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@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.
@smoking gun said:i thought after week 2 of the semis all finals games were in sydney
@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
@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
@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.