Make your first season count

1. Pick your XIII

Open Squad. Auto-select builds a legal team of thirteen starters and four replacements. Select a captain and kicker from your starters. Injured or suspended players cannot play; a position mismatch reduces effectiveness.

2. Prepare your team

Choose tactics and a training focus. Recovery removes more fatigue; skills gives development opportunities with slower recovery. Decisions take effect when you advance a round.

3. Play the round

Watch Match opens the 2D pitch and touchline controls. Watch live advances one play at a time; Pause watching and Next play let you control the pace. Ball position, possession and tackles follow the match; player shape is illustrative. Continue in passages of roughly five minutes, with pauses for half-time, injuries and cards. Change tactics or make interchanges before the next passage. Cloud careers save each decision and resume after reload. Instant Result delegates interchanges to the simulation. At full time, the other fixtures and weekly preparation complete. Replaying a completed report does not change its result.

4. Build for next year

Recruit free agents within annual salary limits, renew contracts and replace retiring players. Complete 26 rounds, a top-six playoff and the Grand Final before starting a new season.

Competition rules 1.1.0

80 minutes, six tackles per set. Tries 4, conversions and penalty goals 2, field goals 1. Regular-season draws earn a point each; wins earn two. Finals use golden point followed, if needed, by a separate goal contest.

Third hosts sixth and fourth hosts fifth. First then hosts the lowest surviving seed, second the other qualifier. The Grand Final is neutral at Crown Park.

Thirteen players start, with four replacements and eight interchanges. Cautions, ten-minute sin-bins and permanent dismissals affect matches. A dismissed player cannot be replaced. In this fictional competition, a red card also brings a one-match ban; this is not an official RFL tariff. Restarts, HIA exemptions, added injury time and disciplinary hearings are simplified or omitted.

Development status and support

The exhibition is unsaved. Cloud accounts, billing and operational support require external configuration and further verification. No support destination has been configured, so no ticket submission is offered.