Turned this rubbish off, play offs meant to be the pinnacle of the game and it's just rubbish.

Still got it on in the background, but not interested now... We really should have a 6 team play off instead.

Week one

3 vs 6
4 vs 5

Week two

1 vs 4/5
2 vs 3/6

Week three

Grand final

Short, sharp and no second chances. Momentum is key and it's all sudden death which should make sure fans turn up to games like tonight.

Non contests played in a mostly empty stadium. Welcome to the play offs!

Yeah this kind of scoreline would never happen in the NRL playoffs

Brisbane 40-10 NZ Warriors
Manly 42-8 North Queensland

The crowd was very poor though, even taking no away support into account.

Thanks for that spoiler

Yeah, cos if I wanted to avoid a Rugby League score I'd log onto a Rugby League forum. That wouldn't make me a dumbass at all.

The problem is this is a non game, Wigan get a week off (woopee) while Catalans get another chance. We could have an embarrssing situation of this game been played again in two week. The play offs NEED to be reduced.

I'm reading about the Wigan v Catalans match. Why would I expect to see a comment about the NRL?

I would have top five only in the play offs.

Hub cap winner straight to GF, this would also have the bonus effect of stopping teams resting players for certain games throughout the season ala Wire at London.

Then 2v5 and 3v4 play week one, the winners of these two games meet the week after for the right to play in the final.

The play offs as they are now are a bit of a farce to say the least.

They were 2011 scores!

At least in the NRL have a crossover of teams in week 3 eliminating the possibility of a repeat fixtures from week 1. Oh, and they didn't adopt that club call thing either... I wonder why.

In that case I take it back and apologise and am happy that I can now watch the game

Thread drift. That, and the fact that people talk about the "game" in all manner of instances. If ever I didn't want to know a Rugby League score I definately wouldn't log onto a Rugby League site.

Catalan were awful. I think Sky has been unlucky this year in their featured games. The ones they have missed have included from us beating Saints and Hull Kr by a last second drop goal, and a loss to Wire on a seventh tackle. Or wigan overturning a record deficit at Hull KR. Of all the play-offs, Wire and Saints is the game, and I just think Sky have ended up with duff games, with better games going on away from the cameras.

it hasn't been a memorable season. Not sure of the reason. Maybe Leeds changed the flavour last year, when they showed that league position matters less than momentum.