What's the bet?

[Johnny Brass]

Politis has a name for it as he rejected that it's actually a 'draw'. Forget what he called it on Roosters Radio, but he said that it's driven by external forces such as media coverage.

He called it a TV schedule which is all it is, I understand the sentiment of rather playing the top sides but I'd be happier if we were still playing deep in the finals. Rotate the draw over a few years so it evens out who you play twice and the last round derby with souths hasn't been good for the health of our line-up heading into finals.

[Kramer]

You mean to say that the media outlet owned by James Packer, a known souffs wanka, has influence over the draw???? And the NRL claims to be unbias

Packer does not own 9, it is a private equity company that owns it as well as SMH.

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

Packer does not own 9, it is a private equity company that owns it as well as SMH.

Well in that case we know how much favouritism souffs receive from the the SMH

[Headless Chook]

The draw the Roosters had was more or less like playing a finals series for the last 5 weeks, It was inevitable that it would catch up with us due to the physicality of the way we play

[Kelby]

riff x 2
storm x 2
souffs x 2
sharks x 2
parra x 2
cows x 2
canberra x 2

[mattyh]

i believe given the top 8 of 2022, not 2021penrith were the team along with melbourne who had the toughest assignment.

if your good enough ...

[milanja]

The draw the Roosters had was more or less like playing a finals series for the last 5 weeks, It was inevitable that it would catch up with us due to the physicality of the way we play

The last 5 rounds were Brisbane,cows,tigers,storm and Souths, 4 of those 5 were home games, and going by last years results, cows,Brisbane,and tigers were all expected to finish well in the bottom half of the draw.

Again, if we capitalised on our easy first 8-10 rounds, we wouldn’t have been in a must win shootout for the last few rounds.

I think the draw was pretty good to us in the front and backend of the season, we just weren’t ready to play at the start of the season.

[Thirteen]

I'll put money on us being given yet another shithouse draw next year. It'll be Melbourne twice (though they might be easier in 2023 than 2022), Souffs twice, Pemriff twice and Parramatta twice. We'll probably only get Balmain, Bulldogs and the Dolphins once.

And we'll get the toughest teams immediately after SOO.

I don't care about the rest.

Round 1 Roosters v Dolphins in Redcliffe. Book your flights.