalists. Some will get more because they have to play 8 not 7 semi final teams. To say an easy draw says we were given favours and is far from the truth.

It was an easy draw because they played teams who were rubbish this year. How they ended last year is irrelevant to that. It has nothing to do with doing us a favour. If we play the storm for half our games next year and they got the spoon it'd still be an easy draw. Form at the time is much more important than how they look on paper pre-season.

 

[MrBlack]

Can't wait for Penrith to be gifted yet another soft draw.

Well so far our draw consists of just one game against a top 4 side from last year.

Would be hard to argue it is an easy one............

 

[franklin2323]

No it doesn't. That is your imagination.

Well whatever the reason. Some idiots will say it when the top 8 this year changes and such a draw gets easier

 

[franklin2323]

It was an easy draw because they played teams who were rubbish this year. How they ended last year is irrelevant to that. It has nothing to do with doing us a favour. If we play the storm for half our games next year and they got the spoon it'd still be an easy draw. Form at the time is much more important than how they look on paper pre-season.

It is also our position on the ladder too though. If we are running 12th or 13th the draw will seem harder as all are above us

 

[betcats]

Lol it just gets better. Franklin still trying desperately to make 2017 seem impressive in any way possible. It doesn't f**king matter how tough the draw looks for 2018 what matters is how tough it works out to be in reality, how hard is that to get. 2 years and you are still making the same dumb argument.

 

[betcats]

Well whatever the reason. Some idiots will say it when the top 8 this year changes and such a draw gets easier

Only a f**king idiot would say we had a tough draw in 2017 based on where teams finished in 16 rather than how good the teams actually were in 2017.