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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3685931, member: 9052"] The NFL system is what they'd have to go with if they keep talking up a conference system. In Sydney's head I think they see a conference system as 10 'Sydney' teams and then the rest... so that would have the "other" teams travelling all over the shop to Perth, PNG, Melbourne, NZ, T'ville, etc. whilst the Sydney comp just harks back to pre-1988 days. However what I dont think they consider is that under a conference system the finals would have to be split even across the two conferences... so under a top 8 only 4 'Sydney' conference teams could qualify any given year. In this year's finals there were 6 'Sydney' conference teams... assuming they claim Knights and shaft Canberra to the also rans conference... so majority Sydney teams wouldnt occur again under a conference system... which I think would have Sydney media up in arms... but they havent realised it yet. To make it fairer I think they would have to divvy up the Sydney teams and go with divisions instead of conferences. Assuming 4 divisions of 5 teams each you could go North, South, East and West. With the longest travelling team spread across each so North - PNG South - Melb and Canberra East - NZ West - Perth And then divvy the Sydney teams across that. North - Broncos, Cows, Dolphins, Titans, PNG South - Melb, Canberra, dargs, sharks, 20th team* East - NZ, rorters, souths, Newcastle, Manly West - Perth, parra, dogs, penrith, tigers * 20th team to be allocated pending location Issue with the above is you lose some of the rivalries that go beyond the devisions, like Melb vs Manly, sharks vs manly, etc... maybe Manly moves into 'South' and NZ2 comes into East as the 20th team. It could also stuff around with future expansion plans... what happens with a 22 team comp and an extra qld team?? Who would drop out of north if central QLD came in?? Suddenly one division is out of whack with the rest. NRL would still want every team playing each other at least once (19 games) and their division rivals twice (+4 games)... so we're up to 23 games already and no opportunity for teams to play each other twice outside the division. That might be ok as long as they flip the home and away from the year earlier... so a rivalry like Manly vs Melb, if they're in different divisions, would have Melb travel to Brookie one year and then Manly to Melb the next and so on... which may not be the end of the world, because it just means more hype can be generated from that team visiting every second year... excluding finals. It does end up restricting what the NRL can do promotion wise though (best teams vs best teams) and pretty much locks them into a set draw every year... can see Sydney media thinking that becomes stale... but their job would be hyping up division rivals. [/QUOTE]

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