I hope they do. That would be really funny.

Maybe Wigan should arrange to play the Bulldogs in a "True Champions" match.

No, that would prove nothing.

They would doubtless play each other home and away 26 times to determine the true world champions.

Would graham bite tomkins

I could regurgitate the exact same post as last year if I could be bothered looking for it but basically it said.

This is the pay-off system that we have to contend with. If it were different then clubs and coaches would approach it differently. Getting your team to peak at the very end of the season is what every coach is aiming for (Huddersfield excluded who seem to do the inverse).

If it were first past the post coaches would aim to have a consistent approach to each game instead of saving their best performances for the last few games of the season.

I just remembered this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctkuUzJMXKA

I just remembered this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctkuUzJMXKA

Of course..

The fact of the matter is, if other teams (or their fans) aren't happy about us being crowned Champions, then they (Wigan and Wire in particular) should have trained longer, played smarter and tried harder to beat us. If they really were the better teams, they shouldn't have found that too difficult should they?

18-1 was the record of the 2007/8 Patriots in the NFL, that 1 loss was in the Superbowl meaning they won nothing.
New York Giants record was 10-6, they didn't even win their division but they won the Superbowl. Are you seriously going to tell me that they aren't the "true" champions because a team had a better record? They and all the other teams know the system before the start of the season and they played it and were champions, just like us. Football and cricket are pretty much the only sports that decide their champions by first past the post and even in football you get playoffs for promotion slots.

Oh it's this tiresome debate again. There's nothing to even debate over. Everyone knows how the play off system works, we won it from 5th, again, Wigan didn't win it, again, and the league can thank us for proving the play off system is a winner and it works.

Then I was all, like "OMG, where have you been?"

Then I was all "LOLZ."

Quite a serious post that from me wasn't it? Unusual. The word tiresome was, don't think I've ever said that out loud in my life. Does that happen to you though? You use words you never use in real life on the net? Alot of the words I type I sometimes wonder how I know their meaning.