I agree. By rights, they shouldn't have been playing today and gone down. If you finish 4th in the middle 8's, with the Super 8's above you, you've finished 12th.

If you want some help with maths, I'd recommend working out how many minutes there are in eighty.

Not denying the game was electric.

But, the concept is wrong. To finish above the bottom placed club after 23 rounds, and then be relegated, it's a joke.

That's like saying if Saints and Hull had got through to the Grand Final it would be a joke because they finished below Wire and Wigan in the table.

To finish above everybody after 23 rounds and not be Champions is a joke

They are the rules , everybody knows them , simple as

I agree with that.

Yes they are the rules, doesn't make them good or right.

Makes perfect sense. The league does not finish after 23 rounds.
It's like saying we were top after the first game of the season ie we should be crowned champions.

Everyone knows how it starts and finishes. The league is an uneven structure anyway so a playoff makes it no more or less fair.

So you relegate the 4th placed team in the middle 8's and promote the team who finished below them? I think there is a flaw in your plan

The middle 8's system is fine. The issue with the game is not the structure. It has never been the structure.

Its the number of people playing it and the amount of money coming into the game.

The new structure needs tweaking in my opinion.
The million pound game is a marketing joke. Taking no consideration into the livelihoods of anybody involved.
Yes the games are exciting but absolutely rotten to have all that at stake in the one game.

If we must stick to the structure then the bottom 3 just get relegated to the championship without all the fuss.
The top championship side could possibly be rewarded with a starter 2 points and the bottom SL club could be punished starting on minus 2.

YES I can go with that

Sorry, yes, I thought I had it all sorted, but just before the end it all went badly wrong. Kinda the theme of the day.

The big problem is this....

It was always going to go down to the wire. A draw after full time then. Golden point is the issue. In reality, in a game this tight the team that was relegated really was down to the toss of a coin. If we'd won it, we receive it, drive up the field and drop the goal. Yes, Salford still had to actually do it, but the coin toss put everything in their favour.

A vital game like this should never have been allowed to be decided by the stupid golden point rule. Football realised this, that's why they got rid.