Absolutely bonkers. You could finish on about 8 points from 27 games, then win 3 in a row and you're in the grand final.

Yes but you'd have to win away from home at 5th,3rd and then probably 1st. Surely if a team did that they'd probably deserve it....

Why not just have a 10 month long off season, then an 8 week's playoff competition with all 14 teams in the hat?

At least if gives that team a chance but how much of a chance in reality ????

Another whitewash score tonight (still 25 minutes to go).

Huddersfield, total shiiiete!

I'll always gladly join any slagging off of the RFL.

However, your suggestion makes the regular season almost pointless, unless you make the regular title the "big prize". But then what are the playoffs for?

Yet we'll still have those nobs at sky saying ''it's been the best yet!!''

Worse, we've got the RFL who seem to actually believe it.

The sport is desperately in need of a wholesale clear out at the top. I was about to say " to get fresh thinking in ", but its not even that... simple "clear thinking" wth evidence of a strategy and basic competence in managing and marketing would be good enough.

For a nation that is 1/3 the size, then divide that again by 2 as you can evenly split NRL and AFL as being followed by half a nation based on almost geography alone.

Is this another thread of RL fans declaring they don't like RL?

what a bunch of moaning minnies

This season has been decent, we have a very competitive top 5 which is alot better than recent years

No league in any sport has anywhere in the world has a totally competitive league

and just because a team won it from 5th last season (the first time it has happened in what 14 years) suddenly none of the players/clubs give a about the regular season

I'm a Leeds fan and I'm glad we won last year....but I'd much rather win the GF from 1st or 2nd

and suddenly we have alot more Warrington and Wigan fans piping up about there dislike for the play-offs for the first time since 98 .....just as they become the top two teams in the last couple of years

Sometimes, RL fans who have an unfathonable dislike of the other code don't half come up with some utter bollox.

1. I have heard tell of these mystical freebies that sarries throw about like confetti, but have yet to track them down or see a link to an offer declaring this blatant fudging of average attendances.
2. 36,503 people paid to watch the London Broncos in their 13 "home" games in 2013 but it is your assertion that we should instead cast doubt on the validity of a RU club attracting 4,560 MORE FANS to ONE regular season game.
3. The RFL first round of 4 play-off games, featuring 2 matches where the sides were from within 15 miles of each other attracted 35,128 than this sarries game you feel the need to question.
4. 31,728 Rugby League fans paid to attend the 4 Quarter Finals of the 2012 Challenge Cup.

Why is it that some fans feel the need to try and belittle the other lot? Is it amisguided belief that by trying to poke fun at Union we will all forget the general apathy of your average RL fan in the UK. Do they mistakenly believe that by questioning the attendance and the methods to achieve it at a Union game, that the rest of us will forget the crowds that the RFL fails to attract to games that aren't included on ST's at clubs? The Exiles anyone? The Challenge Cupsemi between Hudds and London this year maybe...?

Rather than question the goings on at a club that identified, purchased and will have built a stadium inside 12 months why don't we continue to discuss ways in which the RFL can sort out this farce......because empty stadiumson TV isn't going to attract anyone! IMO that is.

Never mind that, it's the fans who seem to have an unfathomable dislike of RL that I can't get my head round.