Hudds fans can start shooting off at the mouth IF Fartown actually win a pot. The Giants are still a way off that imo. Pretty daft thread this. No wonder other clubs take the mick out of us.

And exactly how are Wigan in a slump? Top of the league with key players missing to boot. Geez.

Did anyone actually really read the original post ?

i clearly stated it was a tongue in cheek bit of fun because its Wigan who have lost 2 in a row - if it were us then everyone would have been saying the slump has started ----Jeez, humour has obviously bypassed this forum

Come on Daz, no one actually reads posts, they see the thread title, make a half d ill informed opinion then state it as gospel

I'm glad they're not falling down the league, pity we have you in the cup, i like Hudds and their fans, keep up the good work.

Does anyone still care who wins the regular season? Whenever Wigan do it, it's derided as the 'hubcap', so I presume not.

I suppose I'm very old-fashioned but I still believe that the true League Champs are the team that finishes 1st after the regular season. I feel the playoffs & Grand Final are just a sham cooked up by TV. If you don't finish top of the heap after the regular rounds then you're not true Champions imo.

But unfortunately the game has completely changed now.

For the vast majority of its history RL has had no automatic P+R and the champions have been crowned by the winner of a play-off/Grand Final.

I know. I meant SL era.

Odly I think it would be more beneficial to the Giants to win the League Leaders Shield in terms of raising the profile - more people understand the concept of the champions being the table toppers.

(I fid it funny that on one hand we say the Playoffs are a traditional way of crowning champions then saying we have to have P&R because "thats what people understand" despite it not being part of RL history. But thats another thread)

Not old-fashioned, just deluded



What is this based on? I don't think you're giving Super League supporters enough credit. I'd say the majority understand how the sport they follow works.

You can't justify calling the winners of the regular league 'champions', because you're only champions if you win the competition as it's set up. As a Wigan fan, I've never questioned that.

It's legitimate though for people to question how the competition should be set up so as to decide 'champion' status. Finishing the league with a knockout with 8 sides in it is too far me. We already have a cup competition. The system has its merits and I was comfortable with top five.