Wire have done Hudds 3 times this year.
Leeds was 1-1 in league, with Wire win 1 pointer.
Wigan was win & draw.

No brainier really with home advantage.

Club Call is a great idea. It provides another reason for ending up as high in the table as possible. Its advantage to the Caller is not so much being able to choose the perceived weaker option as to be able choose which of the other two are most likely to knock eight bells out of each other and be that much more knackered for the final.

Also this year if we'd gone with the conventional format we'd have had the same two games in the semis that we had in the qualifiers virtually back to back. Boring.

Its garbage. Completely agree with Smith about it.

Why is it garbage?

So you don't think that the coach of the team that has been "club called" will even mention it and that it wouldn't be used to help get that extra ounce of sweat from the players ???

I don't really think it is very good sportsmanship, however it is great as a promotion tool and has had people talking for weeks.

Had the Championship clubs elected to use it this year it would have been brilliant as a promotion for their play off series- Featherstone would have picked underdogs Batley, who then obviously went on to beat them in golden point extra time. What was one of the biggest shocks of the year instead seems to have gone unnoticed.