NRL2 Second Division

[Colk]

Do the conferences have to be the same every year? The NRL could make an offseason event out of the draw. Clubs get drawn out of a bucket (i.e. world cup pools) and the fans, clubs and media find out who you are in a conference with that season live, before a draw is then made. Good offseason publicity.

Are we still talking about reserve grade? I would think that QLD Cup teams would want to play each other for instance?

 

[Perth Red]

Problem is most funding comes from league clubs or nrl club. Whose going to pay for it if not the pokies and nrl clubs?

 

[xe_kilroy]

Problem is most funding comes from league clubs or nrl club. Whose going to pay for it if not the pokies and nrl clubs?

Having a hugely wealthy investor(s) is more favorable. Not easy to acquire. But like the Saudis buying out golf kinda thing. Some billionaire Aussie or ex-pat Aussie passionate about RL in Australia and with know-how to make it profitable, not a money-sink.

And/or the TV rights deal?

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Are we still talking about reserve grade? I would think that QLD Cup teams would want to play each other for instance?

Sorry mate, I probably got a bit off topic. I was talking if the NRL went to two conferences in the future.

 

[Colk]

Sorry mate, I probably got a bit off topic. I was talking if the NRL went to two conferences in the future.

I don’t agree with the conference thing in the NRL. It has some merit for something like this though

 

[Brian potter]

Do the conferences have to be the same every year? The NRL could make an offseason event out of the draw. Clubs get drawn out of a bucket (i.e. world cup pools) and the fans, clubs and media find out who you are in a conference with that season live, before a draw is then made. Good offseason publicity.

In an ideal situation I would have a 2 conference system of 12 teams in each conference with each team from the same conference playing each other once giving you 11 games then playing crossover fixtures against teams from the other conference giving you another 11 games.

That would give you a 22 round regular season plus playoff fixtures.

 

[Pippen94]

In an ideal situation I would have a 2 conference system of 12 teams in each conference with each team from the same conference playing each other once giving you 11 games then playing crossover fixtures against teams from the other conference giving you another 11 games.

That would give you a 22 round regular season plus playoff fixtures.

That creates issue of certain teams traveling less (they do anyway but ppl like to complain). Division of 4 playing each other twice & rotating the other fixtures vover season would fix that. NFL does it that way. Queensland division of 4 is obvious one

 

[titoelcolombiano]

In an ideal situation I would have a 2 conference system of 12 teams in each conference with each team from the same conference playing each other once giving you 11 games then playing crossover fixtures against teams from the other conference giving you another 11 games.

That would give you a 22 round regular season plus playoff fixtures.

Wouldn't that just be one conference where everyone plays each other once? The purpose of conferences is to have home and away fixtures against your entire conference. Sorry if I misunderstood what you are saying or missed something

 

[Colk]

Why do we need to follow an idea that is purposely built for America and their circumstances?

We don’t have the geographical distance between a lot of the sides and we don’t have a ridiculous amount of sides.

 

[Brian potter]

Wouldn't that just be one conference where everyone plays each other once? The purpose of conferences is to have home and away fixtures against your entire conference. Sorry if I misunderstood what you are saying or missed something

Yes.

The following season you would just reverse the fixtures so for example if the broncos played the roosters at suncorp the following season they would play them in Sydney at the new stadium(don’t know the name of it).

 

[Brian potter]

Why do we need to follow an idea that is purposely built for America and their circumstances?

We don’t have the geographical distance between a lot of the sides and we don’t have a ridiculous amount of sides.

Because the NRL is stuck in between not having enough teams and or population and not having P&R into a 2nd division below the NRL.

 

[Brian potter]

Without introducing a conference system to the NRL what hypothetically what would be the maximum number of teams competing in the NRL be?

18 teams? 20 teams? 22 teams?

 

[Colk]

Without introducing a conference system to the NRL what hypothetically what would be the maximum number of teams competing in the NRL be?

18 teams? 20 teams? 22 teams?

We should/could aim for 20 realistically. 19 rounds or maybe 20 with the final round of fixtures determined after round 19. Like a magic round

 

[Brian potter]

We should/could aim for 20 realistically. 19 rounds or maybe 20 with the final round of fixtures determined after round 19. Like a magic round

I like the idea of playing more than 1 magic round throughout the whole of Australia and New Zealand targeting cities like Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Auckland etc.

Great way of taking a big event to potential expansion cities and earn a few $$ in the process.

 

[Pippen94]

Why do we need to follow an idea that is purposely built for America and their circumstances?

We don’t have the geographical distance between a lot of the sides and we don’t have a ridiculous amount of sides.

We have similar geographical distance. We also have more rounds than allows for teams to play each opponent an even number of times

 

[Pippen94]

We should/could aim for 20 realistically. 19 rounds or maybe 20 with the final round of fixtures determined after round 19. Like a magic round

20 rounds with one being a derby

 

[Pippen94]

Wouldn't that just be one conference where everyone plays each other once? The purpose of conferences is to have home and away fixtures against your entire conference. Sorry if I misunderstood what you are saying or missed something

Wouldn't that just be one conference where everyone plays each other once? The purpose of conferences is to have home and away fixtures against your entire conference. Sorry if I misunderstood what you are saying or missed something

No. This is how conference works in NFL;

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.no...-opponents-272-games/a4iykr3alznrium47wyuolpd

 

[Colk]

I like the idea of playing more than 1 magic round throughout the whole of Australia and New Zealand targeting cities like Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Auckland etc.

Great way of taking a big event to potential expansion cities and earn a few $$ in the process.

Exactly. You could have an international round to start the year like the Sharks CEO has suggested (if we want to be really audacious) and a Magic Round to bookend the year or as you say have two Magic Rounds.

So 9 home games and 9 away. The reason why I suggest this is because I just think the regular season is too long atm. As we have seen in the last few weeks with the lopsided scorelines I think there are always a few teams that just check out.

Also shortening the regular season gives you options: we can really promote and strengthen international football, we could have ESL or other international competitions at
different timeframes which you can allow you to loan players back and forth which in turn increases the player pool and standard for both, lengthen the final series etc

 

[Colk]

We have similar geographical distance. We also have more rounds than allows for teams to play each opponent an even number of times

Yeah but the problem is the majority of our teams are in one city or one state. That is unlike America where you have one city teams which can be often be a few hours apart. Travel is felt by every team over there.

If you tried to copy that idea in the NRL you would be left with teams having a significant advantage/disadvantage regarding travel; particularly if you suggest a Sydney conference and a non Sydney conference which was thrown around when the idea come out last year.

 

[Brian potter]

Exactly. You could have an international round to start the year like the Sharks CEO has suggested (if we want to be really audacious) and a Magic Round to bookend the year or as you say have two Magic Rounds.

So 9 home games and 9 away. The reason why I suggest this is because I just think the regular season is too long atm. As we have seen in the last few weeks with the lopsided scorelines I think there are always a few teams that just check out.

Also shortening the regular season gives you options: we can really promote and strengthen international football, we could have ESL or other international competitions at
different timeframes which you can allow you to loan players back and forth which in turn increases the player pool and standard for both, lengthen the final series etc

A 20 team competition with each team playing each other once gives you a 19 round season allowing you to either play 1 magic round or 3 to finish the regular season on a even number of games be it 20 with 1 magic round or 22 with 3 magic rounds.

You could open the season with a magic round in say Perth with the fixtures announced by a draw live on TV like the FA cup.

The other 2 magic rounds could be played mid-season and last game of the regular season.