The Bye, NRL are a joke

[The Royal Soup]

the NRL draw is a joke

Having a bye in round 2 is pathetic and it showed last night, I think that was the real reason we fell away, and just look at all the cramping.

To play one game then have a week off then another game is just stupid, it takes a few weeks in a row of NRL games to get match fit and you could see it last night, You can do all the pre season training you want but nothing beats match fitness.

No team should be having byes till after round 5 IMO

 

[voicefromthehill]

Understand your point of view - but how do you suggest they overcome the small issue of having 17 teams?

 

[lsz]

Understand your point of view - but how do you suggest they overcome the small issue of having 17 teams?

It is easier to be angry than provide a workable solution

 

[The Royal Soup]

Understand your point of view - but how do you suggest they overcome the small issue of having 17 teams?

no byes till after round 5

 

[The Royal Soup]

It is easier to be angry than provide a workable solution

it’s written above

no byes till after round 4/5

 

[Disco]

Ha love it.

I'd be more annoyed being Parra playing us, then the Panthers, then Roosters all coning off a bye

 

[Disco]

no byes till after round 5

Haha you are trolling right?

We have uneven teams so if there are no byes who is the 17th team playing

Definite trolling

 

[joeboy]

it’s written above

no byes till after round 4/5

Doubling down on dumb is always a great tactic !

 

[voicefromthehill]

So one team plays with themselves each week, until round 4 or 5 that is

 

[47MVEagle]

Biff

 

[Blake]

Obvious solution, instead of a team having a bye each week, that team has to play two teams in one week. A wednesday night match.

 

[Killer03]

Wtf? Or does one team play on a Friday and a Monday? That sounds fair.

 

[voicefromthehill]

Obvious solution, instead of a team having a bye each week, that team has to play two teams in one week. A wednesday night match.

But please provide the draw from rounds 5 onward accounting for the additional games played (2 teams have to play twice each round in the first 5 rounds in your solution)

 

[XV-1]

the NRL draw is a joke

Having a bye in round 2 is pathetic and it showed last night, I think that was the real reason we fell away, and just look at all the cramping.

To play one game then have a week off then another game is just stupid, it takes a few weeks in a row of NRL games to get match fit and you could see it last night, You can do all the pre season training you want but nothing beats match fitness.

No team should be having byes till after round 5 IMO

LOLOLOL

who does the odd team with no team to play, play while the 16 other teams play. Themselves??

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

Ha love it.

I'd be more annoyed being Parra playing us, then the Panthers, then Roosters all coning off a bye

Yeah, it's Parra, so who really cares? But if it was us, I'd be filthy. Really baffling that no one in the NRL's scheduling department looked at their draw and didn't see it as inherently unfair.

 

[47MVEagle]

What about Brisbane’s draw?

They don’t have to leave QLD again until round 8

 

[voicefromthehill]

What about poor Parra - I think they play 5 teams coming off the bye in a row. Shed a tear for Parra

 

[The Who]

I'm hoping that for as long as the number of teams in unequal that the byes will be rotated each season. But since when did the NRL ever embrace the concept of "fairness"?

 

[lsz]

it’s written above

no byes till after round 4/5

And how does the draw work after that?

 

[Woodsie]

Unbelievable ...