If Wire don't beat the team that finished 11th we might as well pack it in over here

and yet......................


Don't wish for things that may possibly happen, no matter how remote it may seem.

Problem with that it isn't really the team which finished 11th is it. The team they will play will be the 2015 version not the 2014 version.

Yes, but since then they've lost their star player and bought, well, no-one much.

Saints nearly sold out,saints had first pic on seating bit annoying when saints ticket holders could buy for any Tom, dick,or Harry fans then non season ticket holders could purchase two weeks later!!?? Lass in sales said blame rfl?? Anyway kicked off..... As a rabbitohs international member she sorted sum decent seats!!! Will be plenty in red n green tbhand bunnies up for it big time!!!

Benefits of being a season ticket holder. You have to give some benefits to your loyal customer base, or what is the point in being a loyal customer.

Also there was still plenty of seats after that 2 week period. I should know I got mine after the season ticket holders.

I've seen less than 500 left in the East stand on web forums but nothing official that I can see anywhere else.

All tickets went on general sale on 10th December, so you had plenty of time. Souths had an allocation of tickets in the North Stand that were returned a couple of weeks ago, and put on general sale. If you wait until 97% of tickets have been sold, you cant really complain when the ones you want are not available!!


For info, there are just 300 tickets left now.

What are the expansion plans for the series? I'm assuming in time that they wanna make all the games competitive, maybe a 4 team mini-league of the 4 grand finalists? Dont think I've really seen anything about it?

Sweet Jesus give it time. It's not even started yet.
I doubt the plans would be to go from a 6 team series to a 4 team one though.

Personally I'd like to see the next step to be a proper 6 team series. It could run along the lines of the old top 6 playoff system and include the LLS & CC winners:

Round 1:
Game 1 - Challenge Cup winner v NRL runner up - winner to Round 2, loser out.
Game 2 - SL League Leaders v NRL League Leader - winner to Round 2, loser out.

Round 2:
Game 3 - SL GF winner v NRL GF winner - winner to Final, loser to Round 3.
Game 4 - Winner of Game 1 v winner of Game 2 - winner to Round 3, loser out.

Round 3:
Game 5 - loser of Game 3 v winner of Game 4 - winner to final, loser out.

Final:
Winner of Game 3 v winner of Game 5


6 games over 4 weeks, or I'm sure it could be done over 3 weeks with a mid-week game.

What if the teams in games 2 and 3 are the same team???

You mean if the Grand Final winner is also the League Leader?
In that case it'd go to 2nd place in the league.

The same goes for Challenge Cup winner, if they've also won the GF then the Challenge Cup winners place goes to the CC runner up.

So if, for example, this were around in 2006 when Saints won the treble then:
Saints would take the SL Grand Final winners spot.
The Challenge Cup spot would go to Huddersfield as runners up.
The League Leaders spot would go to Hull for coming 2nd in the league.

Yeah, that is what I was getting at.

And to play devils advocate even further - what if the CC runners up are the GF runners up, and finished 2nd in the SL table? Unlikely I know, but could happen, and then I think you are taking something away from the comp by then involving teams that finish 3rd and 4th IMO if you want to have any substance behind it.