If you are like us, and spend too much time on NRL tipping, only to get a lousy three or four correct, then we say why bother and let someone else decide for you, So we offer you our Alternative NRL Round 3 Tips Alternative.
Perhaps you could just follow an expert’s tips, but what’s the fun in that.
And instead of allowing the competition admin to give you the away teams for when you don’t care about who you tip, why not take on board our weekly Alternative NRL Tipping method instead.
Each week there will be a new theme, and occasionally it will have nothing to do with rugby league. Just the way we like it.
This week given the high profile injuries so far in 2021, we have the alternative tips based on injuries.
In addition to that is a whole bunch of barely interesting stats for the round of NRL ahead. Impress your friends and / or family by stealing them and sharing.
Good luck with your Alternative NRL Round 2 Tips.
NRL Round 3 Tips Alternative – Gurgler v Injuries
So here are this week’s alternative tips. The method to how it works is below.
METHOD TO THE MADNESS
With the Grand Final replay on Thursday being stripped of one of the biggest names from each side, and the general injuries of big names and other players already, we thought it is the right time to use the injury room for NRL Round 3 Tips.
We found this excellent page on current NRL injuries, which advised of the return date of all current injured players for all teams.
So we added up all the weeks that each team is going to miss from injured players combined and came up with a total number of weeks out.
The team with fewer injuries should be more cohesive and have more of their better players, so that means they will win.
The full injury table is below, taken from the above website so blame them if it is wrong.
NRL Round 3 Tips – Our Selections
MELBOURNE to beat Penrith
DRAGONS to beat Manly
RABBITOHS to beat Roosters
RAIDERS to beat Warriors
BRONCOS to beat Bulldogs
EELS to beat Sharks
KNIGHTS to beat Tigers
TITANS to beat Cowboys
NRL Tipping Scoreboard
US – 75% – 12/16
ALTERNATIVE TIPS
FIRST ROUND FORM – 4/8
FULLBACKS – 5/8
NRL Round 3 Tips – Barely Interesting Stats
- Penrith have beaten Melbourne just once in the last seven games at Penrith Stadium going back to 2008. They did beat Melbourne at home last season when home was Campbelltown.
- Melbourne have lost three of their past four regular season games in Sydney.
- St George Illawarra have won their past five home games v Manly. They have also lost just three of 18 home games going back to 1999. Manly have scored more than 10 points in just five of the last 15 away games to the Dragons.
- Souths have won just three of 14 games v Roosters on a Friday, but at least the last Friday clash was won by over 50 points.
- The Roosters have scored 18 more points already this season than the combined total of the current bottom four.
- Warriors have won four of their last seven trips to Canberra but just one of their last eight games that kick off at 3pm on a Saturday.
- The Bulldogs were the last team to lose to the Broncos – 259 days ago. But they have won just one of their last nine games at Suncorp Stadium.
- Previous to their recent slide the Broncos had won 21 of the 25 Saturday games at home to Sydney opposition going back to 1998.
- Parramatta have lost every second home game for their last six home matches. But they have won their last seven straight Saturday games at home and ten of their last 11. Cronulla have lost five straight away games on a Saturday v Sydney opposition.
- Wests Tigers have won just three of their last 15 games and conceding at 29 points per game in that run.
- North Queensland have only played nine home games on a Sunday since 1998. They have won five of them overall and four of their last five. The Titans and Cowboys have never met on a Sunday in Townsville, which might be a good thing as they have lost eight straight up there on all the other days and 10 losses in 11 matches away.
CURRENT NRL INJURY TOTALS
