Broncos Vs. Dragons *SPOILER*

[Kimlo]

Yes. Should we give them 3 weeks in a row of failing? 2 weeks is enough.
They had to win ONE GAME to get to a match to play for a grand final spot.

The only thing I can agree with is the home ground advantage shouldn't go to teams outside the top 4.

 

[Coxy]

Yes. Should we give them 3 weeks in a row of failing? 2 weeks is enough.
They had to win ONE GAME to get to a match to play for a grand final spot.

The only thing I can agree with is the home ground advantage shouldn't go to teams outside the top 4.

So where would you have played the Broncos vs Dragons game? Sydney? Giving the Dragons home ground advantage despite losing?

Or go to a neutral venue like Townsville or Melbourne or Auckland?

 

[Kimlo]

Neutral venue. As long as the teams from bottom 4 don't get a home ground advantage cause I don't think they've earned it.

 

[Emma]

You'd play a game like Broncos v Dragons at a neutral venue? You honestly think it's a good idea to take it to Melbourne, or Townsville etc? Who would benefit from that? It'd be taking it to a location where it wouldn't be likely to get a capacity (or at least close to it) crowd, nor would either team have as many fans behind them. Ridiculous suggestion. The broncos played away from home in week 1 against a team 3 spots higher up the ladder. They won. The dragons were minor premiers, playing at home against the side that finished 8th. They lost. They then had to play a winning side away from home. They had the opportunity to avoid that situation, and they blew it, whilst I think we earned the right to play back at home. I think it's a fair system.

 

[Scumbag]

Would it be fair that the Broncos' reward for beating a team above them in week 1 is to travel to their next opponent's home venue?

The system we have in the finals rewards winning. And that's how it should be!

Is it fair that 6 months worth of effort should lose out over a couple of weeks of finals? Teams who perform consistently over the course of the season should be given more of a reward than teams winning a couple of matches come september.

The way things are these days, it almost seems like the regular season is a bit of a waste of time. All teams need to do is cruise through the season, making sure they make it in the 8 and hit form at the right time. It seems that the teams that just scrape in to the 8 are always the one in red hot form as they have strung a number of late seasons wins together to make it through. IMO it's a bit of a joke that parra are in contention to win the gf, while the dragons are gooone. Parra didn't play well enough to deserve to be in the finals.

The NRL needs to reduce the number of teams in finals and find a better finals system. I reckon the old top 5 system is the fairest. It rewards those teams who play well throughout the season.

I know this whole thing is about money, but seriously it could be all solved by one reward. That is rewarding the team who finishes on top of the ladder after 26 rounds with the trophy. Everyone fights for the top spot over the 26 rounds. That would be a fantastic and ultimately fair way of doing things. I know it means that games become duds if a team/s are out of contention to get top spot but whatever. I'm happy to cop it.

Or better still, just have a finals series (best of 3) between the two teams finishing 1 and 2 after the season's end to decide the trophy.

Can't think of anything better. Get rid of this top 8, preliminary finals etc. crap. Reward the teams who bust a gut all season. St. George-Illawarra deserved the trophy after their whole season's performance. Deal with it. icon_thumbs_u

 

[Kimlo]

LOL..... You have to be kidding.
If you really think that's a good idea I'm glad you're not the CEO of the NRL.

 

[Coxy]

+1

Though I agree the JJ Giltinan shield, which is the prize for the minor premiership, needs to be more decorated as an achievement. IMO they are the winners of the Championship.

The Grand Final winners should be considered winners of the Premiership. You still always strive to be Premiers, but being Champions should be decorated on an honours list too.

I'm sure South Sydney fans will support that notion. Finally they'll get listed as having been Champions in 1989! :P

 

[Charmamba]

Here you go edited ya priceless thing abit.

 

[Coxy]

Nice! LOL

 

[Bucking Beads]

hahaha look at Danny Glover in the back ground thinking he is too old for this.

 

[Scumbag]

LOL..... You have to be kidding.
If you really think that's a good idea I'm glad you're not the CEO of the NRL.

Umm.. what's so bad about that?

A system which rewards the team who was the best all season?

Wow that just sounds terrible. Tell that to the CEO of many of the European football leagues.

It's a good idea. At least you wouldn't have stupid 7&8th placed teams having a chance. We've all agreed the current system awards mediocrity.

You don't know anything apart from complete commercialism (which is what the whole competition and ESPECIALLY the top8/finals series) is all about. You do realise a finals series is just to bring in the lizzies don't you Broncospwn?

It will never be changed, but at least my system awards outstanding seasonal play.

 

[Kimlo]

It's a good idea. At least you wouldn't have stupid 7&8th placed teams having a chance. We've all agreed the current system awards mediocrity.

You don't know anything apart from complete commercialism (which is what the whole competition and ESPECIALLY the top8/finals series) is all about. You do realise a finals series is just to bring in the lizzies don't you Broncospwn?

It will never be changed, but at least my system awards outstanding seasonal play.

No, I don't agree it awards mediocrity. Eels have been anything but "Mediocre" and the same goes for the Broncos.

End of the season Broncos finished on 32 points, Dragons finished on 38. So for winning just 3 more games(cough bulldogs game) I mean 2 more games they deserve 32000 chances?
We were ripped apart by representative commitments and injuries, St Merge were hardly any better and if we hadn't lost so many players due to origin and injury we could of easily got an extra 3 wins and finished equal first. The real best team all season the Bulldogs got an easy match against Newcastle and are straight into week 3 fresh from a one week break.

They had 2 chances against so called "mediocre" teams and both were CLEARLY the better teams and the only mediocrity I saw was from Stain Merge Chokewarra Draqueens.

I believe the finals series is to reward teams who play the best during the most intense part of the year which only the top half of the comp can play in, with teams 1-4 given a significant advantage with an almost guaranteed 2nd chance, week off and playing teams who have just scraped into the finals.

Your idea is ridiculous. NRL is about making money, under your idea we would need to reduce the salary cap to half a million because TV ratings will plummet and so will crowds and memberships. In the meantime we can enjoy the NRL I mean reserve grade comp under your "system".

 

[Astroboy]

I seem to remember a certain Roosters coach called PHIL GOULD whinging a number of years ago about having to travel to Brisbane to play the higher-ranked Broncos who had lost in week 1, when the Roosters had won (beaten a higher ranked team I think). Don't remember when it was, but it was quite a while ago, I think the 8 team finals system was pretty new. "Why should they be rewarded for losing with a home final, while our reward for winning is traveling to their home ground?" he bleated.

Now when it's a Sydney team (Dragons) who lose in week 1 and have to travel, suddenly it's all about rewarding being higher ranked, and it's so unfair that the Dragons have a "hiccup" against team 8 and lose their home ground advantage in week 2 when they've "worked hard all year to finish number 1".

MAKE UP YOUR MIND FOOL GOULD! WHAT IS YOUR OPINION REALLY? Or is it just a matter of changing it depending on who the teams involved are? Fair dinkum, what a tosser!

 

[azza79]

Can't think of anything better. Get rid of this top 8, preliminary finals etc. crap. Reward the teams who bust a gut all season. St. George-Illawarra deserved the trophy after their whole season's performance. Deal with it. icon_thumbs_u

Because the Dragons were the only team to bust a gut all season?

 

[Anonymous person]

it should be top 3 - minor premiers straight to the grand final, teams 2 and 3 play a grand final qualifier in week 1, week 2 is the grand final.

thats my ideal finals system. second on my list would be top 5, team 1 going straight through, the other 4 playing eliminations. the only problem then is the minor premiers dont play for 2 weeks, which could hurt them.

i suppose even a top 4 system could work - teams 1 and 2 play each other, same with 3 and 4. winner of 1 and 2 goes straight through, loser of 3 and 4 is eliminated. winner of 3 and 4 plays loser of 1 and 2 for a grand final spot.

but as long as there is tv involved, it will be about 50% of the teams making it through to the finals. its ridiculous when you can make the finals on more losses than wins, but its been happening for a few years now.

 

[Astroboy]

LOL..... You have to be kidding.
If you really think that's a good idea I'm glad you're not the CEO of the NRL.

Umm.. what's so bad about that?

A system which rewards the team who was the best all season?

Wow that just sounds terrible. Tell that to the CEO of many of the European football leagues.

It's a good idea. At least you wouldn't have stupid 7&8th placed teams having a chance. We've all agreed the current system awards mediocrity.

You don't know anything apart from complete commercialism (which is what the whole competition and ESPECIALLY the top8/finals series) is all about. You do realise a finals series is just to bring in the lizzies don't you Broncospwn?

It will never be changed, but at least my system awards outstanding seasonal play.

As long as we don't play State of Origin in the middle of premiership rounds with teams missing half their players. Play it on its own in the middle of the season or at the end. Only then can your premiership system be called fair.

 

[Coxy]

I seem to remember a certain Roosters coach called PHIL GOULD whinging a number of years ago about having to travel to Brisbane to play the higher-ranked Broncos who had lost in week 1, when the Roosters had won (beaten a higher ranked team I think). Don't remember when it was, but it was quite a while ago, I think the 8 team finals system was pretty new. "Why should they be rewarded for losing with a home final, while our reward for winning is traveling to their home ground?" he bleated.

IIRC it was 1998. The match was going to be at the SFS (Roosters vs Broncos) with the other one at ANZ Stadium in Brisbane being Parramatta vs Canterbury. Everyone could see what a retarded move that would be, so the NRL switched the games.

It made complete sense.

But yes, just another example of Gould's hypocrisy.

 

[Kimlo]

Well every team that made it this year won more games then they lost.