the play-offs should be the top 4.

Indeed, as I just posted on another threadThe thing is, if it were that easy, someone else might actually do it once in a while. It's all well and good saying you only have to get yourself up for 3 games, but if you're not good enough to beat those teams, you can be as 'up for it' as you want, but you won't win. This is a quality side, make no mistake about that.
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Top 5.

There should be more reward for finishing top of the pile.

2 v 5
3 v 4
1 straight to GF

Come on Wire fans get a grip...cant complain about the play off system. Wire lost against Saints and still made the GF, work that one out!

Knew the rules before the comp started!!!

Catalan away
Wigan (league leaders) away
Wire CC holders against said team.

Personally i think they couldn't have done that much harder, well done Leeds

all season .. ??? Leeds played 39 games in all competitions winning 27 games including 2 out of 3 major trophy finals

A success rate of almost 70%.....worthy champions indeed.

If someone offered me Wire to finish 5th and win the final i'd take it, so can't see his people can begrudge Leeds, if Leeds want to make getting to the final as hard as they can for themselves that's up to them.

It makes us better people if we just stand up, applaud Leeds, say well done and you were the better team, because they were.

there is no point in the league games apart from making sure you win enough to make the top 8. i doubt they will change anything but they need to as its becoming abit of a joke

'The play offs should be top 4' - Convenient how the play offs should stop at the team ABOVE where we finished. Leeds were not as bad as people were making out in the season, either. We finished one loss behind third place - just 2 points. What would be said if we finished 4th and won - something which could easily have been possible with just one more try/goal in a game this season? We should have a Top 3 play off system? Or should we just not have a Grand Final at all? Simply crown the league leaders champions and leave it at that? I DO agree that more should be done to make a big deal out of the League Leaders shield, but the 2 are not opposites, we can make a fuss over the league leaders as well as being proud that our game has so much depth that the league leaders aren't automatically Champions - that there is that amount of competition.

Wire were a more consistent team than us over the course of a season - and Wigan more consistant than them. If you'd won yesterday, would you agree that you weren't Champions, either? Pressure is a much bigger part of finals than many people realise, it's not their fault that they handle it better than others. I'm 100% sure that no one at Leeds tells them to finish fifth then go to the Grand Final - we'd all love more wins during the season. For people saying we purposely play worse/rest players during the weeks before play-offs and finals, I ask what Wire did the week before Wembley?

It's a shame that, despite how good we are in the play-offs and final, it's boiling down to 'Well they finished fifth, they don't deserve this'.

Spot on last night’s result was a body blow to rugby league. If the powers that be don’t change it Leeds will play out the next season in the same manner and aim for fifth again making a mockery of the weekly rounds. Now it’s worked for them twice my fear is that other half decent sides will try the same strategy.

Why would they 'aim' for fifth? If what you're saying was correct, why do we bother going to fifth? 8th would do the same job for us. And if it were as easy as people are making out, why are we the only team to win outside of the Top 2? Some of this stuff is just ridiculous. It's not our fault that the teams who finished above us don't have the depth/stamina or experience to win in the big matches.

Oh you have taken last week hard I know it must be tough for you - seeing Wigan fail so spectacularly to achieve what a champion team should achieve in at least getting to the Grand Final (or any final for that matter). Warrington overcame their demons in getting there and were to a degree unlucky last night. Wigan though fell flat when it mattered and, as such, were completely unworthy of the title champions.