Quote: Dita's Slot Meter "Whatever people's thoughts and opinions on how we decide our champions, it has to be said we have created a pretty good sporting event, which is often of a high quality and a decent amount of drama for the neutral to enjoy....Its definitely one of the best things that has come from our sport in recent times and it would be silly to abandon it, just because some short sighted people have a problem with it.'"
I agree that it is a pretty good sporting
event and thereby I have a problem with it, (sorry for being "tedious" and "short sighted"icon_wink.gif. The GF is a one off, a cup competition IMO and for those 'historians' that claim for a majority of years that's how RL has crowned its Champions and therefore its sacricsanct I will offer a different view and point out that for many years the play offs were taken from a large league format where teams were part time and due to travel and costs not everyone played everyone else in an equal home/away format. your fixtures were organised along county divisions and the play offs therefore regularised the seasons' campaign.
Now in SL we have 14 teams and all working from a similar cost base, income and restraint and apart from Magic Weekend, (another farce), we play all the other teams twice thanks to the M62 and the invention and availabilty of a team sharrah. I just don't understand the lack of appeal in a first past the post system when the set up is clearly designed to equalise a professional competition.
Not a problem with we all knew the rules argument, a sincere well done to Leeds they were the best team on the
day