2025 Draw inequities

[Scootsie]

Okay, so there are issues for many teams about an unfair draw.
I’ll start with the Storm.
How is it fair that they get 7 home games and 3 byes by Round 15?
It was the same in 2024. They are a great side and deserved Grand Finalists, but they were ahead of the pack most of the year on the ladder because they got on a massive roll of home wins. Success breeds success, so don’t tell me having the majority of your home games in the first half of the season is in any way a disadvantage.
The draw sucks.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

Get over it. The draw is not designed to be fair or even. The NRL have pretty much admitted that.

At the end of the day the best 8 teams will make the finals. And the best team will win the Grand Final. These meltdowns are hilarious.

 

[Incorrect]

It's never going to fair when not all teams get to play the Tigers twice....

Meoooowwww.....

 

[Matt_CBY]

This didn’t need to be a whole new thread.

 

[flippikat]

Get over it. The draw is not designed to be fair or even. The NRL have pretty much admitted that.

At the end of the day the best 8 teams will make the finals. And the best team will win the Grand Final. These meltdowns are hilarious.

Long run, we could get to 20 (or more) teams and just have everyone play everyone once, with a decent rep footy break in mid-season.

Sure, it wouldn't allow for "return matches", but if you want truly fair that's the way.

 

[Futura1966]

Okay, so there are issues for many teams about an unfair draw.
I’ll start with the Storm.
How is it fair that they get 7 home games and 3 byes by Round 15?
It was the same in 2024. They are a great side and deserved Grand Finalists, but they were ahead of the pack most of the year on the ladder because they got on a massive roll of home wins. Success breeds success, so don’t tell me having the majority of your home games in the first half of the season is in any way a disadvantage.
The draw sucks.

But the storm do not have a home game for the last six rounds

 

[Marshall_magic]

Every team gets 12 home games and 12 away games. The teams that have a non home game like magic round or what not, do so at their own request. Just sooks looking for things to sook about.

 

[Saxon]

Okay, so there are issues for many teams about an unfair draw.
I’ll start with the Storm.
How is it fair that they get 7 home games and 3 byes by Round 15?
It was the same in 2024. They are a great side and deserved Grand Finalists, but they were ahead of the pack most of the year on the ladder because they got on a massive roll of home wins. Success breeds success, so don’t tell me having the majority of your home games in the first half of the season is in any way a disadvantage.
The draw sucks.

Oh have a f**king whinge.
So they have 7 home games in the first 14 weeks (6 actually, because one of those "home games" is magic round in Brisbane. Hardly half an hour up the road.) and 5 in the last 13 weeks. How brutally unfair.
And two byes around Origin and one in week two (rather than late in the season where everyone could use a rest). Outrageous!

Also, if you don't understand that bye points are an artifice to comfort the hard of thinking who can't actually process the concept that a team that has played more games has the opportunity to accumulate more points but everyone will play the same number of games eventually, then there's no hope for you.

 

[MugaB]

This thread is moot
The only answer that is nessesary is PENRITH!!!!
That's all that matters, and all other clubs are just beneath them, your draw is automatically stuffed if you have to play them twice, even then they'll just beat you come finals even if you do

 

[Tiger5150]

It's never going to fair when not all teams get to play the Tigers twice....

Meoooowwww.....

Tigers got screwed in this draw, they dont play a single team that finished below them even once.

 

[glockers]

Personally I enjoyed Ricky complaining Canberra got screwed while Fox Sports rated the. The easiest draw.

 

[Incorrect]

Tigers got screwed in this draw, they dont play a single team that finished below them even once.

Yes but you're one of the lucky ones that gets the Eels twice ...

 

[Scootsie]

The draw sucks and it is detrimental to the game. There are just too many holes in how it is managed. That’s the cold hard reality.
I haven’t read anything to say otherwise, the NRL have just stuffed up.
The only people having a whinge on here are those motivated by self interest and those lacking the intellectual capacity to see that the draw could be managed 100 better ways.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Ricky said we got screwed so I'll go with the great man.