Agreed

The MPG is a wholly unpleasant experience when your SL future (and maybe more) is at stake.
It is difficult for any club and their supporters and to deliberately put so much on to 1 game, whilst great for TV, it is not ideal for either club.

IMO, there has to be a better pathway into the top flight.

The current structure may prove ok in the long haul but, at the moment it seems far from ideal and to have everything hanging on 80 minutes of rugby , whilst very dramatic, it's really not what we should be doing every season.

After 21 regular season games, plus a further 7 middle 8 games, perhaps the top 4 in the middle 8 should go into SL, without the MPG.
28 games should be enough to work out who "deserves" a spot in Super League.

Of course, it could still come down to the last game but, the added pressure would happen only onece every few years and not every season.

Leigh have signed quite a few players, they're really going for it.

I hope they are inside the cap

I seem to remember quite fuss was made from them this time last year

I agree,they have stayed under the radar this season,gone about it correctly.

Boo, hiss, against the spirit of the game, blah, blah, blah.

It worked for Wakefield last year, Leigh look to have learnt from that. I think there needs to be a rule like you need to have played at least 4 games senior, reserve or acadamy grade in rounds 1-23 to qualify to play in the 8's. Exemptions granted for the odd player returning from long term injury.

Leigh will have full cap next year so their new signings could just be back loaded.

Just you wait until Leigh get promoted. Every week it's gonna be ''we'll do you, then you, then you guys, then we'll win the grand final, then we'll do you''.

I feel sorry for the handful of Leigh players that have worked hard all season, but will now miss out on the opportunity to test themselves in the four games against SL opposition.

TBF Salford have signed a few too.

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I predict the majority missing out will be the ones who have shown there ambition for SL (2019 at the earliest) and signed for Championship 1 side Toronto. I don't expect to see Liam Kay play for Leigh again

Leigh and London are the two heavyweight teams in the Championship.

London has only one former NRL star in its ranks, Jamie Soward, while Leigh has many. Leigh has virtually an NRL reject pack of forwards, plus Michael Higham from Super League. However London forged its way into second spot without the help of maestro Soward. So London now has a classy x-factor in Soward added into its mix.

The weakest of the Super League teams is probably Hull KR, though Huddersfield has been more often bad than good this year. Either of those teams is probably vulnerable to a defeat at the hands of Leigh or London. Still Leigh or London will probably have to beat all of their rival Championship teams to qualify for the Million Pound Game. But it can be done.

How did Catalans get on today?