1. | Storm | (owned by News Limited until recently) | |||||||||||
| 2. | Sharks | Super League | |||||||||||
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| 3. | Raiders | Super League | |||||||||||
| 4. | Bulldogs | Super League | |||||||||||
| 5. | Broncos | Super League | |||||||||||
| 6. | Cowboys | Super League | |||||||||||
| 7. | Panthers | Super League | |||||||||||
| 8. | Titans | (NRL owned) | |||||||||||
(Warriors 9th Super League) (Tigers 10th NRL owned) * Bloody Knights are the only ones to ruin a full house (NRL owned) |
Teams 10-16 all ARL aligned clubs.
I know this has been mentioned in the past, but seriously, could Rupert have asked for a better result.
Knights also, only non Sydney based team in the bottom 7.
Don't think I could've rigged it any better myself. Would love to know how many judiciary visits have resulted in SL clubs having charges dropped or downgraded as well.
Numbers can't lie.
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No chance of the ARL taking the lead this year though, is there?
Really?
Touche
It would be interesting (not that I know myself), what those numbers would look like since the NRL Commission took over.
Not the NRL but the NRL Commission.
2012 6 out of 8 Super League teams made the finals
2013 4 and 4
2014 5 Super League, 3 ARL
2015 5 Super League, 3 ARL
2016 0 ARL
* These are since the NRL Commission has taken over. I have taken the liberty of adding Melbourne as a Super League team due to association.
I don't think the current crop of teams is the end result. We are yet to see the final makeup, but I reckon it will look more like SL by the time it is all done. The NRL is already talking about all Sydney teams playing at 3 grounds, like in the AFL. Once that get cemented in place then it would be easy to justify amalgamations of teams who play at the same ground. We are almost at the same stage as AFL with their Melbourne teams. It will be interesting to see what happens in both leagues over the next 15-20 years in terms of traditional Sydney/Melbourne teams.
BD, interesting blog, Thing is that rather than the aspect in regard to the old SL & ARL setup, what needs to be looked at within the whole set up, is that out of the teams on both sides of the divide, which ones are still basically club based as against privately owned, or managed.
As it is, now the eels are out of the 8, but without the points deduction we would be on 26points & sitting in 8th with a + 5 points difference spot pushing the Titans out. Had the season gone normal, I would suggest we would have likely won two of the games we lost such as against Penrith & Tigers.
If the NRL doesn't lift their game before long I thing things will get to a stage where the prospect of another break away comp could happen.
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