Extra time - Yay or nay

[Last Week]

I would keep it but make it not sudden death.

Play 80 - drawn game = another 5 minutes each way.
Play 90 - drawn game = draw

Nothing worse than these sudden death field goal miss-a-thons that we see now.

I was a fan of this but now I can't help but wonder what is the point of it?

The minutes between 80-90 would be exactly the same as 70-80. Those extra 10 minutes is just prolonging the previous 10 minutes and altering the game for basically no reason.

At least with golden point, it's almost a new game and no prolonging of the previous 80 minutes.

I'm all I'm favour of extra time followed by golden point in finals and Origin matches. But regular matches should be 80 minutes and 80 minutes only.

 

[Last Week]

Further, I believe that golden point should be avoided as much as possible. Our game is based on attrition, not a shoot out.

 

[Diesel]

The consensus is no ET however this has been fed back to the NRL so many times and they just do what they (or the tv stations) want

 

[T-Boon]

The consensus is no ET however this has been fed back to the NRL so many times and they just do what they (or the tv stations) want

Except the TV stations tell us the ratings spike during ET. If nobody wants it why are they watching. Its counter productive.

 

[ed-grimley]

Except the TV stations tell us the ratings spike during ET. If nobody wants it why are they watching. Its counter productive.

That's a silly thing to say. That would mean that some people didn't watch the 80 minutes and just turned on when they found out it was a draw at FT.
They're watching it because they like RL - not ET.

 

[T-Boon]

That's a silly thing to say. That would mean that some people didn't watch the 80 minutes and just turned on when they found out it was a draw at FT.
They're watching it because they like RL - not ET.

More are watching because they like the exciting theatre of it.

 

[ed-grimley]

More are watching because they like the exciting theatre of it.

Yeah, but weren't they watching the game already?

 

[Diesel]

More are watching because they like the exciting theatre of it.

You mean the 6+ missed field goals per 5 minutes of ET

 

[Diesel]

Considering there are more games going to GP/ET each year it's amazing they don't train for it, even if it's 10 minutes of FG practice a week

 

[Perth Red]

Its an 80min game, no need for ET during regular season

 

[Knight76]

Yeah, but weren't they watching the game already?

What he is saying is happening is people who were not watching it, switch channels to watch it when it goes to golden point ET. That is a big selling point for a network as they do a lot of work with getting people to watch a channel for a great telecast, and then try to lock them in to watching that channel all night basically.

So people switching channels to watch the GP ET, could mean more people watching the following program, and maybe staying with the station all night.

Which is why the footy show is now straight after the Thursday night game. Lock people in to watching a great telecast, to hopefully get them to watch a crap one.

 

[ed-grimley]

What he is saying is happening is people who were not watching it, switch channels to watch it when it goes to golden point ET. That is a big selling point for a network as they do a lot of work with getting people to watch a channel for a great telecast, and then try to lock them in to watching that channel all night basically.

So people switching channels to watch the GP ET, could mean more people watching the following program, and maybe staying with the station all night.

Which is why the footy show is now straight after the Thursday night game. Lock people in to watching a great telecast, to hopefully get them to watch a crap one.

I know the channels do a lot of work to get people to stay with them for the next program, but how many people would just watch the extra time out of a whole game of football. How would they know ET was to be played if they weren't watching it? Maybe they were sitting at home listening to the game on the radio, there was a draw and they thought it would be worth watching or maybe someone rang them up or messaged them to tell them what was happening.
Or maybe he meant that ET/GP attracted them to League in the first place.

 

[some11]

Regular season - draw
Finals - they've already made the change

 

[Meapro Ham]

Golden point is an abomination. Just go back to draws.

 

[siv]

Further, I believe that golden point should be avoided as much as possible. Our game is based on attrition, not a shoot out.

Bring back the final replays on a Tue night

 

[T-Boon]

How would they know ET was to be played if they weren't watching it?

It would be that everyone who was shifting from one thing to another between League then, say, Air Crash Investigation or whatever would all start watching the game at once. No flicking. The spike brings the average up so it is good for RL as ultimately the higher the average is the more a network will pay. Its boring to watch for actual skills but anyone could win at any minute so the theatre is there like a cliffhanger.

 

[Vozzy]

You could make an nrl game played for 3 competition points.

If it goes into extra time winner gets 2 points loser get a 1 point.

That way teams who win in regular time are rewarded.

Plus what I find unfair about golden point is for and against like every year spots are determined by for and against. So if 1 team wins by 1-2 in regular time and a team wins by 4 in extra time the team who had an extra 10min of game time gets a better outcome then the team who won in regular time.

 

[Last Week]

I get the argument that GP is good for ratings, but at what point do we stop catering for TV?

Our sport is unique because it's great to watch on television. It's a sport that looks great on television, not a sport that was made for television. Nor should it be altered for television.

The sport and competition should come first. Our admin really need to grow a back bone and reassess their priorities.

The sport first, players and clubs second, fans third, money fourth.

 

[Wests is Best]

Get rid of it. Extra time is only needed when there needs to be a winner ie. semi finals.
And talking about semi finals bring back the 10 minutes each way for it and scrap GP altogether.

 

[Perth Red]

I get the argument that GP is good for ratings, but at what point do we stop catering for TV?

Our sport is unique because it's great to watch on television. It's a sport that looks great on television, not a sport that was made for television. Nor should it be altered for television.

The sport and competition should come first. Our admin really need to grow a back bone and reassess their priorities.

The sport first, players and clubs second, fans third, money fourth.

Thing is there is no evidence that it is, just as playing more games on weekends and less on weekdays could be just as valuable to tv and the game. I doubt people are subscribing to fox just because we get to watch games on thirsday night and Friday afternoons.

Any fox subscribers on here who would cancel their subscription if they got rid of Thursday night and moved it to a weekend?