Who we versing next???

Yep now it's do or die…. No chances now... Well I hope it's warriors.... :slight_smile:
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If Melbourne win (and they should) we play the Warriors Friday night and the Broncos play the Dragons Saturday night. It's sudden death from now on.
 
Pardon my ignorance but where would these games be played? If we play Melbourne where would it be played, Sydney or Melbourne? Same with the Warriors. I hope they are played in Sydney and not elsewhere. :question:
 
If the Knights win we play Melbourne in Sydney, if Melbourne win we play Warriors in Sydney.

And if we beat the Warriors it's Melbourne in Melbourne.
 
Winners get a regional home game, so either way its in Sydney.

Melbourne will towel the Knights. The crap thing with the results is that we play Storm in Melb if we beat Warriors… not looking forward to that!

But if Storm loose against the Knights we play Brisbane in Brisbane... DOUBLE not looking forward to that!
 
Thanks guys..I was just checking out Marshall_magic thread about the draw. I was originally sitting on the fence about the McIntyre System but now I think it is total BS
 
technically it is still fair - I don't mind the Macintyre system for things like this.

this week we are playing a losing team below us - Warriors at our home venue - retaining home feild advantage

week after we play a winning team who finished above us - Melbourne - at their home venue retaining their homefield advantage for finishing first.
 
Warriors have lost Joel Moon for the season and Simon Mannering has some sort of knee injury but the seriousness of it is unknown.

Lawrence should be right to go for the Tigers.
 
@underdog said:
technically it is still fair - I don't mind the Macintyre system for things like this.

this week we are playing a losing team below us - Warriors at our home venue - retaining home feild advantage

week after we play a winning team who finished above us - Melbourne - at their home venue retaining their homefield advantage for finishing first.

The macintyre system itself isnt bad, its the NRLs take on how they distribute the games to home state, region and districts whatever they call it….the venues where Sydney teams dont get a true home game at all yet interstate and overseas teams can play all their games at home = is grossly unfair
 
@smoking gun said:
i thought after week 2 of the semis all finals games were in sydney

Posted this link in another thread, but for your in for here's the details for where finals are played:

http://www.nrl.com/TelstraPremiership/FinalsSeriesInformation/tabid/10894/Default.aspx

Finals haven't been played exclusively in Sydney for many years…
 
the only reason i thought that was because a few year ago i remember brisbane v cowboys being moved from syd to qld. or maybe im wrong i dunno
 
@innsaneink said:
@underdog said:
technically it is still fair - I don't mind the Macintyre system for things like this.

this week we are playing a losing team below us - Warriors at our home venue - retaining home feild advantage

week after we play a winning team who finished above us - Melbourne - at their home venue retaining their homefield advantage for finishing first.

The macintyre system itself isnt bad, its the NRLs take on how they distribute the games to home state, region and districts whatever they call it….the venues where Sydney teams dont get a true home game at all yet interstate and overseas teams can play all their games at home = is grossly unfair

Again as per the above link the Warriors, North Queensland and Brisbane can play their games exclusively at home.

Raiders and Knights are eventually forced to play games in Sydney, Gold Coast need to play at Suncorp and Storm need to play at Etihad. I don't mind the system, big game finals should be played at big stadiums. Making Tigers fans travel to ANZ really isn't the same as making Cowboys fans travel to Brisbane.

Remember, in the 2005 preliminary finals, thousands of Tigers fans missed out on attending because the NRL wouldn't move the game from SFS. Tigers management and fans were livid at the time, demanding the game should be moved. The NRL has changed the system to deal with two problems, ensuring big matches at big stadiums so fans don't miss out and not forcing teams like the Cowboys and Warriors have home finals in Sydney like used to happen a few years ago. It's a hard thing to balance, I don't think the current system is too bad given the need to accommodate two contradictory issues.
 
@smoking gun said:
the only reason i thought that was because a few year ago i remember brisbane v cowboys being moved from syd to qld. or maybe im wrong i dunno

Yeah, that was in 2004\. They changed it a couple of years ago to avoid problems like that happening again.
 
@Colonel said:
@innsaneink said:
@underdog said:
technically it is still fair - I don't mind the Macintyre system for things like this.

this week we are playing a losing team below us - Warriors at our home venue - retaining home feild advantage

week after we play a winning team who finished above us - Melbourne - at their home venue retaining their homefield advantage for finishing first.

The macintyre system itself isnt bad, its the NRLs take on how they distribute the games to home state, region and districts whatever they call it….the venues where Sydney teams dont get a true home game at all yet interstate and overseas teams can play all their games at home = is grossly unfair

Again as per the above link the Warriors, North Queensland and Brisbane can play their games exclusively at home.

Raiders and Knights are eventually forced to play games in Sydney, Gold Coast need to play at Suncorp and Storm need to play at Etihad. I don't mind the system, big game finals should be played at big stadiums. Making Tigers fans travel to ANZ really isn't the same as making Cowboys fans travel to Brisbane.

Remember, in the 2005 preliminary finals, thousands of Tigers fans missed out on attending because the NRL wouldn't move the game from SFS. Tigers management and fans were livid at the time, demanding the game should be moved. The NRL has changed the system to deal with two problems, ensuring big matches at big stadiums so fans don't miss out and not forcing teams like the Cowboys and Warriors have home finals in Sydney like used to happen a few years ago. It's a hard thing to balance, I don't think the current system is too bad given the need to accommodate two contradictory issues.

You might like it, but its not fair.
Its a result of city wide comp evolving into a national/international comp
8 or 9 teams in one region and the others up & down the eastern seaboard and across the ditch
 
The NRL has got the suburban ground argument 100% correct. The game will soon outgrow the suburban venues and this is the first step. Complain all you like about Melbourne and Brisbane having an advantage, but the reality is these clubs are whom we compete against. We have to beat them off the field with corporate nous.

Survival of the fittest. Manly losing millions because they have to play at brookvale, yet our club is in a position of financial because we take big games to the big stadiums.
 

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