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"The Golden Generation finally has its Golden Fleece! They have Wembley Cup Final winners medals to add to their collection."
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| 11 of 14 Grand Finals have been contested between 1st and 2nd place, if people think final league position isn't important then they're dumb. It was eventually going to happen that a team as low as 5th would win it, that's just how sport goes. But it took 14 years and a few variables
- Leeds disruptive off season and injury plagued start, giving them a false league position.
- Wigan running out of steam after the Cup Final.
- Warrington suffering from not being involved in enough close tight games during the regular season.
It will probably be another 14 years before another team wins from 5th-8th place, maybe longer. Just look at the performances of Catalans, Hull FC, and KR last year's 6th-8th teams in the playoffs, all dumped out quite convincingly.
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| Quote: dixie "Last year was the exception not the rule. Since the Grand final started only 3 out of the 18 finalists have been from outside of the top 2 that season and 2 of these were from 3rd place. And of the 2 of the 3 that won it from outside top 2 i'd say both had bad injuries to key players at start of season that disrupted the teams final league ladder position.'"
There have been 14 Grand Finals, so either that's a typo or you've forgotten about 1998-2001! 28 GFists.
Also, 4 have been from outside the top 2. Wigan (2003), Bulls (2005 & champs), Saints (2011) all third and Leeds (2011 & champs) fifth.
4 out of 28. Does it matter where you finish in the league? 24 out of 28 in the top two says yes!
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| Quote: ThePrinter "11 of 14 Grand Finals have been contested between 1st and 2nd place, if people think final league position isn't important then they're dumb. It was eventually going to happen that a team as low as 5th would win it, that's just how sport goes. But it took 14 years and a few variables
- Leeds disruptive off season and injury plagued start, giving them a false league position.
- Wigan running out of steam after the Cup Final.
- Warrington suffering from not being involved in enough close tight games during the regular season.
It will probably be another 14 years before another team wins from 5th-8th place, maybe longer. Just look at the performances of Catalans, Hull FC, and KR last year's 6th-8th teams in the playoffs, all dumped out quite convincingly.'"
Here's the thing though, it's either that the playoffs are a formality and 1v2 will be the norm GF, or the weekly rounds have less meaning because it's all about the POs and GF. It can't be both as the RFL and Sky seem to want.
If 6th, 7th or 8th won a GF it would make a mockery of the league in my opinion (and arguably Leeds already did that to some degree going by the number of comments we've seen regarding how much (or rather little) the rounds mean). At the very least it would render the term "Champions" ridiculous (again, Leeds have arguably done this to some degree by being 5th place champions) and would create a schism between what are supposedly two parts of one competition. It would be a travesty if that result came up, so why have a structure which allows it as a possibility. If the response to that is "Ah but it will never happen" then why have that structure in the first place?
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| Quote: TheElectricGlidingWarrior "Here's the thing though, it's either that the playoffs are a formality and 1v2 will be the norm GF, or the weekly rounds have less meaning because it's all about the POs and GF. It can't be both as the RFL and Sky seem to want.
If 6th, 7th or 8th won a GF it would make a mockery of the league in my opinion (and arguably Leeds already did that to some degree going by the number of comments we've seen regarding how much (or rather little) the rounds mean). At the very least it would render the term "Champions" ridiculous (again, Leeds have arguably done this to some degree by being 5th place champions) and would create a schism between what are supposedly two parts of one competition. It would be a travesty if that result came up, so why have a structure which allows it as a possibility. If the response to that is "Ah but it will never happen" then why have that structure in the first place?'"
Why if the teams in 1st-8th all finished on the same points
I think the play-offs being this size only work if the league is competitive. At the moment, some pretty mediocre teams are getting into play-off places.
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"The Golden Generation finally has its Golden Fleece! They have Wembley Cup Final winners medals to add to their collection."
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| Well the point of making it a 8 team playoff i believe was to give teams around that 7th-11th place something to fight for come the season end otherwise the last 6-7 games for those teams seemed pretty meaningless.
When it was a 5 team playoff people complained about seeing the same teams every year there (Saints, Leeds, Wigan, Bradford) and wanted some of the other teams to be able to taste playoff competition to help them other teams grow and close the gap to what was at the time 'The Big 4'.
It's like most things in RL, people moaned about the Eng/France mid season game and asked for a better challenge along the lines of an Exiles game......it was introduced and then people just complained about that too.
At the end of the day.....Some RL fans are just never satisfied.
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| That playoff system, as a concept is absolutly fine.
Sure you can back and forth about should it be top 5? should it be top 6? or whatever, but the concept itself is brilliant.
How many other showpiece events compare to the grand final in domestic sport in this country?
Maybe the FA cup. But that's it.
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44920_1327005775.png [quote="Harrigan":1th0f7ap]Wigan are the most structured team I have ever seen in this country.[/quote:1th0f7ap]
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| Quote: Wellsy13 "Why if the teams in 1st-8th all finished on the same points
We call the whole thing a draw and play tiddly winks instead.
Games that should be surrounded in excitement just aren't anymore. Take Leeds vs Warrington, iirc both coaches said before the game they weren't overly bothered if they were to lose the fixture this time in the season. That should have been a massive game between two sides competing for the title. A lot of people were bagging shaun wane for his team selection against widnes and lost the tie, but in all honestly it doesn't really matter. wigan will make the top 8. why worry about losing the odd game here and there even if it used to be a big tie, aslong as you place around the top of the table. Hate the system, the season is filled with meaningless games.
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44920_1327005775.png [quote="Harrigan":1th0f7ap]Wigan are the most structured team I have ever seen in this country.[/quote:1th0f7ap]
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| Quote: vbfg "If it's 2 v 3 then the winner is playing for a chance to compete for a spot in the GF. The shorter route to the final, with the ability to lose and still have a chance against the bottom teams, is your reward. And those bottom teams have nothing but sudden death games. No second chances down there.
If it was 2 v 5 then what happens if 5 wins? Is it the same as when 2 wins?
5 should have to do it tough to be in a position of challenging 2. It should be the story of their heroics, not 2's one off failure.'"
Ah ok, I see what you mean there.
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| Quote: Wellsy13 "
There have been 14 Grand Finals, so either that's a typo or you've forgotten about 1998-2001! 28 GFists.
Also, 4 have been from outside the top 2. Wigan (2003), Bulls (2005 & champs), Saints (2011) all third and Leeds (2011 & champs) fifth.
4 out of 28. Does it matter where you finish in the league? 24 out of 28 in the top two says yes!'"
Apologies it was typo, and completely forgot about Saints last year.
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| Its the top 8 that is ruining it. In the top 5/6 format only twice did teams outside the top 2 make the GF. We've only had a top 8 for 3 years and alreadys its been done twice.
I think finishing in the top 2 is less likely to produce the Grand Finalists than ever as their is hardly anything between the top 6.
The commentary on Sky is shocking in demeaning the weekly rounds. I can't remember who, may have been Paul Cullen, said that week that it wasn't surprising that Liam Hood came on for the last 15 minutes in such a big game when he has little experinace because Hood getting 15 minutes was more important than winning the game!!!!!!!!!
.The playoffs are no doubt reducing the weekly intensity of the competition. Why, for example, would Wire players go through the pain barrier to win weekly round games when no matter how many they win, they still won't be delivered a Championship. After what happened to them last year I don't blame them. If you finish top you should get 2 cracks at making the GF, not 1. Look at Leeds in 2004, when they finished top for first time in years, they got a 2nd bite, after losing to Bradford, and ended up winning it.
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| It could also be noted that in the last 3 years there are different teams pushing for the top game now as well, in all seriousness there are 4, 5 teams that could rightly claim to be title contenders
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| To me, its that close between Hudds, Leeds, Wire, Wigan, Saints, Catalan, and maybe Hull, that if you do manage to finish top, above all the other great teams over an 8 month period of fixtures you deserve to be Champions more than ever.
We all know, in a knockout 80 min game they can all beat each other on their day, its who can manage to be top at the end of the full season that is more impressive.
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