Conference Clashes & Close Calls
The stats tell the story: the results of intra-conference matches have been closer than their regular counterparts so far this season.
The stats tell the story: the results of intra-conference matches have been closer than their regular counterparts so far this season.
Of the four conference systems in the league, the NRL West shapes up to be the most fiercely contested of them all.
The NRL North conference hasn’t had a team represent them in the Grand Final since 2006. Will 2015 be the year the drought ends and the Provan-Summons Trophy travels back north?
Teams from the NRL East conference have raised the Provan-Summons trophy in three of the last four seasons, and there is every chance that 2015 will see history repeated.
2015 finds the teams of the NRL South at a collective crossroads. Their dominance of the turn of the decade is no more, but is a new era rising?