{"id":357204,"date":"2025-12-19T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357204\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:59:08","slug":"the-one-per-club-nrl-draft-five-squads-picked-no-double-ups-allowed-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357204\/","title":{"rendered":"The one per club NRL draft: Five squads picked, no double-ups allowed &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> off-season is a whacky time of year for fans of the game.<\/p>\n<p>No rugby league on means we drift to thinking about concepts, ideas, things that keep the brain ticking &#8211; like why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/wests-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wests Tigers<\/a> board is imploding again, or what the competition would look like without a salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>So here at Zero Tackle, we thought why not have a bit of off-season fun to pass some time.<\/p>\n<p>What if we put five of us in a room &#8211; okay, a virtual room &#8211; and said, pick your ideal rugby league team, draft style, but you can&#8217;t pick more than one player from each 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> roster.<\/p>\n<p>17 teams, 17 spots. You must pick a player from each club, no exception.<\/p>\n<p>The strategies that followed were varied. Some simply took the best players available, and some took the clubs they thought would be difficult to fill from.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how things went for editor Scott Pryde, founder Matt Clements, and writers Isaac Issa, Ethan Lee Chalk and Dan Nichols, with all picks in a snake order.<\/p>\n<p>First, the teams in team list order.<\/p>\n<p>And here is how every pick played out.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The NRL off-season is a whacky time of year for fans of the game. No rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-357204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}