I'm a leeds fan and we faced relegation and financial difficulties in 1996 and relegation this year.

My point exactly. Extra time, not golden point. They DID complain when football used golden point, that why they abandoned the idea.

like what happend to Cas you mean under the old system?!?

There hasn't been any team promted via the Football League play-offs through golden goal.

The reason golden goal was abandoned was because it simply encouraged teams to play defensively and play for penalties. The flat 30 min extra time period encourages more open play.

I seem to recall Widnes getting relegated after finishing above Catalan.

Could you please explain to me how being relegated via the MPG is worse for livelihoods than being relegated for finishing bottom?

Or are you advocating a return to no relegation or promotion?

He might be PeaCOCK or COCKayne after their rants this week, even though the former thought the new system was a good idea in 2014.

JAMIE PEACOCK OPINION TIMELINE

rl2014 - Peacock backs new structure, Relegation is good.rl

rl2015 - Peacock gives new format the thumbs up! Lovely Jubbly, Yummy Yummy, fantastic, my team finished top, I'm alright Jack!rl

rl2016 - Peacock in "Oh s**t! New structure is wrong and relegation has no place in RL because it now involves me" whinge, whine, moan!rl

No I'm for promotion and relegation. Always have been, always will be.
I'm not for making 1 game the game that can ruin a team.
Through the mini league system yes I'm all for it.

I'd of seen a system where we (Giants) got relegated and Leigh auto promoted but it won't happen hence the small tweeking scrapping the MPG

Next year has the potential to be very good.

Warrington and Wigan will be up there, as will saints as they always are. Hull have the squad and will take good experience from this year to push on. You would expect definitely Leeds and most likely Huddersfield to reverse their blip of this season and be back challenging, Catalan would be up there now if they didn't only play for half a season, and cas have established themselves as a top 6 team now and can trouble anybody when they want to.

Genuinely 7/8 teams who should all be challenging for the top 4 next year.

Hull KR and Salford, both had 31 games to avoid relegation, not one, Hull KR "cock"ed it up and therefore go down.

I agree apart from Hudds. I think their issues may run deeper and last a bit longer but will just make the top 8.

Wakey are still on very shakey ground with Chester in charge (trust me).

Leigh might surprise everyone and make the top 8 but probably won't bother the top 4.

Salford are still living on borrowed time. Money talks to bring in players, but who wants to play in front of empty stands?

I'm not saying they didn't deserve to go down. I dig only at the marketed game that is the million pound game.
Yes we all know the score but the million pound game will not last long... It's a ploy to entertain but it'll do more damage than not. As soon as somebody has a breakdown they'll scrap it.

I posted days ago that the MPG was a device created to help a Champ side get promoted. The RFL didn't have foresight that Leigh (or another team) might get auto promoted leaving 2 SL sides in the MPG. Only 4 sides have competed in the MPG and therefore only they can comment on what a ludicrous concept it is.

Promotion and Relegation are needed, but not this self imposed circus created by the RFL.