No team has ever won the premiership after conceding 50pts in a regular season match

[dogslife]

How does the NRL watch a team concede 62 points and determine there's enough talent out there for another 2 teams?

 

[kurt faulk]

The Dragons have lost to 3/4 of the no jokers so far, it’s rather impressive.

That's harder to do than beating 3 of the top 4 sides.

The spoon looms large for the saints. That's what happens when the coach plays a geriatric cook instead of a great dummy half in liddle and plays his son who is a temu version of a half.

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[Billythekid]

How does the NRL watch a team concede 62 points and determine there's enough talent out there for another 2 teams?

Because the 2 things aren’t related. The tigers have been run like shit for near on 2 decades. It wouldn’t matter if there were 4 teams, 10 teams, 20 teams or 100 teams they’re going to be dogshit. The NRL shouldn’t hold the game back because a few clubs can’t get their acts together. There is plenty of talent out there.

Also one of the main potential benefits of expanding is bringing in new juniors. I know some call it pie on the sky but PNG has the potential to be a new junior nursery for the NRL.

 

[Steel Saints]

How does the NRL watch a team concede 62 points and determine there's enough talent out there for another 2 teams?

A few weeks ago, Storm conceded 42 points against the Dolphins.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

Because the 2 things aren’t related. The tigers have been run like shit for near on 2 decades. It wouldn’t matter if there were 4 teams, 10 teams, 20 teams or 100 teams they’re going to be dogshit. The NRL shouldn’t hold the game back because a few clubs can’t get their acts together. There is plenty of talent out there.

Also one of the main potential benefits of expanding is bringing in new juniors. I know some call it pie on the sky but PNG has the potential to be a new junior nursery for the NRL.

Great comment. Wests have access to a Great Basin of juniors, and a spine containing two proven premiership winners and two exciting young prospects. It isn’t talent holding them back.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

Because the 2 things aren’t related. The tigers have been run like shit for near on 2 decades. It wouldn’t matter if there were 4 teams, 10 teams, 20 teams or 100 teams they’re going to be dogshit. The NRL shouldn’t hold the game back because a few clubs can’t get their acts together. There is plenty of talent out there.

Also one of the main potential benefits of expanding is bringing in new juniors. I know some call it pie on the sky but PNG has the potential to be a new junior nursery for the NRL.

Adding a bit more to this; a well run Bears will outperform the Tigers with their current set/up over the medium to long term. The only thing that could hurt the Bears is terrible governance that pits the WA and NS factions against each other (if indeed the NS faction has any real skin in the game?)