If you are like us, and spend too much time on NRL tipping, only to get a lousy three or four correct, then we offer you our Alternative NRL Tips.
Perhaps you could just do less tipping, so you get less NRL tips wrong. Much like how a certain President suggests for other things.
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?
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’s Alternative NRL Round 7 Tips are all about how far each team is from Melbourne, given the wave of new Coronavirus cases there.
Our theory is that the further a team is away from Melbourne, the safer they’ll feel, the better they’ll play.
Enough of that for now, your NRL Round 7 Tipping guide awaits.
Alternative NRL Round 7 Tips – Distance from Melbourne
Here are the Alternative NRL Round 7 Tipping selections you need. Refer below for the method behind the madness.
METHOD
We have gone to google and asked for the best driving distance between Melbourne and the suburb/city of each team.
The team furthest from Melbourne, is furthest from the new outbreak of Coronavirus, so they are arguably safer from the new outbreak. And being safer, that means the players of those feel safer and play better.
Of course players live anywhere in Sydney and may be closer to Melbourne than their team, but if you made it this far into this alternative tipping method piece, and are worried about that then we’re sorry.
Interestingly, the teams that are closest and furthest from Melbourne play each other this weekend.
Season Progress:
R4 – Full Moon – 4/8
R5 – Better Coaching Record 6/8
R6 – Neutral Ground Performance 4/8
Best of Barely Interesting NRL Round 7 Stats
Our full preview below has loads of barely interesting facts (link below), and we’ll bring the best of them here for you for your NRL Round 7 Tipping pleasure.
The away team Souths are three times closer to this weekend’s venue than the home side.
Melbourne have won two and lost two in the past four games at Kogarah, they have scored either 12 or 14 in these games. The Warriors have scored 10 / 12 points in their only two games at the ground, but have won neither.
Newcastle have won just one of their last nine trips to Queensland to play Qld sides on a Saturday.
Roosters have 11 more line breaks than any other team (36) and 21 more than the Dragons.
The Titans have won just two of their past 21 matches against Qld teams. And it’s ten losses in a row on a Saturday.
Canberra have a better record at Bankwest than Parramatta. Although it is just the one win from one. Parramatta’s 80% win rate is still a decent home record.
Manly have won all four games with a kickoff at 4pm v Sharks.
The Bulldogs have won once only in June for the past four seasons including this season. Since they’ve already notched up a win this season, that means a loss surely.
David Nofoaluma has the highest % of run metres as a total of the club’s metres run of any player this season – 12.3%.
LINK TO BARELY INTERESTING ROUND 7 PREVIEW
Our own NRL Round 7 House Tips
Don’t trust our alternative NRL Round 7 Tips? Well here are our official selections from our main preview.
Penrith 20 Souths 14
Melbourne 28 Warriors 10
North Qld 26 Newcastle 12
Roosters 30 Dragons 8
Broncos 26 Gold Coast 12
Parramatta 22 Canberra 18
Manly 18 Cronulla 8
Bulldogs 12 Wests Tigers 18
Season Progress:
Round 3 – 4/8
Round 4 – 3/8
Round 5 – 6/8
Round 6 – 3/8
