It should only come into play when both teams are on equal points, Hull KR won more games and had better attack/defence points than Salford.
If Hull KR was 4 points better than Salford then the concept is a total farce because the results of the the qualifying 8's would have been negated..

That is a good call but, "we" do like a gimmick in RL.

Come back and give us your opinion on it when your teams involved aye. Good for you Hull are having a purple patch but it won't always be that way and when you battle all season to gain a creditable ninth spot only narrowly missing 5th or 6th spot only to be plunged into a relegation battle I do hope you enjoy the drama. I'm certain both myself and many thousands of HKR fans will.

Anyways during the close season why don't you quench your blood lust with a bit of badger baiting or whatever cruelty you especially enjoy. Drama is a CCup semi final win or a last gasp try to win the cup against the odds it's not the proposed demise of your club and all the hard work and jobs that go with it

fully agree and I'm a Salford fan.

For those who follow such as Leeds, Wigan and Saints, it's easy not to understand that many clubs are there by grace of some owner. If s/he walks away because of losing such as the MPG and its funding, decades of support becomes irrelevant. Many clubs' fans are aware that RL is a poor monetary investment.
Those thoughts were very much in my mind for most of that game.

So for me it was not a spectacle or entertainment but traumatic. I do not want to experience it agains.

Where did you finish after the 7 middle 8 games ?

Would getting rid of the MPG really save fans the ordeal though? Obviously Hull KR fans would have had it a lot easier, but surely Salford fans would have had pretty much the same feelings going to sudden death games v Fev then London in rounds 5 and 6 of the middle 8s, knowing they would almost certainly be relegated if they lost either, barring big upsets elsewhere. As it happened, when they lost to London they knew they would have a second chance.

"Where did you finish after the 7 middle 8 games?"
IN THE PUB

This system isn't perfect, but none is.

Overall, I think it is worth sticking with.

Most of the alternatives suggested have been tried and binned for reasons that would still apply if they were brought back.

The MPG is a horrible way to be relegated, but is there a good way? And it isn't the underlying reason we went down.

The problem there is more with relegation rather than how it is 'achieved'. The only way that can be avoided is by denying a club like Leigh an opportunity to play in SL. Or now a club like us having a shot at getting back up.

A couple of great posts MR. Whilst it's not nice to down, by whatever means, everyone deserves the opportunity to come up, as I subscribe to the view that we are one game

Would you see the bottom of league 1 relegated and the top amateur side promoted

Now theres a good point

Automatic p&r kills the game

It's terrible for all the clubs involved, including those chasing promotion

We had a decade of comparative growth and stability and an improvement in the overall competition

Now it's just a race to avoid bottom & that just benefits the top 4 clubs, just like it has since 1973

P&r failed for decades and it's failing again

No, the NCL is amateur, League 1 is semi-pro/pro. Plus half the clubs in League 1 are there with a view to expanding the game, so it makes sense that we need to artificially keep them in there for now when in reality the best NCL clubs are better on the field. Besides that, Siddall, Leigh Miners etc don't have the facilities to deal with crowds they would potentially get in League 1.