If it's 20-22 teams everyone should play each other once you could do some rounds with only 5 games to spread out the season
Also mid season I would have a trade break say after round 11 everyone gets a bye that weekend you could trade players and send them off to a new club the NRL will still be in the paper for the trade window
I would also have a reserve grade knockout on Wednesday nights with Qld NSW clubs the two best WA clubs and hopefully 1 Melbourne club I would love to watch it the NRL could give the players some cash what they need players will feel special being on television and get exposure and you could play with any new rules it's on tv the fans could see what they are trying to change
That’s why I think the 2 conferences work . You play your conference twice , and then the other conference, whether it be 24 games that you play 6 of the ten 1 season then the other 4 plus 2 the next , then the other 6. So every 3 years you play each team in the opposite conference twice .
Siro says it’s a shit idea , but if you think about it’s not really .
You could have a conference of 2xNZ teams , Melbourne , st merge , Canberra , Cronulla, souths , roosters ,manly , .
And another of Wests, Eels, panthers , dogs,Perth/ norths ,Brisbane, dolphins , titans , cowboys , chiefs .
It’s stops NZ and Perth having to travel to each other twice a year , some yewrs not even playing each other . It’s a very long way .
Teams can do the far north qld travel away , so PNG , and NQ in b2b weeks and be smart with logistics . Because that’s ultimately what sank the reds .
Also by keeping the wests Sydney teams together you maintain their rivalries because let’s face it , as much as the traditionalists want to talk about the roosters and souths … we don’t really have much of a rivalry with them . The 4 east Sydney and manly all have real rivalries with each other, and so does Newcastle with manly .
I think you could swap Newcastle and Perth to make it fair for travel or not . But yea .
I genuinely think that’s the future of the game . Logistics are a huge issue as we expand .
Perth and PNG running costs will be astronomical compared to Sydney teams .
