Interesting stat i thought of..... "2008 - Aus Open winner Novak Djokovic -2008 NRL winner MANLY" "2011 Aus Open winner Novak Djokovic - 2011 NRL winner MANLY" "2012 Aus Open winner Novak Djokivic - 2012 NRL winner ?????????" Hope the trend continues this year
Well spotted EE. Here's another, to date 4 of Manly's 8 premierships were won in leap years. I dare anyone to find another club (with more than say 2 titles to their name) with such a good leap year/premiership conversion rate. 2012 therefore is shaping up as yet another potential leap year/premiership combo. And then the world will end in December and we will remain the NRL premiers in perpetuity. Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
Leap year stats are interesting, but not sure it is as one sided as you think. You are right in that no one has more than 4 leap year premierships. Unfortunately there are a 4 on 4. Manly 4 Tigers 4 (Balmain tigers) Souths 4 Dogs 4 Easts 3 Saints 3 Wests 2 Brisbane 2 So you could spin it another way. Since 1972 only the Dogs, Manly and Brisbane have won during a leap year. Back to back Leap year premierships are very common as well... 1916 Tigers 1920 Tigers 1924 Tigers 1928 Souths 1932 Souths 1936 Easts 1940 Easts 1948 Wests 1952 Wests 1956 Dragons 1960 Dragons 1964 Dragons 1972 Manly 1976 Manly 1980 Dogs 1984 Dogs 1988 Dogs
If this trend continues, it had better be us. Brisbane and The Dogs are two teams that I would really hate to win a premiership this year.
Five minutes after I wrote my post I remembered that the Dogs had won four of their eight premierships during leap years... ....bugger!
Dont beat yourself up as they did their run in the last century. More noteworthy is that Manly are the only Team to keep opponents scoreless in GFs - EVER! Lets cheer them on for the first B2B in this century
In 1977 St George beat Parramatta 22-0 in the GF replay. '77 and '78 were consecutive drawn grand finals, both being followed by a nil scoreline in the replay.
