with all you lot going on about being 'rewarded' for finishing top, you seem to forget that the problem is any 'reward' has to be proportional to the margin by which you finished first, which is completely unknown at season start.

It's entirely possible next year you could have Leeds & Wire win 25 games, draw twice against each other and one finishes top on PD. Any massive 'reward' for finishing 1st would then be egregiously unfair.

It also devalues the GF when you could have a team with 3 weeks rest behind them going against a side which has had to win 3 straight away games.

Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with the current system, given my additional preference for a 16 team superleague as opposed to 14.

I would, however, remove the club call and simply revert to highest v lowest in week 3.

Lets not forget, that in all this "what ifs", the RFL will only sanction a change to the play-off system if there are a lot of games for them to let Sky show...................... or should I say, "Sky would only sanction...!"

Scrap it, bring back the premiership playoff.