Maybe I'm in a minority of 1, but I think that the whole concept is unfair, as individual teams may or may not get a difficult game. It's OK if you win like we did this time, but adding another random game for teams that may have lots of injuries cannot be justified. We were lucky that we got Catalan at a time that they are not in good form and have lost players, but what if we had got one of the top 4 teams and got thumped, making our points difference even worse and picking up even more injuries!

This is also true of any other round of games.

I think an even fixture list (i.e. everyone plays each other home and away) would increase the arguments against having the playoffs, which have arguably become a very popular aspect of each campaign and maintain interest and competition throughout.

If they could find a way so that teams ended up playing the team next to them in the table at that time, so 1v2, 3v4... Problem is the organisation in not knowing which team will be in which position until a week before and so not knowing whose playing on each day.

Also I can't see any football clubs wanting seven matches played on their pitch at any time of the year.

I am not against the play-off system because teams who run into form late in the season may have a good go at it, eg, Catalans, but adding another round of league games on the false premise of spreading the game to other ares, when in truth it is all just about making money is not fair to the clubs on a number of levels. The only positive I can see is the publicity gained by Sky advertising it as a spectacular event, but even that is negated by the empty seats seen during their TV coverage.
Not even the NRL (who we copy the play-off system from) are daft enough to think that this is a viable concept.

You are aware that we had play-offs before the Australians even had rugby league?

Quite correct. In the early days of Rugby League when travel across the Pennines was a major consideration, most games would be played within the same county with very few being played inter-county. This gave an imbalance of fixtures - look at early tables which contained 30+ teams who only played 30-odd games in season - which was resolved with the use of the play-off system.

As i said I am not against the play off system, it's the addition of another random game that I disagree with. What sense does it make to play just one of the other teams three times in the season and play the rest twice and we already have the Callenge cup final plus the Grand Finals to show case the game. At least the teams playing in these have earned their big day out.