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Message: [QUOTE="Locky’s Left Boot, post: 3199696, member: 9358"] There use to be a seeding system for draws where if you finished on an odd number ranking, you’d play the other 7 odd number rankings from the previous season twice. Then the remaining double game would usually be a high drawing game or a local derby. If that was in place in 2021, that means the 16th placed Broncos would be playing all the teams that finished on an even number ranking twice. That would mean we would be playing the following teams twice under this rule: Storm (2nd) Roosters (4th) Souths (6th) Sharks (8th) Warriors (10th) St George (12th) Cowboys (14th) Titans (9th) as a Local Derby Sea Eagles (13th) as a possible grudge match However this is what we got: Panthers (1st) Storm (2nd) Eels (3rd) Roosters (4th) South (6th) Knights (7th) Sharks (8th) Titans (9th) Cowboys (14th) *Which we would have drawn twice regardless due to local derby* Not to mention the one top 8 team we didn’t draw twice was Canberra and the one time we play them is played at... you guessed it... Canberra in winter. We also only get St George once away from home despite being a higher drawing game for us and it’s played during an Origin affected week. The few positives is we don’t have to play Eels at Bankwest as we are in Darwin for our away game against Parra, we don’t have to go to New Zealand and we don’t have to play at Leichhardt again. Also don’t have to play at Brookvale. It’s easy enough to say don’t whinge we should just be better and just win, which is fair enough but in our current state with that fixture list l, it means we have potentially another really dreadful season results wise coming up and ratings will fall even lower. I find it fucking ironic too that in the early 2010’s when the Roosters were a mid table team, we only ever got to draw them once for many season in a row as I remember Brisbane based Roosters fans (yes they apparently exist) whinging 3 years in a row that they never scheduled Roosters playing Brisbane at Suncorp. Low and behold the Roosters become one of the most dominant teams of the modern era and the NRL can’t wait to schedule us against them twice now on a whim. However my frustration is balanced out by the fact I actually am happy with the very kind times lots that are conducive for fans to attend. 3 home Sunday afternoon games and also jagged a 3pm Saturday home game to round out the season. Just hope the boys are at least competing enough to get the crowds engaged. [/QUOTE]

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