I think Bradford were found gulity of breaching the salary cap that year. Adrian Morley ??

Don't get me wrong I am 100% behind the play-off concept which has served the sport for the overwhelming majority of it's existence, it's just that I want to see the title earned and go to a team that deserves it from a season long campaign not just from a burst of form at the end. The play-offs need to be weighted in favour of the two teams finishing highest on the ladder and I'm not sure that is the case with the present format.



If it hasn't dawned on supporters by now it probably never will but the reality is there has yet to be a winner from below 3rd (and even that was a one-off (from 13 finals) attributable as much to the antics of one Wigan player as it was to Bradford busting the salary cap and bringing in a ringer in order to win it.



It has looked like a two horse race all season, still does. The only potential fly in that ointment remains the ridiculous placing of the Challenge Cup in the season. It's about as predictable an outcome as you will find in sport (outside of wrestling, cricket and snooker obviously) but there's always a chance of a genuine upset to cling onto even if deep down you know it's not going to happen.

I tell you this. If Leeds make the CCF and somehow finish 4th and have a reasonable run in the play offs. Some people are going to have a REALLY hard time with Ouzo and G1.

Where is Ouzo, in whichever guise he's currently adopting? G1 has written off this season (and this coach) just as much as the rest hasn't he?

That's the impression I've had anyway (and he'd be right to do so) and in anycase reaching the CC Final would be no great shakes given the draw, it's what Leeds tend to do.

He's been in Greece oddly enough. And G1 may have written the team, the coach and the season off. But if he's proved wrong he'll be back harangueing those whom dare to praise the team after having done the same. It's what he tends to do.

Still trying to re-float their economy? I seriously think that country would go bust without his and M's frequent visits.

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Such hypocrisy would deserve to be highlighted although I suspect the chances are (unlike me) pretty slim this year.

I agree that there isn't quite enough weighting towards the top team now. I wouldn't mind that being tweaked. In my ideal world I would say that the weighting should be such that you feel a team coming from outside the top 2 has such a lot to do that you'd feel they had earned their title. At the moment I think the only reason it's a herculean task is that they evidently weren't as good as teams above them, who therefore beat them. If teams were closer together in quality and the top 8 was very much bunched up I think it would be very possible.




Are you suggesting that 13 or 14 years is long enough for an average RL fan to learn anything? 5.05712890625:5