The obvious answer , well to me anyway , is to turn it into a straight knock out competition . Do away with the second bite of the cherry , if a team looses they are out no one gets to pick who they get to play just put the top 8 in a hat draw them out and play all games at neutral grounds .
But then again this would never happen as it would be to straight forward so no chance of anything like it ever happening Red Hall just have to make it more complicated than it needs to be to justify there inflated salary's .

Never mind that, it's the fans who seem to have an unfathomable dislike of RL that I can't get my head round.

Oh dear....another one who thinks because I openly state that RL could learn a lot from Union....I am now some sort of anti-league troll..... ......
Here...pour this petrol on your pre-conceptions of me....

2013 Northern Hemisphere tours of SA/AU/NZ head to head with the total attendance of the RLWC 2013.......just because I know which will get the bigger attendance doesn't mean I applaud it......it simply means I UNDERSTAND IT!

The 1 Billion NRL TV deal is massive......but it is for 1,400+ games........the 6 Nations gets 60% of that revenue for 75 games.....do facts like this bother you? I don't like them either, but putting stickers on lorries isn't going to change it soon......

Don't mistake realism for anti-league sentiment.....90%+ of my post on here are about how to grow the game in the UK

Keep the play offs to eight teams.
1v8, , 3v6, 2v7, 4v5

Winners of match one play winners of match two
Winner of match three plays winners of match four
Highest finishing team of the regular season plays at home

The winners of the matches play in the GF. In theory the best two teams of the season should meet at OT, as the decks are in their favour. If they lose tough they're out it's knock out stuff.

We used to have this in the old days of premiership play of at the end of season it seemed to work then so why not now you can still call it the grand final