Rugby league is a sport of blowout scores. The nature of the game makes it this way. You can't stick your whole team in the penalty box or have 15 men rucking up the pitch.

As someone else mentioned the top Premier league teams tend to smash the lower ones 4 or 5-0 unless the wee teams really get up. So we may as well get used to it. Or do one of the only things that might slightly help and have the team who concedes get the ball from the kick off but I don't see why we should do that.

The worry in my view is not the number of "blow-out" scores in the regular season (you're going to get those) but the number of blow-outs in the play-offs, between the so-called "elite" clubs.

In last season's play-offs, we saw four of the nine games end in a winning margin in excess of 30 points, including two "nillings". That's the worry.

The top teams beating the dregs of the league doesn't bother me, but when you have the fourth best team in the league losing 47-0, 6th beating 7th by 50 points, 5th beating 8th by 32 points and 2nd beating 6th 44-0, then you have a problem IMO.

Let's be honest, last year's play-offs were pretty forgettable apart from one great semi-final at the Halliwell Jones.

I agree 100%...all the game needs is 10 teams in the elite averaging 50,000 fans each weekend and a sprinkling of pixie dust on those clubs outside the top leage to ensure that their fans don't drift away as they have done for 100 years when the team they follow drops out of the elite

Same as happens now then, but with less teams falling away.

At least things have improved. Before Super League we had a Two Tier competition. The Wigan were in the top tier, the rest were in the lower tier.

i've tried to forget about that one.