To imply it is after we lost one game is ridiculous.
Anyone with decent glasses can see SL has a problem.

My opinion on the structure of SL and the playoff system has nothing to do with whether or not we won what, in the grand scheme of things, was a meaningless fixture.

If we win at Old Trafford this season and then again and again for the next few years I will still feel the same way. The current system is simply unfair.

To start with, the farcical extra fixture makes the league a joke, why should we get to play Widnes three times when our closest rival gets to play their extra fixture against Saints (or should that be our closest rival gets to play their extra fixture against Wigan)? Hardly fair, and could well make the difference between 2nd and 3rd place! Equally, a team could win 27 league games, finish top by a country mile and then for whatever reason lose the next two games and not even make the Grand Final let alone be regarded as the best side in the competition. I understand the playoff system and relucatntly accept it on the basis that everyone knows beforehand how the system works, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with it.

Good Lord!!...........How I long for the good old days!!
The play off/league structure didn't concern us apart from relegation issues, 2nd in the league was but a pipedream, never mind the hubcap which was something Saint Helens always won. Resting players for Wembley? Yeah right! And our strongest team used to get battered on a regular basis!
Tony you're a disgrace!!
John Dorahay, Steve Anderson, David Plange...........where are you? Please come and save us from this terrible whingeing about anything we can think of along with this thing us Warrington supporters are not sure how to deal with called success!!

Which players to pick for Wembley.
Should we be Settling for second in the league.
Resting players for the playoffs.
Which hotel should we use in London
How are we going to get down there fly or drive.
Should I wear my new Wembley top or the lucky one.
Should the wife get her hair done for the final.
Beer is 25 quid a pint down in the smoke.
Watch out for them prossies in Soho !


Oh what awful problems we have !

LOL you are right. We should get on and enjoy it.

Even so............... I am wondering whether to wear my red truss or my primrose and blue one. And I have still not decided about the train or my personal Lear jet. Decisions, decisions..

So because we were for a while there is nothing wrong with the current SL system... right you are.

One way to resolve this would be to have the World club challenge contested between the winners of the two minor premiers. This would provide more incentive rather than a trophy that nobody remembers who won it.

If those players on Friday night thought that they might get chance to face say Melbourne Storm in front of 20-25 thousand and get a decent little bonus out of it the story might have been different.
Giving it to the minor premiers also gives more chance to have it at the end of the season - A week after each Grand Final so that will give each club a month to prepare travel arrangements etc. I know that might impact on international fixtures.