Quote: jesus-is-coming "Can someone do us a favour and tell me who won the bet between smokey and will,save me going through 100 pages cheers.'"
What bet was this? You're the second person to allude to a bet between me and Smokey. We had a difference of opinion when Smokey suggested SL attendances in 2013 were on course to becoming the 2nd best attendances in the entire history of the game!
I offered him the bet that 2013 SL attendances would be lower than 2011 (despite the fact that Saints were playing all their home games in Widnes that year, and then there were those embarrassing Crusaders attendances). Smokey bottled it - he wouldn't take the bet - which was lucky for him because he would have lost. In fact, 2013 SL attendances also finished up lower than those recorded in 2010 and 2009.
Quote: jesus-is-coming "The crowd was poor last night but I think its the make up of the comp,the sooner we go back to top 5 the better'"
Agree with that. Hopefully, the poor play-off attendances during the Top 8 format era will be the evidence required to terminate it ASAP.
Interesting article from last year
rlHERErl which discusses and compares play-off attendances under each play-off format and argues for the scrapping of the Top 8 system in SL.