Just on the talk of Sunday Night Origin from earlier - what I find interesting is that Channel 9 still has no idea of how to turn Origin games into a post-game ratings bonanza for its follow-on programming. Whatever follows Origin should be the second biggest show of the night but 9 is clueless.
I don't think there's a perfect solution to Origin. But playing it on a Sunday night, you could have the Women's Origin on a Sunday afternoon at a different ground as the pre-news lead-in. Being on a Sunday it would attract a bigger crowd. It would also make those three Sunday full 'Origin' days. They'd become even bigger events.
Then you just take one round of NRL games (that's 9 games in an 18 team comp) and split it over the three Origin rounds. One NRL game on Thursday, Friday & Saturday nights each in those origin rounds. Each team is therefore impacted by Origin scheduling only once and equally. The games in the rounds following Origin would only be impacted if players sustain injuries etc.
And then seriously -- Channel 9 should just cut the pre-game waffle, kick off that Sunday Night origin game at 7:20pm and have some form of other event programming scheduled at 9:30pm that isn't absolute dreck. But knowing Channel 9, that might be impossible for them to do.