Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3457330, member: 9853"] [B]Politis:[/B] [INDENT]"Please don’t call it a draw. Can we get it right? It is a TV schedule. Some clubs are lucky that they play the bottom-eight teams twice, and only the top ones once. And so you look at the table and say, ‘Gee, what a great competition’, because it’s so close. But it is manufactured by the TV schedule.”[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]"They need to do something. There is all sorts of models … the AFL have got control of their draw but we roll over to the networks.”[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [I][B]Ricky Stuart:[/B][/I] [INDENT]“I have coached at the NRL level for a very long time and I haven’t had an easy draw yet. This year a lot of people were predicting the Cowboys to run last and they finished top four. We can’t all be experts.”[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [I][B]Solly [/B](Souths):[/I] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]“We have a lot of travel, particularly in the back half of the season. But in the context of the FIFA Women’s World Cup and all of the stadiums in Sydney that are unavailable that is expected. We have had to put our three regional home games in that six-week period, so largely the travel through that back half of the season was unavoidable. It won’t have been an easy process from the NRL with the addition of the 17th team and those stadiums that are out of action. But from our point of view we are excited by a lot of the match ups.”[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [I][B]Webb [/B](Dragons)[/I]: [INDENT]“I don’t think anyone would want the bye in round one. You’d like it in season when it is giving you a bit of a break from the wear and tear I think rather than before you have started your campaign. But it is what it is. Someone has to have it and we will be fine. I am sure our boys will do a good job regardless.”[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]“But I am sure we can overcome that. We have a lot of games at Wollongong at the back-end of the year because Jubilee Kogarah is unavailable, so there is a lot less travel for us through that quarter. We have got four trips to Queensland in the first half of the year which will be a challenge."[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [I][B]Lee Hagipantelis[/B] (Tigers):[/I] [INDENT]“I think if we are going to do well we are going to have to beat all these teams. So it doesn’t really matter when or where we have to play them.”[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

Verification

Active Now

No members online now.

Total: 277 (members: 0, guests: 277)

Reply to thread

Log in

Active Now