The proposed 'Wildcard Weekend' has pros and cons so ultimately it will come down to whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks when the NRL decides whether to go ahead with the radical change. ✏️ - via CKennedy80
The proposed"Wildcard Weekend" has pros and cons so ultimately it will come down to whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks when the NRL decides whether to go ahead with the radical change.
Under the proposal, the teams finishing ninth and 10th would play knockout games against the teams finishing seventh and eighth in week one of the finals, while the top six enjoy a week off. It would also completely remove scheduling issues in terms of short turnarounds leading into the first week of the finals. Currently finalists who play Sunday night cannot be scheduled to play the following Friday, but with the two-game Wildcard Weekend there would be no Friday night game in the first week of finals.
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