Quote: lefty goldblatt "
We (as a sport) need to decide what we want. A week-end jamboree, where we all play together (and upsets, ever so slightly, the league format, thus ensuring a play-off system), or a league, which honours it's best team, over a home and away system).
The play-offs (rightly or wrongly) are here to stay. We need to manage them better, though'"
I agree what the fans need to do is send a message by turning up in droves to the league fixtures and not turning up to the playoffs.
Given that the playoffs and especially Grand Final are hugely popular and create a lot of excitement it doesn't exactly send a signal to the game's organisers that it is failing, does it.
They responded to the fact the fans didn't care about the Lancashire v Yorkshire fixtures by scrapping it but to be honest its only Warrington fans, in the last couple of seasons, that have been bitching about the playoffs. Even we were never that bothered up till last year, I don't remember it ever being a topic on this board before.
Mind you I remember "why did we lose to motherclucking Salford" being a topic on these boards before, more or less every year, it's just only this year that we decided we lost to them because we threw the game on purpose because it didn't matter. Of course when it comes to the playoffs you will see a difference because Warrington will take those games seriously there's no danger that we will end up underperforming in the playoffs, that's when we rise to the occasion...