Moses Mbye to make history

[Tweed_Tiger]

It appears Moses Mbye will be the first player to play the same opponent in consecutive rounds.

https://twitter.com/Middleton_David/status/1008148395494539265

David Middleton confirmed it.

 

[Chicken_Faced_Killa]

Hopefully he gets a better result this time.

Anyone else remember in the early 2000s when the draw had teams playing the same opponent in consecutive rounds?

 

[Juro]

Are the final round of one year and the first round of the next year consecutive? If so, it would have happened many times.

 

[Chris]

Does David Middleton have a life?

 

[Sabre]

Does David Middleton have a life?

I'm sure he's happy

 

[Demps]

First half Nigerian*, half aboriginal to play for the tigers too?

Edit: Gambia, west african

 

[Demps]

First half Nigerian*, half aboriginal to play for the tigers too?

Edit: Gambia, west african

Not sure he has any aboriginal blood at all actually…

 

[underdog]

Hopefully he gets a better result this time.

Anyone else remember in the early 2000s when the draw had teams playing the same opponent in consecutive rounds?

This years draw is pretty bad for stuff like that I have to say

We've had:

Melbourne twice in 3 weeks and Parra twice in 4 weeks,

And in the next 8 weeks we have the dragons twice, and the rabbitohs twice, among other games…

Surely they can at the very least do a "Everyone plays everyone once" for the first 15 rounds, then do mop up in the final 9...

 

[Spartan117]

Does David Middleton have a life?

I'm sure he's happy

Nice way to earn your living… Id swap

 

[Russell]

Hopefully he gets a better result this time.

Anyone else remember in the early 2000s when the draw had teams playing the same opponent in consecutive rounds?

This years draw is pretty bad for stuff like that I have to say

We've had:

Melbourne twice in 3 weeks and Parra twice in 4 weeks,

And in the next 8 weeks we have the dragons twice, and the rabbitohs twice, among other games…

Surely they can at the very least do a "Everyone plays everyone once" for the first 15 rounds, then do mop up in the final 9...

C'mon UD - that would be logical.

 

[innsaneink]

Hopefully he gets a better result this time.

**Anyone else remember in the early 2000s when the draw had teams playing the same opponent in consecutive rounds?**

Are you sure?
all games in one round were the same the next week?

 

[Chicken_Faced_Killa]

Hopefully he gets a better result this time.

**Anyone else remember in the early 2000s when the draw had teams playing the same opponent in consecutive rounds?**

Are you sure?
all games in one round were the same the next week?

Not all but a few. It was round 3 and 4 from memory.

 

[851]

Hopefully he gets a better result this time.

Anyone else remember in the early 2000s when the draw had teams playing the same opponent in consecutive rounds?

This years draw is pretty bad for stuff like that I have to say

We've had:

Melbourne twice in 3 weeks and Parra twice in 4 weeks,

And in the next 8 weeks we have the dragons twice, and the rabbitohs twice, among other games…

Surely they can at the very least do a "Everyone plays everyone once" for the first 15 rounds, then do mop up in the final 9...

I have been saying it for years, thew draw is not right, everyone should place each other once for the first 15 rounds, then you play half the other teams twice from round 16 onwards.
The next year you play the other teams you didn't play twice the year before from round 16 onwards, so every one is on an equal footing.

 

[jirskyr]

Hopefully he gets a better result this time.

Anyone else remember in the early 2000s when the draw had teams playing the same opponent in consecutive rounds?

This years draw is pretty bad for stuff like that I have to say

We've had:

Melbourne twice in 3 weeks and Parra twice in 4 weeks,

And in the next 8 weeks we have the dragons twice, and the rabbitohs twice, among other games…

Surely they can at the very least do a "Everyone plays everyone once" for the first 15 rounds, then do mop up in the final 9...

I have been saying it for years, thew draw is not right, everyone should place each other once for the first 15 rounds, then you play half the other teams twice from round 16 onwards.
The next year you play the other teams you didn't play twice the year before from round 16 onwards, so every one is on an equal footing.

If I'm not mistaken, after the NRL groups the teams together based on last year's ladder results, they take into account club preferences and requests when building the schedule.

So many of the oddities like repeat playing have to do with club requests to not travel interstate more than X times in a row, or have particular match-ups like Parra-Tigers every Easter weekend.

This time around Channel 9 have no say (I don't believe) in the teams playing each round, only which games fall on which days.

So I don't believe it's all the NRL's doing, as they are trying to accommodate 16 x club requests as well.

 

[Geo]

No longer grouped on previous years ladder…

 

[jadtiger]

Hopefully he gets a better result this time.

Anyone else remember in the early 2000s when the draw had teams playing the same opponent in consecutive rounds?

This years draw is pretty bad for stuff like that I have to say

We've had:

Melbourne twice in 3 weeks and Parra twice in 4 weeks,

And in the next 8 weeks we have the dragons twice, and the rabbitohs twice, among other games…

Surely they can at the very least do a "Everyone plays everyone once" for the first 15 rounds, then do mop up in the final 9...

I have been saying it for years, thew draw is not right, everyone should place each other once for the first 15 rounds, then you play half the other teams twice from round 16 onwards.
The next year you play the other teams you didn't play twice the year before from round 16 onwards, so every one is on an equal footing.

If I'm not mistaken, after the NRL groups the teams together based on last year's ladder results, they take into account club preferences and requests when building the schedule.

So many of the oddities like repeat playing have to do with club requests to not travel interstate more than X times in a row, or have particular match-ups like Parra-Tigers every Easter weekend.

This time around Channel 9 have no say (I don't believe) in the teams playing each round, only which games fall on which days.

So I don't believe it's all the NRL's doing, as they are trying to accommodate 16 x club requests as well.

I thought the NRL only allow Brisbanes/Bennetts requests and to hell with everyone else or so it seems :roll

 

[innsaneink]

It's been several season sine the last year's ladder determined any groups for the draw.
Don't see why we can't do 30 rounds…. Start a few weeks earlier (minimal pre season trials, 9s, tribute games WCC etc for all = even. Extends the season a week or two and you easily get 30 rounds playing everyone twice = even & fair

 

[TCL]

It's been several season sine the last year's ladder determined any groups for the draw.
Don't see why we can't do 30 rounds…. Start a few weeks earlier (minimal pre season trials, 9s, tribute games WCC etc for all = even. Extends the season a week or two and you easily get 30 rounds playing everyone twice = even & fair

That would be great. But many of the games so called thinkers want to reduce the number of rounds.

Reduce interchange so fatigue becomes a factor and the collision is less of an impact. allow clubs a larger squad like other codes so they can rest players if needed etc.

Its not without its problems but i like the idea.

Problems;
how do you integrate an expansion, player quality etc…......

 

[Tiger_Steve]

It's been several season sine the last year's ladder determined any groups for the draw.
Don't see why we can't do 30 rounds…. Start a few weeks earlier (minimal pre season trials, 9s, tribute games WCC etc for all = even. Extends the season a week or two and you easily get 30 rounds playing everyone twice = even & fair

Even and Fair - two words not in the NRL vocabulary!

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

A completely different system is the Swiss Format in chess found here
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/the-swiss-system-611537

Teams are rated for example 1-20 in descending order of strength. One being the strongest and 20 the weakest. 1 plays 11, 2 plays 12 all the way down to 10 playing 20.

Then next round winners play winners and losers play losers. And on it goes for about 10 rounds in this case.

This should result in games being the closest fought and therefore more exciting.

I have no idea how it would pan out with some teams maybe never playing each other but the other rule is that you cannot play the same opponent twice so teams would meet eventually if there were sufficient rounds.

Now where is that bloody bong - had Abraham stolen it.