2026 NRL Draw

I wonder with
We'll have a really solid hit out against our own KOE team and have a stack of injuries to reduce our available depth even further. 😡
i think with the draw being released , there’s no bulk runs of difficult / easy (perceived ) like last year . To end the year it was tough and there was a horrendously tough draw in the middle of the year .
It feels more spread out .
I wonder if the tigers were given the option of no bye round 1 and a draw that was similar to last year , or bye round 1 and a draw , whilst not easy by any means , doesn’t appear to have any “well we arnt winning a game this month “ periods.
Those last 3 rounds you could say is a group of no wins. But I dunno the roosters could be anything in both directions , and we tend to be extremely competitive against the cowboys , same for the panthers . And prior to the roosters game is the dragons , who we tend to go well against .
That draw looks to have very sharp peaks . You’re playing broncos cool , you got the knights before that … rather than last year , playing the broncos ? Well you can play the roosters , riff , and storm before that .
 
Ok so we play the following teams twice (brackets is last year ladder, finals position)
Raiders (1st, 2nd rd finals) - Leichhardt
Bulldogs (3rd, 2nd rd finals) - Commbank
Warriors (6th, 1st rd finals) - C-Town
Panthers (7th, 3rd rd finals) - 2x Commbank
Eels (11th) - 2x Commbank
Cowboys (12th) - Leichhardt
Dragons (15th) - Commbank
Knights (17th) - C-Town

And the following teams once
Storm (2nd, runners up) - AWAY
Broncos (4th, premiers) - HOME (C-Town)
Sharks (5th, 3rd rd finals) - AWAY
Roosters (8th) - AWAY
Dolphins (9th) - HOME (C-TOWN)
Manly (10th) - HOME (Suncorp)
Rabbitohs (14th) - AWAY (Gosford so almost neutral)
Titans (16th) - HOME (Leichhardt)

Byes are Rd1, 12 and 23 which is ok, but does mean we play 10 games and 9 games then 4-8 more between each bye

Overall looks like an ok draw. We don't play some really good teams like Broncos, Storm and Roosters twice and have 4/6 teams 11th place or lower twice (except expecting Eels to climb).

Also for Home/away only including ground for Away games that weren't the opposing clubs main ground or a shared ground.
 
how is it fair that EVERY magic round game we have had we are the home team. EVERY year.

Also i did a 20 second A.I create a draw..... easily did one without the last two teams to have rd 1 byes (titans and us).... dolphins got the bye and we would of had a sat night game vs manly....

What is the bloody bet our first game will be an away game and lets forget only a few weeks later is our "home game" against parra for easter monday (what a joke)

No wonder richo doesnt want us playing vegas or magic round and i dare say when the agreed contract for magic round is up (which i think is '27 or '28) richo will bail on magic round so our 2 upgraded stadiums will get max games for us fans.

I now live up in gold coast and even i want the.tigers to get as many home games as possible.... if i dont get to see them live as much so be it....

Love my club!!!


It's the club's choice I think Richo said the club gets 150K payment or it could have been $250K
 
That round 7-14 stretch is brutal... Brisbane, Canberra, Cronulla, Melbourne, Manly, BYE, Dogs then Penrith. Could really make or break our season.
I don’t think Canberra and manly are going to be the same teams, we usually play well against the sharks as well for whatever reason. The dogs and riff on the other side of the bye could be bad . But that’s also middle of origin season. Could be much worse
 
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