Wild Card Weekend - reports NRL looking to expand finals to ten teams

[GongPanther]

Yeah I remember, it was much better than missing out by for and against though. I also loved the Tuesday night playoff game, it was like the finals arrived a couple of days early.

Did you go to the one when the floodlights went out? We all head to the bar.lol.

 

[King hit]

That trophy is Graeme Murray’s

Stuart is a fraud

2010 is Browns then

Bennett is a fraud

 

[JokerEel]

Stupid idea and the NRL should feel bad for considering it, but what ever doubt it will help the Eels!

 

[avocado]

I propose the grand final should be played as normal, but at any time they release the Golden Snitch and whichever halfback catches it first ... well their team wins.

 

[TheFrog]

It is a kneejerk reaction to last year's situation where the top 8 didn't change after round 13. They want less dead rubbers in the latter rounds. It's impossible to win the comp from outside the top 4 already. It will now be impossible to make the GF from 7th or lower.

 

[Irish-bulldog]

I think it’s a great idea personally, but we need to expand to 18 teams !.

 

[Zadar]

Jesus there’s some dramatic motherf**kers on this forum.

I don’t see what the big deal is... it’s an extra week of football and provides hope for 2 more teams and fan bases.

Makes sense to me...

All this high and mighty argument about the sanctity of the competition is all horseshit...

If people seriously gave a shit about it they be running it home and away round robin like the EPL.

Except we all like the finals and the NRL are smart enough to realise this is an opportunity to make more money through 2 extra games as well as a whole extra finals week of publicity.

I see all this moaning about it but does anyone think it won’t rate well??

It just looks like easy money to me...

Why stop there though? Why not have teams 11 and 12 involved too? What makes teams 9 and 10 any better than 11 and 12.

 

[mistertaylor]

And I thought the A League was a joke for having a 10 team comp with a top 6 finals series!

 

[Zadar]

What they should actually do is play the bottom 8 teams in a finals series as a prequel to the top 8 teams,
(9v12) (10v11) winners week off
(13v16)(14v15) loser eliminated
And so on, on grand final day the bottom 8 “grand finalists” actually play for a wooden spoon.

16th team could just tank in the finals series and “un-win” the wooden spoon.

 

[Foreign Legion]

Dumb idea, how about make a top 16 final?

 

[shiznit]

Why stop there though? Why not have teams 11 and 12 involved too? What makes teams 9 and 10 any better than 11 and 12.

Over kill I guess... too much too soon.

I’d love to see it though... just to see the f**king meltdown that would happen on here...

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Canberra will get a chance to play finals

 

[Dragon Slayer]

Canberra will get a chance to play finals

It’s got Ricky Stuart’s finger prints all over it.

He’s getting desperate now!

 

[grouch]

I hope Greenberg has discretionary power to stand down whoever came up with this idiotic shit

 

[macnaz]

If they are,the least thing they could do is send everyone a urinal cake.

In their favorite teams colors would be nice.

 

[Springs09]

So we could have a team win only 8 or 9 games in the regular season and win the comp.

It actually decreases the excitement as the last few games to decide 8th spot are often among the most exciting.

Someone was actually paid to come up with this crap.

 

[T to the T]

I think it’s a great idea personally, but we need to expand to 18 teams !.

This. Surely expansion of the tournament as a whole would be linked to this? To 18 then to 20 teams. Any competition with over 50% of the teams advancing to post-season is ridiculous.

 

[Vic Mackey]

Hearing Graeme Annesley talk this morning its clearly 9 and Fox driving this, I also believe they've already made up their mind and its happeneing

 

[Timmah]

1694 votes thus far, 80% to no, 20% to yes.

 

[Timmah]

Poll also added to this thread. Vote away.