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"We won SG ball in 2023, how did that happen if the case?"
"Chris Butler"
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I'm like nick, I honestly don't care which system is taken, although the AFL system is fairer all round it does in fact eliminate alot of the excitement from the games as the viewers know what the outcomes of the results will be, where the McIntyre is capable of throwing in alot more shocks and surprises.
That's bullshit! As we know, in the modern game, injuries, home crowd advantage and inept decision making by the match officials dictate results and I don't think it fair that if those external influences, over which a team has no control, conspire against them, then their previous half-year of consistency ought to be punished. In AFL, these influences have less of an impact as penalties are generally less costly and the game is played on a larger field for more minutes so the better team on the day almost always wins. I dare you to make the same claim for Rugby League!
Yet, after almost 100 years of employing it, the AFL punted the McIntyre system because they saw the obvious flaws in the system! I'm not being smug here because the AFL did adopt our oft ridiculed 'loading' system for their judiciary, yet it wouldn't hurt us to adopt the far more fair top 8 system the AFL employ.
As happy as I am that we get a home game tonight, I can't see how a team that lost only 7 games all year, after 1 loss in the finals, now has the toughest double road trip in the game - Brisbane in Brisbane and Melbourne in Melbourne. If we were minor premiers and were consigned to such inequity, you, me and every other Parra fan would be screaming the house down!
The NRL could keep the system, but change who gets the home games in weeks 2 and 3.
I do see your point that the Dragons get a tough round to the GF, but I still stand by the fact that they lost their game against the lowest team in the 8 and get what they deserve. i would say the same if Parra were beaten in Week 1 from position 1 as well.
People keep crapping on about how St George was dudded, etc, but they don't realise or don't acknowledge that the McIntye system rewards winners. They think that teams that finish at the top of the 8 should be given a leisurely passage through to the GF, whereas teams that finish in the bottom of the 8 should be made to struggle. If that's the case, then why don't teams 1 and 2 play the grand final with no finals series, or why bother with a grand final at all?
Under the NRL's McIntyre system, the top teams are rewarded with a home game and a higher likelihood of getting a week off than teams below them. But if they don't perform, bad luck .. if they want to make the GF they have to fight their way back. If they are good enough, they will.
The AFL system rewards teams that performed best during the season. The McIntyre system rewards teams that perform best in the finals. If this is perceived by the majority of people as unfair, then maybe it has to change. I'm OK with it.
What you're describing is the McIntyre top 5 system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntyre_System)
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