Quote martinwildbull="martinwildbull"I agree with you FA and did so last season that to get automatic promotion is an option that requires a Championship team to win 5 games. It doesnt matter what else happens, 10 points pretty much guarantees you a place. I do not agree with you that the RFL have tried to conceal this hidden route to promotion, as it clearly shows that a Championship team, having beaten two SL sides, deserves a go at more of them and validates the process, much more than the MPG.
What I and clearly other posters find difficult to understand about your position is that you seem to be saying that it is easier to gain promotion by beating two SL sides than by beating one in the MPG. Wakefield did not melt down in the MPG last season, they beat us. So why is it easier to get automatic promotion than it is to win the MPG?'"
IIRC my calculation was centred on the C club being able to beat ONE SL club, of its 2 home fixtures against SL clubs. It assumed no C club was likely to win an away fixture against an SL club. And unlikely to win both its home fixtures against SL clubs. As such, it could get 8 points and could finish 3rd on points difference.
Leigh have exceeded all expectations (well, mine, anyway) in beating 2 SL sides, one away, and kudos to them for that.
But from the point of view I was discussing, namely the Bulls, I figured that if by taking 1 SL scalp you could get 8 points then that was the route. What you have to take into account is that in our case assuming Leigh won the Championship and we were 2nd, then we get 2 home games against SL teams that finished 9 and 11, and away against 10 and 12. The idea was that Home to 11 (and I suppose as an alternative, although stretching a point) away at 12, were the non-delusional target games.
The problem in even thinking about getting 10 points - in my scenario - was that that involves not only beating TWO SL teams - but also winning Away at Leigh. But 8 points looking theoretically "doable".
If of course a team wins the Championship, then the Away Championship fixture is against the team that finished in C4 which is a much easier task. However for that team to get 10, still must include either winning all home games including beating 2 SL clubs, or failing that, beat one SL club home plus another one away.
Quote martinwildbull Wakefield did not melt down in the MPG last season, they beat us. '"
Your memory is playing tricks, Wakefield did melt down, just sadly didn't melt down quite close enough to the end of the season, so managed to panic-regroup and shore themselves up just enough (as it turned out), but yes I would say it is fair to say Wakey were still affected by their meltdown,and were still highly vulnerable, and that on the day we could and perhaps should have beaten them. In my view, they didn't beat us, we beat ourselves. It was there for the taking and we failed.
