Just two weeks to go before the finals start, and with just the two sacrificial lambs of the top eight to be decided we thought we offer up our Alternative NRL Round 24 Tips as some side entertainment from a pack of struggling teams looking to make the top eight.
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 away form this weekend. Because every team is basically away this weekend.
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 those in hotel quarantine, pre-record them into your phone and play them on loop as you go for your exercise with 5km of home, or read them out as a punishment to anti-lockdown, anti-5G protesting balloon heads.
However you choose to consume, enjoy your sample of Alternative NRL Round 24 Tips.
NRL Round 24 Tips Alternative – Gurgler v Away Form
METHOD TO THE MADNESS
Since every team is away this weekend (although technically not with Broncos at home, but their record is pretty crap at Suncorp as the away team) why not use each team’s away form for 2021 to determine winners.
The bigger the away win % for 2021, the more likely they are to win this weekend.
Simples.
NRL Round 24 Tips – Our Selections
We think we are a much better tipster than the alternative and so here are our selections for the week. So far we’re winning.
TITANS to beat Knights
WARRIORS to beat Raiders
RABBITOHS to beat Roosters
DRAGONS to beat Cowboys
BRONCOS to beat Sharks
STORM to beat Eels
SEA EAGLES to beat Bulldogs
PANTHERS to beat Tigers
Check out the Us v Them scoreboard at the end for 2021 results.
NRL Round 24 Tips – Barely Interesting Stats
There’s more to our preview than some alternative tips. We offer up a bunch of barely interesting stats for this weekend’s NRL action.
- Newcastle have lost six in a row v Gold Coast in Queensland
- Newcastle have a W2 L1 record v Queensland sides on a Thursday.
- Gold Coast have lost four in a row on a Thursday.
- Canberra lead the Warriors H2H on a Friday 2-1.
- Both Canberra and the Warriors scored 18 points in their most recent Friday clash – one of the them lost and the other won.
- Roosters have lost their last two Friday night games v Souths by a combined 62 points.
- Souths have the second best record in Queensland in 2021.
- Going back to 2016, Souths have won just once v teams that eventually finished the season first or second.
- The Dragons have won just 1/8 in Queensland this season. North Queensland’s 33% winning rate isn’t much better.
- Dragons have won four of the last five games v North Queensland on a Saturday.
- North Queensland have scored 16 three times in the last five Saturday games they have played in. The Cowboys have not won any of those five either.
- North Queensland have lost 10 in a row on a Saturday v teams from NSW.
- Brisbane have a 3/9 record at Suncorp Stadium as the away team.
- Sharks have lost seven of their last eight games v Broncos.
- Sharks have also lost nine of their last 11 games on a Saturday.
- Cronulla’s last loss to the Broncos was their first loss to a Queensland side in nine games.
- Parramatta have won the last two of three games v Melbourne.
- Melbourne have won 30 games in a row in Queensland.
- Parramatta have an excellent record v non NSW sides since 2020. They have won 14 of 16 games in the last two seasons against sides from outside NSW.
- Manly have won five in a row v Bulldogs.
- Bulldogs have won 8/11 v Manly on a Sunday.
- Bulldogs have won one of their last 18 Sunday games.
- Wests Tigers have beaten Penrith in two of their four matches.
- Penrith have won the last four on a Sunday to the Tigers.
- Wests Tigers have won their last two Sunday games in Queensland and 60% record overall.
NRL Round 24 Tips – Barely Interesting Visual
2021 Us v Them NRL Tipping Scoreboard
US – 69% – 122/176
THEM – 52% – 92/176
ALTERNATIVE TIPS
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
FAMOUS FANS – 3/8
ZERO CROWD – 4/8
MEMBERSHIP GROWTH – 5/8
REFEREE BIAS – 5/8
