Extra time or Golden Point?

I personally think Extra time is a lot fairer than Golden Point and the NRL should use it for regular season games. If no score at 90 minutes than declare a draw, if it's a finals game play on until a point is scored.

What is everyone's thoughts?

Extra time for me.... last night showed how bad Golden Point is.....

A draw in regular rounds.

Extra time in finals.

The reason why the NRL does golden point is to boost viewers. In last years grand final, the viewers peaked during golden point.

Golden point was made for gambling companies.

A hard fought draw is better than golden point...where a team could score in the first set of six and the opposition has absolutely no right of reply. Yeah...that's fair.

I love draws. It makes the points table much more interesting and there is a certain sense of satisfaction that both parties come away with a point they have earned instead of one team being robbed.

If the extra time occurs (which it is whilst league is on prime time TV) it needs to be refereed better. The Warriors were dead-set reffed out of a lot their golden point games as were several other teams, with sides not penalised for the most blatant of infringements to kill the play.

Regular season draw

Finals extra time, 10 each way and then golden point

Hands down a draw for a regular game, the only time extra time and golden point should be used is for the finals when a team needs to win

nznrl said:

I love draws. It makes the points table much more interesting and there is a certain sense of satisfaction that both parties come away with a point they have earned instead of one team being robbed.

If the extra time occurs (which it is whilst league is on prime time TV) it needs to be refereed better. The Warriors were dead-set reffed out of a lot their golden point games as were several other teams, with sides not penalised for the most blatant of infringements to kill the play.

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I remember reading elsewhere that the Warriors would have been better off with 5 draws (5 points) than with 2 GP wins from 5 (4 points).

As for GP...again, if a team kicks off, the other team receives, gets downtown and kicks a field goal...game is over, and the defending team has never had the ball. Total BS. Even Brisbane losing a GF like that was a bit of BS. Extra Time fine. GP in finals after Extra Time, good too. But regular rounds, nope.

Interesting to see no one has voted to keep Golden Point..

Not really related to the question, but many people became annoyed with the Golden point rule, because teams would just shoot for field goal. This trend has been reversed. Since the beginning of 2015, we have had 25 Golden Point matches, and 9 of them have been decided by a try. Compare this to the period 2012 - 2014 where there have been 19 matches with only one being decided by a try. Just an interesting statistic. Personally, I dont like golden point but I cant get mad as the bulldogs win 80 percent of golden point matches.

That is because it is rare to have a fair shot at a field goal at the moment. The defence is always so far offside the receiver is getting the ball just as they arrive. Add to this that markers know they can be side on etc and the whole thing is just a messy lolly scramble.

Many of the most valuable players in the NRL at the moment are the cheating grubs, because they get away with it.

nznrl said:

That is because it is rare to have a fair shot at a field goal at the moment. The defence is always so far offside the receiver is getting the ball just as they arrive. Add to this that markers know they can be side on etc and the whole thing is just a messy lolly scramble.

Many of the most valuable players in the NRL at the moment are the cheating grubs, because they get away with it.

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I just thought it'd be interesting to note that the problem a couple of years ago was the need to shoot field goals, and people were coming up with dumb ideas like 'golden point try' and take one man off the field, etc... I do like the idea of draws instead of extra time, thus it would justify awarding 2 points to a winning team.

Extra Time for me however I would change the points scoring to something like EPL.

3 points for a win in 80 minutes
0 points for a loss in 80 minutes

1 point for a draw at 80 minutes
1 point for winning in extra time

So if you win in extra time you get 2 points and the other point is for the opposition for the 80 minute draw.

To me that would please everyone.

hobo said:

Extra Time for me however I would change the points scoring to something like EPL.

3 points for a win in 80 minutes
0 points for a loss in 80 minutes

1 point for a draw at 80 minutes
1 point for winning in extra time

So if you win in extra time you get 2 points and the other point is for the opposition for the 80 minute draw.

To me that would please everyone.

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Why not 6 points
2 points for winning the 1st half or one each if its drawn at half time
2 points for winning the 2nd half or again one each if its drawn
2 points for winning the match or again 1 each for a draw.

How many games do we see where one team is up by 20 or 30 at the break and wins by only a few.
Would give the team trailing at halftime a chance to take something away from the game and force the team that is leading to continue to play at the standard they did in the first half if they want to take maximum points.
6 points would be awarded every game but the allocation would reflect the performance for the whole 80min not just the final score.

220 said:

Why not 6 points
2 points for winning the 1st half or one each if its drawn at half time
2 points for winning the 2nd half or again one each if its drawn
2 points for winning the match or again 1 each for a draw.

How many games do we see where one team is up by 20 or 30 at the break and wins by only a few.
Would give the team trailing at halftime a chance to take something away from the game and force the team that is leading to continue to play at the standard they did in the first half if they want to take maximum points.
6 points would be awarded every game but the allocation would reflect the performance for the whole 80min not just the final score.

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I think that risks changing the integrity of the game as you could have teams purely focused on winning just a half of footy not the game. Maybe a bonus point for loosing by less than 6, but then we are still messing with the game.

I am more convinced now we would be better off splitting the two points for a draw but with broadcasting calling the shots that wont happen.

Ross

Brendan_B said:

Regular season draw

Finals extra time, 10 each way and then golden point

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For me , This is the best reply I have read here.

hobo said:

Extra Time for me however I would change the points scoring to something like EPL.

3 points for a win in 80 minutes
0 points for a loss in 80 minutes

1 point for a draw at 80 minutes
1 point for winning in extra time

So if you win in extra time you get 2 points and the other point is for the opposition for the 80 minute draw.

To me that would please everyone.

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Personally regular season draw finals extra time as you need a result.

If they are going to persist with golden point or extra in the regular season then I don't mind this idea as it means teams can get some valuable points. A point from a draw (could even be a few points with a few draws) could be the difference between making the top 8 or not or even making the top 8 if you make the top 4 or not.

Just a quick look at some golden point games if you remove golden point and bought back the draw only difference it would have made this year is the Sharks would have had a home game in week 1 of the finals instead of the Raiders As the Sharks had 1 Golden Point game that ended in a draw however the Raiders had 4 golden point game with 2 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw so they had 1 extra point thanks to golden point. May not make a big difference as the won the game but for the club it would have provided more revenue by having an extra home game. I don't have time to go through other seasons now but I'm sure there could be other differences in other years that could prove a bit more significant than this one.

Storm 40 259
Raiders 38 228
Sharks 39 176
Cowboys 35 230
Broncos 33 119
Panthers 33 104
Bulldogs 31 54
Titans 27 11
Tigers 27 -107
Warriors 24 -83
Dragons 23 -201
Rabbitohs 23 -75
Manly 20 -106
Eels 18 -26
Roosters 17 -129
Knights 8 -491

There is no revenue for the clubs from home games during the final series as the NRL own the finals.

The advantage is purely playing at home although for Sydney teams that advantage is eroded because the NRL wants these games played at Alliance or ANZ only.

hobo said:

There is no revenue for the clubs from home games during the final series as the NRL own the finals.

The advantage is purely playing at home although for Sydney teams that advantage is eroded because the NRL wants these games played at Alliance or ANZ only.

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It was reported in the Canberra Times last week that the Raiders made almost $500,000 extra this year by having the two home finals.