Seriously though, as a Leeds fan I have repeatedly heard people say stuff like:

'result doesn't matter anyway, we'll still win the Grand final'.

Headingley is still a decent night out and people attend to have a few beers and watch a game. But the excitement of winning or losing a close game is kind of ruined because the 8 team playoff system makes it too easy to win from 5th or 4th or 3rd.

I always walk away thinking 'that was fun but the result doesn't really matter'.

Spot on. Also as a neutral (unfortunately) watching te first round of the play-offs since we changed it to the top 8 as been almost torture. The games between 5-8 are usually of a poor standard. 1-4 is completely pointless as both teams don't really have anything to play for. Crowds are usually low for this as fan know they will probably see the same teams playing each other again two week later for the actual shot at th GF.

Hudds have had a great season, finished top, they could even win their opening play off game, but still not make the grand final as they could then Lose the semi.

Every game should matter in the play-offs. Playing for a week off does not get fans excited.

158 pages of sweet f.a. just to emphasise that SL was better with a top 5 play off.
Time to move on, especially as it's all about to change.

Happy to concede with games to go. If you check you will see the donation 'From RLB' St. Gemma's JustGiving page.

You going to match it then?

Interesting you should say that. I was going to wait until the end of the regular season to provide a final regular season ladder by number of posts of those who find this SL attendance thread extremely irritating, tedious and distasteful to the image of the game. Yet they cannot prevent themselves from contributing sweet f.a. to it themselves, if only to emphasise they are extremely irritated and find it tedious and distasteful. Perhaps it's time for them to move on?

Congratulations on your current Top 4 placement, despite the fact you were never going to compete with the consistent week in week out commitment of the impressive Smokey for the LLS. His only genuine challenger was The Printer until a mid-season collapse saw him lose all motivation in his quest to discredit the weekly SL attendance figures this season.

A huge thanks to Speccy for his entertainment value. His outbursts were so amusing that he felt compelled to create his very own thread calling for several bans and the removal of moderators/admins!



[uSuper-Irritated Ladder[/u
Smokey TA - 174
JonB95 - 89
The Printer - 67
Wrencat1873 - 25
Hessle Roader - 24
Talent Spotter - 14
Farsley Steve - 14
Code13 - 13
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Him - 12
Wadski - 11
Seth - 9
Speccy - 7
GansonTheClown - 6
Maximus Decimus - 5 (relegated back to TotalRL.com forums)

A very worthy cause and that's all that truly matters.

It was always unlikely that 2011 SL attendances would be over 5% higher than in 2013 due to the poor Crusaders numbers and St Helens poor home attendances whilst domiciled in Widnes that season. The fact that 2013 SL attendances are still lower than they were in 2011 remains a cause for concern given that particular context.

A very gracious act. Thank you.

Ill pm when done.

you forgot to include yourself.

I'm not irritated by this thread.

Calm down... you've won the LLS

You’re lying. Spreadsheet attention whore is very irritated by his spreadsheet not proving his agenda.

Wasn't this game last year Wigan's 'Big one' game so you are never going to get the same attendance the year after especially a week after Wembley with an under 19 team