well your slump wont start next week as we, fc are in ours already!

Did i miss something, when were the team finishing top crowned champs during the SL era?

1996 & 1997

My comment about people recognising "champions" as being the table toppers refers more to non RL fans - since the accusation often levelled at Huddersfield is that it's a soccer town

(The lack of P&R is also attacked because non RL fans apparently don't understand it, as does the general playoff at times)

As it stands the champions are the Grand Final winners, but I think that's also devalued winning the league which is a Herculean task in itself and should be recognised as something to win in its own right

It is a herculean task when all the teams know that finishing top means being 'champions'.

as it stands that is not the case, and teams who really have a chance of winnig the comp will aim to peak during the play-offs.

Exactly.

The only way that winning the league has been devalued is not by what the league leaders are awarded, but in that it's less of a competition that it would be if that was the ultimate prize.

Hey, whatever. But I believe my assesment of the situation will be backed up by the results in october.

Looks like more easy pickings for huddersfield. I could quite easily see them finishing top and then failing to make the grand final.

I don't get this continued idea that non RL fans won't get that the league leaders are not recognised as the main champions. Why? You only have to look at England biggest sport of football, in the leagues below the premiership they have playoffs, and on quite a few occasions a team who finished 5th/6th and up to 10 points lower than 3rd have won promotion. In the Premiership teams finish 3rd and 4th and enter a 'Champions' League.

Playoffs are used in globally massive American sports......why is it SL Playoffs apparently confuse the rest of the world and embarrass the sport if a lower ranked team actually win it?

Well apparently no one can understand why we don't have automatic P&R so I was following the same logic...

Whatever else happens ill be ecstatic if the Giants lift the League Leaders shield!

It's looking promising for you this year, and to be fair you're playing some quality Rugby. If you can get through the season and avoid the dreaded 'slump' it will be a massive step forward for you as a club, and should get the public of Huddersfield coming back in droves. Good luck with that, though I hope we cause a mini-slump when we visit!

Well that's one trophy gone for huddersfield, just another to go.

BANG!!!!!





Yep, that's the sound of Huddersfields bubble bursting

Well, you cant rock up at Warrington in the quarters of the cup and put in such an inept performance for the first twenty minutes against a side you know will try and blow you a way in that period.

Hudds. got exactly what they deserved.Will be very interesting to see the response now on the back of this.

I think it was a stat on Sky that said Wire are the most dangerous team in the first 20 minutes of the game, that was definitely the case today.