How can you get relegated and lose your status mid season. We have failed to get into the Grand Final Play Offs, because that is what it technically is. We have not been relegated as yet, only if we fail to finish in the top 3 of the qualifiers and/or lose the Million pound game have we been relegated.

Start of the season there are Two leagues.

End of the season there are 3 leagues.

Are we in the top league of those three? No.

That's quite compelling when put like that.

I fully agree with your sentiment Snaggletooth, but, also with the previous poster that if some of our current opposition aren't in it, are we?

The BBC explained it with the help of Korean Billy on the Superleague show.

"The top 8 teams in superleague will become a separate competition with all their accumulated points brought forward. This is still called Super league."

"The bottom 4 teams from Super League will join the top 4 teams from the championship in a new league called the Qualifiers. all points accumulated throughout the season are put back to 0 and they will fight it out for super league status.


Though we may not have been relegated into the championship, we are still currently playing in a lower league. the Qualifiers is sort of like Limbo. It's not super league and its not Championship. its somewhere in-between the both. We can cling onto it all we want that we've never played in the championship but the fact will always remain that for 7 weeks we played outside the Super league.

And if we were to lose the million pound game, and thus be relegated, but the RFL change the rules to bring a club up instead of relegating one ?

Was we relegated?

Maybe I have my P&B glasses on but I see it this way. Regardless of two league splitting into 3, the top league is a playoff competition to win the GF. The Qualifiers is a competition to either gain or retain Superleague status. If we retain Superleague status then we do not get relegated so our record isn't broken.

If we do consider the Qualifiers as a 'lower league' then we must also class the times we have finished outside of the playoff places as playing outside of the elite competition. The Superleague after the split are, in essence, the playoffs of old. The Qualifiers after the split is just a means to decide who is relegated. If we do not get relegated then we retain our record.

Simples....

As of yet we have not been relegated. Were we to get relegated and retain SL status due to moving to 13 teams then i would certainly consider our record gone. As it is IMO our record remains in tact. Put it this way if Leeds win the GF this season then how did they manage that after getting 'relegated' last season?

Quote WWRLFC78="WWRLFC78" If we do consider the Qualifiers as a 'lower league' then we must also class the times we have finished outside of the playoff places as playing outside of the elite competition. The Superleague after the split are, in essence, the playoffs of old. The Qualifiers after the split is just a means to decide who is relegated. If we do not get relegated then we retain our record. Simples....'" Finishing outside of the playoff places never meant you played in a separate league against lower league teams so I don't think that is comparable. Like it or not we are in a distinct separate league called "The Qualifiers". The leagues are distinguished as separate on the official SL website here www.rugby-league.com/superleague/fixtures Superleague is sponsored by BetFred, the Qualifiers league is not.

Quote WWRLFC78="WWRLFC78" If we do consider the Qualifiers as a 'lower league' then we must also class the times we have finished outside of the playoff places as playing outside of the elite competition. The Superleague after the split are, in essence, the playoffs of old. The Qualifiers after the split is just a means to decide who is relegated. If we do not get relegated then we retain our record. Simples....'" Finishing outside of the playoff places never meant you played in a separate league against lower league teams so I don't think that is comparable. Like it or not we are in a distinct separate league called "The Qualifiers". The leagues are distinguished as separate on the official SL website here www.rugby-league.com/superleague/fixtures Superleague is sponsored by BetFred, the Qualifiers league is not.

What we definitely no longer have is the record of playing in every weekly round of super league since it started

Have we not been 'relegated' to a lower competition - The Qualifiers from which we can "qualify" for promotion to Super League?

I consider us qualifying for a lower competition. If we meet certain criteria such as coming in the top 3 or winning the 4/5th Million Pound game we will remain in the Super League. If we lose the million pound game or god forbid don't even qualify then we will have been relegated to the next lowest league.