NRL Finals Series
I don't know where to begin here, but it's a series that needs Spraying, and desperately.
Any series that looks to have Souths featuring it, is an absolute disgrace to begin with. Reading this morning's papers, I simply cannot believe that teams like Brisbane, the Tigers and even til the weekend the Roosters, Titans and Canberra were still in with a shot of a finals berth! All these sides have been nothing short of disgusting this year. Penrith are two wins out of the 8 for fuck sake!! Its actually harder to miss out on the finals than it is to make them these days.
And once you make the finals, the first bunch of games are rendered usless anyway. There's no great incentive for 1st and 2nd to keep winning (although they do just about everytime with maybe the exception of the putrid Bulldogs who manage to lose every finals game they play against the Cowboys), but that first game (1 v 8) is always a disgrace and a waste of time for the 8th placed side and for anyone trying to claim this spot beforehand. Usually this unenviable position, that seriously resembles being on 'Death Row', belongs to Canberra who have amazed all time and time again, to avoid the wooden spoon, let alone make the 'finals' series. The McIntyre system really is fucked up in my opinion.
We need to get back to the Top 5 where EVERY game has meaning and is just about sudden death. 1st get a week off and just desserts for the minor premiership, and 2nd and 3rd get two bites at the cherry, which is also deserved. It takes at least 2 weeks to get to anything near the intensity of the matches produced under the Top 5 format of the Winfield Cup in years gone by, and as far as I'm concerned, this system can't return quick enough. The Top 8 was worth a gamble, but FFS, enough's anough with mediocre games being played by mediocre clubs who simply don't deserve to be playing finals footy.
FUCK IT OFF GALLOP!!!
Any series that looks to have Souths featuring it, is an absolute disgrace to begin with. Reading this morning's papers, I simply cannot believe that teams like Brisbane, the Tigers and even til the weekend the Roosters, Titans and Canberra were still in with a shot of a finals berth! All these sides have been nothing short of disgusting this year. Penrith are two wins out of the 8 for fuck sake!! Its actually harder to miss out on the finals than it is to make them these days.
And once you make the finals, the first bunch of games are rendered usless anyway. There's no great incentive for 1st and 2nd to keep winning (although they do just about everytime with maybe the exception of the putrid Bulldogs who manage to lose every finals game they play against the Cowboys), but that first game (1 v 8) is always a disgrace and a waste of time for the 8th placed side and for anyone trying to claim this spot beforehand. Usually this unenviable position, that seriously resembles being on 'Death Row', belongs to Canberra who have amazed all time and time again, to avoid the wooden spoon, let alone make the 'finals' series. The McIntyre system really is fucked up in my opinion.
We need to get back to the Top 5 where EVERY game has meaning and is just about sudden death. 1st get a week off and just desserts for the minor premiership, and 2nd and 3rd get two bites at the cherry, which is also deserved. It takes at least 2 weeks to get to anything near the intensity of the matches produced under the Top 5 format of the Winfield Cup in years gone by, and as far as I'm concerned, this system can't return quick enough. The Top 8 was worth a gamble, but FFS, enough's anough with mediocre games being played by mediocre clubs who simply don't deserve to be playing finals footy.
FUCK IT OFF GALLOP!!!
posted by Roscoe | 2:54 PM
2 Comments:
The McIntyre system is just a tool to get more money for less excitement. How the fuck you can make the finals without even winning the majority of comp games??? It's a fucking disgrace, right up there with night grand finals! The NRL's motto is "Fuck the fans, take the cash!"
Having lost more games than won & still make the 8 (finals) is a joke! I would even be happy with a top 6, 16 teams in the comp 10 miss out on the finals. you might not get as big of a crowd as they did on sunday when those fucks (souths) won. But at least you wont get boring/pointless games in the 1st week of semis! Come on Brisbane & Tigers on the weekend, really dont want souths in, go the Roosters (fuck why am i saying that!!!!)
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