Another half arsed round of four NRL games and so another half arsed offering from us with our Alternative NRL Round 17 Tips for this weekend.
Each week we offer up some alternative NRL tips based on a new theme, and occasionally it will have nothing to do with rugby league. Just the way we like it. This week it is about rugby league but the latest off field drama. More on that below.
In addition to the tips are a whole bunch of barely interesting stats for the round of NRL ahead. Impress your neighbours, parcel delivery drivers, and fellow relatives by stealing them and sharing, but please do so whilst maintaining social distance.
Good luck with your Alternative NRL Round 17 Tips if you choose to use them.
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NRL Round 17 Tips Alternative – Gurgler v Likelihood to Break Covid Curfew
METHOD TO THE MADNESS
Before we go any further we’d like to point out that this week’s alternative tips based on the likelihood of breaking Covid is based on the team’s mascot/nickname and not commentary on any of he team’s current player roster.
Of course this is inspired by the foolish party involving a lot Dragons players and prior to that the Bulldogs session (no the other kind), whose punishments meant they put out a side flogged 66-0 last weekend.
So how do we decide the Likelihood to Break Covid Curfew?
Well basically we get the mascots and compare which one would be more be more likely to break Covid curfew like the Dragons and Bulldogs. The team that is less likely to break Covid gets the tip because they are more professional and smarter for not doing anything to cost their careers and/or the NRL from continuing.
Explanation for this week’s tips are below with the alternative tips.
SEA EAGLES to beat Raiders
Given that Sea Eagles nests are usually high in a tree of on the edge of a cliff they are less likely to break curfew than a bunch of rowdy Vikings who are usually crammed together in boats waiting to plunder when they get ashore.
COWBOYS to beat Rabbitohs
Cowboys are often seen in movies as solitary figures, and usually in the middle of nowhere, in fact you could argue they invented social distancing, so they are very unlikely to hold anti-Covid Lockdown BBQs. Not so for Rabbitohs who are as famed for the breeding ability in the burrows as some footballers are in nightclubs.
ROOSTERS to beat Bulldogs
According to this article, dogs are one of the friendliest, most social animals there is out there and that the most social bird is the Swan, we’ll argue that Roosters are less likely to be social, and therefore break Covid lockdown.
SHARKS to beat Warriors
Since Sharks live underwater, it is very hard for them to break a Covid lockdown.
NRL Round 17 Tips – Our Selections
We think we are much better tippers than the alternative and so here are our selections for the week. So far we’re winning.
SEA EAGLES to beat Raiders
RABBITOHS to beat Cowboys
ROOSTERS o beat Bulldogs
WARRIORS to beat Sharks
2021 Us v Them NRL Tipping Scoreboard
US – 71% – 87/124
ALTERNATIVE TIPS
THEM – 50% – 62/124
FIRST ROUND FORM – 4/8
FULLBACKS – 5/8
INJURIES @ RD 3 – 6/8
EASTER – 4/8
ZERO POINTS – 5/8
MASCOTS – 4/8
PENALTIES – 4/8
POST CONTACT METRES – 5/8
BEST H2H – 3/8
SUNCORP STADIUM RECORD – 6/8
DISCIPLINE – 4/8
WINTER – 3/8
SCRABBLE – 1/4
POST ORIGIN FORM – 4/8
STATE OF ORIGIN REPS – 3/8
QLD ORIGIN REPS – 1/8
NRL Round 17 Tips – Barely Interesting Stats
- Manly have won seven of their last eight at Brookvale v Canberra. Their last three losses coming in 2006, 2010 and 2016. So since there was no game at Brookvale in 2020 we can safely assume Manly will next lose to Canberra at Brookvale in 2026.
- Manly have won six of the last seven v Canberra at all grounds.
- Manly have won their last four home games but only two of those were at Brookvale.
- Manly have also scored 172 points in their last three game.
- Canberra have lost five of their past six games v Sydney teams.
- Souths have won the last five games v North Queensland.
- Souths have won their last six and 11 of their last 12 v Queensland opposition.
- Souths have won seven of their last eight Friday games, North Queensland have won just one of their last seven Friday games.
- The Cowboys are just 6/25 for matches v Sydney teams in Sydney on a Friday.
- The Cowboys have also won just three of their last 19 games in NSW.
- Bulldogs haven’t beaten the Roosters since 2016, which means only two of the Covid Five players were playing in the NRL the last time Bulldogs beat the Roosters.
- Bulldogs have lost eight in a row at Bankwest Stadium. Roosters have won 5/6.
- Bulldogs have won twice this season. One each against the two other clubs where players have been recently busted for Covid lockdown breaches – Dragons and Sharks.
- The Roosters have lost just one of their last 14 Saturday games. And just one of their last 12 away games on a Saturday.
- Sharks have won 12 of their last 15 matches v Warriors.
- Warriors have won 6/25 games away in Sydney on a Sunday since 2011.
