To be fair the nrl does try to accomodate a lot of other things. Its channel 9 that makes it look worse. Each club has a certain amount of choices on who they play at home to increase gates.obviously the split draw. Then youhave heritage rounds where certain teams are pitted against eachother based on history. Certain clubs apply for byes at certain times for rep footy.not sure if or how the arrive at who plays eachother twice though but i. believe the clubs have some requests on that as well. Then its finalised and channel nine get here greedy mits on it and what was once not a bad schedule gets manipulated for the ratings and any potential clashes of interest with other commitments they have