Looking like a big win for Widnes as well

Yorkshire are yet to win a playoff game this year, can't complain with that.

castleford v huddersfield grand final then to make up for it

Some people have short memories. Wigan had a lot of medium term injuries and so bringing in the young lads and fringe players was the only option, the same goes for a number of other teams. If you want to see only the strongest teams we need a season with only one game each, and even that may be a bit long for some.
One of the issues of the first past the post system is that it becomes attritional with the richest/biggest/luckiest squads doing best. The system, as it stands, demands the use of the squad far more. Finishing first is not the major prize so criticising the resting of players is irrelevant, it is a bit like the gentlemen, of old, moaning that the players went out and practised.

Thank god that round 2 offered some competitive matches that actually provided excitement and might appeal to someone who isn't an RL fan..... what a joke round 1 was.