Just one week of the regular season to go, and what a last weekend it looks to be. A bunch of top teams resting players, and a battle between three sides to finish eighth, all of which will fail to win at least half of their games. And the Bulldogs are playing the Tigers. Our Alternative NRL Round 25 Tips are here to sign off the regular season with alternative tips and stats..
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.
With a mixture of running out of ideas and affection for an animal, we have let the family pet go full Paul the Octopus and decide all the alternative NRL selections this week.
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, or substitute these tips as an alternative vaccine for those who don’t want the jab.
However you choose to consume, enjoy your sample of Alternative NRL Round 25 Tips.
NRL Round 25 Tips Alternative – Gurgler v The Dog
METHOD TO THE MADNESS
Don’t remember Paul the Octopus? Well look here.
Essentially we put a small dog treat in front of names of each H2H this weekend, and whichever one the dog went for is the selection.
Everyone wins. The dog got a belly full of snacks and you have some alternative NRL tips.
NRL Round 25 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.
RAIDERS to beat Roosters
STORM to beat Sharks
PANTHERS to beat Eels
BRONCOS to beat Knights
MANLY to beat Cowboys
RABBITOHS to beat Dragons
TITANS to beat Warriors
TIGERS to beat Bulldogs
Check out the Us v Them scoreboard at the end for 2021 results.
NRL Round 25 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.
- Canberra have won the only Thursday clash between these sides.
- The winning team has scored 28 points on both occasions of games in Mackay this season.
- Canberra are 5/7 against Sydney teams in Qld.
- Melbourne have won eight in a row on a Friday. Plus 13 in a row in Qld on a Friday. Last loss was in 2010 on the Gold Coast.
- Cronulla have won their last three Friday games.
- Parramatta have lost their last four games v Sydney clubs.
- Broncos have lost four in a row to the Knights. Prior to that they won six in a row.
- Newcastle have won as many Saturday games in Qld this season as the Broncos (1).
- North Queensland have lost 15 in a row against the current top six.
- Manly have won four in a row against Qld sides and scored 50+ on the last three occasions.
- South Sydney have won nine games in a row on a Saturday.
- Souths have won six in a row on a Saturday v St George Illawarra.
- If Souths beat the Dragons and Melbourne lose , the Rabbitohs will become the most successful team in Qld this season.
- Warriors have beaten Gold Coast in 17 of the last 20 matches since 2011.
- Gold Coast beat the Warriors in the most recent clash between these sides on a Sunday in 2018. Warriors won all of the other five matches on a Sunday.
- Both Wests Tigers and Bulldogs are winless at Redcliffe.
- With the Tigers playing on Sunday it means 50% of their games this year have been on Sunday. They have the fourth worst winning % at 36%. Bulldogs are last on 0% from eight games.
- Bulldogs and Wests Tigers have conceded the most and third most points on average on a Sunday this season. They have also scored the fewest and fourth fewest points on a Sunday on average.
2021 Us v Them NRL Tipping Scoreboard
US – 69% – 122/176
THEM – 53% – 97/184
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
AWAY FORM – 5/8
