yes man to hettherington


which one we dont know lol

To be honest the Super 8s are boring as only the Top 4 a competition. Should be top of the league Champions then a Superleague Trophy for the Top 8? Why put Widnes v Hull on TV when obviously Widnes season is over?

If we are honest widnes probably thought they had nothing to play for at the start of the season, bleating about it now won't help. After 6 games if you'd asked him I bet his view would be completely different!

It's fine. When the RFL succeed in completely levelling out the competition every team will finish on the same points anyway.

That is James Rule for you. Always something to play for at the beginning of the season, and that is to avoid the bottom 4.So I disagree with you on that point.

Bloody drama queens.

100% agree

I dunno if this has already been said but there's 12 pages to go through and I don't have the time.

A change I'd like to see is for all 3 groups to have their season points carried over. At the moment you have SL clubs in the bottom 4 of the division realising that maybe top 8 is beyond them so shutting up shop, waiting for the qualifiers to regroup. Be a different story if there was a more realistic chance of those teams getting relegated.
This will also help improve the championship in a number of ways.
1) Championship clubs are more likely to get into SL and so would benefit from increased funding as well as getting tv exposure and larger crowds.
2) the increase in monies for championship clubs would better allow them to hold on to their best juniors and improve their own training facilities. It could even see more championship clubs being able to afford to go full time.
3) more full time clubs means we can increase the player pool in this country and that more than the nonsense about quotas will help reduce our reliance on overseas players and help British teams be more competitive on the international stage.

The only real downside I can see is that some clubs might be forced to make knee jerk reactions to sign players or sack coaches

Given that the gap between the SL clubs and the Championship clubs after the regular season was almost more than the points available in the 7 games , what would be the point , Leigh had 43 points so would have been already promoted

But if there was a chance of automatic promotion and relegation would Leigh have taken as many points? Wouldn't other teams in the league have pushed harder for the win rather than look at the first 23 rounds as a glorified pre-season? And would Leeds and Huddersfield have fought harder if there was a greater chance of them going down?

And why should teams who've played consistently well over the season not be rewarded while teams who've spent the year acting like they've never been in a game before be rewarded?