NRL Nines 2020
Posted: August 20, 2019, 1:43 pm
Perth wins bid to host return of NRL club Nines
Perth will host the club-based NRL nines competition when the pre-season event returns to the calendar next year.
While the contract hasn’t officially been inked, the city will pip Newcastle and Melbourne’s bids to stage the return of the abbreviated version of the game. The matches will be staged at the 20,000-seat HBF Stadium, the home of A-League side Perth Glory.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/perth- ... 52i8z.html
Looks like it's coming back.
Which i think could be a really good thing BUT I think they should mix the format up a bit...
And maybe this doesnt work and it'd be bad, but how many times are we going to reboot the 9's or 7's only to see it flame out each year before we accept we might need something different.
Here's my idea...
Have each NRL Team nominate the players from their sqaud they want involved and a captain.
The captain and coaches of each club then draft the remaining players to form mixed squads, to avoid teams just picking their own dudes out of team loyalty, you ban them from taking a player from their own team within the first 5 rounds.
Have prize money for the players involved, 4 million all up... 2 mil for the winning team (that's 130k per player for a 15 man squad), 1 mil for the runners up (65k each) and 1mil for each player of the team voted by the fans as being the most entertaining team of the tournment (65k each)... at least try to entice some of the best to put their hand up
players hurt can be assessed by their own team's people since they'll all be on site anyways so you avoid concerns about teams treating their guys for injuries and how that's managed.
And it's a randomised knock out... so once the teams are drafted, your randomise the bracket and play it down till the end. Could be best 3 series, or best of 2 with score aggrigate declaring the winner.
RL would OWN the sports calander in the lead up to this event, papers and fans would be talking about who's going to draft who, the prestige of being the #1 pick would be cool, you can get players and coaches together who you dont normally see, and every game has someone from your team in it, so you've kind of got someone to root for each game
I just think if you're going to do, do it with a fresh take... and maybe this isnt the right take, someone will surely come up with a better idea than me but i just dont think you can just pick up a concept that has failed so often and just move it to a new venue and run it back and expect it to succeed.
Perth will host the club-based NRL nines competition when the pre-season event returns to the calendar next year.
While the contract hasn’t officially been inked, the city will pip Newcastle and Melbourne’s bids to stage the return of the abbreviated version of the game. The matches will be staged at the 20,000-seat HBF Stadium, the home of A-League side Perth Glory.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/perth- ... 52i8z.html
Looks like it's coming back.
Which i think could be a really good thing BUT I think they should mix the format up a bit...
And maybe this doesnt work and it'd be bad, but how many times are we going to reboot the 9's or 7's only to see it flame out each year before we accept we might need something different.
Here's my idea...
Have each NRL Team nominate the players from their sqaud they want involved and a captain.
The captain and coaches of each club then draft the remaining players to form mixed squads, to avoid teams just picking their own dudes out of team loyalty, you ban them from taking a player from their own team within the first 5 rounds.
Have prize money for the players involved, 4 million all up... 2 mil for the winning team (that's 130k per player for a 15 man squad), 1 mil for the runners up (65k each) and 1mil for each player of the team voted by the fans as being the most entertaining team of the tournment (65k each)... at least try to entice some of the best to put their hand up
players hurt can be assessed by their own team's people since they'll all be on site anyways so you avoid concerns about teams treating their guys for injuries and how that's managed.
And it's a randomised knock out... so once the teams are drafted, your randomise the bracket and play it down till the end. Could be best 3 series, or best of 2 with score aggrigate declaring the winner.
RL would OWN the sports calander in the lead up to this event, papers and fans would be talking about who's going to draft who, the prestige of being the #1 pick would be cool, you can get players and coaches together who you dont normally see, and every game has someone from your team in it, so you've kind of got someone to root for each game
I just think if you're going to do, do it with a fresh take... and maybe this isnt the right take, someone will surely come up with a better idea than me but i just dont think you can just pick up a concept that has failed so often and just move it to a new venue and run it back and expect it to succeed.