With the Olympics in full swing and swimming coaches giving hand rails the punishment they deserve, you can forgive that our Alternative NRL Round 20 Tips for this weekend look like they are running out of ideas.
Alternative tips you ask? Well 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 each team’s most famous fan that isn’t a fellow famous sportsperson.
In addition to the tips are a whole bunch of barely interesting stats for the round of NRL ahead. Impress your neighbours (socially distanced of course), cheer up police horses, or read them out as punishment for anyone breaking lockdown protocols.
Good luck with your Alternative NRL Round 20 Tips if you choose to use them.
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NRL Round 20 Tips Alternative – Gurgler v Famous Fans
METHOD TO THE MADNESS
Using our good friends Wikipedia we found a section on famous fans of each club, except the Warriors strangely.
So from that list we got the most famous/interesting non-sportsperson fan of each club.
Then we put the super fans head to head and our panel of three writers determined which one was the coolest/best/most important, and that team got the tip.
NRL Round 20 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.
ROOSTERS to beat Eels
TIGERS to beat Warriors
BRONCOS to beat Cowboys
RABBITOHS to beat Dragons
RAIDERS to beat Knights
STORM to beat Panthers
TITANS to beat Bulldogs
SEA EAGLES to beat Sharks
Check out the Us v Them scoreboard at the end for 2021 results.
NRL Round 20 Tips – Barely Interesting Stats
- Parramatta and Roosters meet in Mackay for the regional city’s third NRL game and first since 2013.
- Bulldogs have six of the last seven Friday games v Tigers.
- Wests Tigers win every second game at Suncorp Stadium against non Broncos teams. They lost last week.
- Broncos are on a three game winning streak against the Cowboys on a Friday night.
- Souths v Dragons will be played at Browne Park in Rockhampton for the first time. If the Dragons win it will be the first win by a home side there since August 2018. The local Intrust Super Cup side Central Capras are on a long winless streak at home.
- Souths haven’t lost to the Dragons on a Saturday since 2005, and haven’t conceded more than 14 in any of those six games.
- Newcastle have lost eight straight games in Queensland and 17 of their last 18 going back to 2015. They average 13 for and 33 against in that run.
- Canberra have won all three neutral games in Queensland this season.
- Melbourne have now won 26 games in a row in Queensland. They average 35 points a game in attack during this run.
- The Storm have lost just one clash in Queensland v non Queensland sides – their first in 2012, coincidentally in Mackay v Bulldogs for this weekend given that venue’s return.
- Penrith are also on a seven game winning streak in Queensland. In those seven games they have conceded the following points totals – 12, 16, 12, 12, 12, 12, 14.
- The Bulldogs last 12 results have followed a pattern that makes victory assured this weekend. WLLLLLWLLLLL
- The Final game of the weekend will be the first ever NRL game at NRL hopefuls Redcliffe.
- Sharks wins over Manly have tended to follow the Olympics with one win every four years starting in 2008. The Sharks have won once in 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 from 21 games.
2021 Us v Them NRL Tipping Scoreboard
US – 69% – 100/144
ALTERNATIVE TIPS
THEM – 52% – 75/144
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
LIKELIHOOD TO BREAK COVID – 2/4
QUEENSLAND – 5/8
NEUTRAL GROUNDS – 6/8
NRL Round 20 Tips – Barely Interesting Graphs
With the all Queensland Broncos v Cowboys game this weekend we thought we’d look back on the H2H for all Queensland teams against each other from 2020 and the last five seasons.
