2018 - Full draw ?

[Deleted member 26876]

Good draw all around, tough few weeks during middle of season, although fan friendly timeslots and less bongos friday games

 

[tookey]

But now what will the tin foil hat brigade have to whinge about?

Why can't we play broncos and warriors at Lottoland?

Useless owners

 

[brad]

Yep, thats the tough part of the season. Broncos game should of been scheduled for Brookvale. At least Cows game is at home, also have taken rd 14 match against warriors to their home ground and play st george at WIN stadium in rd 15!

I hate this, taking very winnable games away from home, making players travel overseas when they should be playing at home, robbing fans of home games, because we cant even make enough money playing in our own stadium. ridiculous!

Yer its a bit of a joke , anyway hopefully we can win most of our away games and that will ease the pain.

 

[robbiea]

Great opportunity to travel to NZ for the long weekend in June.

We used to get huge numbers going for these when I did the MWTS.

Maybe I might come out of retirement just for one weekend!

Every day is a long weekend for you buddy...

 

[brad]

Wow I can't believe it! The NRL has come up with a good draw finally. Most Lottoland (and other Sydney based) games are at kid friendly times so looks like I will be able to get along to a number of games in 2018. Well done NRL.

Well it is a lotto.

 

[cherry_poppins]

To be honest, that's a very good draw!

Highlights

Play two games against "weaker sides" Tigers, Titans, Canberra, Penrith, Knights and only cowboys and sharks once.

Usual tough away games we get to play at home with no return game - Cowboys, Dogs

Heaps of Sunday and Saturday afternoon games - 12 games!

Not too many string of away games back to back

Not too many patches were we play the tough sides for weeks in concession - broken up with a few tough games and a few easy games, hopefully leading to no long stretches of potential win less games. Hardest part of draw around rd 9 to 15. Made harder with Broncos home game taken to suncorp

Low lights

Taking two home games away! The Brisbane double header and the warriors game. Normally we have such a good record against both of these sides at Brookvale. Two possible very winnable games made a lot harder, plus the players would normally not have to travel either. Also robbing fans of home games. I really hate this.

I'd hate us not to have a team to follow

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Read a report that the draw is tough for the Tigers and Knights, while the Roosters and Eels have been well looked after

Always hard to judge though coz the strength of teams changes year to year

Roosters play this years bottom 4 8 times, and the same article said Newcastle play this years top 4 7 times, the only club up with them is us

 

[Chip and Chase]

No reason we can't be 8-0 to start the season.

 

[Rynostradamus]

Is there a reason year in and year out we play easts and the scum back to back

 

[The Wheel]

No reason we can't be 8-0 to start the season.

Funny at about this stage last year when the 2017 draw came out it was expected we would be 0-8

Especially Mark the Nark! @Mark from Brisbane

 

[The '47ers]

why not 9-0 you pessimist?

Anybody, do i hear 10?!

 

[damiennp90]

So just saw Greenturd saying 11 teams have 10+ matches on FTA

How many games do we have. I counted 7 but could be wrong.

 

[HappilyManly]

So just saw Greenturd saying 11 teams have 10+ matches on FTA

How many games do we have. I counted 7 but could be wrong.

Manly have 7 on Nine

 

[brad]

So just saw Greenturd saying 11 teams have 10+ matches on FTA

How many games do we have. I counted 7 but could be wrong.

Yer mate we have 7 and are in the bottom 5. Not surprisingly the broncos, roosters and a few others have around 15 or 16.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Funny at about this stage last year when the 2017 draw came out it was expected we would be 0-8

Especially Mark the Nark! @Mark from Brisbane

Mark the Nark’s has a turnaround.

But let’s see our actual side first before any predictions!

 

[The '47ers]

So just saw Greenturd saying 11 teams have 10+ matches on FTA

How many games do we have. I counted 7 but could be wrong.

We have 25 games on foxtel

 

[Class of 96]

But now what will the tin foil hat brigade have to whinge about?

Mate, never underestimate the power and endurance of negativity.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Origin games:
We play the Cowboys at Lottoland before State of Origin 1, so they'll be missing a heap of players.
We play the Dragons at Win before SOO 2 - would be missing a few.
We have a bye before SOO 3.

We may well be missing some also, at least 1 and could be 3 ( 4 if Klemmer came).

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Overall pretty good but not hard to tell which teams are the “ Fairytales “ for 2018.

Easiest draws by far......Rorters and Squeals.

Guaranteed ( almost) top 4 positions right there.

They play the bottom 8 sides from this year twice, the other top 8 sides once ( so I’ve read elsewhere).

A fair competition they say, yep and I believe in the Tooth Fairy also.

 

[Southern Eagle]

At least we only appear to have one dreaded 5 day turnaround ( Druggies in Round 8) so at least that is a positive